Notary J.
de Kater Nz. Announced that he intended to sell on Saturday 18
February at the farm of J. den Boer at Renesse a large amount of wreck wood and
yellow and red copper and iron work coming from the coppered and nearly new
bark ship called De Centenarij. In the edition of Friday 24 February was
announced that the auction was moved to Saturday 4 March 1843.(1)
Note
1. The edition dated Tuesday 10 January 1843 published
a news item dated Zierikzee 9 January according to which the night before on
the Banjaard the British bark ship Centenary master J. Soster was wrecked. She
was loaded with beans underway from Alexandria
towards Rotterdam.
Her crew was rescued and now under quarantine at the shore, probably nothing
could be saved of ship or cargo.
