ANOTHER FIJI WRECK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17593, 5 October 1920, Page 5

ANOTHER FIJI WRECK.

.'. ,;.■;.- • ~ — ~ ——♦ —eFATE OF A SCHOONER.

BOTTOM UP ON REEF.

BELIEVED TO BE KORUNAH. [from OUR own correspondent.3 SUVA (Fiji). Sept. 29. News has just been telephoned from Lautoka to Lloyds agents here that a schooner* was standing off Likuri point on Friday. On Friday night there was a storm, and heavy seas raged until Sunday, when a schooner -was discovered bottom up on the reef. It was not until Tuesday that a party reached the reef. There was no sign of life, nor of the lifeboat. Coal was lying about the reef. A was cut in the bottom, and access obtained to the cabin, where, in a coat pocket," was found S. captain's certificate. The telephone was indistinct. The name given as the owner of the certificate sounded like Maiheson, hut could have been Harrison. ' A receipt for three sheets bought in Newcastle on August 13 was found. There was also a bag full of female clothing and- photographs of a woman and child' taken in Newcastle.

Messrs. Morris Hedstrom,- Ltd., feel convinced that the wrecked vessel is the 40-ton ketch Korunah recently purchased by them, and which left Newcastle on August 16 or .17, with a load of coal for Suva. She has been overdue for some time- The Government have sent the auxiliary cutter Tui Vunasalei off to-day to hunt the coast And adjacent islands in the hope of finding the crew, which number eight all told. The weather is boisterous and squally and a fair sea is reported.