DISASTERS AT SEA.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11945, 14 July 1904, Page 5

DISASTERS AT SEA.

f ,:! VESSELS IN DIFFICULTIES. I _aitcd Pre*' Association—By Electric I Telegraph—CopyrfghT. I . SYDNEY. July 13. | / A quantity of wreckage was «een off I Newport. Brokrn Bay. 'ft barque Laira, from Knipnrn, whilst h 0 „ the Seal Rocks yesterday, ran abort |» 0 f provision*, requiring the tug. Tha L j s({ff was despatched during tbe afterI * 30< ' 1 '' i \ ipchooner, supposed to bo tho Whanf proa, was aightcd on the 7th with her ! . {ore-topmast gone. DECK CARGO JETTISONED. (Received July 13th, 6.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 13. Jfce barque Laira, from Kaipara, encoun--rtd a ierie.l of gnks, and was driven far -- north of Lord Howe Island. Tlie safety of the vcrsol necessitated throwing overboard the deck cargo, confuting of 45,000 i feet of timber. This probably accounts for the timber recently washed ashore at Lord Howe. Island. The had a severe buffeting. It is feared Aw is strained. She w jit be. surveyed after discharging. NEMESIS WRECKAGE. (Received July 13th, 11.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 13. The wreckage at Newport is supposed - io have drifted from the Xemcsw. [Tha barque Laira was bound from Kai- ■■.' para to Melbourne with a cargo of timber. She left Kaipara on May 30th, and was therefore 44 days out t» arrival at Sydney yesterday. The Laira is an iron barque of 493 tons, her principil measurements being:—Length 156.1 feetr beam 27.3 feet, and depth 16.6 feet. Tho vessel is well known hi Lyttclton, and is owned by *ie»s A. 11. Turnbull and Co., of Christchurch* and is commanded by Captain Rogers, a son of Captain Thorpe, head pilot at Lytteiton, and a «>n of Captain B. Hatchwell, of Lyttcltop, aro both in 'the Laira.] ' ,