Fatality at Sea.
THREE LIVES LOST. (PBB PBEB9 ASSOCIATION. Bluff, March 31. Arrived — Ketch Gratitude from Macquarrie Islands. During the voyage on the 26th inst. at 8.30 a.m. n sea of exceptional size struck the vessel, washing overboard three men — the cook, R. W. Green (aged 32, native of London, and married, family residing at Devonport, East, Ths mania) ; D. Henderson (23 years' A. 8., native of Scotland); and John Portwick, halfcaste Maori, employed on the Island, belonging to Ooloc Bay near Riverton). Green and Portwick were at work iv the gallery, whisk
was swept overboard, together with' two boats. Nothing whatever was seen of the men when the wave subsided, although the vessel hove to.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 277, 2 April 1894, Page 2
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