INTERPROVINCIAL
(BT TKLKGRArH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NELSON, l'Yiday. < A telegram in the Nelson Evening Mail reports the death, by drowning at Waitapu, of Captain Edward Robertson, formerly master of a vessel trading to that Port. A boat sent ashore from the steamer, Lady Barclay, with the passengers under his charge, capsized, and he was drowned. The others were saved. PORT CHALMERS, Friday. Arrived : Mercury Barquentine, Captain Thomas, forty-seven days from Mauritius. She encountered a heavy south-cast gale on the 23rd ult. which carried away part of her bulwarks on each side, smashed a boat, and did other damage, The ijale lasted for three days.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT18880804.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 2507, Issue XXXI, 4 August 1888, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103INTERPROVINCIAL Waikato Times, Volume 2507, Issue XXXI, 4 August 1888, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in