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Loss of a Ketch.

• Chrlstchurch, to-day. The steamer Wakatu arrived from Ka koura to-day, bringing Henry Offer, one < the crew of the ketch Florence, which her< ports sprung a leak on Friday morning o Kaikoura, when bound from Lyttelton t llaveloek. The crew of three men attempte to return to Port Lyttelton, the wind bein north-east. The wind soon became adverse and the vessel knocked about till Suiulu morning, once getting within 16 miles i . Lyttelton. The pumps were choked by th sand ballast, and the men thoroughly c: haunted by baling. At daylight on Sunda the ketch was beached close to Kaikoiu; and the crew got safe to land. Two hundred thousand acres from tl Canterbury runs, to be sold next month, wi be reserved for settlement.

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5438, 30 March 1889, Page 3

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Loss of a Ketch. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5438, 30 March 1889, Page 3

Loss of a Ketch. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5438, 30 March 1889, Page 3