FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.) Wellington, Jan. 7. A letter from D'Urviile's Island, dated the 14th ult. gives particulars of a fatal boat accident which occurred off there. A boat containing two Maori men, named Matthew Ruraka and Teperei Turi, and a Maori girl about 14, named Bella Daniel, left one of the bays on the 21st to procure nikau palms. On returning the boat was swamped and drifted seaward. Matthew not being a man of robust health, succumbed to exposure that evening. Teperei, after securing the body to the boat, intimated his intention not to aurvive hia friend. He then sprang into the sea. The girl jumped in after him, and succeeded in getting him to the boat, but he was too exhausted to recover. The girl lavhed her body to the boat all night, and tho boat drifted seaward, but the turn of the tide and a change of wind sent it back to tho place where the accident occurred, when the criea of the girl were heard by the wife of Matthew, who put off in a small dingy and rescued her. The girl had been eighteen hours exposed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3519, 8 January 1886, Page 3
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