SHIPWRECKED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 5

SHIPWRECKED.

' FRENCH BARQUE LOST. ASHORE AT THE ANTIPODES ISLANDS. '■CREW REACH CHRISTCHURCH, . • (jiy TBiianirii—thESs association.) Ghristchiirch, May 15. 11.M.5. Pegasus returned to Lyttclton tonight- .bringing with her the crow, twentytwo in'all, of itlio four-masted French barque President Felix Fauro, which was wrecked on .the Antipodes Islands''on.March 13. The "had left 'Wellington on May 6 on'a visit to tiio 'Chatham, Bounty, and Islands., : She arrivcd at. the lastnamed on jVlay 13 at midday, and the smoko of' a' Ji fi'ro 'was 'then' seen, followed by the waving of.garments by oinon on tho beach. Sho .anchored on the northern side of the Island;' arid a boat went off and discovered the shipwrecked crew. ■

• The French" barquo ha'd left New Caledonia on February 16 with a cargo of nickel oro for Havre,,in Franoe, and sho.ran ashore on the south sido of the Island on March 13. Tho ■; crew, landed in one of tho boats, and . depot; ' 1 ■ Tho.'ship; did not .'smashVuptill, April 18, and' up till then the.inen lived on stores broti^ht-/shipi';• "••After that, • h'oVr"evpry'jfc^ey/'fell back on' ! tho depot provisions, which' had' to bo" supplemented; by albatrosses and 'seals. . Theiifien were in'good health when rescued. Mr: Goorgc Humphreys', tho local French Consular agent, visits Lyttclton to-morrow to of tho shipwrecked men, and' to ,'make arrangements for ■ their: passages back to France.

1.. STRANDING OF A CUTTER. DRIFTS ASHORE AT KAIPARA HEADS. ' ' ; " • Auckland, May 15. The crew of. the/ cutter Warkworth, wrecked . iit Kaipara Heads on May ,7, reached,-Auckland to-day. Tho vessel sailed 'frbin'Kaipa'ra-on'May. 5y and tho same night a'; heavy gale ;,frqm' north-west set in,. continuing next-. "afternoon; 'when - the wind, shifting to-the south-west, was still blowing a gale, i-.At 9 p.m. the vessel shipped a heavy sea, which broko the mam-boom, ctovo the. boat-in, and filled. tho cabin. Shortly afterwards arioth'er.heavy "sea was shipped, causing/,the port chain-plates to part. She then;commenced drifting ashore, "and at 1 a.m. stranded on, the beach. The crew remained^'on board until the sea left the vessel, when thoy walked ashore, having been one day and two nights, without 'shelter. Tho master and his two men suilered considerably from exposure.