Two Sailors Drowned
(FEB VKITED PBEfS ,^aOCIA^«£.) i New Plymopih, ThislJapr. The schooner. Wairekal arrived i_ier-> yesterday. Last- Wednesday she encountered a heavy gale. ' In-hen'tin*; to tbe vessel, when before the wiadfifajpped several heavy seas, the ; wheel being lashed. AU hands took to the rigging except Henry Wade, ordinary seaman, who was washed overboard. p Therebeing a heavy sea rooming, a_f_u.the vessel almost unmnnagable, r)othing_ppo)d possibly be done to attempt to : f«tve' nim, although the pooi* fejloj^ seen swimming for about ten minutes, when he was lost sight of. j AuCKLAXDJTJas.I)ty. The master of the seUoooVierMarmioo, which arrived alTKaipara fronj thp r Sonth to-day , telegraph, that the mate of the vessel, John Edward ' Dale, was lost overboard in a gale pffeOape; Ej.raont on Wednesday last.;, i 0:;* ;0 0 T "^
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Feilding Star, Issue 71, 27 May 1884, Page 2
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130Two Sailors Drowned Feilding Star, Issue 71, 27 May 1884, Page 2
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