PERILS OF THE SEA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2927, 20 April 1910, Page 27

PERILS OF THE SEA.

LONDON, April 13. A fire broke out in No. 1 lower hold of the Ocean Company's steamer Tela,mon, which left Albany on March 21. The hold contains Tasmanian apples. Water was pumped in for three hours and a-half, and! steam and carbonic acid gas were also injected, but the fire is still smouldering. The captain recommends that the wool in the 'tween decks be discharged.. The Telamon arrived at Perim with her cargo afire. It had been burning for six days. SYDNEY, April 13. The North Coast Company's new steamer Minimbah, which arrived from Glasgow three weeks ago, struck the bar of the Manning River and broke her back. The passengers and crew landed safely jon life-lines. The Mininbah grounded at the exact, spot where the steamer Kincumber was wrecked a couple of years ago. A rough sea is running, and the vessel is breaking up. She has a large and valuable cargo aboard. Anril 14. The underwriters have abandoned the Minimbah. One of the Minimbah's crew was drowned as the result of the upsetting of a boat while salving the jiassengers' liiargage. Details of the wreck of the schooner Countess of Ranfurly show that she struck a reef 200 miles from the Isle of Pines during thick weather, and became a complete wreck. The crew took to the beats, and the captain and a number of hands, who were in a whaleboat, reached Noumea, after being afloat five days. They suffered many privations. April 18. Messrs Lever Brothers have been advised that their schooner Malekula, which is a couple of months overdue from the Solomon Islands to Sydney, has been wrecked on the Bampton Reef, in the Chesterfield Group. ■Captain M'Pbai' and two European officers of the Malekula have arrived at Lucinda Point, in Queensland, in the ship's boat. They report that the schooner was wrecked on January 9. The crew, consisting of 17 natives, were left at an island in the vicinity of the wreck. They had. plenty of food, and there was £0 fear of their starving. Arrangements have been made for the steamer Upolu to pick up the castaways on her next trip. In connection with the salvage operations on the Minimbah, the racehorse Silverpan and a mare and foal have been ■jgafelv landed.