WRECK OF THE SHIP CITY OF NEWCASTLE.
Auckland, Nov. 18. The Cagli Opera Troupe are passenger* by the Hero. Wellt>~gto>-, Not. 18. The City of Newcastle, collier, left the harbor with about 21 bouls on board on the 9uh inst., and went ashore near Alapawa on Thursday. Pour women, threa of the crew, and a boy, were put into a boat, with water andjorovisions, and have never been seen sintifK The captain and some of the crew, and four passengers, took another boat, the boat first lowered being swamped. The mate and five others remained on the wreck, and four of them ultimately swam ashore with the aid of a life line, but the other two were drowned in attempting to reach the land. The Canterbury, schooner, picked up the captain's boat a few hours after it had left the wreck, aad those rescued were transhipped to the Tarauaki. The news was received here on Saturday. The Rangafcira sailed at^once to search for survivors, found the first boat? swamped, and examined the coast minutely, but no trace of the boat containing the women could be discovered. The Rangatira brought back those who had reached the Bhore. The Napier also saw no sign of the boat between Wanginui and Wellington. The boat is considered so bad that no hope is entertained that the women survive, as it took in water over the stern at every lurch, being exceedingly shallow. • The men who were saved from the wreck owe their lives, to Hamill, the mate, who displayed much gallantry and endurance in getting ashore with the life-line. The vessel was insured for £L 250. An enquiry will be held into the cause of the wreck to-morrow. To-day's Gazette notifies the following bonuses which ara offered in compliance with a resolution of the Assembly : —For the first 100 tons of pig iron produced in the Colony, £5000 ; the first 100 tons of steel, £ LOOO ; the first 250 tons of beet sugar, £2000; the first 109 tons of paper, £250;; and 4a per cwt. on exported cured fish. Christchurch, NorrlS. The pigeon match between Mr Redwood and Mr Maxwell has come off". The latter killed 30 birds, the former 44. Black, the driver of the coach between Cbristchureh and Akaroa, drove over a steep bank into a gully. Mrs Black, who was a passenger-, was killed, and Black himself has since been reported de^d. <*■
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Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 2
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400WRECK OF THE SHIP CITY OF NEWCASTLE. Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 2
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