SUPPOSED WRECK OF A VESSEL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 56, 27 March 1901, Page 3

SUPPOSED WRECK OF A VESSEL.

| rv;;; association. 2S, iMQpni. SvnxEv, March 2C. • A iji:;ul.!'.y cf wreckage, iachnliig fi | pi. co .if wood wit') " n.s. JF&lovn!, of | i-I.'ib.jUT'ao," wi'iiton in pencil on it, land tho 1 '«!y oi u iiitii, were pick >d up o.'r' G;s,'';o Island. The Fekora! w: ; ono jof the Mc.llwiTiith Eaeherr.fi Fieat, and iloitPoii jlorahie on the 20th with a ;'.;nl for Albany direct. Bhr [p'.swil O.'iSo the following afternoon. (Received 2fi, 10.14 p.m.) I Mr.LisoußNE, March 26. I Tho pte.aster Peregrine arrived and npovts tl:.-. pasted the Fotleral a few inif.ea north of Gabo. Asa heavy gak waa blowing at the time, possibly the ■man found, was washed overboard aud tho :'rti;:lc3 o' : wreskage Sverri 'krewn t-i him. Tho v.'-ss-ol wat under th<s commav-.d of Capt. Ooull tindj catmil a crew of twenty-nine nil told,' Received 28, 10 47 p.m. Melbouhne, March 26. Tho Federal's owDors have no information as to the vessel. The raansger stys that viawing all the circumstances ho is almost driven to expect the worst. Had the man been washed overboard only, in view of tbe gale raginj?, he thinks the Captnin would have signalled the safety of the vessel at the firrt opportunity. The steamer Surrey was signalled at Gabo a few hours ahead of the Federal, and had struck the beginning of what was described as a terrific cyclone when ninety miles beyond Gabo ; therefore the Federal might have got the full force of the hurricane. She is due at Albany on Friday or Saturday.