The schooner Valentine Hellicar, GO tons, M'Fhcrson master, from Melbourne to Port Cooper, with twenty passengers, four horses, and general cargo, was wrecked on the beach at Otaki, on Sunday morning last, during the great thunder-storm and gale of wind which occurred at that time. Providentially no lives were lost, everything was saved,, and the vessel is high and dry, and apparently sound, with the exception of the foremast, which was cut away after she got into the surf, and carried with it the bowsprit and main topmast Great credit is due to Mr. Eagar and several other European residents at Otaki, who, with the zealous co operation of the Natives, rendered every assistance in their power to the shipwrecked passengers and crew.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 1456, 16 July 1859, Page 3
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