SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14276, 17 August 1910, Page 5

SHIPPING CASUALTIES.

STRANDED. 'Press -As«*K'iaUcm-]iy Telegraph-Copyright LONDON. August 14. The Oceana, on the voyage to IJoni- • iay. ran ashore at Cape Falo, ncar Mossina. Lighters arc engaged in lightening her.

TOWED OFF. ROME, August 15. The Oceana, which ran ashore near Messina, while on -the voyage from London to Bombay, was towed off again by an Italian warship.

A TOTAL WRECK. SYDNEY, August 16. The barqnentine Helga. which sprung a leak near Honolulu, is now a total wreck.

TRAGEDIES. THE BENDIGO MURDERS. Press Aseoo.iation-By Telegraph-C'-pyrigli' MELBOURNE,"" August 10. The father of Mrs Can.eiia MeClusky who has been committed for trial on a charge of uiiiuh ring here three children, has written to the police stating that when she was a child she met with a serious accident to her head. INDIAN VENDETA. PERTH, August 16. Mrs Drst Mahomed, a white woman. has been murdered at Kurach . India. evidently the result of a hi.:- d fond. Last year her husband was k : !ird dur-

ing a quarrel wi:h his wif \s brother, •Tourach Dost Mahomed. The brother then persuad;d Mrs. Mahomed to go to India, where she was murdered soon after her arrival.

LOCKED IN A FORAGE WAGGON. MADNESS AND DEATH. RERUN. 15. An ordnance corps in Honoyrr discovered the bodies of two boys who hid been missing since July 30th in a foiage waggon, the lid of which fell and prevented their escnp>. The poor boys apparently went mad. and kicked each ether until exhaustion and death supervened.