WRECK OF THE LIZZIE GUY. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 6

WRECK OF THE LIZZIE GUY. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Wellington. Nov. 12. Ix.srfc.CTOß Thomson this morning received a telegram from Constable Mackay. ' stationed at Martin boro', informing him tha b the schooner Lizzie Guy, boui.d from Oamaru to Auckland with liour and strain, was wiecked on the East Coast, off the White Bock Station, on Saturday morning last. The telegram htatcs that the captain and. cook were both drowned, but the remainder of the crew were saved. The constable reports that he is going to the scene of *the wreck as soon as the rivers arc fordable. Inspector Thomson has directed Constable Mackay to proceed with all haste to tho scene, and request a Justice of the Peace bo accompany him and hold an inquest on the bodies, if they were wa&hed ashore, iv . order , that 1 they may be buried on the beach. Tn ; . spector Thomson has also communicated with the agents of the vessel in Auckland and Timaru. The Lizzie Cluy was a wooden schooner of S5 tons register, and was built in Bateman's Bay, US. W., in 1871. The following were Ihe pames of the crew who proceeded in her wlien she left Wellington on Octqbei ,7th, lor Havelock, from which port she afterwards /bailed for Oamaru : — Jas. Stevens (captain), John Wilton, Frank Nainly, Samuel Caverley, Prank Salmberg. Her owner is Mr Jas. Citxig, of Oamaru. .Xbe insurances upon tne ves&cl an,d .jcargd appear to bo di&siibuted amongst the various offices. The National have a risk ot £725 upontho cargo (shipped by Meek), and the Union Company have a" risk of £500 (€250 of which is re-insured in the New Zealand office) upon tlio same. The" latter office, have'also a line of £125 upon the hull, but the exact amount of the in.surance on the "vessel, or the other offices holding risks, is not ascertainable at' present. '" * ;

'' ' CHiusTCiiuKOH, 'Monday : The wrecked schooner Lizzie/, Guy was formerly .owned by the freight Company, of, Hokitika, and about sixteen ,, years ago was,, bjought-by Raines, Craig, timber merchant, ■Oamaru. , James , Stevens, , was , a, , man of perhaps 55 -years of age, and waa.au,, old .resident in, Canterbury, familiarly* known, as, Jimmy Steyens, univei*saily,,an,d , very Highly rospected. He,had,a-;wUe and \ family iesid,ont in Sydenham. . Some four- 1 teen years ago Stevens had a remarkably,. narrow escape from drowning,; being rescued from the bottom of a boat' ; in Cook's Straifc. ,; ■ ' . , \v, r s, ( • i , ; ; ' -< ji i

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