THE STRATHMORE.

Evening Star, Issue 4117, 8 May 1876, Page 4

THE STRATHMORE.

Eight of the survivors reached Melbourne in the R.M.S. Bangalore, having been taken on by the steamer at Oalle. Their names are William Hooke, William Wilson, Robert Wilson, James Ward, Joseph Ward, James Knight, Thomas Standring, and George Skidjmore. These men were all steerage passengers. They arrived in this port en route for Sydney, where they expected to obtain employment under the Government having received a promise to that effect while they were at Galle, and they proceeded on their passage to Sydney. The intelligence of their wreck, sufferings, and deliverance of course created a great sensation in Galle on their arrival there, and sympathy of a practical sort was quickly manifested from all sides. They were at once sent to a large boarding-house, and a subscription’ opened for their support, and a supply of clothing was quickly obtained. Gf Ibo survivors t who landed atGalle, tv elye were passengers by the Strathmore ..and eight men of the crew.- The latter were sent back to England by the. owners of the Strathmore. It. was also proposed to send the passengers back, but the subsrcription raised was not sufficient for this purpose. The Rev. Mr Butterwbrth, the local Episcopal clergyman, then communicated with Sir Hercules. Robinson, the Governor of .Nevr South- Wales, and. a promise was received the Government of that Colony to give employment to any of the shipwrecked passengers who 'were forwarded to Sydney. The eight steerage passengers ’ took advantage of offer, and were taken on by the 'Bangalore, their passages being paid to ;%auey, by the Galle Government. I fSachwas presented with ten rupees oa leaving Galle from- the subscription 'which had been raised. The four others, who had been cabin passengers, found means of returning to England. The twenty-four who had been

left on board the Young Phoenix were shortly afterwards transferred by the whaler to a vessel named the Daytime, which took them to Rangoon. Three of these—two passengers and one of the crew—afterwards reached Galle, and from them our informant received information that this detachment of survivors of the unfortunate Strathmore had been kindly, treated on their arrival at Rangoon, and most of them sent back to England.— * Argus.’