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A MARINE TRAGEDY
Hoburt, This Day
A tragic disaster lias occurred. The steamer Huon (T-iO tons) wits returning with eight passengers and a full load of fruit for transshipment when it turned turtle and sank. The passengers and crew were thrown into the water. The weatlier was dead calm, and the Excella lowered a boat and saved nil but three—Mrs 'Gallon and her son, aged four, and Mrs Fysh. It i c; believed that thry rushed to the hold and were taken down with the • *^ rs Gallon lind .niofiicr ;i Ijo ; .r-<!, - -the only one :••{ - ~v" ed to meet the father minting on the wharf. The cause of the disaster is unknown.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 April 1914, Page 3
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128Australian News Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 April 1914, Page 3
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