HEAVY WEATHER.
Per Press Association. ** I Gisborne, 1 July.2, I Arriving vessels report experlou-* cing very heavy weather. The barques Constance Oraug liad an exceptions ally dirty passage of thirty days from! Newcastle, her decks being awashS the whole way. Her sails worq| blown to ribbons and the past Wed-/ uesday aiid Thursday in the Bay of Plenty the vessel had a, perilous exy perieuco. The schooner AwafiUi hfid J also a bad time in the same gale.” She dragged her anchors at Whauga- - dorau, whore sho sought shelter and had to boat out to sea. Heavy seas wore shipped on Thursday, when the vessel hove to, the cabin being deluged,“and one big sea carried away, a largo surf boat which was swinging in the davit, also wrenched off lockers and carried away everything, moveable on deck.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8853, 2 July 1907, Page 2
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137HEAVY WEATHER. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8853, 2 July 1907, Page 2
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