SINKING OF THE ELI WHITNEY.
[FROM OUR OWN correspondent.] Wellington, February 24.
The hulk Eli Whitney, with 800 tons of coal on boar;!, sank in tiie harbour, in deep water, about one o'clock this morning. A man in charge was aroused by his wife, wiio is only sixteen years old ; avid hearing a rush of water in the hold, he got his wife and child hurriedly on deck, just in time to place them and himself on a large plank. They drifted to the baths, aid the man, quite eKhaust£ e ,., dragged himself to the neighbourr-V house for assistance. His wife was found, dead and the baby missing. A northerly gale was blowing at the time, and it was intensely dark. The hulk carried no lights. It is reported that the Taup'o ran into her.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 263, 24 February 1877, Page 2
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135SINKING OF THE ELI WHITNEY. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 263, 24 February 1877, Page 2
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