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Stories of Banks Peninsula.

was much esteemed. The calamity threw a gloom over the whole Peninsula.

The tablet erected in St. Peter’s Church to the memory of Captain Ellis bears the following inscription:—“This tablet is erected by the Oddfellows, M.U., of this district, to the memory of Captain William Ellis, aged 43 years, who perished through the wreck of the ketch Crest, near the north head of this harbour, on October 29, 1868.”

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