Six lost in Wellington shipwreck

While entering Wellington Heads early this morning the auxiliary schooner Omaka, trading between the port and Blenheim, capsized. The light keeper at Pencarrow Lighthouse says he saw the vessel suddenly heel to a fierce southeasterly squall and turn over. The little vessel was laden with chaff, and this and other wreckage was soon swept overboard. He saw at least four men who were hanging on to the wreckage. They maintained their precarious hold until pounded by the fierce seas dashing over them. They