SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIV, Issue 4467, 23 May 1910, Page 5

SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

DARING MOTOR CRAFT RACE (Received 21, 8 30 a.m) New York, May 22 Five motor boats left Philadelphia during a heavy storm, racing to Havana on the longest and most daring courses yet attempted by motor craft. WRECK OF A STEAMER. (Received 23. 0.30 a.m) Sydney, May 23 News has been received that the steamer Kirkfield, from Christmas Island to Kobe, phosphate laden, struck a shoal in the Palawan Passage. The crew strove for seven days to keep the vessel afloat, but she sank. The crew reached Balabec in boats after a trying journey of 31 hours.