THE NEW RIVER FATALITY.

West Coast Times, 16 March 1910, Page 2

THE NEW RIVER FATALITY.

THE DROWNING OF MR F. CAMBRIDGE. We published yesterday the bare news of the drowning of Charles Frederick Cambridge in the Now River near Camerons whieh was all that could be gleaned at the time. Later particulars, however, reached the police on Monday night, from whieh it appeared that the deceased and a Mr Back were returning to work on the. opposite side of the river from whieh they lived 'after having gone home to dinner. Their means of getting across the river, whieh was yesterday running very strong, was by way of a boat which was attached to a wire rope stretched from bank to hank. The boat was then worked in the same manner as a punt. Getting into the boat both men started to pull aeross to the other side, the rope guiding the boat, but just as they were in the middle of the stream the rope broke and the boat immediately capsized. Baek succeeded in swimming ashore but Cambridge, who was dressed in an oilskin with knee hoots on got into the heaviest part of the stream and disappeared from view. Rack and others in the vicinity scoured both sides' of Hie river for some time and eventually Cambridge’s body was found washed on to a spit a mile and half from the accident. 'Hie deceased was well-known and highly respected in the neighbourhood where he has resided for several years, carrying on the business of a llaxiniller at Camerons, and also fanning in tin' locality where the accident happened. He was 32 years of age and leaves a widow and two young children to mourn his loss.