WRECK AT PATEA RIVER. The ketch Jane Elkin, on crossing the bar at the entrance to the Patea River, on Sunday last, with a fair and moderately strong breeze, struck heavily against something and so damaged her bottom that she filled with water in between two and three minutes. It may have been a snag, or possibly an old anchor (many o£ which were slipped daring the war time, and are still embedded in the sand) on which the vessel struck. At all events a large hole was knocked in the vessel’s bottom, and she at once settled down. The ketch, which is owned by the master (Leslie), left Dives’ Mill, Pelorus Sound, on Saturday, at 2 p.m., with the wind from the north-east. On reaching Black Point, the wind hauled to the south-east. Had a fair wind down the Sound and across the Straits, and arrived off Patea Heads at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Being full tide the captain was signalled to take the bar. The vessel’s head was at once put for the entrance, and she was moving along in fin 3
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 263, 17 October 1877, Page 2
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184Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 263, 17 October 1877, Page 2
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