CUTTER WRECKED NEAR BLUFF

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13327, 29 July 1915, Page 2

CUTTER WRECKED NEAR BLUFF

i NARROW ESCAPE OF-'CBEW. . i ■, t- ' ' ; ' : ■ ' ' ■ j . . BLUFF, July.26, The/Ming cutter Bonnie Jean was wrecked at,"t a,m on Sunday , wliile on' her from'the : Bluff to Buapuke Island;', She left Bluff at 1' ) a.m. under, sail, and .cleared tlie heads:. ; • at ],30 : a.m.,' when two of her crew of , three turned-in,. A .proper .watcij was • not kept, it is alleged, by the look-out j man, aiid at ( 2 o'clock she ran-'ash'ore' ; at: tlffi-in-shelving beach*- at ••Lewais i' Point, .-just outside the harbour. s ' Maurice Topi, one,of"the meii-'wlio" i tiirned in, said that the.' first he knew of • anything amiss was thfe.pburiding of the I - wayes'against, ' the - side; oftlie vessel, , and lie jumped up on the .deck in time. !- to see.. Smith . (the Jook-Outmnn) get ! asliorc,; lie and his' liiate. followed I promptly,-and none .too soon,';as" the • .Bonnie .Tean bl'oke upValmost immedi- ; alely. In a couple of hours, there was prhctieally nothifig left, of itie craft, ; The Engine-(4 hip. Union)> was saved. ;■ from the. Wreckage, and also the anchor, i and chain. ■; The dinghy was picked ! up at sea by- the schoAner- Britannia' lnrer in the day. The Bonnie .Tean was built, at Stewart Island- in ]8!)7,~ and was a'vorv service- . able boat. DLxon "Bros, (owners) have • been very , iinfortiinatfi,. ns this is the. Jhirfl craft, tliey. have:, lost', in. three. yelll'S, the OtliC's lining',Mia ill-frit'cd li'is, w.liicli wax-loft near Hnapnkfi-ivitli : foiir liyeinn l!)]:Lnml the cutter l Hopo .itiSten'.irt-Island in 1014 '-j >.*