SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 3

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

I'lXl) OF. WRECKAGE. - United Pniss Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, September 29. There seenis little doubt that the wreckage found at Kangaroo Island be'ongs to the Loch . Vennachar. The vessel' was sighted-a- week or so off the coast, but as bad weather -sprang. up it was assumed that she had"beea blown away. • All doubt- as to the fate' of tlie Loch "V ennachar is set at rest by the identification of reels .j>f paper which,',were consigmJd'&S) a local Newspaper. ' ' 1 J Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, September 29.-. The s.s. Corintlnc arrived last night. The officers discredit the report that a- large steamer was seen disabled off the East Cape. The C'orintliic jiassed the light--heuse there at 2 a.m. yesterday in company with a small Kteamer. Tbis probably led to the that the Corintliic was being tower], though it hardly explains the report made by.the scow Haeremai.

GISBOBNE, September 29.The schooner Gisborne, whieh arrived this afternoon, passed East Cape . at- 2.30 p.m. yesterday, and saw nothing of any disabled vessel, nor did the scow Rangi, whi<!h rounded the Cape on Wednesday. The latter saw the scow Heremai, and yesterday the Awanui saw a scow, which she took to be the Heremai sheltering there being a .head -wind for any vessel proceeding across the Bay of Plenty, j A fkree southerly gale set in for a couple of hours this morning, arid the -icVi is: still somewhat rough. The : mvSteVy of j the disabled steamer will seeihiinjjljf.. not.;- be solved until the scow Heremai' _fsrfiiqh r signalled the lighthouse! be-'spoken >; St a northern port. 1

WELLINGTON, When the hatches' of fhfe s.s. Turi(kina were opened some bales of flax were found to be smouldering, and. a., gang of men were put on to remove So fat as can be seen the ship not damaged, but the fire must a good hold among the cargo of ilax."' The fire' has been completely extinguished. Up to the present it has been found that 70 to; 100 bales of wool and hemp yare .inoraTir j less damaged by fire. The damage s igi_below expectations. v ) | i

DUNEDIN, September 29.The Mary Moore, from—with hardwood, encountered severe jveatlier in the Tasmari sea on IKe 16t1if, ! r>The tttnd increased to a gale ; with ; accompanied by fierce sqtiaUs" of rain arid hail, the vessel being completely flooded.; This was followed by strong wihdsjuqtil : tlie 26th, when in Foveaux Strait ia gal? "of hurricane force caused the vessel; to be hove-to. The main lower topsail only good sail left, the rest ■■ofcthe sails being town into ribbons, and werything moveable on deck was smashed.