DISASTROUS GALE AT RARATONGA.
. — :oo: — TUvee Vessels Wrecked. Seven Lives Lost. (united press association.) Auckland, January 22. The cutter Daphne, C.iptain Burr, arrived from Raratonga bringing tidings of a most disastrous gale there, causing the wreck of the Auckland schooner? Agnes Bell, Atlantic, and Makea Ariki, with the laasaf seven lives j also a fearful amount of damage to property m the Wand. Captain W, Munn and John Anderson, mate of the Agnes Bell, Captain Ayers, John Gates, mate, and Patric Duncan, steward of the ,:Makea Ariki, with Stanley Heather (brother of a Mr Heather, a merchant of Auokland),' and a native, were drowned. The three vessels were all ownod by Messrs Donald and Edinborough of Auckland. The master of the Agnes Bell, and the master of the Makea' Ariki, refused to leave their vessels, hoping to save their ships. Captain Munn was well known m Dunedin shipping circles.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 47, 24 January 1884, Page 2
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149DISASTROUS GALE AT RARATONGA. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 47, 24 January 1884, Page 2
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