STRANGE OCCURRENCE AT SEA.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TIMARU, Nov. 15. Captain Bezar, of the brigantine Ocoola, which arrived here this morning from Newcastle, reports passing a, quantity of wreckage west of Foveaux Straits. Amongst it was a lower mast painted white, with what looked like a man lashed to it ; but the weather was too bad to permit of the vessed heaving to. Captain Bezar also states that when about six miles south of Tiiharu this morning he felt a very severe shock, the sea being violently disturbed over a considerable space. A number of dead fish floated to the surface. It appeared as if a snb-marihe explosion had taken place.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 960, 17 November 1882, Page 2
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111STRANGE OCCURRENCE AT SEA. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 960, 17 November 1882, Page 2
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