TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.
[PER OKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Port Chalmers, Tuesday. Arrived — Turakma, ship, from London. Her passage, which only obcupied 84 days, has been a very stormy one, nnd she came Into port bearing evident signs of the heavy weather sho had to encounter. On November 19 a heavy S.W. galo sot in, and. at 8 p.m. of that day, whilst the chief offlcor (Mr FeUden), tho third officer (Mr PiUett), and a. seaman named Popo were in tho act of stowing the jib the vessel plunged heavily, washing nil three men overboard. The nest soa washed the third officer aboard again, but it was impossible to rendor any assistance to tho others, tho night being pitch anrk and a mountainous sea running., During the same gale one of tho boats was washed clean out of the davits. The foro part ot the deckhouse got stove in, tho flying jlbboom carried away, and it was with difficulty that the fore top-gallant mast was saved. The galo lasted for four days, during -which the vessel's decks were continually flooded:
Auckland, Tuesday. Sailed yesterday— ssealandia, for San Francisco.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7941, 4 January 1888, Page 2
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185TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7941, 4 January 1888, Page 2
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