The Loss Of the Ship J.T. Berry

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 91, 19 January 1888, Page 2

The Loss Of the Ship J.T. Berry

By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. IKS V»1T«I> rHSB ASSOCIATKW.I _;< ■;' " v .^-"(SflMnKr, January IS. *;■ The survivors of ?the ship J. T. JJenryi burnt at sea, were B#r*n days in an open boat before Itting picked up, and had no coats or boots, though they had plenty oi eatables. Great care had to be exercised: in regard to water, of whioh only a small quantity was available. Each man' was put oa an allowance of sis spoonfuls per day. The whole of them suffered greatly from heat. When the boats left the vet* eel the captain ordered the second boat to make for Australia, The petroleum in the hold of the ship biased up. blowing out the decks. So rapid was the sprejvl of the fire that there was only twenty minutes in which to get the boats away from the doomed Teeeel. ; : '' : "' r - AtrcitAKP January IS J Mr G. W. Griffon* U.S. Consul si Sydney, cabled yesterday te Mr J. T. Campbell, U.S. Consul at Auckland, informing him of. the loss oi the ship. J. T. Berry, and asking him to request the New Zealand (frvernment to> keep a ! watch for the miasing stirvivorjk ls> ; Campbell has -oommunwatefl ■ w|ft ; . th« : Premier and rtbeihrad a reply Vt<|nating tnat the officers of the Outloa«h*.W been directed to request masters of tibssls to - keep a look out for the survivors ef thf lost ship. . . .