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Received Wakapuaka Dec. 7, 10 am, GOABDIAN Office, 10.37 a.m. flic Weather. Sydney, December 7 Good rains are falling along the coast and extending for 800 miles inland. A heavy south-east gale is blowing on the coast.
Fatal Fight at Sea. Hobart, December 6 The lighthouse keeper at Seven Islands reports taking charge of the ketch Esther with only a lad on board, the master and mate having been lost overboard,
December 7 It has been ascertained that the fatality which occurred on the vessel j jtpther f which was picked up with! only a lad on board, was the result of a quarrel. The captain and mate quarrelled and fell overboard, while the vessel was running before the wind with her centre board up and her sheets off. The boy tried to get back to the men, but; the craft- would not stay.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XVIII, Issue 4365, 7 December 1897, Page 3
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151Australian. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XVIII, Issue 4365, 7 December 1897, Page 3
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