LATER FROM FIJI.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1198, 25 November 1873, Page 2

LATER FROM FIJI.

By the arrival ofj the; ferlin, from Levuka' we have later Fiji jtpers from which we make the following etract. —

AVREGK OF THjnARQtIE TCOTUMAH

On TJrarday'nig.b four of the men belonging to "the bafqu Botumah arrived from Loma Loma biy a small cutter, bringing the intelligence ' tbe vessel's total loss at Vatoa Island, .'ho barque Rotumah, 282----tons, Robertso*. master and part owner, left Sydney i: July -last for a trading cruise " among? the South , Sea Islands." She sailed for Fiji on October 20, in company, with th< schooner Tafahaii,, which was bound for Sidney. The first part of the night of the fist was very dark,1 with a good trade wind blowing, and the, vessel doings shell. , Aboii ten o'clock the order was given We" bout s3ip," the barque then being near to reef, Jnt in attempting to come round the missel stays, and was carried by a very strong current on to the reef. One boat was lost, but the remaining one wasl cleared, and at <aylight on the 22nd the passengers antLcrev left the wreck. for Vatoa Island. On the 23rd the boat returned to the wreck and recovered the second boat'which had been vfoshed npbn the reef. The j crew also, saved vrhat things tbey coud, and that were of any use, but upon examining the vessd they found that she was a total wreck arid abandoned her as such. She has completely broken up. They then remained on the island until the 29th, on tha morn--inpof which the four men started in one of the beats for Lakeba, where they arrived in safety. Tie party left eleven of the ship's company oi Vatoa Island, including two ladies and a Btla boy, passengers through from Sydney. ?hey were all well. The ladies Mrs Roberion, the; paptain's wife, and -a Mrs/Clarke. The vessel had a cargo ,cconsisting of about eighty tons' of copra,, twenty tuns of oil, a teyr. r.bales of fungus, aud three thousand cooariuta. She i was bound- to . Kadavu, '. jfvHehce^he was to-sail ior'-Sydriey. The Kotpmahr-vvas.iMU^d. , Early on Thursday morning- Hiß^Mi? schooner (Alacrity left* for Watoa IslaiicTiri order to' render what assistance she could to the..castaways.— Fiji f^l-.X bnn ___ '___ - !.'- i' '\1 TaifT