A FORGOTTEN DISASTER.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2172, 10 February 1881, Page 3

A FORGOTTEN DISASTER.

It is just a quarter of a oentury yesterday (says the "New Zealand Herald" of February the 3rd), since the wreck of the ship Josephine Willis, bound from London to Auokland, which was run into by the Limerick steamer Mangerton in the English Channel. On that sad ocoasion about seventy lives were lost. Among the saved, and one of the very few who afterwards came on to Auokland, was Mr Ripley, owner of the York Hotel, Newton. Mr Ripley was one of the seven who clung for hours to the spars after the •hip went down, and has good reason to remember the sad occurrence. One of the most distressing episodes of the wreok was the drowning of two of the ohildren—son srad daughter—of Mr W. R. Logan, of Otahuhu. They had been left in Scotland to finish their education, and were on their way out, in charge of Captain Canney, to loin their father at Auokland. ■■ The young sdy, aged seventeen, was well nigh saved, as two passengers and one of the officers gallantly rescued her when the ship went down, and got her to a spar. After dinging to it for some time Miss Logan suooumbed to exhaustion, and was swept away as the sea broke over it. It may bo worthy of remark that when the Josephine Willis made her first and only trip to Auokland, among her passengers were several now prominent citizens. Of these may be mentioned Dr. Kenderdine, Mr Brown (professor of music), Mr Q. Holdship, and others.