FIJI.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 196, 25 January 1875, Page 3

FIJI.

The Fiji Times of December 12th, reports : “ By the Daphne, schooner, which arrived in harbor yesterday, from the labor grounds, with a full complement of passengers, we learn that the American brigantine Hallie Jackson, Captain Fuller, has been totally wrecked in a hurricane, with the loss of one life. The Hallie Jackson bad eighty-six Solomon Islanders on board at the time of the wreck, and was bound to this port. Mr St John, the owner of the wrecked vessel, came up in the Daphne, and has kindly furnished us with the following report:— ‘The American brigautine Hallie Jackson, H. S. Fuller, master, having eighty-six Solomon Islanders on board, was lost at Cape Lisburne, Island of Santo, on the 12th November last, during a hurricane blowing from the N.W. When the vessel was in the breakers one of the crew (Wm Wilson) was washed overboard and drowned, before assistance could be rendered. The vessel was thrown several yards above high water level among large boulders. The masts remaining, their'great weight so injured the keel as to make the vessel a total loss. Our sincere thanks are due to Captain John M‘Donald, of the Daphne, for his kind assistance, and by his taking the passengers, labor, crew, and trade saved, on to Havannah Harbor, arriving there on she 24th of November. T succeeded in chartering a schooner and a cutter, which sailed on the 25! h, iu charge of Captain Fuller and the first officer, to recover from the wreck what had been saved, and to break up the vessel for the copper, &c. A portion of her labor was re-engaged by Captain M‘Donald, the balance was placed in the care of Mr B. B. Hcbblewbite, merchant of Havannah Harbor, to await their passage to Fiji —S. A. St John, owner of the Hallie Jackson.”