THE OVERDUE WASP.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1676, 22 December 1887, Page 3

THE OVERDUE WASP.

The China Mail, of October stb, has the following regarding the overdue British gunboat Wasp:—“ Every day that passes is adding to the anxiety felt for the safety of H.M.S. Wasp, which left Johore on the 10th Sept, for Hong Kong, and has therefore been out more than 25 days. The Cockchafer and the Firebrand have been sent out from Hong Kong to search for her. A steamer belonging to the Singapore Government also left on the same errand. The native authorities here have likewise requested the captains of steamers trading between here and Manilla to keep

a look out for the gunboat, and have telegraphed to Saijod and other ports between here and Signapore regarding her. There was a rumor that the Russian transport which passed through the harbor recently had sighted the Wasp, laboring in one of the typhoons that were raging in the China Sea about two weeks ago, but

the Russian vessel made no report on the matter. The Wasp, which is a new yessel on her first trip, is a composite gunboat 670 tons, 73 men, and 100 horse power, and is armed with six breech-loading guns. She arrived at Singapore from England on the 18th August last. Her Majesty’s ship Leander returned to port ait Hong Kong on 17th October from her cruise in search of the missing gunboats She reports that cruising among islands of the Paraul Group she found one old wreck of a wooden ship on one of the islands of the Amphitriti Group and the wreck of a steamer on the north reef. Boats could not board them on account of the surf.