MISSING LOCH LOMOND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 29

MISSING LOCH LOMOND.

i SUGGESTIVE WRECKAGE FOUND. | CHEISTCHURCH, October 15. Yesterday afternoon the steamer Ripple returned to Lyttelton from the Chatham Islands, and on arrival Captain J. B. Allsop informed the shipping reporter of the Press that a few days before his i vessel called at the island a quantity of wreckage, evidently from a sailing vessel which had met with disaster, was washed' ashore there. The wreckage consisted of a teak wood skylight .-about 7ft in length > with brass' gratings attached, and a portion of a broken spar painted white. Captain Allsop 6aid he thought, the 'spar was a portion -of the spankerboom of a sailing ship. Qxk, being informed Chat a life fraoyv. from the missing Loch Lomond had. been picked up near Great Barrier Island, Captain Allsop said he was strongly of opinion that the .wreckage washed ashore at tha .Chathams had come from that vessel. There were no marks or letters on the wreckage, but he thought that inquiries made in Melbourne or Newcastle regard-, ing the colour of tba Loch Lomond's spars might give some clue. Captain Allsop further stated that if the Loch Lomond 1 had been in trouble- iiv Cook_ Strait, or even to the northward of New Zealand, the currents which set to the I southward would carry floating wreckaira . in the direction of the Charms.