Wreck of an Auckland Vessel.
Brisbane, June 18. — Captain Curran and five men, comprising the crew of the three masted schooner Waireka, of Auckland, have arrived at Maryborough in a decked boat after being nine days at sea. The schooner was wrecked at Long Island, about 400 miles from Chesterfield Group. She was unloading machinery at the island when the cable parted in a gale on the 27th of May, and she struck a reef at midnight and sank. Only her bowsprit remained abore water, and to this the men clung till daylight, when Captain Blundell, a resident on the island, gallantly went to the rescue of the illfated crew, who reached the shore with difficulty. The shipwrecked men procured a cutter and sailed for Queensland, where they . arrived in good health. The men lost everything in the wreck.
A New Zealand magistrate, in dealing with a case of furious riding the other day, said that too many riders and drivers were in the habit of thinking that people on foot should give way to them, and it would be well for all th»se engaged with horses to noto Mint they had to give way to pedestrians.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6897, 18 June 1892, Page 3
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197Wreck of an Auckland Vessel. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6897, 18 June 1892, Page 3
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