WRECK OF THE ELVERLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XL, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 2

WRECK OF THE ELVERLAND.

j FOUNDERS IN DEEP WATER. CpBESS ASSOOIATIONiI;'' J AUCKLAND, Mn,M • A later telegram from Capt. Savory ! states that the Elverland foundered in deep water on Saturday. She had r been l)eoalmed foir fourteen hours between the Big* King and Cfipe Maria ' ) van Diemen, and.was drift&g-.ashore' m such imminent danger- of. being JJ^ed that the crew had'to get-out j the boate They commenced-to. t&w, • the vessel clear.-; of the laijd.: After fl three hours' towing, when the-vessel ! f, as aPPar©ntly safe, it was discovered § tnat she had sprung a leak, and was. I making so mujch water that her case ij was hopeless- She soon foundered*^in U deep water sis miles west? of. the Tfil-ee | Kings.