FATAL WHALE HUNT.
TWO BOATS SMASHED.
A MAORI DROWNED AND TWO
INJURED.
[BY TELEGRAPH.--I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.] G is borne, Friday. This morning at Pokotakino, some miles north of Cisborne, live Maori whaleboats were out in chase of a school of sperm whales*, when one monster rushed the boats.
One boat was smashed to atoms, and another was stove-in and sunk.
One of the crew of the first boat sunk, and was seen no more, and two were severely injured. The occupants of the boats which were sunk were picked up or managed to get ashore.
The party succeeded in capturing and landing on the beach three whales.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9130, 11 August 1888, Page 5
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