A DERELICT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13835, 22 February 1909, Page 3

A DERELICT.

THE MISSING 810 LOGE? Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 20. On arrival at Lyttelton this morning Captain N. E. Bower, of tlie New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tu- ■ rakina, reported to Captain Marciel, shinnine master, that about 10.30 1 o'clock last nieht the steamer passed a large and partly submerged object, with the sen. breaking over and around it. The obie.-t was about 25 miles off the the eastern end of ICaikoura Peninsula. which ws ofi dor?. W. correct magnetic. Masters of vessels bound in that direction are warned of the object which constitutes a danger to navigation. Captain Marciel. immediately mi receint of the information, wired to flic secretary to the Marine Department. advising him of the report. Tt is worthy of note that a similar obiect was passed by the barquentine Mary Isabel on the 10th just., a. few ■"liles to the southward of Knikoum Peninsula., and about ten miles off shor«. .Tt is considered l<v shinoin." r>eon'" that the Marine Department should at once fend out n steamer +o "iake a search for the submersed o~liioct, which is thought by manv to 'ie +'ie capsized hull of the missing Rio Lo—. ''The T?io Lose left Tvainara for DunO'lin v-i'tlx a firgo of saw" timber on December 2-ltli and was la c + cighto' l

Ktraon January "13th and 1-ttb 'n- two s"ilinsz vess°ls ; and it is simtli°t cl.r> n-to "rief in a. rale t'inf on the ] 'th and 16th. She wns about <ll T-eP v< * old but a. rr roi>nd still. The crmr consisted of t"n inol'idinor fl>e cantn'n's c nn, and the cantiin's: wi f e and 'laughter also ("i board. An auxiliary oil engine was fitted in tli" vessel n short i<*o. and an oxr>lc=''on of ben7.i"e» bns been suggested as the cause of the loss.)