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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 671, 7 January 1852, Page 3

The Chieftain arrived on Saturday from England, having left the English coast on the Ist September. She called at the Auckland Isles, where she landed two of the Directors of the Pacific Whaling Company, and stores for the establishment, and from whence she brought up Capt. Allan, and part of the crew of the Countess of Minto, which was unfortunately wrecked at Macquarrie Island. This vessel (the same reported in the Sydney Herald of 22nd October as having been blown adrift from Lady Elliott’s Island, with only two hands on board) sailed from Sydney on the 4th Nov., with the intention of completing her cargo of guano and proceeding to England or the Mauritius, according to circumstances. After visiting different Islands adjacent to Australia she proceeded to Macquarrie Island, and on the 2nd Dec., after being three days off the Island with unfavorable weather, she stood close in shore with the intention of landing; when about a mile off shore the wind suddenly failed. Every means were tried to keep the ship with her head off the land, but she would not steer, and a swell setting on the shore which drifted the ship towards the land, the small bower, and afterwards the best bower was let go, but the swell increasing, the ship struck, and unshipped her rudder, and started the stern framing. She then began to fill fast and to roll very heavily ; fortunately the whaling barque Lord Duncan was near, and by the assistance rendered by that vessel all hands were saved. Shortly after leaving the wreck, the vessel broke up. The master and crew reached Port Ross on the 11th December, and (with the exception of five hands who still remain at Port Ross) sailed on the 27th in the Chieftain, for Wellington.