SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12637, 25 March 1905, Page 4

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

THE INDUNA MESSAGE A HOAX. ' United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. . ' . • SYDNEY, March 24. Inquiries at the Shipping Exchange where the Indona message to the effect that: she had retained to port without seeing the missing - steamer Pilbarra—was posted, excited the information that the name of the informant could not. b© divulged, but it, was. received from- a very reliable source, which it now proves wan hoaxed. Messrs Burns, Philp and Co. intend to demand an exhaustive inquiry into the matter. DISCOVERY OF WRECKAGE. ■" r Received 1.10 a.m.; Marcß" 25th. SYDNEY, -March 24. lne schooner Enterprise, from Long Is-, reports, that she discovered the beaches . strewn wif& Slafirge quantities of Oregon timber, evidence of the wreck at ®-recent date of a large^lumber- ship or that deck cargo had been washed overboard. There were no marks on the timber to-le&d to identifiration. She also discovered; ast abandoned hut on the island wherein wfts stacked a quantity of timber andglass. - • There"'was no sign of recent habitation. -J) Amongst the papers found m the • hut was ~ a" note dated November | 96, signed by the mate of the ketofr Sislon which was wrecked on the island, stating -that he and five of a kanaka crew were .then, leaving for Coottown an<f asking anyone hot in need of. "stores there to leave them as the owner expected to come back to take them. The only living creatures seen on the island were half a dozen, goats and a cat.