AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12432, 3 April 1908, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

SAD DOUISLE FATALITY,

A sad double drowning fatality occur rod in Hie vicinity of Smith Greta collier' on March 2D, the victims bcin«j two littl. boys, Daniel and Frederick Cahill, a god '. and 7 yeais lesix'ethely ; but the bodie.were not recovered until yesterday at mid day. The little fellows, who camped witl their father. Daniel William Cahill, wen last seen alive at :3 p.m. on Friday. The} were then phyinqr near a creek and some waterholcs which had boon filled with tht recent rains. As they did not put in ai appearance later in the afternoon, the mat ter A\as rcynvled to the police, and dra? ging operations were- carried on through out Friday night, but without success. A daylight a cap belongings to one of the lads \va3 found in the water by the father and a search resulted in th® two litth bodies being found lying alongside cac! olhor at the bottom of a large hole abou' 10 feet deon, at the spot where they were drowned. T!ie water was very shallow foi twenty or thirty yards, and then dropped suddenly into a deep hole, into which th* little .fellows evidently stumbled while paddling about. Both had their trousers tucked up. and, judging by the fingd marks on the emaller boy's thigh, tue elder lad hod apparently made a brave effort to save him.