A GALE AT SEA.
SEAMAN WASHED OVERBOARD. Wellincton, June 13. Theschooner " Torea" which left Lyttelton for Kaipara on Friday ran m here yesterday and reports that daring the heavy southerly gale on Saturday night the sea broke on board and washed a seaman named William Lawson overboaril. No assistance could be rendered The deceased was a young man and shipped at Lyttelton some time ago. The " Mary Bannatyne,"brjgantine, bound South from Greymouth, also put m she having sprung a leak by touching on the bar on lea\ing Greymouth.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1881, Page 2
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88A GALE AT SEA. Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1881, Page 2
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