BARQUE TALCA SAFE.
A PROTRAOTED VOYAGE.
GREW STRICKEN WITH FEVER.
By telegraph. Pres* Asa’n, Copyist Received 12 25 a m , May 8. Sydney, May 7. Arrived, ibo ba*que Talca, one hundred and twenty days from Iquique. Several of the crow wore Btrioken with typhoid shortly after leaviog, and two d od.
Owing to the boisterous weather and the erew being shorthanded the voyage was protraoted Provisions ran low, though they were Dot exhaueted.
MISREAD BIGNALS. telegraph, Pres* Asft’n, Copyelght Received 12.30 a m., May 8.
Sydney, May 7.
The captain of the Taloa says that his signals were misread at Tahiti. He only reported typhoid, not smallpox. After leaving there the weather continued ditty. The crew gradually recovered, and are now well
On arriving at the Hsads he was ordered to proceed to Geelong, but the captain decided to put in to replace the dead men and repenlish provisions. The Taloa has been quarantined pending her departure for Geelong.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1743, 8 May 1906, Page 2
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159BARQUE TALCA SAFE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1743, 8 May 1906, Page 2
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