The Recent Shipping Disaster.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 2

The Recent Shipping Disaster.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. n (Por i'ress Association). w "WELLINGTON, AllgUSt9. Q A V\ f cl!in»toii mail of August Ist, for p I L-m ; i Kong,' aud Bluff mails of July 20th t: ami tbth for the same place were on bomd the Catterthem. " Dua'edin. August 9. S Thoro wore no New Zealand pas- if sengers on the Catterthem, which was j tho°nrst of the Company's livers for some time. Sydney, August 9. Captain Craig, an old officer in the a China trade, thinks the course must c have been altered too soon, and had the steamer gone on another quarter of au r hour she would have cleared the Seal j rock. c The tugs have returned after searching the vicinity of the wreck for miles . along the coast. They picked up tlie * cutter belonging to the Catterthem. t Beyond this there is no trace of the i missing people or wreckage. a The survivors are doing well. Among r the Chinese passengers was a widow £ and four young children. . Smith, a passenger by theCatterthun, was late navigating lieutenant of the J warship Wolverine. He leaves a widow £ aud sou in Sydney. i Captain Shannon's wife is completely 1 prostrated. < < Great praise is given to the Chinese } crew for the way they stood to their ' posts and worked in the face of almost ' uusurmountable difficulties to get the ] boats out. . ( Tugs arc continuing the search, but it ( is almost generally considered to be ; hopeless, as it is believed that all except ( those saved in the lifeboat were engulfed when the vessel sank. Few friends only ' refuse to abandon the hope that the : cutter picked up evidently broke loose when the Catterthuu sunk. Ships arriving to-day all report no signs of life or wreckage. Captain Fawkes states on rising he struck a plank, to which he clung, aud was afterwards joined by the second officer. "When in the water he noticed rays from the lighthouse. Had no definite idea where they struck, but thinks it was about four miles north-east of the lighthouse. From the time the vessel struck the most admirable discipline was shown. No one was flurried, and there was au entire absence of panic. The captain and officers gave the orders coolly, and the crew cheerfully obeyed.