SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 3

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

I WRECKS AT THE ISLANDS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Thuiisday. Tho Taviuni, from the Islands, brings news of tho wreck at the Paumotos of tho three-masted schooner County of Roxburgh and the loss of ten men. Fourteen were saved. The steamer also brings news of the wreck of the schooner Tahitienne, and the loss of Captain Dexter and M. Shoves (mate). The County of Roxburgh (Captain Lesley) was bound from Caldcra, Chili, to Melbourne, in ballast. She was caught by a ,gale on February 6th. For two days the wind blew hard. No land was sighted till the Bth, and at 6 o'clock in the evening thev got sight of land, and were immediately brought to by a big wave that carried the vessel ovqr the reef of the island of Takaroa, one of the Paumotos. '

Nine men got into a boat, which capsized, and seven of them were drowned, two being saved by means of lifebelts. The latter were two apprentices named Richardson and Stirling, and did not know how to swim.

Out of the men that 'remained on board, two, H. Anderson and Parsons, were washed overboard. A third one, Wagner, an expert swimmer, jumped into the sea, and was drowned. Tlie ten men lost arc : Herb Distel. Albertog, Parsons, Wagner, Salla, Wejgner, Anderson (2), Koch, and Corbet. The fourteen men saved are: Captain Lesley, Miller (third mate), Brown (second mate), Roberts (third mate), Krahl (cook), Henduck and Stirling (apprentices), Bradesto, Robson, Coace, Marshall and Harris.

They remained three weeks on tho island, which was devastated by a storm. They got tiieir food from the vessel. They were also fed by natives until they were rescued by the schooner Jemuriaroha, which brought nine of them to Papeete, where they were brought, under the care of the English 'Consulate to the Hotel di* Louvre. Six men remained on the island with the captain. Three arrived at Papeete on the 28th March on the schooner Pukarever, and two others on the France- Austale.

The sixth man remained on the island, where he intends to marry an Onamotvt girl. Three of the crew went to America by the Mariposa, the rest arriving by the Taviuni. , The schooner Tahitienne has been lost. Only two natives were saved. Captain Dexter remained two days On a raft b<*^ fore sinking in the waves. Mr Shevt... remained one day on another raft. The two men that were saved were five days on a raft before being able ia land on an island. They say that numbers of big sharks followed the wreck, and the captain and second mate were eaten by them ns soon as they fell into the water. It is reported that a mattress and pillow belonging to Ml Ed. Bonncfin, who was on board the schooner Eimes, has been found. There is great fear that the schooner has been wrecked near Ranguroa Island. Up to the present there is no certainty about the schooner. The schooner St. Michael started some time ago for Marquesas Islands, where the Eimes was bound io for the purpose of looking for this schooner. She is not back yet. SYDNEY, April 13. Arrived, the barque Swan Hilda, 107 days out from Coquimbo. She met a series' of 'gales, and was knocking about for a fortnight within 3CO miles of Sydney. She arrived too late for her wheat chai'ter. Tho ship Kalliope, from Hamburg, reports falling in with the Norwegian barque Servia, in the Bay of Biscay, in a sinking condition. Sho sprang a leak, tn the face of a heavy gale and high sea the Kalliope's boat was launched. Making two trips, it succeeded in rescuing the Servia's crew, seventeen all told. Singly t/hey jumped overboard, a life line being attached, and Avere drawn, half drowned, into the boat. The ship-wreok-ed men were lauded at Madeira. The Servia, which was in ballast, was subsequently seen by a passing vessel, floating with the port gunwhule under in latitude 40 north, longitude 12 west. All "sails were bent and the spars in proper order. The Kalliope had a stormy time. Her sails were blown away. The Catholic mission schooner Raphael, wfhich has arrived from German New Britain, ImiU a sensational voyage. She left on February 3rd, and after being delayed thrco weeks by calms' ran 1 * into a succession of violent gales, ending in a cyclone. The schooner became leaky, the ballast shifted, and she was thrown on her beam ends. Provisions were scarce. After knocking about helpless for a- considerable time the ctew succeeded in righting her. Then beriberi fever broke out. The captain and majority of the crew were stricken down. With great difficulty they managed tlie navigation to Sydney. Between shortness of provisions and fever they suffered severely. Several of the crew liave been removed to -the hospital. ,