RIVERTON.
1 Jan. 12. West Coast prospecting party returned last night, bringing a shipwrecked seaman named McLean, belonging to the schooner Woolwich, which was capsized in a gale off Preservation Inlet. The man, who was picked up on the rocks, states that he and Captain Moody and another seaman, after clinging to the bottom of the vessel for some considerable time, were enabled to reach the shore. The other two started to walk through the bush, immediately on. landing, but as they had neither provisions, dog, nor gun, it is surmised that they must have perished in the bush. McLean, picked up on the 10th December, in a very weak, exhausted state, after subsisting for nearly six weeks on shell-fish. The vessel was on her way from Auckland to the Bluff. The party have not stated what their prospects v\ ere, but it is thought they are not very encouraging.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2954, 13 January 1876, Page 2
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