DEEP SEA DANGERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9302, 19 March 1907, Page 5

DEEP SEA DANGERS.

A STEAMER ASHORE

REGARDED AS A TOTAL LOSS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.!

BRISBANE, March 18.

The chief officer of the A.U.S.N. steamer Mildura wired' from Onslow that the Mildura went ashore on the Northwest Cape on Tuesday night, and was -regarded as a total loss. Theire was nine feet of water in the hold. The captain and thipty-one of the crew iremain«d on the vessel.

(Received Maxell 19, 9.55 a.m.)

BRISBANE, Maccoh 19.

The Mildura has 480 .caJttle aboard. The chief officer thinks the> cxew probably landed since he left. The Buirrumbeet is piroceied.ng to the scene of the wreck.

FRENCH TORPEDOERS COLLIDE.

TWO MEN KILLED.

PARIS, March 18.

_ The Freanoh destroyer Epee, whale manoeuvring with light 6 out off Ajaccio, coilMded; with torpedoer "One," whose steam pipes burst, killing a quartermaster and) stoker, andi wounding another of (the drew.

A VESSEL DAMAGED.

SYDNEY, March 18.

The Raveir Boyne, -which left Newcastle (hi TEbrairsday for Wellington, put into Syd>riey to-aiight for repairs, having during a heavy gale lost her top sail yard. While coming up the harbor she- collided with a print, and one of the Boyne's bow plates was damaged above the water line. The repairs will necessitate a considerable delay.

The Mildwa has ca/ttie aboard- No fresh water is available. It as impossible far help to reach them before Satuhiay.

ANOTHER STEAMER WRECKED.

PASSENGERS RESCUED WITH DIFPI-

CULTY.

(Received March, 19, 8.31 a.m.)

LONDON, Maroh 18.

The steamer Jibba, from Lagos, was wrecked at Salcomb, Devonshire. The 80 passengers were with difficulty itescued by means of a rocket apparatus.