CAPSIZE OF A LAUNCH.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14976, 25 January 1919, Page 6

CAPSIZE OF A LAUNCH.

TWO MEN MISSING.

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iiev; Piym&uth, Jan. 24. | The oil 'launch Mahoe, owned by C. A. Ogle, of Waitara, and bound froni Marokopa ±o Waitara, was approaching Waitara between o and 6 p.m. io-day, when i she struck ihe bar, turned turtle and! drifted on to a reef. ' j Captain Roberts is missing, and the■engineer (Jamieson) is believed to have ■ lieen entombed. i Two passengers, one a son or the pro-! prietor, and another a youth named J^V'y, got ashore in a boat with George Millar, the third member of the crew. An attempt was made at low tide to release the engineer, but fumes presented operations, 'iliero was a fair sea at the time of the mishap. Tho vessel, which was one of about 2(> tons., ■was carrying a load of wool and a heavy deck cargo. - " ;