SHIPPING DISASTERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1722, 10 April 1888, Page 3

SHIPPING DISASTERS.

The barque "Weathersfield, 1050 tons, CaptaioSherres, from Brisbane toLyltelton, ashore is at the mouth of the Oheu river, eleven miles north of Otaki. The crew landed safely. The beach where the barque went ashore is sandy. The spot in four miles south of where the ship Hyderabad was lost, and 17 mi'les north of where the ship Pleione recently went ashore. It is supposed that the same mistake was made as in the case of the ship Pleione, Kapiti Island being taken for Stephen's Island. The Press

says : " The Weathersfield was an iron ship of 1047 tons, built at Port

Glasgow in 3865. She was AAI, owned in Liverpool, and belonged to Messrs Greensbields, Uowie, and Co. At the time of her wreck she was on her way from Brisbane to Lyttelton, having been chartered by Messrs Wood, Sinclair and Co., to load grain for the United Kingdom, The Weathertfield was an old trader here, having been three times to Lyttelton under command of Captain Sherrioß, who has always been regarded as a remarkably steady and careful seaman. He was here lest year, and loaded with grain home. The loss of the ship will be very much felt, an there it afgreal scarcity of tonnage at this port just now." Wellington, April 9.

A telegram from the Association agent at Olaki states that the Weathersfield is ashore between the Waikanae and Obau rivers. She came ashore about 4 yesterday morning. All hands, including the officers, are ashore. The latest news from the vessel is that she is rising with the seas as they strike her. It is thought that

if measures are takes at one* she can bo floated with the next spring tides, which are on Wednesday next.

Auckland, April 9.

The brigantine Gleaner, which arrived

from Oamaru on Saturday night reports that Charles Brown, the mate, was swept overboard on the morning of the 28th March and drowned. A westerly gale wsa experienced on the 26tb, when the man at the wheel was washed overboard. A line was thrown to him and he was with some difficulty hauled on board again. On the evening of 27th the wind chopped round to S.S.E., and increased in strength till it blew with hurricane force. At midnight the vessel was running under bare poles before the wind. The captain was at the helm and had for safety to secure a line round lis waist. At 1 a.m. on'the 28th the vessel was ! broached to by tLe lee, and a great broken sea swept over her fore and aft, which stove in the watertanks, filled the cabin, washed over about 100 bags of bones, and swept the captain aud mate overboard. The crew rushed aft and found the former towing ustern by the line to which he h»d made himself fast, aud ha was quickly got oo board. Although efforts were made to fiod the mate he whs never seen again. The schooner Agnes Donald which artived yesterday from Lyttolton also reports severe weather from 25th to 30th ult. She shipped so much water that the pumps bad to be kept going, and two tegs of oil were placed overboard to abate the force of the Bea. She reports speaking the schooner Minita, from Lyttelton to Auckland, which had lout her jibbooms, and was short of water through the casks being smashed, and bad run into Hicks Bay for shelter. The Minita has been since spoken off Cuvier Island, but has not arrived her% The b.c Tangihau was run into and sank by the a s. Durham, during & fog, in the Wairoa river on Saturday moroi&g. The Tangihau was at anchor. No lives I were lost.