WRECK NEAR RAGLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 4

WRECK NEAR RAGLAN.

1 THE ISABELLA ANDERSON ASHQBE. WHOLE CREW SAVED. A PERILOUS ESCAPE. Information was received by the police late yesterday that a large timber yessel is wrecked at a spot four miles from Mangahea, on the Waiuku side, and this news receives further confirmation from the report of our correspondent at R_a. , lan. Later news contains the wrest aid states the vessel to be the Isabella Anderson. It was previously believed to be the Eunice, a new scow. Both vessels started out from Kaipara Headt at the same time, and it is believed that the Eunice would have got furthej down the coast than where this wreck is reported to have occurred. The news at our disposal states thai there was a crew of five men on the vessel, and of these four, including the" cat). ' tain, got ashore, and the other was left clinging to the masthead. The police whs were on the spot soon after the bern » was received, anticipated that the man would be saved. ; ', Our correspondent reports that the natives report a vesßel to be a total week at a place they term Te Akau, flf* » teen miles north of Raglan. Four of the crew got safely ashore, leaving one man on the wreck. All were very much, overcome by fatigue, and the battle ] they fed had for their lives, and they to think there was little chance of saving the life of the fifth man. Some station hands have gone to the assistance of the man, but have not yet reported the result of their labours.' It is practically certain that the Teaser is the Isabella Anderson, and hot the , Eunice. The latter is owned by Mr; ! A. B. Donald, and is commanded by .Mi; . » R. Fletcher. She carries a cargo oi 160,000 feet of mixed kauri and whit* pine for Dunedin, and was cleared at'»' the Mitchelson mill in the Kaipara on the 15th. The Isabella Anderson is a schooner of about 80 or 90 tons, owned and commanded by Captain Lang of Dunedin. Sh«T carried *'.»■"■■ cargo of 75,000 feet of mixed • kauri and white pine consigned to Dil* edin, and she left the Kaipara mill four or five days before the Eunice, although they were both delayed at the Heads waiting for a favourable wind, and started together. Captain Lang, her owner, is one of the best-known skippers on the coastal trade, and he has been in Jt for years He knows the coast Hk* a "book, and it must have been some very hard circumstances that drove him inshore. Later news received by Mr A. B. Donald, owner of the Eunice, confirms tha statement that it is the Isabella Anderson that has gone ashore. ..•'".<■ Tbe message is brief, and aayi l - S* v more than that all hands are safe. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) RAGLAN, this day. The schooner Isabella Anderson (own- , er and captain, Peter Lang), of Dunedin, _ laden with 75,000 ft of timber, bound : from Kaipara to Dunedin, left Kaipara . on Wednesday at one p.m. She was dismasted soon after leaving, and tried to\ ! make Raglan, but became helpless - , I seas, and is now a total wreck on , Rangikahu Beach, Te Akau, 15 miles . north of Raglan. There were five persons aboard, and all were saved. _ One man named Murray was injured, but not seriously. The vessel is insured for £500 in the Union Office, Dunedin. • Mr. Rikys, manager at Te Akau, and . his men proceeded to the wreck and ran- . dered most valuable assistance. They . , rescued one man who had been unable! tp : get ashore from the vessel, and attended i to the needs of the ship-wrecked men. t . ——