A Terrible Voyage
(per press association). Sydney, This Day. News have been received that the barque Pactole, which left here for Noumea on 23rd ult, reached her destination after a trying ordeal during a terrific gale experienced. Shortly after leaving she was struck by lightning and all the live stock on board were killed. Subsequently she was almost completely dismasted. A consignment of hay stowed alongside cases of dynamite, became dangerously heated and had to be jettisoned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 52, 18 October 1892, Page 2
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77A Terrible Voyage Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 52, 18 October 1892, Page 2
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