WRECKED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10008, 2 April 1910, Page 5

WRECKED.

THE LINER PEEIGLES. nited Press Assjciation-By Bleotrio Telegr iph "Copyright. Received April 1, 9 a.m. SYDNEY, April 1. News was received from Perth at an early hour this morning that the Aberdeen Jner Peri-les, 10.925 tons, had been sunk off Flinders Bay, just east of Cape Leeuwin. A ROCK STRUCK.

ALL ABOARD SAFE

Received Apr il 1, 9.30 a.m. PERTH, April 1. The Peruies was noticed yesterday afternoon, six mil"s south of Leeuwin Lighthouse, flying signals of distress. Hsr bows were well under and her stern high out of the water. The boats were leaving loaded with women and children. The steamer gradually drifted closer in, struck a rock, and sank three miles off Cape Leeuwin. Meantime all aboard had been got safely in boats.

A LATER REPORT.

WOMEN BEHAVED SPLENDIDLY. .

PASSENGERS AND GREW LOSE EVERYTHING. Received April 1, 9.40 a.m. PERTH, April 1. A later report from Karridale. which is connected by telephone with the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, states that about eighty women and children passangers have arrived there from Flinders Bay, and are receiving every attention. Every house in Karridale is full of castaways. The women behaved splen There was no panic or impediment to the work of rescue. The passengers and crew lost everything but what they stood in. All are in qood health. One boat put off from the wreck with three oars, and no plug or rudder, and reached land. It was steered with an oar. There are no details yet as to the cause of the disaster. The scene of the wreck is a remote unsettled part of the West Australian coaV. I A steamer left Bunbury last night j for Flinders B*y. She takes the cast- j aways to Fremantle. |

THE CARGO

Received April 1, 9.50 a.-a. SYDNEY, April 1. The Pericles' Brisbane cargo included over 13,000 carcases of mutton and lamb, 1,000 quarters of beef, 16,000 boxes of butter. The Sydney cargo included 5,000 bales of wool, 10,800 carcase" of mutton, and lamb, 15,000 Doxes of butter, 1,250 crates'of rabbits, and 250 tons of wheat. Included in the Hobart cargo are over 35.000 cases of apples and 1,119 cases of preserves. The Melbourne cargo included over 10,000 carcases of mutton, 300 bales of wool, 424 tins of wheat, and 1,050 boxes of butter.

THE INbURANCES. MAILS LOST. Received April 1, 8.50 p.m. SYDNEY, April 1. The Pericles is valued at £250,000, and her cargo at £500,000. The insurance is divided between the English and C?lonial offices. The mails are lost, including fifty pounds of letters, and live and a half hundredweight of other matter from New Zealand.

PERTH, April 1. The steamer with the Pericles' passengers is expected to-morrow. WELLINGTON PASSENGERS. WELLINGTON, April 1. The Pericles carried several passengers from New Zealand. These included the following:—From Wellington, Mr J. A. Hunter, Mr A. E. Marris, Mr and Mrs Warbam, Mr J. Fernandos, Mr and Mrs Starsmore i and two children.