THE HAWEA.
'A BOAT'S CREW ARRIVES.
CAETAIN FEARS DRIFTING ON THE REEFS. (Ny TEIjEQUAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION COriKIGET.) (Rcc. August 18, 12.30 a.m.) . Sydnoy, August 17. A boat from the Uniou Company's disabled steamer.Hawea has landed at South Solitary Island, near the Clarence River, t The island is not connected by telegraph, but signals state that the boat, under tho •charge of the chief , officer',- left tho Hawea on August 10, in latitude 29 degrees 15 minutes south, longitude 154 degrees 57 minutes east. The captain requested immediate assistance,. as lie .feared that the vessel would drift on the reefs northward of Lord Howe Island. ■ The chief officer states that the vessel's longitude position was probably affected by the recent south-west gales. The occupants of the' boat landed in a greatly exhausted state. ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 279, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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