ISLAND CASTAWAYS.
WRECKED SCHOONER. OFFICERS TRAVEL 500 MILES IN A BOAT. NATIVE CREW TO BE PICKED UP. Bj Telegraph-Press Association-Oopyrleht (Bee. April 18, 11.55 p.m.) : ' : ■ Sydney, April 18.. Messrs. Lever Bros, have been advised . that their wooden schooner, Malekula, 130 tons, which was a couple of months overduo from the Solomon Islands to Sydney, was wrecked at Bampton'Keef, in thV Chesterfield Group. , . Captain M'Phail and two European" officers' of the Italekula have arrived at' Lucinda Point, Queensland,'in the ship'* boat. They report that the schooner was' wrecked on January 9. The crew of 17 natives was left at att-' island in the vicinity of the wreck They have plenty of food, and there.is no fear' , of their starving. . ' . ■ Arrangements, have been made for steamer TTpolu to pick up: the castaways on her next trip. '! [The Chesterfield Eeef is about 500 miles, as the crow flies, off the Queensv land coast] ■ ■ ■'. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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150ISLAND CASTAWAYS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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