Some Chance of Getting Her Off.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8710, 19 March 1907, Page 5

Some Chance of Getting Her Off.

(Received To-aay, al 5.47 a.m.)

London, Last Night. The Suevic Aveut ashore on Brandies Rocks. The position is critical. The fog is clearing, but the Aveather is very bad, and the sea, is rough.

It is reported that there! is Avater in compartments 1, 2 and 8. The after part is afloat. Five life-boats from Falmouth and tugs assisted in the rescue Avork, all being saved. A later message states that there Avas splendid discipline throughout. There is a chance of getting the steamer oft' at loav water. Her boAV is in the water, and her stern is raised. The rescue Avork Avas hazardous OAving to the heaA-y savcll. (The Suevic belongs .to the White Star Line; the names of the whole fleet all end in '' ic, '' Her speed is tAvelve and a-half knots, and she is close on 12,000 tons. The Cedric, belonging to the same Company, is 21,085 tons, the Baltic 28,870 tons', and the Adriatic 11. 25,000 tons.) (Received This Morning, at 1.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, Last Night, The chief officer of the A.U.S.N, steamer Mildura, Avired from Ousloav that the Mildura Avent ashore at North West Cape ou Tuesday night, and is regarded as a total loss. There is nine feet of Avater in the hold. The. captain aud thirty-one of the crew remained on tho vessel. The Mildura has cattle aboard. No fresh Avater is available, aud it is impossible for help to reach the vessel before! Saturday. (Re reived To-day, al 9.55 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The Mildura has 480 cattle aboard. The chief officer thinks the ctoav Avould probably have lauded since he left. The Burrumbeet is proceeding to the scene of the Avreck. (Received To-day. at 5.31 a.m.) LONDON. Last Night. The steamer Jibba, from Lagos, has been Avrecked off Salcomb, a toAvn in DoA'onshire.

Eighty passengers Avere with difficulty rescued by means of a rocket apparatus.