SHIPPING DISASTERS.
STEAMER WRECKED.
Recevied August 26, 9.30 p.m. BRISBANE, August 28. The steamer Waipara, bound for Loudon via Sydney, struck a mck near Moreton, at midnight, and was beached. The crew and passengers landed safely. The bottom of the vessel is evidently badly damaged. Three holds are full ot water. The weather is bsd.
FRENCH BARQUE ABANDONED.
Received August 27, 1.15 a.m. FREMANTLE, August 26. The lighthouse keeper at Cape Naturaliste reported during the forenoon that a boat passed within two miles of the lighthouse containing several men. Subsequently a tug picked up the boat and towed it to Banbury. It proved to be. from the French barque Gael, bound from London lo Hobart which as abandoned on Monday last 200 miles off Cape Leeuwin in a sinking condition. The boat contained the first and third officers and eleven members of the crew all of whom are in good health. A second boat containing the captain, second officer and ten of the crew is still adrift. Th. boats parted on Monday night.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9579, 27 August 1909, Page 5
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173SHIPPING DISASTERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9579, 27 August 1909, Page 5
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