Schooner Vaiete’S Untimely
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Papeete, Sept. 1.
AT 3 o’clock in the morning of Augusl 24, the schooner, Vaiete, returning from the island of Maiao and ap proaching the island of Moorea, in com plete darkness, and a torrential down pour, struck the reef, lost her rudder, anc was thrown onto the jagged coral.
Water poured into the hold, damaging the cargo, but, of the nine adults and five children aboard, only one woman was slightly injured. The passengers and crew managed to reach the village of Haapiti on Moorea, where the Chief of the district gave them food and shelter The schooner (107 tons) is owned by the Mervin Brothers, of Papeete.
The Vaiete, high and dry on the Reef.