CROSSING THE BAR.
>WI EC Lv AND A D R OTTIv INO. (By Electric Cable--Copyright.) (Aust. and N.Z. I>u6le Association.) Sydney, March L'(i. The steamer Bcwanura missed the high tide when going eastwards tit Maruya, but crossed tiie 'bar. Then glic encountered the heavy breakers, and struck on th-3 sandspit. The next sea turned her so that, with -the seas breaking over her, sho became a total wreck. A pas.sen.uer. William Ward, who was working his way to Sydney, toon refuge in the engine room, which idled with water, and he was drown, ed .
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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 136, 27 March 1924, Page 6
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