THE GALE AT OAMARU.

Evening Star, Issue 3615, 23 September 1874, Page 2

THE GALE AT OAMARU.

Early on Monday morning, a heavy S.E. sea coming in without any wind, the vessels lying m the roadsteads were placed in. rather a precanons position. There were at anchor the schooners United Brothers, Strathnaver, and Canterbury, the three-masted schooner Eldershe, and the brig Pakeha. Betweens a.m., the tune at which, the sea began to come home heavily, and 8 a.m. the Elderslie and Pakeha drove considerably to the nor’ard and inshore, the other three holding on better, but the seas occasionally breaking over them. The United Brothers, about 8 o’clock, hoisted what appeared to be a signal of distress, and on lookingather through a glass it was found that a fart of her bulwarks bad been carried away t was observed that when one of the seas struck her three men took to the rigging, but a fourth, who was on deck, was, it is feared, injured. This was probably the meaning of thesignaL Shortly after 8 a breeze from the j’ ®P ran ß U P> and the vessels slipping, proceeded to sea, all making a good offing. One of the boats of the new landing service being it is said, moored too close to one of Messrs Aiken and Co.’s cargo boats, the latter was stove in at. the bows, swamped and drifted ashore, smashing up on the rocks. This represents a considerable loss, as the ’ boat cannot bo replaced under Ll5O, N. 0. Times ’