SKIPPING CASUALTIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 134, 7 June 1906, Page 5

SKIPPING CASUALTIES.

FRENCH BARQUE WRECKED. [PIIES9 ASSOCIATION.] I SYDNEY, 6th June. A cable message has been received by tho underwriters that the French barque Cassard was wrecked at Falkland Islands. All hands wcro saved and landed on the islands. Tiie Cassard was homeward bound from Sydnuy, with a cargo oi 27,000 bags of wheat, shipped by M 'Arthur and Co. (Received June 7, 8.30 am.) j LONDON, 6th June. Tho Cansard is a total wreck. The ship and cargo were insured for £60,000. LOSS OF A SCHOONER. TOWNSVILLE, 6th Juno, j Tho schooner Ivanhoc was wrecked at Solomon Islands. The crew havo arrived at Cooktown. BRISBANE, This Day. Tho Ivanhoe was stranded on a reef at Ata Island while landing returned Kanakas. Her position is bad, and as the natives were becoming troublesome it was decided to abandon the vessel. fires on Steamers. . SYDNEY, 6th June. The underwriter!! aro advised by cable that a firo occurred in No. 4 hold of the steamer Perthshire. Part of the cargo had to bo jettisoned. Regarding the flro on the Waimate, lid vices state that it occurred in No. 4 hold, aud was extinguished. Only slight damage was caused, and the steamer resumed her voyage. WAIPARA FLOATED. BRISBANE, 6th June. The steamer Wcipara, which grounded at Moreton Bay, was floated off, and has resumed her voyage.