RUMOURED FOUNDERING OF AN AUSTRALIAN LINER. A TERRIBLE REPORT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 5

RUMOURED FOUNDERING OF AN AUSTRALIAN LINER. A TERRIBLE REPORT.

London, June 29. THbRE wns something akin to a sensation in Australasian shipping circles on Monday afternoon upon the posting of a telegram announcing the foundering of a large emigrant ship (presumably bound for the AntiPodes) off" Cape Agulhas. The information c ame from Captain Winchester, of the steamer Drummond Castle, and was bald in the extreme. It seems that the mysterious vessel was sighted, in the midst of a terrific hurricane, off Agulhas, and, apparently, in a desperate condition. All the boats were gone, and the only persons visible on deck were the captain and two sailors la&hed to the wheel. The first mate of the Drummond Castle wanted to attempt a re&cue with one of the steamer's boats, but (apart from the fact that night; had fallen) the weather was far too awful for anything of the sort, and all the captain could do was to stand by till morning. From the terrible shrieks that could be heard in the intervals of the tempest Captain Winchester gathered that a large number of human beings were battened down below in the doomed ship, ancl it was this led to the assertion that* she was an emigrant vessel. About 3 a.jn. the following morning she foundered. The anxiety felt as to the identity of the nameless ship was considerably lightened "when .experts ex-

MR STUART CUMBERLAND. "Mr Stuart Cumberland's book of travel succeeded so well thab he is contemplating another, and will start on a voyage of discovery almost immediately. The first country he visits will be Denmark, which has somehow been neglected hitherto by the British tourist. Subsequently, Mr Cumberland may turn his attention to Russia and Siberia. It is rumoured — or, perhaps T should bay gossiped — that a number of changes will shortly be announced amongst the colonial Governorhips. Already it has transpired that Lord Reay will succeed your old friend Sir Hercules Robinson as Gove'nor of the Cape, Mr Raikes (the popular member for Chester and Chairman of Committees) going to Bombay. The former appointment is particularly appropriate as Lord Reay is of Dutch descent. I cannot, at present, tell you whether the attempt of that enterprising colonist, Mr Prifcchard Morgan, to convert his Welsh gold mine 3 into a company with a capital of £210,000(1!) has proved successful. Letters of allotment were posted on Monday, but the papers are (no doubt discreetly) silent as to the amount taken up. Truth to tell the mining engineer's report was extremely cautious, it merely guaranteed the presence of a pocket of gold worth about £40,000. Everything else was iii nuhibus.

For the benefit of those who are gettiug lired of "truly rural" as a test of sobriety the following is respectfully submitted :—: — Pronounce rapidly, "She sells and sea shells ; shall she sell sea sheila ?"