AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 7 April 1908, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BARQUE SPRINGS A LEAK.

[PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 7, 10.13 a.m.). NEWCASTLE, April 7.

The wooden barque Yosemite, which sailed on Wednesday last coal-laden for Valparaiso, sprang a leak. The crew worked at the pumps for four hours out of six, but the water gained at the rate of three inches an hour. The ressel returned to port.