SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12868, 2 January 1906, Page 5

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

, - - - A FARMER MISSING. - j * - ; y rer Press-Association. - f AUCKLAND, January 1. Mr Luke Langton, a fanner of H(Uungatu-' roto, left Wnrk worth On Defceitiber ; 23rd to , catch the steamer Kapanui on her iH-falfed j trip. He may have been drowned in 7 addition-, to the five live* prevkrtftly reI ported. The raptain of Ufa Kapaaui , states that, he in certain thai Mr Langiori , -was not on board, but inquiries havo failed , to discover any trace of him. Odc of tlio passengers saved from the Kapanni states that lie saw Mr Langton on the steamer and conversed with him. A CREW LOST OVERBOARD. [ WELLINGTON, January 1. A sad fatality occurred at the beads 6 lav: nigh!. The scow Oban, of 40 tocv, from Blind Bay to Wellington, coal laden, . was entering (be harbour nnder tow «>i ii the ste-ainer Dnco at about 9 ts* clock, and . when a mile inside or about abreast of , the Pinnacles it was abserved from the i ttig that the scow was steering Tjadly. r The tug drowned bark on the scow r.w! hai.ed her. but c«»t no response, ami 5) i was then discovered that her crew of tlirci ftks&^^saumUiSiibaai^Ufij

r The weather was boisterous, and the tag - failed to briflg the *cow into harbour, leavb icg her jat, Worker Bay, where' lice F .of jra* in but tbenasnes ». of ; two, .men whouijM -engaged '• 15*" lict J Known. Mr E. G. Pilcher, of J owns the scow.