LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA.
(PKKHH ASSOCIATION.V Port Chalmers, October 3. Arrived—Ship Taranaki, Captain Gordon, 100 day?, from London. Experienced heavy weather while running down the easting. ■ Ou 29th August, Mr Dry, second officer, and William Matthew, while engaged furling < the .maintopsoil, fell from the yard overboard. Mr Dry was picked up slightly braised, but although ropes and lifebuoys * were thrown by Captain Gordon, the car* penter took no notice of them, and sank ( under the vessel’s quarter. It is supposed ' he must have struck himself in the fall. *
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9416, 5 October 1891, Page 3
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