WRECKED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 September 1907, Page 2

WRECKED.

■■»■ AUSTRALIAN-LADEN STEAMER ASHORE. B ON SOUTH OF ENGLAND COAST. Received Sept. 15, 3.33 p.m. ' London, September 14. The steamer Patroclus, from Brisbane and Sydney with a general cargo, went ashore on the rocks at PortUui* on the a coast of Dorsetshire, during a fog. 1' There is fifteen feet of water in the V forcliold. a She is likely to become a wreck. v Isle of Portland is a rocky peninsula ;i of Dorsetshire. From its highest point c it shelves with a gradual and almost ( unbroken slope to Portland Bill, the -, ' southern extremity, where stand two , lighthouses, and between which and the Shambles (a dangerous reef, three miles south-east) a surf, called the Portland Rate, is raised by the rushing of the , impetuous tides. Portland is one solid ' mass of oolitic limestone, and the cliffs

have in places been worn into fantastic caverns The isle contains the \ famous Portland convict prison. . > STEAMER SUNK ON A BAR. PASSENGERS RESCUED AFTER <■ PERILOUS EXPERIENCE, I u . Received 10th, 1 a.m. Sydney, September 15. e-, The steamer Tomki is a total wreck ■o on Richmond bar. The passengers and. crew, hivd a perilous experience. They were landed by a life line, wTiictl 3- was placed on board by a rocket brii- gade. e■ ' =