MISHAPS AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 155, 25 March 1908, Page 7

MISHAPS AT SEA.

JAPANESE DISASTER. UPWARDS OF TV/0 HUNDRED DEATHS. OTHER CASUALTIES. BY TELEGRAPH —FIIESS ASSOCIATION'—COri'MOIII Tokio, March 23. The ■ Japanese coasting steamer Mutsu Maru collided with tho Hideycshi Maru, near Hakodate. , ' Tho captain and crew and upwards of 200 passengers of tho former vessel'perished. A FIJI GALE. STEAMER ASHORE AND REFLOATED. '. Suva, March 24. Thero was a heavy gfilo last night. Tho glass was at 29.25. ,

Tho-stcamor. Sangola, which arrived from ilndia on tho 18th inst., with 1150 coolies, was driven ashore, with largo lightors, loaded with Indian cargo, alongside. She was subsequently refloated.

Many small craft .were wrecked. Tho M-arama, bound ■ for Vanoouvor, was detained, but departed at 6 a.m.

1 The' Lovuka cable wa3 interrupted, and no country news could get through. ; Houses were wrecked, and' tho banana plantations wore damaged. SAILING SHIP ON MIDDLETON REEF; Sydney, March 24. Tho steamer Hampstead, from Hawaii, reports that a largo sailing ship is ashoi'o oil tho Middleton Reef. No name, was discernible. i - : \

• A HUNDRED FATHOMS DEEP. (Rec. March 24, 9.28' p.m.) i .London, March 24. ' The German-Australian steamer LaeisK, which struck a rock and foundered in' the Red Sea • (the crew being rescued and landed at Aden),.sank in 100 fathoms. The shipwrecked orew that was rescucd hy the, French third-class cruiser Cassard wiis not. the crew of the Lacisz, but that of'tho tvrecked trawler Baleine. . It was previously reported that the Baleine's ofbw had been Captured by Moors.