DUNEDIN.
Loss of a Schooner,
This day
The three masted schooner Alma, owned by Henry Guthrie Henderson and Patterson, of Dunedin, the latter in command, was lost on her voyage from Wanganui to Rockhampton with sleepers. The crew were picked up by a vessel and landed at Port Elizabeth, thirty miles from Brisbane. The insurances on the hull are £400 in the Equitable, £400 in the United, and in the National £450; of the the latter, the Victoria and New Zealand Companies each have £150. Later, The Alma was lost on the Elizabeth reef, 350 miles from Brisbane. The vessel was bound for Oregon. Capt. Patterson and his crew landed at North Cape, and the former pulled in his boat to Wangaroa, when he telegraphed the particulars. The Equitable has a risk of £500 on the hull, and the United £300 on the hull and £250 on the freight. The Union has £150 on the freight.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4562, 18 August 1883, Page 2
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156DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4562, 18 August 1883, Page 2
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