THE HURRICANE IN NEW CALEDONIA.
Some castaway mariners arrived at Sydney from New Caledonia by the Ville De La Ciotat on Tuesday. Among them was the crew of the four-masted iron barque Falls of Garry, a vessel of 2300 tons, and the chief-officer and eight of the crew of the Danish barque Professor. The Falls of Garry left Sydney on Jan. 14 and made New Caledonia in fifteen days, where she commenced loading nickel pre. She had about a thousand tons on board when a hurricane struck the. port, and the ship was driven on to the reef. The barque Professor was lying in the harbour waiting her cargo of ore, but the wind blew with such force that her cables parted, and she also was carried on to the reef, and is now a total wreck. . In addition to the shipping disasters the district of Bourail suffered severely. The ship Indore nearly came to grief, only escaping by a miracle. After dragging both her anchors for nine miles, she pulled up about thirty yards from a huge cliff. '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6115, 23 March 1898, Page 1
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