TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN COOK'S STRAITS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 36, 6 September 1884, Page 2

TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN COOK'S STRAITS.

LOSS OF AN ENGLISH SHIP.

17 PERSONS DROWNED.

NAMES OF SURVIVORS AND

THOSE DROWNED.

ALL THE PASSENGERS LOST.

(PEB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, This Day. .. Information was received at daylight this morning that the shipLastmghauij from London to Wellington, has been wrecked at Jackson's Head, m Cook Straits. 17 lives have bean lost, including the captain and his wife. No further particulars are yet to hand. . Those saved from the ship Lasting' ham are as follows : — John Healey (chief officer), John Barton (second mate), Kiddle (steward), Robertson (carpenter), Grooves, Courtiare, Chambers, Munro, Donaldson, Chalmers, and Awarey (seamen), Thomas and Fryer (boys employed on board). The three last mentioned seamen are those who went in search of assistance, tend have not yet been heard of. The whole of the passengers were drowned. Their names are as follbws : — Messrs Naish, Meakin, Pursell, . McGinn, and Davis. None of them were married men, and it is understood none of them were ever in New Zealand before. The only female on board was the captain's wife, who was also drowned. The names of the officers and men who were drowned is as follows : — Alex. Morrison (master), Henry Grooves (third officer), Peter McGuire (cook), John Murray (sailmaker), A. B. Barnard, Lambert, Groudon, Lee, Math* ers, and Watson (seamen), and Sharp and Pearce, two of the complement of four boys which the ship carried.

[The above was issued as ad " extra" yesterday.]