AT D'URVILLE'S ISLAND.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13316, 17 January 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

AT D'URVILLE'S ISLAND.

THE CHEW SAVED. (From "The-Colonist," Jan. 11.) Tlie steamer Jane^ouglas, o*-ncd by Messrs Kcech and Mai ley, ot kumira, was wrecked on tho Steeple IWfik in tho .passage between Steph&. and D'lfrvillD's ¥™ d* " o °"* o'clock yesterday monnng, M on tho-voyago from Wellington to HokiT''ivis stated that the vessel sank within five minutes after striking, and everything on board was lost. iht cot all of whom were saved, took to the boats, and made lor l'atuki, D'Urville's Island, whore they were looked after by Mr Lord. A telephone- message from tlie French Pass stated that the officers ■»nd crew expected to catch thus ia-t.-*na at the French Pass last evening and' would bo brought toi Nelson. Captain Vendore was in charge oi the Jane Douglas, and he had with him the following officers and crew :— Mate, Mr A. Ingram; engineer Mr O M Brown; cook, J. Brooker; luem'en, J. Henderson and A. Noting; lamp trimmer, W. Woolf: and seamen, K. Poppo and T. Thompson.