Two Brothers Drowned.
A sad accident occurred near Midhurst, New Plymouth, on Sunday. William Vickers ■•vent out for cattle early that morning, and not returning at noon his brother Charles went to look for him. Neither returning by the evening, a search party went out and at 10 o'clock, both bodies were found in the Te Popo River. It is supposed that William Vickers bad entered the water for bathing and was taken with cramp, and that his brother, finding his clothes on the bank, enteied the water to endeavor to secure his body, and had likewise been drowned.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1681, 4 March 1885, Page 3
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