Wreck of a Barque.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 22 December 1913, Page 5

Wreck of a Barque.

THE LABOR D'AUVERCNE.

A TOTAL LOSS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press .Association.]

Svdnev. December 21

The barque Antiope, which lias arrived from Eureka, reports having sighted the French barque Labour d'Auvergne, which was bound in ballast from Tahiti to New Caledonia, ashore, a total wreck, at Palmerston Island.

MAROONED ON AN ISLAND. SHIP BROKEN AMIDSHIPS. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Details are to hand of the Labour VAuvergne. The captain boarded the Antiope off Palmerston Island on November 12th and reported that the ship had struck a reef on the night of the 23rd October. Next day in the morning the crew of twenty-three and a lady passenger, Mrs Pick, of Sydney, landed with the assistance of natives from the adjoining islands and tents were pitched.

Plenty of food was available from the ship's stores, and all were well when the Antiope left, excepting of the lady, whose mind was stated to he temporarily deranged through trouhles I attending the wreck.

The captain of the wrecked barque asked the Antiope to take all the marooned people to Sydney, but this vvas impossible. He offered to take fifteen, but the offer was declined, the captain deciding to keep the crew together in anticipation of an early visit of a schooner to the island, which would carry them to Tonga. , He asked the Antiope to report the owners in La Havre that the Labour d'Auvergne was broken amidships, and full of water ,and that the wreck had been sold to a trader for £9O.