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NEW PLYMOUTH,
(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day. The Herald's special reporter interviewed Hunt of the cutter Hero. Hunt states he is nephew of Captain Fairchild, and was cabin boy in the Luna but ran away. He is 17 years old. Heavy rollers set in from the beach and frightened the master during the night owing to the starting of a plank odfport side the vessel laboured, and she made water The pumps were kept at work, and the captain resolved to go for Mokau. He shook out a reef from the mainsail. But no sooner was this done than the mast cracked They took to the boat and the first surf capsized ic. Hunt swam ashore, and I saw the captain on the top of the boat. He wag washed off. He saw the man struggling in the water. Sfi s
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1697, 27 July 1875, Page 2
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