A SCHOONER LOST.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 53, 26 October 1889, Page 3

A SCHOONER LOST.

r Br the arrival of tlie a.a. Riclimor I from t'ic is!nnds nnwa -ome-i ' hand of (be wreck of tho schooh ' Cora at Rarotongaon tb<- 14th u j . Th* Com bail boen trading in tl Hervey Oronp on .-v fruit-collectii J orCiae, on lielialf of the Wallingt* [ I firm of Mo -sis Goodwin and I - j Li-d't, who had chartered her f I that purpoac. Sho waa fully load* lltrit'i oran«es an J other fruit, at was .n the point ofaailingfot We ■ ' when, during a heavy cal I r.hp ran upon the Katrota Reef, an ; ijiVickly becain's a f.ot«l wreck, beir ; wodrrwl faat upon thn rook* and tl 1 - seiu breaking over her. All bani! a'tcceododin settingaxhoro in safet 1 : though Mr DuLisle bod a narro . escape from being drowned in tl I ' mtrf, hoi rag wved onlv by tho 4xe 1 Uons of one of the Kanaka orev 1 who swain out to hi*aaaiaUncc, an 1 succeeded in bringing bim aahoi in a greatly exhauatod atat ', ! F.vorvthing on board woi loat, ii , clu ! .ing tho clotbinc* and monoy ( t!> .■ captnin and charteroni. Oo t! . , dav after the wrwk the hull of tl • vos-el was .sold for $52 lo t'lo m I 'ivps, nn-1 the chronometer, .»exUir • and otner instruments which we: recovered wore also diapoaol 1 Ofptain Abbott and Messrs. Goo 'win and De Lisle then proceeded Avarni, whet j thoy wori picked ti bv the Richmond und taken Auekl-uid The hull wns iniiti-. . fo- £3OO, «md tiie rarg> for £2 ■- • Th.« Cora is ftn,Au?l-Jand-bi)i't vp ' «ol lmving boon eohatmeted thorp i • W6, but since IH7I she has l»a< rp-o'stered in Dunedin, wh**rn M Martin Ken nod} - , her owner, rcnid* Sho was 4C ' >n* rejjisti'f.