WRECK OF THE CAMILLE.
[By Tolegrnph—Press Association,
Inveroaroill, Wednesday.
The Brigontine Oninille left Rocky Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, on August tho 28tb, with 300 tons of guano. Early in Novoinber she experieneed a heavy gale off tho Tas» insnian coast, tho vessel straining and leaking badly, On the 11th, when about 850 miles off the New Zealand coast, another heavy gale was experienced, and tho Camilla made water very fast, On Sunday lost the weather moderated, and nothing serious was expeoted, but on Monday' the pumps went wrong, thegusno coming away with the water, The vessel gradually settled down, and the samu evening the captain, his wife and the crow took to the boats, The vessel foundered early on Tuesday morning, The boats bmdedsafely at Pahia Bay, near Orepuki. The vessel was twentytwo years old,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4271, 17 November 1892, Page 3
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137WRECK OF THE CAMILLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4271, 17 November 1892, Page 3
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