A Japanese Steamer Wrecked.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 38, 28 August 1900, Page 3

A Japanese Steamer Wrecked.

Manila,- Angusb 25. The Soeanier Fufcami Maru is ashore at Mundanao Island. The passengers and crew encamped for a week until the steamer Australian con \ eyed them to Manila. The stoan^er acd cargo are believed to \ be lost. ;

bYDNfiV, August 25. A private cable from Captain Clarke, JR»\ r ., a passenger by the 3 steamer Futami Maru, which left < Sydney for Yokohama on August 2nd, states that the vessel was ceckec 1 , He and Mrs Clarke were saved. No details are given. The Cob c wai forwaHed from Manila* The agents state that they have no ! definite newSy On Thursday they '■ received a cable from the head office in Japan, asking them if they had any nows of the steamer, d 3 she was? then overdue at Manila. ; The inference is that she has gone ashore on ono of the islands near Manila. From Thursday Island, < Jap lain Ellis reports that he met the Fatami north of Bouoda Island on the 15tb» The weather was bad at the time. Messrs Burns and Philip, agents for the Japanese mail line of steamers, have received the following message :—": — " The Gutami Maru was wrecked at Mindora Island, this side of Manila ; all hands were saved." A later message from Cape Oolabitft states that the steamer -Yustralia, en route from Sydney to Eastern ports, reports i having fallen in with the Futamt Maru, which was a, complete wreck She took off all the crew and passengers, alao the specie and , mails. The wrecked steamer carried j a large number of passengers. She had a general cargo, including ten ; boyes of gold. J The Futami Maru was insured in a Home office for i200,00G.

Gisborne, August 25Mi?g Paaloy, daughter of the Colledtor of Customs here, and Miss Hunter-Brown, of Nelson, were passengers for Japan by the Fufcami Maru, reported Avrecked. They were on their way to re-engage in Church Missionary Society work in j that country. ' \

Nelson, August 25. ! A. cablegram has been roesived by the New Zealand Church Missionary Association from Miss Hun tarBrown, from Manila, saying " Well." Ifc is presumed that Ihis implies that sho and Mis 3 Pasley, of Giaborne, are safe.

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