FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 80, 10 March 1883, Page 2

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

i BARBARITY OF iFfiSHERMEri.-, As soon as the Wild Deer got in the Channel from the Clyde a heavy sea :pceyaited f t a&dfttheh9iigHeeo&& &A t:he ; wind blew half a gale. The vessel thenlost her coarse and drifted, striking on the North Rock, a daugeroas reef three miles from the village of Cloughey, ' shortly.- aftee eleven! o'cloickj ;.at night. The passengers were all landed safely and 'c'orrveyed to the tiny village -of Oteagh^yr^^A's^TironlyrwontaitnrTtbrtut 20 sniaUjjjbojase^jyjt^ejr . Presby terijan minister -of- the district threw open his church for the accommodation of ijhe shipwrecked people, and-ihany' of th6m remained there, until arrangements could be made for their conveyanceto 'Be'lfkkc. 7 With 'the 7 herp-'of^afiarge quantity of straw, they made thenrselves as' 6otnfortab?e ' as they could. ; "D/^as providential that no jives were lost. ; ' :}l The emigrantsVWho are ; c'H^fty^Scotpb, bitterly cpmplfiin of ,the exorbitant demands made by tha owners of fishing boats, 1 %hich '-put ' off i ¥o * render as^ii tance, one oC_the_crew remarking that he had been wrecked no fewer than < te's J , r atty^yeV-'n nessod such afif amount of barbarity: asthat;"djsp { ayed • 'by" the; ' County' •'Doivn meu,-wlioV : atifir'Bt, f codliy^emanded '^81 per head for eveTy" passenger landed,; . ; : ~ , , ,-■•-■ i '-»'