WRECK NEAR GISBORNE

Thames Star, Volume LVI, Issue 14309, 23 August 1920, Page 3

WRECK NEAR GISBORNE

BIG VL£;;£ L ON KEEP. SEAKLii PAKxIES SET OUT. (Press AMociation.) ' /* ' GISBORNE^ This Day. | Tte postmaster at Tologiai |Baj • reports tihat a party that went ou" I from Rototaihi jrestea-day saw 1 op th( I reef a big vessel <rf two masts asm 1 no sign of at futnanel. The vle&sel! was abopt five miiles off the land anc a ibeavy suirf was breaikingj all ovei her. The* pairty rteturned to the shore in the eren)ing( and it wa s then found that the vessel liaid diifted 1 a!bout two miles further in. There was no light nor any sign of Ufo on uoa,rd. Up trill last nigjht no: wrecflkagia haid coane ashore. The positConi of the vessel is between Rototethi and Pu)a.ta©, aibout 8 miles south of To-logai Bay^ and two miles noxth of the galblie end of the: foreland. Pairtiea wteait outt at daylight this morning,, but 'ha,v'ei nto r t returned yet. NO FURTHER INFORMATION. AS TO IDENTITY. BEACHES BEING SEARCHED. GISBORNE, THs Day. There has beisn no fuii'ther irifonnar tion sd far as to tlie identity of the vessel seen on Ptuataie rotokg yesteir*day. The mep fromai the: station and a party froim Tologa Bay have glone out to sm'iiich th)e ijieaAeis. It was owing) to the . laibsiencle of telephone faicilities on Sm'day that Graham's ■were tunable to report the incident eairliei^. The) Foheruia returned) to port at 10 o'clock witlioiut beiing aible to throw any fuirtihier ligiht on the reijpoii'tedi..w!i'!eck. She, airl-ivied oiff. Gaible end oif the forelainidi at tw 1© a'cilocik s this morning! alnld' stood by till after . six. At tih'nit .tinier tlio s!ieamteii Js Putiiki from Hcckis Bay, and the Tiroa froan^Gisborhe, Were in tlhie locality maiking a dlose inspiecition, of the coastline, but up i<a thje tli'me tlie Poherula!ylieft apjpa.rentlyi had discovered nothiing 1.