WRECK AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF LIFE.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christohurch, Thursday. Captain McGregor, of the ketch Florence, which arrived from Foxton to-day, reports that on Tuesday morning last, when about 35 miles northward of Kaikoura, he sighted a vessel bottom up. The weather was rather thick, and as far as he could judge the vessel wad between fifty and sixty tons register. It is generally believed that the vessel is the ketch Catlin, 46 tons, built in Otago in 1878, and owned by Messrs. Williamson and Murray, of Dunedin, which sailed from Port Chalmers for Wanganui about six weeks ago. It is stated she has not yet arrived, and that nothing further has been heard of her. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9036, 20 April 1888, Page 5
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