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SWEPT OUT TO SEA.

TWO MEN IN ROWING BOAT.

Dredge Seaman Drowned.

SYDNEY, Monday - A telegram from Urunga, 305 miles north fron Syd   ney, states that two members of the crew of the dredge Bellinger, who were in a rowing boat, got into difficulties at the entrance to the Bellmger River on Satur day afternoon Charles Butt, a single man and a native of England was drowned and   Duncan Dees suffered so severelv from im mersion that he was admitted to the dis trict hospital

The men set out from Urunga to row to the dredge, which was moored near the north bank of the river. The tide was   running so strongly that no headway could   be made, and the boat waa swept seaward Llfe-savers threw lines from the break       water, and Dees managed to scramble ahore. A heavy sea, which was running on the bar upset the boat and Butt was car

ried away and not seen again

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