WRECKAGE FOUND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 329, 16 October 1908, Page 8

WRECKAGE FOUND.

IS IT FROM THE LOCH LOMOND? (SI T7,LEGKiPII—FKESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, October 15. Yesterday afternoon the • steamer Ripple returned to Lyttelton from the Chatham Islands, and on arrival Captain" J. • B. Allsop informed' the shipping reporter' of the "Press" that a few days before his vessel called at the island a quantity of wreckage, evidently from a sailing vessel which had mot with disaster, was washed ashore there. The wreckage consisted of a'teakwood skylight about seven feet in length, with brass gratings attached, and a portion of a broken spar painted white. Captain Allsop said he thought the spar was a portion of the spanker boom of a sailing ship. On: being informed that a lifebuoy from the;,'missing Loch Lomond .had been picked, .up near Great Barrier Island, Captain Allsop said he was strongly of opinion that the. wreckage washed ashore at the Chath'ams had como from that vessel. There were no-marks or letters on the. wreckage, but he thought that inquiries made in Melbourne. or Newcastle regarding the colour of the 'Loch Lomond's spars might give some clue! Captain Allsop further stated that if the 'Loch : Lomond had been ill trouble in' Cook "Strait', or even to the northward of New Zealand;-the currents which set to the south would carry floating wreckage in the direction 1 of the Chathams.

Dunedin,' October 15,

On her way- to Newcastle' 'from Auckland, which port, she leaves to-day)'the steamer Waitemata will search the Three Kings for traces of the barque Loch Lomond.