A MARINE DISASTER.
A CRIPPLED BARQUE. A SAILOR MURDERED. [Pbess Association.] AUCKLAND, August 30. By the s.s. Navua from the Eastern Pacific, news come from Papeete of a disaster which overtook the barque Eton Hall, bound from Newcastle to Valparaiso. On August 9th she was picked up by the Famarii Tahiti in long. 144 west, lat. 343 south, dismasted, and was towed into Papeete. When the master was about to abandon the Eton Hall, two members of the crew broached a demijohn of ruin, and one stabbed the other to death. The prisoner was lodged in the gaol at Tahiti.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2283, 31 August 1908, Page 2
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100A MARINE DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2283, 31 August 1908, Page 2
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