Singular case of Drowning.
A cobrewPgxden’t of tho Auckland Herald writes from Pahi as follows:—On Thursday, the 26th March, Captain Waters, of the s s, Tangihua, received from the natives on the Otamatea a bucket of wild honey, of which he and his crew partook on the following morning, when moored at Batlev, being: Good Friday, All of them felt ill, and Captain Waters blamed the honey, and instructed one of the hands named Harry Short to throw it overboard, which he went to do. A few minutes later on the captain going to where he expected to see Short, there was no trace of him or the bucket, only a smoking cap which he bad on was floating a few yards from the sietmer. He had fallen overheard and been drowned, A telegram was sent to Constable Abrams, making known the ead event. The body has eince been found under the raft at Port Albert, to which place Captain Waters was taking ih
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 591, 7 April 1891, Page 3
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164Singular case of Drowning. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 591, 7 April 1891, Page 3
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