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NEW ZEALAND 'GOODS €0 DOWN,
LONDON. March 3. (Received March 3, at 11.26 p.m.) A barque showing distress signals was seen at 10 o'clock on Sunday night to strike the Prisons Rocks, off Cornwall. Slio apparently sank or broke up. She is believed to be a Gorman vessel from a portion of the word "Hamburg" on the lifebelts which were washed ashore, with pieces of cases and casks addressed to New Zealand. Undoubtedly the crew perished. A lifeboat and the coastguards searched the coast for hours. (Received March 3, at midnight.) Tho steamer Pas de Calais, plying between. Dover and Calais in the LondonParis mail service, with 180 passengers aboard, drifting in the storm with a paddle disabled, narrowly escaped the Goodwin Sands. She repaired the damage when she reached Dover.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 5
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134A BARQUE FOUNDERS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 5
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