SINKING OF THE FLORA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13482, 23 July 1907, Page 5

SINKING OF THE FLORA.

CRIES FROM THE WATER.

Per Press Association. < AUCKLAND, July 22. It is reported that one of the crew of the sunken cutter Flora was heard crying out for assistance in the water off North Head shortly after the cutter foundered on Saturday. ..The fishing boat Kestrel was sailing up from Mercury Bay. Off NoTth Head, at 3.30 a.m., one of the crew named Morrison heard someone calling out from thY water. He roused his mate, and the boat was put up into the wi^id. _, Just before that Morrison had observed a figure floating by, evidently hanging on to some floating object. The man called out seven or eight times, but was evidently nearly exhausted. The Kestrel searched for over an hour, but no sigrf of the man was seen again. . The spot where he was passed by the Kestrel^was but 60 yards from shore.

NUMBER OF THE CREW.

AUCKLAND, July 23..

A Harbour Board official states that there were three' men on the wrecked cutter Flora when she left for Waiheke last week, biit their identity was Unknown.