SUPPOSED SHIPPING CASUALTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 122, 24 May 1902, Page 4

SUPPOSED SHIPPING CASUALTY.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF A TIMBER SHIP.

There is grave reason to fear that a timber'laden vessel bound from New Zealand has come to grief in the recent gales in tiie Tasman Sea, and that the timber and other wreckage washed up on the beach of the West Coast, in the extreme North, belonged to her. This morning we received a wire from Hohoura stating that it was Reported that the wreckage washed ashore included a large quantity of timber flitches, together with a ship's hatch and ship's tub. During the day word also came to liand in town from Captain Haultain, of the Northern S.S. Co.'s service, who is on the' Northern coast, that the Hitches were marked "K.T.C.," indicating that "they formed part of a cargo shipped by. the Kauri Timber Co. It is conjectured that the unfortunate vessel from which these items of wreckage came is the foreign barque King Oscar 11., Which sailed from Kaipara for Glasgo\y on the 7th inst. with a cargo of 582,500 feet of kauri flitches, shipped hy the Kauri Timber Co. A very severe gale prevailed in the Tasman Sea md. on the New Zealand coast on the Bth, and for several days following, and numerous sailing craft and steamers encountered the storm and had very tempestuous experiences*

The King Oscar 11. arrived at Kaipara from Algoa Bay, via Melbourne, on March 11. She was in command of Captain Jensen. She is registered in Lloyds as a wooden barque of 840 tons, her length being 177 ft. 2in., breadth 35 ft. oin., and depth 19tt. Sin. She was built at Kragero, Norway, in 1892, and is owned by Mr H. Biron, Jrs of Kragero.