Shipping Casualties.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 46, 8 April 1899, Page 2

Shipping Casualties.

o Daring the week many shipping casualties have been reported. The large French barque Marchallanes, on her maiden voyage from Swansea to San Francisco, with a cargo of coals, was wrecked in a fog on the Pembrokeshire coast. The crew of twenty-five were lost. The steamer Star of New Zealand collided during a fog, off Beachy Head, with the German cattle steamer Pontos, from South America. The Pontos sank. Tne Star of New Zealand returned .to Gravesend to unship her cargo of dynamite. From Sydney comes the news that on Good Friday there was a northerly gale, with blinding rain and a rough sea along the coast. The barque Regent Murray, from Adelaide, reached Newcastle disabled, and' grounded in a dangerous position when entering the harbour. She was in charge of a tug at the time of the disaster. The gale lifted her orer the wreck

of the Wendouree on to an oyster bank r and the wreck penetrating her hull, she rapidly filled. The lifeboat had a difficult task in rescuing the crew. On the same day the yacht Queenie, owned and sailed by John Clarke, manager of the Melbourne Steamship Company's Works, left Wilham&town with her owner, his four sons, a youth named Reginald Johnston, and a man named Allan on board. The craft was fouud sunk at the entrance to the Wenibee River, Allens body being entangled in the rigging. All seven are believed to have been drowned.