TWO WRECKS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1724, 14 April 1906, Page 3

TWO WRECKS.

TWELVE LIVES LOST. (Per Press Association.) Auokland, Thursday. Tho Taviuni, from the Islands brings news of tho wreok at the Pau motos of the three-masted sohoonei County of Roxburgh, and tho loss ol ten men. Fourtoon wore saved. The steamor also brings nows of the wreok of tho schooner Tahitienne, and the loss of Captain Doxtor and M. Sheves 'rnato).

Tho County of Roxburgh (Captain Lesley) was bound from Caldera, Chili, to Melbourne in ballast. She was caught by a gale on February Gth. For two days the wind blew hard. No land was sighted till the Bth, and at 0 o’clock in the evening they got sight of land, and wore immediately brought to by a big wave that earned the vessel over the reef of tho island

of Takaroa, one of the Paumotus. Nine men got into a boat, which capsized, and seven of them were drowned, two being saved by means of lifebelts. The latter were two apprentices named Richardson and Stirling, and did not know how to swim.

Out of the men that remained on board two, H. Anderson and Parsons, were washed overboard. A third one, Wagner, an expert swimmer, jumped into the sea and was drowned. The ten men lost are : Herb Distel, Albertog, Parsons, Wagner, Salla, Weigner, Anderson (2J, Koch, and Corbet.

The 1-1 men saved are—Captain Lesley; Miller, third mate; second mate, Brown ; third mate, Roberts; cook, Krahl ; Henduck, Sterling, apprentice ; Richardson, apprentice ; Bradesto, Robson, Ceace, Marshall, and Harris.

They remained three weeks on the island, which was devastated by a storm. They got their food from the vessel. They were also fed by natives until they were rescued by the schooner Jemuriaroha, which brought nine of them to Papeete, where they were brought under the care of the English consulate to the Hotel du Louvre, t-ix men. remained on the island with the captain. Three arrived at Papeete on the 28th March on tho schooner Pakarever, and two others on the France Austale. The sixth man remained on the island, where he intends to marry an Onamotu girl. Three of the crew went to America by the Mariposa, the rest arriving by the Taviuni.

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. RAFIS FOLLOWED BY 810 SHARKS. i" i >'■»,, i CAPTAIN AND MATE. EATEN.

U 1". The sepooner Tahitienne, commanded by 'Captain Geo. Dexter, is lost. Only two natives were saved. Capt. Dexter remained two days on a raft before sinking in the waves. Mr Sheves remained one day on another raft. The two men that were saved were five days on a raft before being able to land on an island. They say that numbers of big sharks followed the wreck, and the captain and second mate were eaten by them as soon as they fell into the water.

ANOTHER SUPPOSED WRECK. It is reported that a mattress and pillow belonging to Mr Ed. Bonnefin, who was on board the schooner Rimes, has been found. There is great fear that the schooner has been wrecked near Kangurna island. Up to lhe present there is no. certainty about that schooner. The schooner St. Michael started some time ago for Marquesas Islands, where the Eimes was bound to for the purpose of looking for this schooner. She is not back yet.