WRECKS AT TIMARU.
TOUB MVBS liOST.
Intellissnoe was yesterday received from Timaru that the brigantine Akbar, Captain John Watt, which recently arrived at that port from Newcastle, ceal laden, went ashore in the course of the late easterly gale. In this casualty there was, unfortunately, a sad loss of life, Captain Watt, his wife, and two seamen having been drowned. The Akbar was a vessel of 370 tons, and arrived at Timaru on June 23rd, after a stormy passage. Later in the day news was received that the schooner Pelican, Captain Munro, which left Oamaru in ballast for Timaru on Thursday, had also gone ashore at the latter port. She was a schooner of sixty-nine tons. No other shipping casualties occurred at Timaru, and by latest advices, the sea was rapidly moderating. Two of the vessels which were at anchor in the roadstead —the Oceola and Annie Bow—trippedthoir anchors and put to sea. The Clan Campbell and the George Noble rode the gale out at their anchors.
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Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4342, 30 June 1879, Page 3
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