RIALITY.
TRHEE YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED.
ONE SURVIVOR.
(Per Press Association,) Invercargill, Inst night. A fatal boating accident by which three lives were lost, happened at Riverton to-day.
Two young men, Fred Nash, a painter, and Fred Parfitt, sale-man uf the D.1.C., Dunedin, and son of a Riverton draper, wc-re out in a sailing boat between the bridges and bar, having with them Ethel Pioss and Janet Kelly, young girls from Invercargill. While trying to unship tiie mast some confusion arose, and the boat turnel over, the girls and l’arfitt being drowned.
Nash gut ashore, but is yet unable to make a statement of the accident.
Miss Ross was a tine young woman of about 18. She was the daughter of Mr Robt. Ross, well known in cricketing circles, and gave promise of equalling her mother, who is one of Invercargill’s most popular singers, as a vocalist. Miss Kelly was tiie daughter of Mr G. Kelly, foreman on the new railway bridge. The family resides at Invercargill, but last week went to Riverton for a month, Miss Ross visiting with them. The affair has caused a painful sensation here and at Riverton.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 714, 9 January 1903, Page 2
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191RIALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 714, 9 January 1903, Page 2
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