A SHIPWRECKED CREW.
nTOKY OK THE VOYAUK AXD WRFCK OF TIIK I'RKMIKR.
(Fiom Daily Alta of Oct. 27th.) A rm'Kl'-.i.ntativk of the AUn yesterday gained information that tho schooner Malolo had arrived at tins port with tho captain, second mate, steward, and four of the crew of the schooner Premier, long since supposed to bo lost. The reporter found the Malolo lying oil Meiggs' wharf, .ibout a quarter mile out in the stream. Upon hoarding her lie found the second mate, who related to him the following story of the finding of the Premier at Fanning' a Island: — " yo you want to know something of the Pieiruer and her crew, eh ? Ihe Premier left Eureka, Humboldt country, some time in ISB3, with a cargo of redwood, which she discharged at Sydney. Onthe'ioth of Jauuaiy of the piesent year she sailed horn Newcastle, N.S.W., loaded with 300 tone of coal, to be landed at Kurcka. On March 11th it was di«to* ered that she had sprung a leak. For twenty t\v o da) s we w orked like madmen, .scarcely taking time to eat of our poor and meagre rations. One day while drifting about we sighted what we supposed to be an island, but upon coming nearer we discovered that it was nothing but
A B\RRE>f ROCK. "With saddened hearts we tacked about in another direction. On the twenty-second day after we discoyeml the leak, we saw ahead of us what looked to be quite a large piece of land. When about entering the harbour we struck upon a coral reef. We were at once discovered by natives «f the island, and upon making inquiry were told that we were in English Harbour, a little inlet in Fanning Island. This island is a good m.my miles south of the Hawaiin Inlands, and is owned by a Scotchman named Gregg, who was shipwrecked about twenty-three years ago, and who found his way to that place. He married a native woman, and has had seven children by her. One is a beautiful girl of seventeen years. She Mas educated at the Sandwich Islauds, and has travelled extensively m Europe and the United States. She seems to like her island home. In fact she has often told me that she would not exchange it for any other in the world One day whilst Captain Gregg was on Ins way to Honolulu, the tirst mate of the Premier, who had boen making love in a surreptitious fashion to this daughter of the sea, proposed to her, was accepted, and in the presence of all the inhabitants of the island, they consented to take eacli other as husband and wife, with a pioviso on the part of the young woman that the mate should never return to his native country to live. Fanuing's Island is nearly seven miles long, and about four in"\\nUn. There is much guano upon it, and coooanutsand bananas are also abundant. Captain Gregg is the possessor of considerable wealth, acquired through the sale of cobra and guano. There arc a number of chickens upon the island, as well as goats and milch cows. Captain Gregg is the owner of a nice bark, which he uses to ply between his place and the Sandwich Islands. He | was extremely kind to us, and I must say, has but one fault, and that is the appetite for alcoholic liquors. He thinks nothing of drinking a half gallon a day. After we ran upon the reef it was necessary to get rid of our cargo, which we did, with the assist nice ot the natives, anil that's saved, at any rate. We remained upon
FANVIM.'S IM.ANI). For about six months. On the 11th of September the Malolo stopped there fora c.irgo of cobra. On the 13th she vrent to Washington Island, returned to Farming's Island, and left then* v/«Hi the crew of the Premier on the 2.lth, that is, all save the first mate, who remained to pursue Irs honeymoon and look after the damaged schooner. The Malolo arrived in this port yesterday. The natives at Fauning's Island are continually pumping water out of the Premier, and will do so until we cm return with an experienced diver fiom this city and disco\erthe leak. The schooner will then sail for Honolulu, where she will undergo repairs. The name of the Premier's uaptain is Nelson. We had a pleasant trip up on the Malolo notwithstanding the fact that we had to double up all around when it came to sleeping. The Premier is valued at lS.OOOdols, and insured for 13,000d015. She is owned by B. H. Teitzer, Captain Jackson, .S. I*. Patterson, Jas. Taft and C. Thompson of the city of San Francisco.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1951, 8 January 1885, Page 4
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