CAPSIZE OF A SCHOONER ON THE WEST COAST.
(From our own Correspondent. ) (By Telegraph.) Bell’s prospecting party returned from the West Coast to Riverton last night, but have not as yet stated what their prospects were. They returned two months sooner than they intended, on account of having picked up a shipwrecked seaman named M‘Lean, from the schooner Woolwich, which capsized off Preservation Inlet in a gale on November last. They found the man on ■he rooks on the 10th December in a very weak and exhausted condition, he having been living on shell-fish f»r nearly six weeks. Three of the crew who had clung to the bot tom of the vessel were enabled to reach the shore, but the other two, Captain Moody and n seaman, Gardener, started iramedlatelj they landed to wa k through the bush. At '■hey neither had provisions, a dog, nor guns, rad have not since been found, it is expected that they must have perished in the busn. Tin , Woolwich was on her way from Auckland t«> the Bluff.
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Evening Star, Issue 4017, 11 January 1876, Page 3
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175CAPSIZE OF A SCHOONER ON THE WEST COAST. Evening Star, Issue 4017, 11 January 1876, Page 3
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