. We learn from a home paper that Captain Drevar made another attempt to cross the Channel in his bicycle boat on October 23. A gale sprang.up, which carried him into the North Sea.. Thence he drifted with the tide to the neighbourhood of the North Foreland, where he was picked up by a German barque. He was in a very exhausted condition. Ilia boat was lost.'
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1128, 21 December 1883, Page 2
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66Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1128, 21 December 1883, Page 2
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