LOSS OF THE COQUETTE.
We have been furnished with the following report of the loss of the fore-and-aft schooner Coquette, of Auckland : —" It appe rs that the Coquette left Levuka on Friday morning, the 16th, bound to the Rewa hiver for labor j arrived off the Rewa on Friday evening. Some say it fell calm, and that the Coquette drifted on to Frenchman's Reef; and others say Bhe was beating up, and all at once she Btruck. She remained hard and fast on the reef, with her back broken, and was abandoned by her crew. The place where she was wrecked is about 20 miles from the township Suva. On our way down from Levuka to Suva, we saw her on the reef with her fore stay-sail set. The news arrived at Levuka on Saturday evening, September 8.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 225, 28 September 1870, Page 2
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