A BRIGANTINE ASHORE.
(PRESS ASSOC! ATIOX TKLKGRAM. 1 AUCKLAND, May 22. Intelligence has been received that the Brigantine Aratapu, belonging to the Kauri Timber Company; is ashore three miles south of Whangamata, on the East Coast. Owing to a north-easter the vessel anchored under Slipper Island, but both cables parted, and she was beached. She is only slightly damaged. One of the hands, a man named Jones, in swimming ashore with a line, was drowned. He was a native of Melbourne, and was formerly in the Union Company's service.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10043, 23 May 1898, Page 5
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