WRECK OF THE PAKEHA,
SIX LIVES LOST. The following telegram was received at the Police Depot this afternoon : SOUTHBRIDGB, June 11.
The brig Pakeha ran ashore on the Ninety, mile Beach, near Lake Ellesmere, at nine o’clock this morning. Several of the fishermen went to the wreck with boats to render assistance. They found the vessel a total wreck, and all hands (supposed to be seven in number), except one man, drowned. The sur* vivor’s name is .Christian. He was found on the beach, insensible. Ho was brought to a fisherman’s hut.and taken care of. The vessel was laden with timber, and was bound, it was supposed, for Lyttelton,
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2244, 11 June 1881, Page 3
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109WRECK OF THE PAKEHA, Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2244, 11 June 1881, Page 3
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