WRECK AT TIMARU.
(From the correspondent of the 'Press.') Timaru, May 24, 5.30 p.m. The barques Collinewood and Susan Jane came on shore to-day. The Twilight is still riding safely in the roadstead. The cause of tho wreck of tho two barques is thought to be through their having attempted to put to sea last night with scarcely any wind, and a heavy sea setting in shore. They gradually drifted on shore and the Colliugwood was beached about four o'clock this mornin'r. The fciu-.au Jane put down her anchors when iv the b.eatiers, and drifted until two o'clock to-day, when she beached. Tho lifo-boat put oil' to answer a signal of distress from the Twilight. She mndo several unsuccessful attempts to leiive the (teach and at lengih got away with six men in her. Sho wot near a reef with heavy breakers on, and was upset, all the men being thrown into the water. One mau was drowned.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1053, 1 June 1869, Page 2
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158WRECK AT TIMARU. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1053, 1 June 1869, Page 2
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