An Exciting Trip.
ANOTHER PUNT LOST. (By Telegraph.) (Per Pn 'ss Association.) Gisborxe, This day. The Dingadee, which left Napier at 9 o'clock on Tuesday at 9 this morning, having had a long and anxious passage. The steamer left Napier with a large iron dredge punt in tow for Mr O'Connor, contractor to the Gisborne Harbor Board. Heavy seas were encountered in Hawke's Bay, and several times the punt broke loose and it was with considerable difficulty that they secured it, the ship's boats having an exciting time in doing so. The steamer came on slowly and lay to off Portland Island yesterday where the shipwrights, who had been at work on the wreck of the scow Pirate, were taken aboard but the sea was too rough to allow of a shipment of salvage from the wreck. The Dingadee came on last evening and at -1 o'clock this morning the punt again broke adrift 18 miles from Gisborne. The steamer stood by till G o'clock and sent a boat out but the punt had disappeared and no doubt has foundered. Mr O'Connor is unfortunate, as a fortnight ago he lost another iron punt while being towed from Napier in a similar manner.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 338, 3 June 1897, Page 3
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202An Exciting Trip. Hastings Standard, Issue 338, 3 June 1897, Page 3
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