NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10212, 18 January 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

FATAL BATHING ACCIDENT. Napier, January 18. A party of young ladies went for a picnic on the banks of the Tntaeknri river on Thursday. Three of them — Myra Cunningham, Ella McVay, and Buth Foster — went in to bathe. Hiss Cunningham got out of her depth. Miss McVaf went to her assistance, and also got into trouble. Miss Foster went after Miss McVay, but finding that she was also getting beyond her depth turned, and reached shore in an exhausted condition. Her cries had called the attention of some lads, ope of whom — Frank Glover — went to the assistance of the other yoang ladies He managed, at great risk, to save Mis 3 McVay, who struggled wildly, and Glover migh'i have been drowned had not another boy named Fred Smith gone to his assistance. Miss Cunningham was drowned, her body not being recovered for an hour acd a-half afterwards. She was the daughter of a former rtm-holder of Loburn, near Eaugiora and Pohui, Hawke'3 Bay. BOUGH PASSAGE. "Wellington, January 18. The steamer Star of Victoria, on her trip from Sydney to Auckland, experienced thick weather and fogs. Captain Sbaw saya when the weather cleared he was under the impression that it was the mainland, but it since proved to have been Gieat Barrier. When he distinguished the Cuvier Island light, he took a fresh departure, which enabled him (o verify his po-ition and shape a corrct course. Captain Shaw, after sighting the Now Zealand coast, kept on a conrae similnr to that fol. lowed on previous occasions. Be gives as reason for being nearly 30 mile« to the eastward out of the track to a strong current running through tiie Hauraki Gulf catching her on the starboard bow and pushing her still further out. In view of the Wairarapa disaster, the above is of special interest.