PERILS OF THE SEA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 5

PERILS OF THE SEA.

BOAT PICKED UP. FROM ABANDONED FRENCH BARQUE. ANOTHER BOAT ADRIFT. (By Telegraph.—Proas Asßoclatlon.-CoprrlEht-) (Roc. August 27, 1.15, a.m.) : Fremantle, August 26. The Vghthouse-keoper at Cape Naturalisto teported in tho forenoon to-day that a boat had passed within two miles, containing soveralmen. Subsequently a tug, packed up the boat and towed her to Banbury. She proved to be from the French steel barque Gael, 2193 tons, bound from London to Hobart, which was abandoned on Monday last 200 miles off Cape Leouwin in a sinking condition. The boat contained the first and third officers and eloven members of tho crow, all in good health. A second boat, containing the captain, the second officer, and ten of the crew, is still adrift. 1 Tho boats parted on Monday night. . STEAMER BEACHED. / THE WAIPARA BADLY DAMAGED ON QUEENSLAND COAST. '■ (Rec. August 26, 0.30 p.m.) Brisbane, August 26. ■ The British India Steam Navigation Company's steamer: Waipara, 5505 tons, bound to London via- Sydney, struck' a rock near Cape Moreton at midnight, and was beached. The crew. and. passengers landed safely.' Tho bottom of the steamer is evidently badly damaged, Threo holds are full of water. The weather is bad. .[The.steel screw steamer Waipara, 5505 tor.s, was ; built in 190-tlength, 420.0 ft.; beam, sift.; depth, 28.6 ft.' She belongs to the British India Steam Navigation Company.] . - furtherTdetails. , (Rec. August 27, 0.30 a.m.) • Brisbane, August 26. ,! A south-east galo. was . blowing, . with heavy . rain, when tho Waipara struck. Rockets wore fired, and the pilot boat im-mediately-came .to :the. Waipara's ' assist-, ance. l Water commenced to pour into the socond and fourth. holds, necessitating ; the beaching of ! 'the . steamer to! prevent V her sinking. -. Tho steamers Palmer and Maranoa.have been dispatched to lighter tho cargo of the Waipara, which includes 4000 bales of wool,' 700 tons ,of tallow,; 1200. 'tons of frozen meat, and 250 tons of copper matte., . t The pilot who took the Waipara out from Brisbane left her before, the accident hap- '. pen'ed.';' ; V V COLOMBIA DISASTER! SGVuri MORE i DEATHS. BRITISH BLUEJACKETS TO THE RESCUE. 1 Monto Video, August. 25. Only three women were saved from the excursion < steamer Colombia, which sank off Monte Video after colliding with the Schlei-;with-a loss of eighty drowned. i; Seven of' tho persons rescued died after being landed. . v . . Bluejackota from the British cruiser Amethyst displayed great gallantry; rescuing many, of.' the excursionists in the ship's boats. I THE MISSINC WARATAH. •'> "NO TRACE." (Rec. August 26, 9.30 p.m.) i ,: ' . - London, August 26. Tho ■ steamer : Commonwealth, which has arrived 'at: Durban/' reported, that she saw 110 trace of the.Waratah. • ' The steamer Karoola has sailed. She will toko a zigzag- course, hoping to find somo trace; of ;tho missing vessel.'- .. ' .■ v. REINSURANCE RATE. •; (Rec. August <27; 0.30 a.m.) >■■■■. London, August 26. .Less business,is. doing in oonneetion with tho reinsurance of tho Waratah, but reinsurances could be effected yesterday at 90 per cent. . y A NOTORIOUS CHARACTER ON BOARD. The missing ocean liner Waratah includes amongst her, passengers a dangerous criminal named John M'Loughlm; "Yr'hosu .record- is l well-known by the police in various parts of the world, including New Zealand: Under tho guardianship of twri constables of tho Transvaal police, ho is being conducted from Queensland to Africa, whero lie is "wanted" on a charge of 1 having murdered two' men in Johannesburg in 1895. For almost fourteen years . the South African : police have beon searching; for him, and,, last-March, ho was arrested on a steamer on the Brisbane River.; M'Loughlin,,- or . M'Lachlancame to. .New, Zealand some time- ago -with a reputation of being a notorious Johannesburg safe-l'obber and oracksman, and (heing a miner) well acquainted with the use of explosives. He arrived in Auckland by the s.s. Mount: Sinen from ludi&, and, on November . 25. 1895, .was sentenced, under the alias of Thos. K.enny, to twelve months' imprisonment for having house-breaking' implements in his possession.- A similar of--fence, committed under the name of Thos. Kenny,. alias John Dell, earned--for him a sentence of three years' imprisonment in 1897.: For being a stowaway he- was, also sentenced to fourteen days': imprisonment at Lyttelton.; -On November 10, 1908,. ho left .Christchnrch by the south train,. having in his possession a-kit of tools, and'intends ing to; do tinsmith work ill the country. He had' also worked in the baokhlpcks as. a cook; ( Soliio time afterwards ho' was heard of as being 'an inmate of a Queensland prison. Although minus one hand, M'LoughIm .was;. apparently never hampered in his house-breaking feats, and. it is"stat«T. that On occasions he worked with a false, hand' screwed on his wrist. ...''