SHIPWRECK.
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(UNITED PRKBB ASSOCIATION.) . Wellington, Thin Bay, v . ; .The Lastuigham -wasr'a- ship of 1085 ions of the Shaw-Savill Hue and c commanded by Alexander Morrison. The catastrophe happened while the vesnel watt running .through the straits, during a heavy N. W. gale, on • v Monday night. The reaxel struck on the main land at Jackson's Head, and a terrific sea was running, the ihip soon commenced to go to pieces. The Captain, his wife; five passengers, and eleven of the crew were washed away from the wreck and were - c 'driwned, the remainder of the crew, ' including l»t and. 2nd officers,veached the main land and were yesterday picked up by the ketch Agnes, w hich was passing through the straits, and - were brought on here. The vessel has gone to pieces. Beyond Captain and wife the names of those drowned are not yet ascertained.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 239, 5 September 1884, Page 3
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