WRECK OF THE MIDLOTHIAN.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 552, 17 October 1871, Page 2

WRECK OF THE MIDLOTHIAN.

The Wairo* correspondent of the Hawkes J*«j> Htrald furnishes the following particulars of the lots of a solioonerat the Clyde :—• * I haften to forward you intelligence of the ahno.t destruction of tne ketch Midlothian, and tLmxrvm .scape of fh« Hero^ BotU vessels, arriving from Napier on Thursday last, •Uempted to take the bar, and both took the •round} tho Midlothian, occupying Ue seaward, and most elposed position, boou began to show symptoms of breaking up. Ine tareo, more or less damaged, was removed from her, and she now lies with a breach of iwo-thirds her length in one side on the Iwaeh, .pars still standing. The Hero was •afely got afloat again on Saturday n.ght last —having sustained little or no injury—by the Miistaoee of the Maoris, and the exertions ol other people. Truly, the little Hero seems to tare a charmed existence, so many narrow escapes has she had. P.S.-Owing to the fceeuliar form of the bar, ifc appear that the Hero, first attempting to enter and grounding, •rored an obstacle to the entrance of the lieihian, which had either to run into" her or sheer ©ff and ground also."