SHIPPING DISASTERS.
FBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. BecsiTed 42, 9.5 a.m. Sidney, July 12. The barquentine Wrestler, 100 days out from British Columbia to Melbourne, has put in here in distress. She met a succession of heavy gales and her cargo shifted. The deck portion was jettisoned, She has a strong lint »o the port side. She lost her boats, her bulwarks were smashed, her s»ils carried away, and she ran Bbort cf provisions. Mblbouhnb, July 12. The barque Harold, from Bremen, reports passing the blackened hull of a large water-logged vessel in approximately 40 degrees south latitude and 40-47 degrees e s* longitude. A quantity of wrecksgp, consisting of a number of planks, one bearing the iame Amelia, has been found on the Victoiiau coAB% nnar Wingan Inlet. No vessel d that name is known in A.us.ralia.
Wellington, July 12. The Union Co.'s bulk ArawaW, which recently went ashore at Kaiwarra, has Jeen floated off, apparently uninjured. NAPiEB,JuIy 12. The shipwrecked crew of the iriganriue Elizabeth Price, wrecked at Mahia, were brought on to Napier to-dav by he s.s. Tangaroa. After a tempestuous voyage from Bundaberg to Oapj Maria, where the vessel put in for pi i visions, the course was steered for tne Eisi Cape. In continuation of the voyage to Port Chalmers, the brig made a good run down the coast until Portland Island was reaebed, when very dirty .weather was met with and a gale and nigh seas. Shelter was taken under .Long Point, Mahia, but on' Tuesday, the 3rd inst., the vessel dragged her anchor, and a second anchor let down proved useless, and she gradually drifted on to the rocks and settled | down, becoming a total wreok. Captain Hughes and crew—W. Demison (mate), F. Swainhouse (bo'sun), W. Mclnnaland, O. Edwards, T. Sewell, D. R. Creamer—put off in a boat for the shore, reaching it safely, and were well looked after by the station hands at Mahia until the Tangaroa could bring them away. The vessel was 42 days out from Bundaberg when she struck,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 181, 13 July 1900, Page 3
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