A distressing fatal accident occurred about 8 o'clock on Sunday mornin?. Mr Ferguson, teller at the Colonial Bank, and Robert King of the National Bank, went to bathe ia the river which was flooded. They swam across above the traffic bridge and proceeded to return ; when near the centre of the river, Ferguson (swimming strong) was all right, bat King felt indica tion of cramp, he turned on his back and was carried by the currant to the bank he had left, which he reached with great difficulty, having sunk twice. King missed Ferguson shortly after parting with him and he was not seen after. He must have become cramped and then sunk. The police boats have been dragging for the body ever since, but without success. After getting ashore King became insen sible, but recovered in two hours and is now all right. Ferguson was a young man and unmarried ; his father is a clergyman at Glasgow.
