THIS DISABLED HAWEA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9170, 19 August 1908, Page 5

THIS DISABLED HAWEA.

POSITION OF THE VESSEL WHEN BOAT LEFT.

Received August 18, 9.45 a.rr. SYDNEY, August 18. The Hawea's boat contained the chief officer (Mr Irwin), the third engineer (Mr Ritson), and a seaman named Pascos. According to the position given by Mr Irwin, it appears that the Hawea was less than a hundred miles from the mainland, due east of Byron Bay, when the boat left. The recent gales have doubtless driven her many miles seaward. The opinion is entertained here that the Hawea has alreidy been picked up. NO SIGNS OF THE STEAMER. BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, August 18. The Moana arrived from Sydney early this morning. Captain Newton reports that he called off Lord Howe island and waited there three hours, but saw nothing of the crew landed from the disabled steamer Hawea. He left instructions for them to return to Sydney by the search steamer due at Lord Howe Island to-day. Captain Newton sighted a Tyser steamer and a foreign barque, neither of which had seen the Hawea. He believes the Hawea has drifted north between Lord Howe Island and Elizabeth Reef, or between Elizabeth Reef and Middleton Reef. The Moana experienced heavy easterly winds in the locality of Lord Howe Island.