Wreck of Brig Pakeha.
[BY TELEORAPH.-.PRESS ASSOCIATION]
captain and six of the crew drowned.
CHRISTCHURCH, Satuiday The police here received the following telegram from Soutbbndge this afternoon • —"The brig Pakeha ran ashore on the Ninety-mile Beach, near Lake Ellesmere at 1 o'clock this morning. Several fishermen went to the wreck with boats to render assistance. They found the vessel a total wreck, and that all bands supposed to be seven in number, except one, had been drowned. The name of tbe survivor . . Christian. He was found on the beach in. sensible, and was brought to the fishermen's hut and taken care of. The vessel wat laden with timber, bound, itis BUDDo«erl for Lyttelton. w '
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3391, 13 June 1881, Page 2
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114Wreck of Brig Pakeha. Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3391, 13 June 1881, Page 2
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