News from the Island.
• LO3T AND DAMAGED VESSELS. A MAD CAPTAIN. [Pbb Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Mat 11. The Janet Nicoll, which arrived here today, reports everything at the Island dull. Native affairs are quiet. No disturbance of any kind has occurred since last reports. Tke French schooner Flora, previously reported as being ashore near Earatonga, became a total -wreck. No lives were lost. The whole of the cargo was saved before the vessel broke up. The Flora belongs to a Commercial Society at Tahiti. The barque Eebella, from Sydney, bound fo Tahiti, came into the latter place with six feet of water in her hold, having sustained severe damage in a hurricane. The oaptain of the vessel jumped overboard and was rescued, but afterwards went mad and died. Tho barque was surveyed, and waa found to have been greatly damaged. The vessel was sold by public auction on the day the Janet Nicoll left. The American man-of-war Mohican was at Tahiti, on her way to Samoa, for the purpeso of making an enquiry into the recent disturbances there.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5616, 12 May 1886, Page 4
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178News from the Island. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5616, 12 May 1886, Page 4
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