WRECK OF A SHIP.
♦ SUFFERINGS OF TBE ORIEW \N n , PASSENGERS. ■ (Pkk Pskss Association. j Auckland, M*j 26 The ship Henry Jin)es, bound from Melbourne to 'Frlaoo v\rith coal, aruok on a reef about 1300 miles from Samoa on the night if 19th April, and beo-ma a tot ill wreck The orew and pna-tongors numbering 30 souls, barely OBCipod with tbeir lives. After a gr«»i d«al i f trnnblo they managed to reach the uninhabited ißlaad of Palmyra, where o o »aut» sup piled them with food and drink There is no water to the la'and. After two days ft w»8 arranged that the mute and four Of tbe Orew pbould'etart iv the oattor nd try to reach' ■ome p'aoa to procure help. They made for Samoa, which they reached In an exhausted condition after a pafliage of 19 days. They had nothing bat coooanut food to eat and coooannt water to drink all the w*y. The schooner Flndex waa despatched to rescue the ship wrecked Darty on the island, including two women and four children, one of the women being near her confinement
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1851, 26 May 1888, Page 3
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184WRECK OF A SHIP. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1851, 26 May 1888, Page 3
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