Reported Wreck of a Cutter.
ALL HANDS SUPPOSED TO BE LOST. [Bt Tblbobaph.] [united press association.] Inveeoaeoilil., This Day. The ontter Champion ib missing, together with the crew, who aro supposed to be drowned. She left Papitiki, Stewart's Island, on the 24 th Aug. for some small islands at the month of Paterson's Inlet. It was blowing strongly at the time, and next day a rudder, believed to be that of the cutter, was pioked up at Fuller's Point, and as the cntter could not be seen about it was surmised ehe had been capsized and the tug Awarua was sent from the Bluff in search. It was stormy also on Thursday, bo that the Maori fisherman could sot -visit the island. The tug' 8 search failod to discover the boat or the mon. The names of tho orewwereW. Fortune (master), John Brown, and Henry Casland. The tug returned to the Bluff last night.
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Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1885, Page 3
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154Reported Wreck of a Cutter. Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1885, Page 3
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