SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE SCHOONER KAIKOURA WITH ALL HANDS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 146, 22 June 1877, Page 2

SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE SCHOONER KAIKOURA WITH ALL HANDS.

y ■ ' . {Evening Post.) A quantity of wreckage was picked up on Niue-mile Beach, near Charleston, yesterday, including a board with " Kaikoura Well," the latter evidently the first syllable of "Wellington." The wreck is supposed to have occurred during the heavy gale of last Saturday. There is hardly any doubt that the illfated vessel was the schooner Kaikoura, he. lging to this port, which left Wellington on the 28th ult., and Kaikoura on the sth inst., for Greymouth, with a cargo of colonial produce, under charter to the lJrunner Coal Company, to bring back a load of coal to' Wellington. It is evident that the Kaikoura was 'caught in the late terrible W.N.W. gale and 'driven ashore, while there is only too

much grounds for the iear that all hands must have perished. She was commanded by Captain J. Anderson, who has a wife and four children living in Wellington, and her crew consistedof James Leonards and Samuel Hamilton, both single men. The Kaikoura was a fore-and-aft schooner of 31 tohs 1 reg'ster. She was bailt in Auckland about 17 months ago, and was purchased by Captain Davidson, of Kaikoura, owner of the schooner. Ruby, to trade between Wellington and that port alternately with the Ruby. She was valued at £800, and insured in the New Zealand Insurance Company for £600. The cargo, which was shipped by Captain Davidson, was insured in the same office for £200. A telegram from Kaikoura from Captain Davidson this afternoon states that he has received no particulars of the wreck.