Wreck at Wanganui.

Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1892, Page 3

Wreck at Wanganui.

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A heavy gale visited this coast early on Sunday morning The barquentine Edith May, Captain Job, from Dunediri, which was anchored in the Roadstead, dragged her anohori and went ashore at 5.80, a.m., three and a half miles north of the Wanganui River. A heavy sea was running, and the WBiel wag right in the midst of the breakers. The signals were not seen at" the, pilot station owing to the fog. Only at 10 a.m. her position- was known to those on the land. About this hour the first mate, Alfred Reynolds, was washed overboard and drowned. The men were attempting to launch a boat when a breaker struck it, carrying it and the mate overboard, the vessel was only 150 yard's from the land, but it took the men nine hours . to get ashore. Finally a plank was drifted to the btaoh with a rope attached. The Edith May had been waiting outside a week to enter the river. She is on a bad place, her baok is broken, and she is a total loss. She belongs to Mr John Taylor, of Sydney, and the hull, which is valued at £1750, is insured for £1600 in the New Zealand Insurance Company (Sydney branch). Her cargo, which is valued at £2500, is chiefly flour, and is insured foe £600 in the Standard, £600 in the Globe, and £1100 in others. Her freight is insured for £200.— Press Association.