SHIPPING CASUALTIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1427, 11 April 1905, Page 3

SHIPPING CASUALTIES

STEAMER ON ROCKS. (Per Press Association.) } Pictoo, yesterday. Tho Sounds steamor Gaouet ran on the rocks at Patten’s Passage duriog a squall on Satnrduy night. Sho lies partly submerged. The posseDgers and orow landed * safely. Hopes are entertained of getting v her off. BARQUE IN DISTRESS. j PICKED UP BY S.S. HAUPIRI. I Mr J. H. C. Bond, manager of the I Union Stoam Ship Company hero, re- I oeived word from Captain Baekstorm, of I the s.s. Haupiri, yesterday morning that j ho had picked up the barque Helen in I distross on Sunday night off Hick’s Bay, I and had brought her to an anoborage. j Owing to tho difficulties of communication I on the Coast, very little information oould I be obtained. j ' The_C.o!onial Register gives the Helen I ’ as ajsrafquo of 343 tons, with a length of I ' "Sin, breadth 25ft Sin, depth 15ft Sin, I * built at Greenock in 1864. and registered I c at Hobart in 1867.' Her owners are I 4 Brown, Taylor, and Cowper. I 1 v The barqne is grain laden, bonnd from I E xszmta to Auckland. She was evidently J ® damaged in Sunday’s gale, and had pro I “ bably been blown off the land, as neither | the Union Co.’s s.s. Wanaka nor the s.s. | n Talune noticed her. It is probable that I c | notioed by the Haupiri the barque I P was firing rookets for assistance, and it is I indeed fortunate that a vessel was near to I ra succour her, as a farther drift of a few I miles would have put hor out of the course I ° f ~r of vessels. I hl Upon communication being established I with Gisborne, Captain Baekstorm was I Ir ?i

instructed to proceed with his salvage to Auckland, and the Haupiri, with the barque Helen in tow, left for that port at r- 1.30 yesterday afternoon, and should arrive at Auckland late this afternoon.