WRECK OF THE HIP HYDRABAD.
There seems to be a strange fatality connected with the shipment of railway plant from this Colony to Australia. As will be seen by our telegrams, the ship Hydrabad, bound from Lyttelton to Adelaide with a quantity of railway material sold by the New Zealand Government to the Government of South Australia, lias gone ashore between Foxton and Otaki, on the west coast of the North Island, and some miles south of Wang.-mui. Full particulars are not to hand, but wo are informed that no lives were lost. The railway material on board is. we believe, that rendered useless to th,-. Colony by the alteration of the Chris'cliurch-Lyttelton lino from the broad to the narrow sjuage. If we remember rightly, the broad "guagi> plant of the Bluff railway, which was also sold to one of the Australian Governments, met with a similar fate wlum beiiiu' taken from the Bluff to its Australian destination.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 709, 25 June 1878, Page 2
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158WRECK OF THE HIP HYDRABAD. Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 709, 25 June 1878, Page 2
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