"WRECK OF A STEAMER.
(Pft_»S ASSOCIATION TELE-RAM.)
Wellington, May 30.
The Marine Department has been informed by telegraph that the steamer Marra Marra, 45 tons, recently purchased in Australia by the Mokau Coal Company, has gone ashore eight miles south of Opnuake, and is likely to become a total wreck. The crew landed at Opunake at one o'clock this morning. The Marra Marra was a wooden screw steamer of 30 horse-power, built in Sydney in 1884.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9431, 1 June 1896, Page 6
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