A DANGEROUS VOYAGE.
. [by tkxeorabh.] New Plymouth, To-day. The schooner Waireka, which arrived here from Sydney for Waitara on May 13th, but owing to had weather had to put to sea, turned up yesterday. 'Last Wednesday she encountered a heavy giale, and was hove to under balance reefed mainsail. In heav.ng the vessel when before the wind, she shipped several heavy seas. The wheel .being lashed, all hands took to the rigging, except Henry Wade, .an ordinary who was washed overboard. There being a heavy sea running and the vessel almost unmanageable, nothing could be possibly done to attempt to save him, although the the poor fellow was seep swimming for aboiit ten minutes, when he was lost sight of. One heavy sea shifted part of her cargo to. starboard, and carried away everything on deck.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1263, 26 May 1884, Page 3
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136A DANGEROUS VOYAGE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1263, 26 May 1884, Page 3
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