BARQUE CONSTANCE CRAIG.

Evening Star, Issue 12743, 17 August 1907, Page 6

BARQUE CONSTANCE CRAIG.

1 i [Pkb United Press Association.] ; AUCKLAND, August 16. Tho following wire has been received by Mr Chrisn. one of the owners of the ves sel, at present in Auckland, from Mr Martin. harbor-master and pilot at Hokianga ; j ■ —“ Tlio barque which wan (sighted on July *i 26. and reported, was painted in the Craig - colons —grey, with black peris. No signals ; frcTo exchanged. I know tho old Margarita well, and the Marjorie Craig, the only vessel I onuld have mistaken her for. is hero. Captain Campbell says that he loft tho Wade on that date, and was not within sixty miles of hero until Salur- 5 day night, last. _ I feel confident it was th- I Constance Craig I saw. If she has had i the hard winds which havo prevailed her, I —-viz.. S.E. by E. until August 8, and S J westerly since--then she should have i | shown up again, unlaws the vessel has hern j j disabled.” i | WELLINGTON. August 16. j Captain FhJuiltz, of the barquentim' I Mary Isabel, now in 'Wellington, was 1 I formerly master of tho Oust mice Craig. ; j flc the captain of the latter venei ) j was Finlav Morrison, no! Petersen. If- j I was a native of the Orkney Islands, end S I leaves a wife and two children, who e.r- • 1 now in ’Mc.lbeurnA. I 1 | [SrncTAL to tfiu S't.ar.] 1 GTPBORNE. Amrurt, 16. F. Mann, rook and steward on the C-enstaiK o Craig, wan a Gin-h-orne man, am! his wife rmiden here. On the 27th inst.. the date tbe vcasel was supmnod to bavbeen sighled at Hokianga. sboaayßehe had a- vivid dream, in which she saw"the vessel in a fierce storm, with all her nailn blown away, homy sees sweeping the docks, and prwciUy tho ship wan engulfed ami die appoaml.