CAUGHT IN A FOG.
Donejhn, Last Night. The barque Yillalta, on her voyage from Wellington, had a narrow escape. Or the morning of April 30, during a fog) Captain Thompson stood in for what he took to be Blueskin Bay. Finding he was abreast of a lighthouse, and obtaining no response to his signal, he stood out to sea. The wind becoming light and the fog thicker, he stood in again, keeping the lead going, and he then distinguished the roar of the breakers. Hauling off, a lift in the fog revealed a bright white light, instead of the red light at Taiaroa Heads which he“expected. The anchor was dropped. When the vessel was getting out again, she had to pass on the verge of Fish Reef, and within 100 yards of the sfrore, her case was almost hopeless in consequence ol the light wind.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1530, 2 May 1885, Page 2
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145CAUGHT IN A FOG. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1530, 2 May 1885, Page 2
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