A VESSEL MISSING.
Frees Association. Wellingtdn, Jane 8.
Oapt. Watson, of the Blenheim, which arrived to-day, reports that he picked np the steamer Wooton disabled in Cook Straits. The Blenheim towed the Wooton to r,he vicinity of Caps Palliser and then had to let her go owing to shortness of coal. The Wooton had a sea anchor ont when the Blenheim steamed away. The Wooton '(Oapt. Scott) is a wooden vessel of 150 tons, owned by the Kaiapoi Shipping and Trading Uo. She left Wellington last Thursday for Nydia Bay (Pelorns Sound) and Lyttelton. The tog Dnoo left Wellington, shortly after 2 o’clock and returned between 8 and 9 to-night and reports having searched the coast line for 32 miles south of Penoarrow bnt saw no traces of the Wooton.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9463, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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130A VESSEL MISSING. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9463, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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