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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 11 May 1901, Page 2

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United 'jess Association—Per Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 8.56 a.m., May 10th. A TERRIBLE TALE OP THE SEA. SYDNEY, May 10. The Sydney underwriters have received information that two of the crew of the ship Angola, which left Newcastle with a cargo of coal early last year, for Manila, and which after leaving that port, had. not again been heard of, have reached Singapore. The survivors are seamen, nemed Johannsen, a Swede, and Marticorna, Spaniard. They tell the following story : The Angola was under the command of j Captain Brok. The crew numbered j eighteen. She left Cavite, in the Phillipines, on the 12th of October last, and six days afterwards struck on a, barren

reef. Tm'o sailors were drownod when the vessel struck. The crew remained on* the vessel four days, and then, fearing that the foodi would give out, put otf on two rafts, ono carrying twelve, including the survivors, and the other carrying five men. After floating together for ono day, wo lost sight of the small raft, mid never saw it again. The other raft drifted on day after day, the provisions getting shorter and shorter. liy the 25th day things were absolutely desperate. Wo had no proper fowl, and for some time had boon eating our boots and barnacles from tlio rni't, and chewing seaweed. The salt flavour of everything inn do all of us well nigh mad. Two became crazy and jumped into the sea. Suddenly a French sailor seized an axe and cleft open tlio skull of the first mate, killing him instantly. He then tried to eat the body, but wc got it from him a:;d threw it overboard. He immediately seized the axo ugrii], wet with the mate's blood, naid Tushod at the captain to strike him. The second male felled him to the ground with • ;m axe, despatching him oil the spot. Johancsen admitted that (hey ate part of the Frenchman's body. After this they j drifted in a most awful plight for seventeen days more. Their svill'erings were too horrible to describe. One after another ' became mad and died. The captain- succumbed twenty-eight days ai'tcr they had started. • Finally, only the two survivors v.o:e left. They floated on to Soubi, a small island between Borneo ami the l'hillipines. They were in a terrible condition. Tlieir bodies were covered with sores, «nd they werei unable to lift themselves from the raft. Some Malayan sailors found them and took them ashore, and tended them carefully. When the survivors were recovered, they were sent to Singapore in a Chinese junk. The Angola, was owned by Mr Moaner, of Nova Sootia. ( H.M.S. PHOEBE. Arrived—Warship Phoebe, from England. Received 1.20 a.m., May 11th. THE MARAROA. Arrived—Mararoa. Received 9.26 p.m., May 10th. A DERELICT. In reference to the boat with Royal aims' being washed ashore at Barrytown beach, Mr Kerry, owner of the Ariadne, states that he believes it belonged to the Ariadne, and that it was washed out of the davitfi during a gale when passing Cook Straits. Ho describes it as of lifeboat build with watertight compartments, and built almost entirely of teak. IMPORTANT GOLD DISCOVERY. ADELAIDE, May 10. An important gold discovery is repovtod at Olary. Five tons of ore were estimated to yield from Box to lOoz per ton. The lode is extensive, and the gold shows frwly. [ THE RECENT PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. > BRISBANE, May 10. When the Chalmers punitive expedition steamer anchored near the scene of the massacre, three large war canoes full of natives came alongside. A Nordenfeldt gun was got ready, but the boats sheered off and were not fired on. The wreckage reported to have been found is supposed to belong to a brig, which left Sydney thirty years ago with Tiinety miners bound to Now Guinea. They went ashore. Two of tho crew who escaped in a boat, witnessed a general massacre of the remainder of tlie crew wnd passengers. LABOUR RECRUITER SHOT, i Mr James Arthur Black, a labour recruiter, was shot dead by the natives of ; Malayta Island, Solomon group. KILLED BY A FALL OF EARTH. ; KALGOORLIE, May 10. 1 John McLaughlin, a shift-boss at the Ivanhoe mine, a Now Zcalander, wm killed by a fall of earth.