CHARLESTON.
Tuesday.
The wreckage of kauri boards (portions of two vessels about thirty tons) was picked up on Nifce-mile Beach; also a piece of bulwark, with half the letier X in yellow painted on it, and a brass box of a binnacle, with compass .still, fast to the upper deck of the cabin. Two pieces of another vessel, having painteil on it chrome-coloured letters five inches long ; one with .Kaikoura, W E L, the other giving terminal of name only. The beach is strewn with small fragments of wrecks, which probably occurred on Friday or Saturday. One vessel is apparently new, copper or composition na::s being used in construci'on. -'.::
(FHOM OUJt OW:* COERESPOiSDENTS.)
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2636, 20 June 1877, Page 2
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