AUCKLAND.
This day. Arrived : Arawato, from Fiji. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Eagles, child, and servant, Messrs Abercrombie, German, F. W. Howard, E. A. Fraser, J. F.Car^ wright, A. Gedore, H, Peokham, Robertson, H. W. Murray, Captains Olive and Shortt, and 15 steerage.
Arrived : Wairarapa, from Sydney. The Nightingale—The Missing Crew Safe. The Arawata, which arrived from Fiji this morning, brings news of the safety of the missing crew of the brigantine Nightingale. On the 9th inst. the barque Eemijio, bound from Newcastle to 'Frisco, with a cargo of coal put into Levuka, having on board Captain Shortt and the missing men who had been picked up in an open boat at sea. According to tbestatctnent of the mate, the vessel became waterlogged on the 19th April ; the crew, 11 in number, took to tue boat on the j 20th. After going about two miles, five of them considered the boat over-loaded, and returned to the ship. The boat experienced fair weather till the 26th April, when the sails of ttie Remijio were descried, and that vessel picked up the castaways. On the following day there was a ttrrific gale, which would probably have swamped the boat.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5098, 20 May 1885, Page 2
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196AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5098, 20 May 1885, Page 2
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