| DEATH FROM DROWNING |
| A VERY melancholy occurrence took place, yesterday, at
Trabolgan. A young gentleman named [John] Faulkner, in the
employment of Mr. John Daly, draper, Great George's
-street, having gone to Trabolgan on a pleasure trip,
went to bathe in the sea, with other young men who had
accompanied him from the city. Whilst swimming he was
observed to sink, and as he did not re-appear above the
water, his friends became alarmed for his safety, and
having procured a boat, put out to the spot where he had
sunk. After some time he was picked up, and brought to
the shore, but every effort to restore animation proved
ineffectual. The deceased was a native of [Elgin] Scotland, and
was only in Cork about two or three months, having come
here from an establishment in Dublin. Though his
residence in this city had been so short, he had
acquired, amongst those who were acquainted with him, the
characteristics of a kind, amiable, and honourable young
man.
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