WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE.
Wellington, This day.
It having been reported to the Secretary of the Marino Department that a quantity of wreckage had been washed ashore about three miles north of Opunake, the signalman at that place was directed to make a careful search along the beach and report upon the same. He states that lie examined the wreckage, which is on the beach north of Te Nama pa, and that it consists of a portion of a vessel's deck-house, the timber of which is kauri, painted white ; the wreck of a boat, built of kauri, painted black ; two ash oars seven feet long, branded with a broad Jarrow on the blades, and one boatyard twelve feet long.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3745, 17 July 1883, Page 3
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118WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3745, 17 July 1883, Page 3
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