WRECK OF THE CITY OF CASHMERE AT TIMARU.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2427, 16 January 1882, Page 3

WRECK OF THE CITY OF CASHMERE AT TIMARU.

[PBBBB ASSOCIATION TBIKGBAM. 1 TIMABU, January 15. The ship City of Cashmere has become all but a total wreck here. Yesterday afternoon the pin of the shaokle of her anchor came out, and before a eecond anchor wag let go she had drifted nearly a mile into the breakers. There was not much tea running at first, and the steam launch Lillie Denham went to her resoue, haying on board Captain Boss, of the City of Cashmere, who was ashore at the time the pin came out. The harbor master, Captain Mills, had previously got on board, and every effort was made to save the vessol, but it being low tide sie got further and further in. She struck the beach about five miles from Timaru about midnight, and the rocket brigade succeeding in getting the orew and officers, numbering nineteen, also the harbor master and another gentleman, on shore safely in less than an hour. Captain Boss was the last man to leave the ship, the harbor master (Captain Mills) seeing all on shore before he would leave Boss. The wreck is the result solely of the pin of the shackle coming out, and in no way due to the port. The City of Cashmere was a strongly-built iron vessel of 980 tons, owned in Glasgow. She has a quantity of wool, wheat, and flour on board, and up to the present time this is believed to be uninjured. It is well insured.