A STARVING CREW.
SAD PLIGHT ON BARQUE FROM
KAIPABA.
By Electric Telegraoh—Pci Frffls Asa o&aliion—Copyright, - Rooeived 11.22 p m., Jnly.9. Melbourne, July 9.. The Orient steamer. Britannia fell in with tbe barque Mary Moor off-Osgi Everard yesterday morning. The oral were in sore straits. The vessel reach®! the Promontory sixteen days out frofi Kaipara; then fell in with heavv galet She had not been heard of eg»in ft! twelve days, when Bpoken by the steams off Cape L'ptiap. Tha Britannia bon down on the vessel, whioh was fiyin/i signal of distress, and found the ore? praotioally starving. The breakfast tin morniDg consisted of boiled bran. As tbi steamer approaohed a man on the barqW held up an infant which was badly it need of sustenance. The second mate rf the steamer and three sailors boarded tin vessel, and a liberal supply of provision! was placed on board,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1804, 10 July 1906, Page 2
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147A STARVING CREW. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1804, 10 July 1906, Page 2
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