ISLAND DISASTERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 473, 21 May 1890, Page 5

ISLAND DISASTERS.

LOSS OF A YACHT WITH ALL HANDS. News has reached Sydney by the steamer Liibeck of the foundering of the American trading schooner H. L. Tierman, resulting in the loss of 11 lives. The vessel capsized durring a heavy squall. The people drowned were native passengers. They were below when the vessel “ turned turtle,” and their only means of escape being cub off, went down with the vessel. The H. L. Tierman was a vessel of 145 tons, owned by a Mr A. Crawford, of San Francisco. Her crew were rescued off an island by the American warship Iroquois and taken to America. The loss of the Melino, a small yacht, is raporbed from Tonga. The vessel is the property of Messrs McArthur and Co., and is supposed to have been wrecked during a heavy gale whilst on a voyage from Levuka to Vavau. At all events she disappeared and has not since been heard of. Her booby hatch was washed ashore on the island of Uiha. Two white men and a Tongan lost their lives in her. One of the whites, Mr F. Hoyer, was well known and respected in the Tongan Group. He was formerly in the employment of the German firm. The schooner Daisy, another of Messrs McArthur and Co.’s vessels, was lost about the same time as the Melino on the Kolu reef, which has been the scene of more than one shipwreck in former years. Fortunately, in this case no lives were lost. ,