TAURANGA. 2nd December.
Some Maori diggers from the Thames, who were on board the Taranaki at the time of the disaster, say that if a native had been at the wheel or on the look-out the accident would not have happened. One of them declares he whispered to the man on the lookout that there was land ahead ten minutes before the ship struck.
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Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1878, Page 2
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64TAURANGA. 2nd December. Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1878, Page 2
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