A STEAMER SUNK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1810, 9 April 1888, Page 3

A STEAMER SUNK.

(per press association.)

Ctaki, April 8. A ship is ashore at the mouth of the Ohaa river, eleven miles north of here. She is apparently m ballast, bat the name cannot be made out from the beach. She will probably be high and dry at low water. A fmah wind is blowing from the north-weat, and tha veßeel is Buppdaed to have gone ashore during the night. Tho orew are still on board. Tbe beach where the barque went aahore ie sandy. Tho spot is four miles sooth of where tbe ship Hyderabad was lost, and seventeen miles north of where the chip Pleione went ashose. No farther particulars ate to band. Latee. The barque ashore at Ohau is tbe Weatherafield, 1051 tons, Captain Sherris, bound from Brlabaoe to Lytteltoc. She appears to be m ballast, but it is thought may have a quantity of sugar on board. The captain telegraphed to tha Collector of Customs to night as follows: — 11 Weathertfield ashore at Ohau," No further particulars are to hand, but it is supposed tbe same mistake was made m the oase of the ship Pleione, Kip\ti Inland being taken for Stephen's Island. The crew landed safely. fa* YV ELLINGTON, April 8. The Marine Department bos received the following telegram from Kaipara : — "S.B. Tangihna waa run into end Bunk by as. Durham m a fog off Te Kopara on Saturday morning. The Tangihua was at anchor. No lives were lost." Auckland, April 9. The s.s. T*ugihaa was Bunk m the Wairoa river on Saturday mornlDg, when anchored m the fairway, by the s.s Durham running into her daring a thick fcg. Everyone on board the Tangihua and the Durham got clear uninjured. The brlgantlne Gleaner, which arrived from Oamaru on Saturday night reports that Charles Brown, the mate, was swept overboard on the morning of the 28:h March and drowned. A weetorly gnle was experienced on the 26th when the man at the wheel was washed overboard. A line waa thrown to him and ho was with Eomo difficulty hauled on board again. On the evening of 27'h tbe wind chopped ronnd to S.S.E , and increased m strength till it blew with hurricana forca At midnight tha vessel was running under bare poles before the wind. The captain was at the helm and had for eafety to secure a line round his waist. At 1 am, on the 23th the vessel was broached to by th 9 leo, and a great broken sea swept over her fore and »ft wh'ch stove m the watertauks, filled tho cabin, washed over about 100 bags of bones and swept the captain and mate overboard. The crew raahed aft and found tho former towing astern by the line to which he had made himself fast, and he was quickly got on boarJ. Although efforts were roado to find the mace be was never seen again. The echooner .Agnes Donald which arrived yesterday from Lyttelton aiao reports severe weather from 25ih to 30th nit. She shipped bo much water that the pumps had to tie kept going and two keg 3 of oil were placed overboard to abate the force of the sea. She reports speaking the schooner Mint* from Lytteiton to Auckland which had lost her jibbooin and was short of water through casks being smashed, and had run into JJicks Bay for shelter. The Minita has beon <Bmce spoken off Cuvier Island but has not arrived heie, Wellington, April 9 A telegram from the Association agent at Ocakt states, that the W- a;hxrp.G,fcl ia ashore betwotn the Walkanaß and Ohau rivers. She came ashoro about 4 yesterday mornlcg. All harda iiicludh.-g the officers are ashnro Tho latest newa from the vessel 13 tha l. she Is h ritiafc with the seas as they strike hor. It is thought that if measures are taken at once h!:o csn be floated with tho next, spriug tides which are on Wednesday next.