SHIPWRECKS.
Attcklt.a-nt), This day.
• Arrived,. Brigantine Myrtle from Tonga, Captain Lane reports that while lying at Haakai on September 24, the barque Reconnaisance of Sydney was wrecked on one of the outer reefs on October 2nd. Passing the Island of Namuka he saw the threemasted schooner Smiling.Morn, of Sydney, ashore. He went to her assistance, but found Her a total wreck. He brought the crew to Tonga, having already on board a crew of the Reconnaisance. On October 9th, being anchored at Tongatahu, tbe crew of the German barque Elizabeth came in, they having been wrecked the same morning on a reef off Euaki Island, The schooner Ngatagiban, recently built in Auckland, was wrecked two weeks before at Eva. We left Tongatahu for Auckland on October 20th with tho crews of the three first vessels on board, and a number of passengers in all 48 souls exclusive of own crew.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4146, 5 November 1884, Page 3
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150SHIPWRECKS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4146, 5 November 1884, Page 3
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