LOSS OF THREE LIVES.
.PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] WELLINGTON, August 31. The ketch Colonist, bound fromLyttelton o Waitara, went ashore off the old Pilot Itation about eleven this morning. Three it the crew, including the captain, whose tame is unknown, were drowned. A urvivor states that the vessel lost her udder off Cape Campbell yesterday. The apt&in decided to run for Wellington bebre the southerly gale, and made the old Pilot Station this morning. He dropped inchor, and rode at anchor for a short ime, and was riding safely when the Carawera passed about 9.30. About an lour afterwards the anchor dragged, and he vessel went on to the rocks in a heavy iea, and immediately broke up. The crew insisted of the captain and three men. Ul were drowned but one. The captain's . X)dy was washed ashore. The survivor's _mc is yet unknown. He lies in an exlausted condition at the fishermen's huts tear the scene of the wreck. The names >f the other members of _c crew are not mown : one was not a regular hand, but ivas wor__.g his passage.
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7142, 1 September 1888, Page 5
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