WRECK OF THE BARQUE ELECTRA.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] AUCKLAND, October 23.
Captain Lane, of the schooner Maile, states that while entering Winapou harbor at 7 a-m. on the 11th he sighted the barque Eiectra, Captain Fi-her, <3.t> tons, anchored close to the reef. Shortly after Captain Lane noticed a signal at the mainmast and the en sign reversed, upou which he immediately put off to the barque and went on board. It was then found that she was aground on a reef aft, and bumping heavily. L_ a little time she commenced to fill rapidly, tuid about noon capsized bodily over to the seaward. The captain and crew then abandoned her, and the batches being washed off the cargo, which consisted of 500 tons of copra, was speedily floating out of the hold. When the Maile left on the 12th the Eiectra showed signs of breaking up fast.
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7187, 24 October 1888, Page 5
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