A STEAMER MISSING.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, yesterday. Captain Watson, of the Blenheim, which arrived ..to-day, reports that he picked up the steamer Wooton disabled in Cook' Straits. The Blenheim towed the Wooton to the vicinity of Cape Palliser arid then had, to let her go owing to shortness of coal. •The Wootton had a sea anchor out when the Blenheim steamed away. The Wootton (Captain Scott) is a wooden, vessel of 150 tons, owned by the Kaiapoi Shipping and Trading Co. She left Wellington last Thursday for Nysia Bay (Pelorus Sound) and Lyttelton. '. The tug Duco left Wellington shortly after 2 o'clock and returned between 8 o and 9 to-night and reports having searched the coast line for 22 miles south of Pencarrow, but saw no traces of the Wootton.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 284, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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130A STEAMER MISSING. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 284, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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