SHIPWRECKED UREW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10140, 29 August 1904, Page 3

SHIPWRECKED UREW.

Press»n.— By Telegraph.— Copyright. SYDNEY, August 28. Tlcrew of the West Australian, wre4 at Now Caledouia, ha* ax-rived ia Sney. The captain states that he i'Jicctered rough weather after leaving WeJgton. During gales the watertan, were washed overboard. He put mUfoumea to replenish, and wlienleavingtruck Campbell's Reef. Efforts to flo^he vessel being unavailing, he decided abandon her, and started for Art Ishi, the captain's boat arriving there inafety. The first mate's boat, contaftg five, arrived thereafter nightfall, buwere afraid to land, fearing they wid be massacred. They drifted about fo2igJit days, suffering great hardships o\ig to the shortness of food and water. Entually they were picked up by the stmer Saint Antoine, which previously t<c tlie- captain's party off the island. (Received 9.26 a-m., August 29.) SYDNEY, August 29. yter leaving the island where the ptain'si party landed, tlie mate's boat mrned to the wreck of the West Austlio., and remained three days. Tlie i>d and water were exhausted. In tlie Pc of stormy weather and a rough sea <ey reached an. uninhabited island, and rtained a supply of cocoanuts and shellih. They subsequently landed on two Jier islands, and got a little water, hich was supplemented by rain. They ere shaping a course for Noumea when scued.