Swept To Sea

Young Settler Drowned

From Our Norfolk Island Correspondent NORFOLK IS., January 16.

AVERY sad fatality has been re ported on Norfolk Island.

A young New Zealand settler named Wright went with a companion to gather small crabs for bait at the rocky base of the cliffs at Headstone.

The other man went home and Wright was to follow shortly. When 10 o’clock struck and there was no sign of him, “Bluey” Lloyd went back to look for him and found his fishing tackle, but nothing else. Wright had gone and no trace of him has been found, though search parties, both along the shore and round the coast in boats, have looked for him. The sea was heavy at the time, smashing in among the rocks and making a thorough search very difficult.

The deepest sympathy is felt for his father, who is on the island, and for his mother, two sisters and brother in New Zealand.