The Wrecked Barque Thistle

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1513, 21 December 1905, Page 2

The Wrecked Barque Thistle

Grew Arrives aHusklnnil

Siatemont by tho Captain

. By Telegraph.—Pre«« ißiociation., Auokiand, thii day< The Toviuni, from Rwotonga, brought Captain England, too officers, two upprentioos, and twenty-four. mon, comprising the orew of the Btecl barquo Tliis'.lo, ; which wob wreoketi at Palmoraton Isl'iid on November Bth;. on hor voyago li'om Portland io Port Pirio with timber, Ths oaptMn states tlint (faring bo was unable to dear; tho' island in a light southerly . wind and:.--westerly currentr he ofaanged his course, inioiidins; to. | pass:: twenty miles; north of tho island, but tho wind (ell and our-, icnt ijm'ing tlio night. Without WRrninj?, Bt A u.m. tho banina glided on to a reef, and the foropait stuok fasi. Effort 1 ; to float the vossol were unavailing; All got aslioro safely with provisions, and wero woll rocoivod by the natives. Bad weathor destroyed any hope of saving the vessel, and tho wreek was sold for £7O, Tba officers and orew -were conveyed by a solioner to Faratonga, where theyjoinod 10Titvium.