WELLINGTON.
Saturday. The topsail schooner Clyde, Capt. Sawyer, bound from Poxton to Oamaru with timber, caught the full force of the gale in the Straits yesterday morning, when in sight of Cape Palliser. Her mainsail was carried away by the sea filling it and tearing it out of the bolts, the topsail was blown away, the boat smashed, and the stanchions had started, so the captain deemed it advisable to make for Welling* ton. The Enterprise, brigantine, also put in, having lost her topsail and jib. She was bound south from Napier.
This day
A large number of the clergy of Australia arrived by the Wakatipu from Sydney last night to attend the sitting of tho Australian Wesleyan General Cou» ference, which will commence its sitting in Christehurch on the lgth ihsfc.
Tiie weather is very cold and showery, and all out door sports have been postponed. The steamer Arawata made an excursion the scene of the wreck of the ship Lastingham- A large number of excursionists are leaving fco-day to stood the race meeting at Christchurch.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4941, 10 November 1884, Page 2
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177WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4941, 10 November 1884, Page 2
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