["The Mail News", The South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Friday 26 June 1874, page 5]
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WRECK OF THE CONTEST. Information has been received, intimating that the barque Contest, from the Northern Territory for Adelaide, was on June 16 wrecked at Rockingham near Fremantle, West Australia. The vessel left Port Darwin with 16 passengers on April 27, and called at Rockingham for railway sleepers. Four of her passengers, viz., Messrs. S. E. Reynolds, T. Nimmo, J. Kaeley, and G. A. Connor, have come on here per the mail steamer. All the passengers were saved, but four of them remained at Fremantle, and the rest, who did not come on here, stayed at King George's Sound. When the people left the vessel she was on the rocks, but it was hoped that she might be got away. The craft was a Black Diamond liner of 322 tons, registered in 1868 at Port Adelaide, and was the property of Captain H. Simpson. The Contest was built in Nova Scotia in 1860.
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