LOSS OF A BARQUE.
STRIKES A REEF. Catches Fire After Being Beached. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 26. Two of the officers and the crew of tne Norwegian barque Amicus arrived by the Tofua to-day. They report that the Amicus. bound for Hamburg, and loaded with copra, struck a reef at Haapii Harbour. She was beached on the shore, and a gang was employed discharging the- cargo when the vessel caught fire, presumably from an explosion among,the cargo. The hull was completely gutted/ The captain remained at Haapii. One of the crew; of the wreck-ed-vessel named Peder Halvoisn'disappeared from the Tofua' while iii the Islands. It is supposed he was drowned.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12983, 26 January 1910, Page 5
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112LOSS OF A BARQUE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12983, 26 January 1910, Page 5
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