An Australian Steamer Sunk.
From Sydney it is reported the steamer Catterthun struck on the Seal Rocks at 2.80 o'clock on Thursday morning and sank in fifteen minutes.
The captain, doctor, second mate and two other white men, and sixteen ot the Chinese crew, have landed from boats at Forster.
The others are supposed to be lost. The Catterthun had 81 on board all told.
The passengers saved are : — Dr Copeman, of London. Captain Fawkes, pilot. Mr Crane, official of the Eastern , Extension Company.
The spot where the aarTivors^ landed is 20 miles from the Seal " Bocks.
Amongst the missing are Mrs ':. Mathias, wife of the captain «f a : steamer trading in Chinese waters, Dr Anderson, ship's surgeon, and a young Victorian doctor named Smith, who joined the ship at the last moment.
There was one bag of mails from Wellington, and two from the Bluff on the steamer.
It is supposed she struck a sliding blow on the edge of the outer reef rocks, and had her side ripped open, and that she then swung off it 1^ tangent and went ahead till etae filled with watir,— Pmh Aintiatioß*
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Manawatu Herald, 10 August 1895, Page 2
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190An Australian Steamer Sunk. Manawatu Herald, 10 August 1895, Page 2
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