LATE SHIPPING
A ROUGH HANDLING. [By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. ] SYDNEY, Sept. 14. Received 14, 9.30 p.m. The barque Amazon has arrived from .tVillapa Harbour after being 139 days out. She met with heavy gales and was beam-ended for hours and sprung a leak. ' The captain jettisoned 150,000 feet of timber cargo. LOSS OF THE KNIGHT OF ST. GEORGE. SYDNEY, September 14. The captain of the steamer Knight of St. George, writing to the agents on September 1, states that he salved £IO,OOO worth of cargo. If the weather holds he will probably land all the general cargo within a week. He attributes the disaster to volcanic disturbances causing a tidal wave which set the vessel nine miles out and ahead of her course in an hour and a-half. PAPANUI ABANDONED AFIRE. ST. HELENA, September 13. The steamer Papanui, bound from Glasgow for "West Australian ports, is afire from stem to stern, being gutted she was beached and abandoned. The whole cargo has not been landed. ST. HELENA, Sept. 14. Received 14, 10.30 p.m. The cable steamer Britannia accommodated 150 of the Papanui’g women and children. The rest were landed by the Papanui’s boats. The burning steamer has been beached in Jamestown Bay and is a total wreck.
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Southland Times, Issue 16839, 15 September 1911, Page 5
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