TERRIFIC GALES AND FLOODS AT TIMARU.
? TWO VESSELS WRECKED. ELEVEN LIVES~REPORTED LOST. |pbr prbs3 agency. j Timaru, This Day. Very seVdre weather has prevailed here during the last two days. Temuka and other places are flooded, and boats have been despatched to rescue tho inhabitants. Four persons are reported to be drowned. During a heavy gale in the roadstead the brigantine Akabar and the schooner Pelican were driven ashore. The captain of the former, his wife, and four of tho crew are reported to be drowned. . The barquentines George Noble and Annie Bow, and the brigantine James A. Stewart were in great danger, being nearly ashore, when a wind from the land sprang up, fortunately carrying them out again. The Pelican is only slightly damaged, but there is hardly a vestige of the Akabar, which had about 300 tons of coal aboard. A seaman on the Beautiful Star was drowned yesterday owing to the boat capsizing. Csptain Jones and two others swam ashore.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 549, 30 June 1879, Page 2
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