ISLAND STEAMER WRECKED.
OFFICERS AND CREW SAVED. Received April 18, 11.55 p.m. SYDNEY, Aprillß. Messrs Lever Bros, advise that their schooner Malukula, which was a couple of months overdue from the Solomon Islands to bydney, ha 3 been wrecked on Bampton reef, in the Chesterfield Group. Captain McPhail and two European officers of the Malukula arrived at Luanda Point, Queensland, in the ship's boat, and reported that the schooner was wrecked on January 9th. Her crew of seventeen Datives were left at an island in the vicinity of the wreck, where there is plenty of food and no fear ot their starving.
Arrangemenst have been made for the steamer Upolu to pick up tin caslawayc ?n her next trip.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10022, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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119ISLAND STEAMER WRECKED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10022, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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