A FISHING TRAGEDY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13895, 30 December 1913, Page 5

A FISHING TRAGEDY.

Dunedin, Dec. 29.

A distressing fatality, by which two young residents of Ravensbourne ■ lost their lives occurred at rJ.vioa heads about 6 o'clock this evening. It appears that Thomas Shanks-"and David •Timlin were spending file holidays at a crib at Maori Kaiak, and about 6 o'clock they went out in a dinghy to take in a moki net which had 1 een set during the day. They succeeded in drawing . the, net into the dinghy, but the tide had just .turned, and with a ■strong north-easter blowing a l-.eayy sea was running: It is surmised that the dinghy took in a wave, ?>nd turned over. The brother of one of the jr.en noticed the pair clinging ±o the keel of the-boat, and immediately pave the alarm on shore. A launch was rut cnit, hut when it reached the boat,*l c men had disappeared. Both men we-e fully dressed and were good swimmers. Both, were married. Timlin had only been married for twelve months. SJianks had one child. A number of launches are engaged in a search for the bodies, but up to a late hour they rad not been found.

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