MYSTERIOUS WRECK

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16823, 23 August 1920, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS WRECK

NEAR TOLAGA BAY e . VESSEL. ON REEF. IDENTITY NOT DISCOVERED. NO &GNS OF LIFE. Per Press Association. ' GISBORNE, August 22. . Word was received by the police this evening that a steamer is in difetress near the Poutae rocks, about 10 miles south of Tolaga Bay. Blasts from the steamer were heard at four o’clock on Sunday morning. Reports vary ad to the size of the steamer. Further word received by the police near midnight stated the funnel has gone. There ar®‘ no signs of life or lights, and seas are breaking over the vessel, which is deep down in the waiter. The Monowai left Gisborne at noon, and the' Arahura at 1 p.m., both, for Auckland, and may sight the‘stricken vessel. The managed of the Union Company dispatched the collier Pohorua from Gisborne at 10.80 to-night, and the steamer Putiku from Tolaga Bay at 10.45 to-night. Both are speeding to the scene of the accident. , f It was feared that the vessel, was the Kia Ora, which has been loading at Tokomaru Bay, but a wireless message was received' from that vessel at midnight stating she is all right.