LATER REPORTS.

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

LATER REPORTS.

SEARCH PARTIES BAFFLED. GISBORNE, Aug. 23 (8.55 a.m.). There is no further information so far as to the identity of the vessel seen on Puatae Rooks yesterday. '■ Men from a station and a party from Tolagh Bay have gone out to search tho 1 beaches. It was owing to the absence of telephone facilities on Sunday that the Grahams were unable to report the incident earlier. ■ •> . . Later (10.5 a.m.). The postmaster at Tolaga Bay reports that a party which wcnt out from Rotdtahi yesterday saw on the reef'a big vessel with two masts. There was no sign of a funnel. Tho vessel was about five miles off and a-heavy' surf was breaking all over her. The party returned to the shore in the evening and it was then found that the vessel had drifted about two miles further in. There was no light nor any sign of life on board. Up till last night no wreok.age had come ashore. The position of i the vessel is between Rototahi and Puatae, about eight miles', south 'of Tolaga Bay and two' miles north of Gable End foreland. Parties went out at daylight this morning, but, have nob returned. , ■ . RELIEF STEAMER RETURNS. ■ NO DISCOVERS MADE: GISBORNE, Later (10.35 a.m.) The Poherua returned ,to port at, IQ o’clock without being able to: throw further light on the reported wreck. \ She arrived off Gable End foreland at 2 a.m. and stood by till after 6' a.m. The steamers Putiki, from . Hick’s . Bay, and Tiroa, from Gisborne, were > then in the locality making a close inspection of the coast line, but up to the time the Poherua left apparently _ had discovered nothing. NO WRECKAGE ON BEACH. V VESSEL LOST TO SIGHT. GISBORNE, Later (11.10 a.m.). Rotatahi Station reports that tho men who went to the beach early this morning have returned without finding any trace of wreckage on the beach or obtaining any sight of the vessel that was visible yesterday. is it all a Mistake? SEARCHES TO-DAY FRUITLESS. GISBORNE, Later (12.10 p.m.). This morning’s investigations by par? ties from Tolaga Bay and neighbouring stations disclose absolutely no trace of any wreckage on the coast and the opinion is firmly held by loeal shipping authorities that a mistake has arisen. ARAHURA SEES NOTHING. ' AUCKLAND, August 23. * The Arahura, which arrived at noon, saw nothing or the wreck.