A SCHOONER WRECKED.
(Received April 18, 11.5 p.m.) Sydney, April IS. Messrs Lever Brothers have been advised that their schooner Malukula, which was a couple of months overdue from tho Solomon Islands to Sydney, was wrecked on the Bampton.reef in "the Chesterfield group. Captain McPhail.and the two European officers of the. Malekula- have arrived atLucinda Point, Queensland, in the ship's boat. They report .that the schooner was. wrecked pn January -9th, and the crew of 17 natives were left at aii island in the vicinity of the wreck, with plentj? of food and no fear <.f : starving. ; Arrangements have been made for the steamer Upohi to pick up the castaways on her next trip* LOSS OF THE WARATAH.
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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 19 April 1910, Page 3
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118A SCHOONER WRECKED. Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 19 April 1910, Page 3
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