A TUG WRECKED.

Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1910, Page 3

A TUG WRECKED.

CHEW LANDED SAFELY. SYDNEY, Fob. 13. ihp tug Port Jackson was totally wrecked last night south of Catherine Hill Bay. The vessel was returning to Sydney after towing the Mamjrewa to Newcastle when she ran into a southerly gale, broke down, and drifted ashore. The crew landed safely. The Port Jackson was built in Duncdin.

MYSTERY OF THE SEA. UNKNOWN STEAMER. UNDER SAIL DURBAN, Feb. 12. Tlio whaling schooner Ulva reported at Durban that she sighted on November 23, during a snowstorm, a large two-funnelled steamer, under sail, south of Marion Island, in the Southern Indian Ocean. The Waratah had only one funnel and no two-funnelled vessel is missing. IS IT THE WARATAH? Received February 14, 9.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 14. The State Premier (Mr Murray) has received a cable from Capetown statin? that a disabled steamer was not sighted by the master of the whaler Ulva, but was seen from Marion Island (Indian Ocean) going to the south-east under sail. She appeared to be travelling at the rate of three knots. A scaling party reported the matter to the captain of the Ulva. The vessel carried all possible canvas but was only seen once between snowsqualls and disappeared from view in the following squall. The weather was very cloudy at tlio time. The news has awakened fresh hope in those interested in the Waratah's passengers. Captain Mitchell thinks that the vessel, if it is tile Waratah, will now be in the vicinity of Kergnelen Island, nml the ship's company will be quite safe there.

ANOTHER WRECK. FIFTY PERSONS DROWNED. Received February 15, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Fob. 13. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Lima has been wrecked in the Straits of Magellan (which separates South America' from Tierra del Fuogo). Fifty (jersons have been drowned.