SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 138, 6 June 1903, Page 2

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

FIB FBB-f AMOOUnOV. Bbisbanb, Juce 5. Details of the wreck of the Bdlth Bhow that she stru k a r.ef at 8 pm. in floe we The mieticg ciptain'e" boit had a compass, sextant, and provisions for 14 days. Thi mate's boa* had tine weather for four dtjs after leaving the wreck, and th n m»t fljroe contrary winds and heivys-a*. Tht ocoupints Buff rjd greatly for tbe next fur days bvfoM baing p eked up. Tht rescuing ve-si 1, the G armVft ship 0. R. Va j«n, bjund f.om New York to Yokohama wi h a cargo tf kerosene, was herself almost a complete wreck. Her masts, spats, and rudder bed been lost in a furioui cyclone, daring which the crew jettisoned 20,000 oases ■ f kerosene. Sue was bI-o short of wa'er, but a haavy fall of ran luckily suppled water. For 16 days after tho B iitb'a boat wa« picked up the Wjen was partly drifting and pertly • •SUng with the assistance of jury mute, and arrived an YuU Island 201 days after her departure from New York. The Kdith's men stayed for five d»ye at th) F e ch mission station, and thence were conveyed to Owktown. The su.vivors 1 'St everything. Nkw York, June 4.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company'* s'eimir Areqjiilpu foundered at her moorings a 1) Valpaiiso daring ft storm, Otptain Todd, bis wife, and officers being drowned. Forty-five oat of tbe crew of 80, moat Chilians, wen saved.