Mv Lolowai Ashore
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From Our ■ Own qQrlfespondent
Santo, May 8.
THE Burns Philip inter-island motor-vessel Lolowai —formerly the well-known Stella Maris , owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Missions in New Guinea—ran ashore on Ambryn Island last week; and advices received to-day show she is in danger of becoming a total loss.
Other small vessels stood by and, with tides becoming higher, she should have been towed off easily enough; but a southwest gale came up, and drove her further on the beach, broadside on and listing sea wards, and her crew were forced to leave her on the evening of the 6th.
The wind dropped on May 7, when preparations were made to unload cargo rapidly and remove heavy machinery, in the hope of towing the ship off. She is holed, and has taken in much sand; and
sand-pumps are being hurriedly des patched. But bad weather is threatened.
She was recently refitted, in Sydney, and, refrigeration phambers added.
Mr, F. A. . Harper, Assistant In spector, has been visiting the branches of the Bank of New South Wales in Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul, this month..
Lolowai at Cairns when she was still called “Stella Maris”