ANOTHER WRECK NEAR OTAKI
ALL HANDS SATED. ■••-- \T'OL UKITED *BBSB ABSOCTATIOK-] Otah, Sunday Morning, A' barque is ashore at the mouth of the Ohua river, 11 miles north of here. She is apparently in ballast, but the name cannot be made out from the beach. She will probably be high v and dry at low water. A fresh wind is blowing, and the vessel if supposed to have gone ashore during thp night. The beach where the barque went ashore is sandy, the spot being five miles north of where the ship Hydera- ~ toad was lost, and 17 miles north of where the ship Pleione recently went ashore. No further particulars are to hand. April 9. The baraue Weathersfield is ashore between Waucawai and Otit a rivers. She «ame ashore about 4 a.m. yesterday. -All hand *, including the captain and officers, are ash re. The latest news from her was that she was rising with lie seas as they struck her. It is thought that if measures are taken at ■once, she e;n fee floated with the next spring tides, which occur on Wednesday Welmkotow, April 9. Inspector Thompson received late last night a telegram from Constable Oarr, stationed at Otaki, to the effect that the barque Weathersfield, bound -from Brisbane to Lyttelton, was ashore seven miles north of Otaki, and that all the crew were safe.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 107, 10 April 1888, Page 3
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