Loss of the Star of Erin.
(by telegraph.) Invep.cargill, February 8. Little that is new has transpired regarding the loss of the Star of Erin. It is said that the Waipapa light was not seen rom the ship before she struck, although she must have passed it about a mile off on the starboard bow, the wreck being to the west of the lighthouse, and in the eastern end of Toitois Bay. The foul ground to the windward broke the force of the south-east sea, otherwise it is doubtful if the crew would have escaped. Eleven of the crew have arrived in Invercargill. The wind is still easterly and fiesh, and it is probable that the wool portion of the cargo will drift across to the long low beach between Toitois and the Bluff. Saturday night's weather was most bewildering, the rain being like a fog. A party who had gone to the coast to fish state that the air was so dense that they could not distinguish the waves ■when close to them, and could not , venture away from the camp fire.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5203, 9 February 1892, Page 3
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