A SCOW MISSING.
♦ EIGHT SOULS ON BOARD. |Bt TELEGRAPH.) iunltkd press association. i Uisbobne, This Dat. Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety of the scow Whangaroa, which left this port for Lyttelton on 25tb Jannary, and has not since boen heard of. She must have met the exceptionally heavy weather experienced by the ship Margaret Galbraith, and a vessel of her class could hardly weather such a gale as that was reported to bo, being flatbottomed and riding very light. The Whangaroa was a large new boat of 130 tons register, capable of carrying 200,000 ft of timber. Captain Burns was accompanied by his wife, and the orew numbered six.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1894, Page 3
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111A SCOW MISSING. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1894, Page 3
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