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Show WOMEN m CIDl CASTAWAYS Oil MID Passengers and Crew of the British Steamer Aeon Are Shipwrecked In Southern Waters. ' Victoria, 11. C Cahlo advlcus from Fanning Island state that the steamer Aeon, which left San Francisco Jul? G for Auckland via Apia nnd wns con sldcred overdue, wns carried or Christmas Uland by thu strong rur rents setting In shore nnd became I total wreck. Tho sh'p's company fifty In nil, took to tho boats nnd land cd at n small settlement, nil safe. There aro four women" and two chll dren, mostly wives of officers of tli United States battleship squadron who took pusstigo to Join their bus hands In Australia. All aro ram pi in on Christmas Island awaiting rescue The Aeon Is fast on tho coral Island partly full of wutcr, nnd wrecked bo yond hope of. Bitlvugo, hut tho f,00( lings of mall aboard were believed tc bo recovered. |