The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE, DECEMBER 30, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1084, 30 December 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE, DECEMBER 30, 1903.

THE CONDOR, Reference .was made in our telegrams yesterday; to a shipping mishap on the second anniversary of the wreck of the Conclor. ; Some interesting information in regard to that ill-fated vessel came by last mail. Out on the rocky coast which fringes the Western shores of Vancouver Island, fishermen, in the pursuit of their calling, have made a discovery full of melancholy interest. Buried in 25 fathoms off* Amphilrite Point, at the western entrance to Barkley

bound, lies the wreck of an iron vessel. What the vessel is, or how. long she lias lain there,; may never he determined,- for the depth' 5 of water in which she lies is so 'great that divers do not care to talm the 'risks which a descent to the stranded hull will involve. The vessel may either have struck near where she lies, or she may have foundered and been canned by the tides .which iset so strong coastward in these waters, to wliere she is now reseingShe may es.sily be one of half-a-dozen vessel.'; which have gone down in that latitude in the last year or two.- Captain Gaudin is naturally anxious to obtain more information on tbq subject, and, on hearing

tlie news, communicated the facts to -Rear-Ajlrmiral Bickford, in command of the Squadron at Esquimalt, at the same time intimating that there is a possfbili ty oi its being the lost Condor,,- tl ic sloop of war which went to the hoi .tom with her gallant crew of ove r 1 00 men in the December gale of tw/o years ago. It it possible that the authorities at Esquimalt may take steps by dragging or other wise to s:ttenipit to bring to the surface som*ethlHg to identify the craft Which liies so far beneath the surfacq of the w at e rs. The presence of the sHbnacrgv U hulk oa the coast .will re-

call many horrors of the sea. The big collier Matteawan, with 4350 tons of coal on hoard, for San Francisco ; the Keewenaw and Montserrat, colliers, and other craft, have been among the known wrecks on that coast'. There is a possibility that the wreck is one or other of Hie colliers, but what strengthens the idea that the wreck is that of the Ccndor, lost on December 3rd, 1901, is that wreckage from the lost cruiser was feund probably rot 50 miles from where the submerged vessei lies.