CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9138, 10 July 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.]

BARQUE IN DISTRESS.

STARVING CREW'S SUFFERINGS.

BOILED BRAN FOR BREAKFAST

[PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 ] (Received Tuly 9, 11.21 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, July 9.

The Orient steamer Britannia fell in with the barque Mary Moore off Capa Everard yesterday morning. The crew •nere in sore straits. The vessel reached the promontory when sixteen days out from Kaipara, but then fell in with heavy gales and was not heard of again for twelve days, when she wa*> spoken by a steamer off Cape Liptrap. The Britannia bore down on the vessel, which was flying a signal of distress, and found the crew practically starving. Breakfast that morning consisted of boiled bran. As the mail steamer approached a man on the barque held up an infant which was badly in need of sustenance. The second mate of the steamer and three sailors boarded the vesal, and a liberal i/tipply of provisions was placed on board.