WRECK OF A SCOW.
THREE MEN DROWNED. Wellington, Last Night. The scow Kia Ora, owned by ! ; Messrs McLaw Brothers, bound from Ngunguru to Auckland, laden with 1 kauri logs, went on shore on a reef off Kawau Island and became a total 1 wreck. The Captain, named Edward ' Piercy, his son James, aged 30 years, [ and Thomas Young, the cook, were ' drowned. The only one who escaped after a desperate struggle, was a sea- , man named Gossop. '
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 19, Issue 100, 18 December 1908, Page 5
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77WRECK OF A SCOW. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 19, Issue 100, 18 December 1908, Page 5
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