SAVED FROM SEA
OLD WRECK RECALLED
DUNEDIN, November 13
In 1861 the John Bull cutter,, trading out of. Auckland, to Mahunuigi and Mangawai, carried to one of those settlements a family named BlomfieTd, a father, mother and three or four children. A devastating gale wrecked several coasters, the John Bull one ot them. She broke up on a reef about a couple of hundred yards from the chore.
As the only chalice of saving life one of the two men belonging to the cutter essayed to take the passengers one .by one to the land in the cockle shell of a dinghy. The mother threw tlie youngest child into the , water, trusting to God’s mercy and the sailor’s skill. 'He picked the child up, landing it safely. Eventually all on, board got ashore. The oldest of the children was a boy called Arthur, and from information in the possession of a man now residing at Dunedin, strengthened by private inquiries in Auckland, there is l reason 'to believe that the Arthur Blom’field thus snatched from drowning is identical with the Arthur Blomfield who was - murdered -recently. Tlie name and the age correspond and fit in with other facts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1931, Page 3
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