WRECK OF A BARQUE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 21 October 1908, Page 5

WRECK OF A BARQUE.

' SYDNEY, Vtober 21. The* crew of tho British >«arqua Fifeshire reached Sydney yesterday, tha barquet having been wrecked on Tabitewa, Island, iii tha liiJbetrb Group. The Fifeshiyel left Newcastle) for PcjrtlaaKi, Oregon State o£ America, on 2nd August, with a cargo of 2000, coos of coal On the afternoon »f 2Ut Augus*, when the vefceel was bowling along with a fair wind, she struck tn submerged uncharlereid fhoal to thei leeward of Tabitewa with tuch force that the boat was carried over on the seooind shoal, where ,nhe roniajned bumping heavily. Tha weather waa fine at tho time.