N.G. Government Vessel
pp. 15-16 · Read in the full issue
Wrecked
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, June 15.
NEWS was received early in June that the Government vessel Eros was wrecked on the Numa Numa reef, off Bougainville Island. The passengers and mails were taken off successfully. Later the crew and cargo were also landed safely.
It has not yet been learned whether the Eros is a total wreck.
This is the second mishap to Govern ment vessels in recent months. Last November the schooner Hermes was lost with all hands between Madang and Rabaul
Mr. Wladyslaw Wagner, the young Polish traveller who has been cruising about the South Seas for some years in his yacht Zjawa 11, which he sold early this year in Fiji, arrived at Auckland by the Monowai from Australia on July 6.
He left by the Mataroa a week later for Panama, en route to Equador, where he proposes to build another yacht to con tinue his voyages.