FATAL WRECK.
„» ) |by telegraph— rnirss association] Wellington, Frid ay. The ketch Colonist, bound from Lyttoltr . to Waitara, went ashore off tlio old P|]< 3 Station this morning, and threo of tl , crew, including the captain, whoso nan . was Bayly, were drowned. Thorn was 01 . survivor. The vessel lost her rudder i: . Capo Campbell yesterday, and the enptai 1 decided to run for Wellington boforo tl ! southerly gale. The ketch made for tl I Old Pilot Station this morning, an r dragged her anchor. She was riding safe] * when the Tarawera passed at about O.i ' a.m. About an hour afterwards the nno'ic J dragged, and the vessel wont on the rock: . and the heavy sea immediately broke he ■ up. ! The crew were Chas. Bailey (mate), Chai Burns, a B.A. man known as " Mike," an another whose name is not known who wt working his passage- Capt. Bailey whe the vessel struck made a determined effoi to swim to shore, but missed the lin thrown to him by a fisherman on the beac and was dashed against the rocks. H breathed for a few minutes after bein washed ashore. The body has been brough to town, Capt. Bailey leaves a wife an family who re.sido at Waitara. A mirvivo jumped overboard before the vessel strucl and after swimming about one hundrei yards he clambered on to the recks, fron which he was rescued by means of a liu J passed out to him by th» people onshore.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2519, 1 September 1888, Page 2
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245FATAL WRECK. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2519, 1 September 1888, Page 2
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