GROUNDLESS ALARM.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8729, 27 February 1894, Page 5

GROUNDLESS ALARM.

(press association telegrams.) GISBORNE, February 26

I Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety [of the scow Whangaroa which left this I port for Lyttelton ou January 25t>h, and has not since been heard of. She must have meb the exceptionally heavy weather expeI rienced by the ship Margaret Galbraith, and | a vessel of her clas3 could scarcely weather ; such a gale as that, being flat-bottomed and riding very light. The Whangaroa was a large new boat of 130 tons register, capable of carrying 200,000 ft of timber. Captain Burns was accompanied by his wife, and the crew numbered six. HOKITIKA, February 26. The scow Whangaroa, Captain Bums, reported by to-day's Giaborne telegram as missing, arrived here yesterday with a general cargo from Lyttelton aud Timaru. She had previously sailed from Giaborne to Lyttelton, and though encountering rough weather the vessel behaved admirably. [A later telegram from Giaborne states that news of the Whangaroa's arrival at Lyttelton has been received. The vessel reached Lyttelton on February 2nd, sailed Tor Timaru on the Bth, arriving on the 11th, and leaving again for Hokitika on the 16th. She was in Port during the gale of which the Margaret Galbraith had so unpleasant au experience.]