NEWS PROM THE ISLANDS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12019, 21 August 1907, Page 4

NEWS PROM THE ISLANDS

' Auckland, August 20. News from Fiji by the Manapouri 1 reports further of the steamer^Buoen- [ taur, which went ashore on the main 1 reef on the . eastern side of the ■ passage, when leaving Suva at 10 p.m. on August 13th. After the 5 steamer floated, her forehbld contained 17 feet of water. A diver found two damaged plates, through ■ one of which he could put his hand. 3 Repairs were effected and tbe J pumps were set to work. Some 1100 1 sacksof oats were jettisoned, and the remainder of the cargo is mostly 1 canned goodß. 3 The cargo is consigned as fol- • lows:— For Auckland: 11,242 pkgs 3 merchandise; for Wellington, 16,319 " pkgs merchandise; for Lyttelton, - 1213 pkgs merchandise ; for Dunedin, ■ 2722 pkgs merchandise; for Melbourne, 829,646 feet iniber. The evidence by the officers at the official inquiry was to the effeot that ■ the helmsman turned the wheel the ? opposite way .to the order. A seaman » admitted that he had turned the 5 vessel to port, but stated the captain 3 gave the order to port the helm. 5 A cable message has been received 1 since statingjthat the Court censured the third mate. 3 An Indian named Ram Perad has been arrested at Suva, and he nas confessed to having murdered an Indian girl, seven yeais of age, and 8 buried the body in the bush. The - affair is described as a horribly coldblooded crime.