VESSEL LONG OVERDUE

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13223, 19 February 1915, Page 3

VESSEL LONG OVERDUE

s POSSIBLY SUNK BY ENEMY, GIVEN UP FOR LOST. DUNEPTN, Pol). 15. What appears to bo a .victim of the raiding German cruisers before leaving ilic Pacific '.waters is the Livorpoolowneil fonr-mnslod schooner Rimac, of COS tons, which was under Ihe command of Captain Lusmasspn, and which.is now four months overdue at the Bluff. This vessel was loading guano at Surprise Island under consignment tn the National Mortgage and Agency Company, when German cruisers, particularly the Niiroberg, were in the vicinity of various Pacific island.?. 'Dip ftimflc was duo to leave Surprise Island at the end of September, and 2S days is a fair time in which to Teach the Bluff. She was thus due early in November. As nothing further has been heard of her, it is presumed that she has been sunk by cruisers or else wrecked •and that her crpw ore at present on some island or atoll out of touch with civilisation, The Rimac was a well-found vessel in every way, mid Iw cargo of' guano was estimated al 1200 tons, '.lt will be a serious loss to the National Mortgage Company, which at the same time had "000 tons of superphosphates' held up by the non-arrival of Ihe Ger-' man steamer Wismar, now at Java. All hope of the Rimac V arrival at Bluff has been given up. ■ '