PLAYTHING OF WIND AND WAVES.
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, November 27. The Tautuku, a small scow which left Dunedin on November lo on a return tri£ to Tautuku, on the Clutha River, arrived in the stream at Lyttelton on Thursday night, after having been the plaything of wind and waves for ten days. After clearing the Otago Heads the vessel drove before the southerly gale for six days, and became unmanageable ; and another wind took the scow 7O.miles east ; and the crew of three was in sore straits till a northerly breeze brought the craft to Lyttelton. There was plenty of food aboard, and cntinuous work at the pumps was the cihef discomfort-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 1279, 28 November 1903, Page 5
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113PLAYTHING OF WIND AND WAVES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 1279, 28 November 1903, Page 5
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