WELLINGTON.
This day.
(Pee Pbbss Association.)
Five more informations have been issaed against P. K. Watty for forgery, (•mounting to about £100 in the aggregate.
Arrived: Halcione, ship, (Packer)from London, 102; days out. She bad fn uneventful passage. From the report it appears that on the 11th of February two seamen engaged on the jibboom were carried overboard by a. heavy sea. One
seized a rope and got aboard again ; the other had a life buoy thrown to him and supportv i himself until re?cuc d in a very* exhausted state. Yesterday, in the Straits, while tacking off Wellington Heads with a fresh wind, it suddenly died away, and as the flood-tide was making very strong, the vessel was nearly carried on to The Brothers. Capt, Parker prepared cables and anchors ready, but fortunately alight breeze off the land came and carried the vessel clear of the island by about a cable's length.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4736, 12 March 1884, Page 2
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153WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4736, 12 March 1884, Page 2
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