Low of a Shooner with all Hands
L?IB UVITBP PIHM AMOCIATIOK] Wkliicgtox, June 18. The Collector «1 Customs at Wan* ganui reports that the schooner Pelican, titttber-laden, has Veen washed ashore on the Waitotara beach, bottom up. All hands are supposed to be lost. The Pelican was a Tessel of 69 tons. Ho information has been obtained as to where the Pelican wan bound to. It is understood slip wAs under command of Captain Gilbert Brawn. • • v . ; :,: :] y CBnuTcacmcM. ,JpdiK«< ;v The sonopner Pelican, whieft ii reported as wreoked on Waitotara Ibeaoh was comn^anded by capiam Jirhn Devitt, not Gilbert Brown, who left her/last Noreiaber. She was bound frem Kaipara to Ljrttelton, laden with timber, most of which is obn^igned to Mr John Waller, of this town, who is the owner efthe resael. The Pelican was insured for £500 in the N.Z. o£Sc# and Mr Waller's portion of the cargo Was insured for nearly £300 in the same office. The' mate leaves a wife and fami j in Lyttelton, 1
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Feilding Star, 29 June 1886, Page 2
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170Low of a Shooner with all Hands Feilding Star, 29 June 1886, Page 2
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