THE BARQUE CHASCA.
(By Telegraph.) Wellington, July 28. With reference to the barque Chasca, Pilot Holmes states that the vessel first appeared ofl Sinclair Head, and passed Pencorrow Head about 7 miles off shore, apparently bound northwards. She was off Palliser Bay when ahe gave the first indication that she wanted a pilot. The boat put off, but had scarcely left the land when a strong northerly breeze set m, and the Chasoa, hoisting her top-gallon! sails, stood out to sea. That was the lost seen of her. Altogether she was m Bight from the outer pilot station only between fom
and five hours. The statement that she lay for three days off the heads is evidontly incorrect. From the 28th to the 30th May upwards of twenty steamers entered or left this port, so that if she had been anywhere m tho neighbourhood sho must have been spoken or reported. The probability appears to bo that she mistook Palliser Bay for" the entrance to Port Nicholson, and one of the stations on the coast for the pilot station.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3689, 29 July 1886, Page 3
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179THE BARQUE CHASCA. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3689, 29 July 1886, Page 3
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