PERILS OF THE SEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 7

PERILS OF THE SEA.

REPORTED WRECK OF A SEALER. WITH MANY LIVES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 28, .0.40 a.m.) London, April, 27. A report (unconfirmed) comes from Newfoundland to the effeot that C.. T. Bowring and Coy.s'. sealer Aurora, 580 tons, built in 1876, has been lost,\with 187 (?) lives.-

LOSS OF A SCHOONER. , SUSPENSION OP A CAPTAIN'S ■ CERTIFICATE. \ '" Melbourne, April 27. TJie. Marine Court found that the wreck of the scliooner Relic was due to the carelessness •'of Ca.ptain Brown, whose certificate is recommended to be suspended for threo months. [The wooden, schooner Relic, 113 tons, built in 1903, struck the Eddystone Rock, off the north-east coast of Tasmania, on April 3, and sank in deep water. The crew was saved.]

THE WARATAH. . SEARCH BY THE WAKEFIELD. Melbourne, April 27. A message from the Premier of Natal, Mr. F. R. Moor, gives a few additional details of. the Wakefield's search for the Waratah. The Wakefield is not expected to reach Melbourne till June 20, at the earliest, and probably not till June 30. [Advice has been received bv Mr. C. M. Montefioro.-that the London office of the Ocean Accident' Insurance Company, has paid out the sum of £1000 to the relatives of , Captain J. E. Ilbery, the master of the lost liner Waratah.] MELBOURNE AND ADELAIDE CALES.

BOATS. ADRIFT AND SUNK. • DAMAGE ON LAND. •Melbourne, April 27. The gale which caused a tin-laden lighter- to break away, in the harbour and_ to sink , after oolliding with the Orvieto did other. , considerable damage. 1 A ketch broke loose and collided with and-damaged the yacht Sayonara, the successful defender of the Sayonara Cup.

Much damage was done to property ashore.. The roof of a house collapsed, and eight of the inmates -had a miraculous escape. '

At the infectious diseases hospital there were many patients in tents, which were. torn. to . pieces. The -pai tients were . almost. smothered in the debris, and were drenohed by rain.

COAL LIGHTER GOES DOWN. Adelaide,. April 27. 1 During a gale which passed' over Adelaide Harbour, Messrs. HuddartParker and. Coy.'s.ooal-lighter Excelsior broke adrift, . and., collided with the barquo Oriente. 'He lighter sank, but the barque was not damaged. [The Excelsior, -a stool steamer of 340 tons gross,-was built at Southampton in 1882.]

THE SATARA'S CREW. • - . Sydney, April 27. < :The Lascar orew of the British Indian Steam Navigation Company's steelscrew steamer Satara, 5272 tons gross, Captain HugiJl (which, when journeying from Newcastle to Singapore, foundered off the Seal Rocks, aiout 55 miles north of Newcastle), .'have been Bent to .Singapore. . ' .

REPORT OF A WRECK,

BOATS TO THE RESCUE.

Adelaide, April 27. A message.from.Warooka (YorkeY , Peninsula) reports that a vessel unknown has been wrecked near Brutus Point, fourteen miles west of Warooka. , Boats were dispatched to the rescue of men seen clinging to the masts, but they have not yet returned.

[This is possibly the wreck, news of which was signalled by the Drayton, Grange, as described in a cablegram published yesterday.]

WAS IT A FALSE ALARM? (Rec. April 28, 0.40 a.m.) Adelaide, April 27. There' is no traoo of the reported wrcck. It is believed that what was seen by the woman who reported it was a beacon on a sandspit five miles away.