STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1879, 11 January 1875, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER ANCLO-AUSTRAUAN PRESS TELEGRAPH

AGENCY.

Auckland, This day. The Insurance Offices lose the following amounts in consequence of the wreck of the Cospatrick :—New Zealand, £10,000; South British, £4,148; National £915.

Wellington, This day. Captain Fairchild has received instructions to make an attempt to remove the rock at the entrance to Tauranga, and upon which the steamer Pretty Jane recently sustained damage. A large quantity of dynamite was placed on board the Luna on Saturday for [that purpose. The work of blowing up the rock will be proceeded with while the Native Minister is attending a large meeting of East Coast natives near Gisborne.

The Times publishes the following particulars regarding the Cospatrick :- ~

The Cospatr*ck was a frigate-built ship of 1199 tons, commanded by Captain Elmslie, brother to Captain Elmsiie, of th» Sydney clipper Sobraon. She was built at Mouimain, of teak., on the Aber-

een clipper principle,-:*and made several voyages from Calcutta to London in the interest- of Duncan Dunbar and Co. A singular fatality attached itself to tha vessels which belonged to this now extinct firm. The Duncan Dunbar, which was wrecked at Sydney Heads, August 1857, was one of their line, and the sole remaining vessel of the fleet, now that the Cospatrick has been burned, is the Dunbar. The Cospatrick was on her j-econd voyage to New Zealand, under the flag of Shaw, Savill, and Co., who purchased her about two years ago for £11,000. Her first voyage to this colony was to Port Chalmers, where she arrived in July 1873. From Port Chalmers she went to Newcastle, and there loaded coal for Calcutta ; from thence she conveyed coolies to Demerara, where she loaded sugar for London, arriving about July last. Was then placed on the berth for Auckland, took in cargo at the l£ast India Export Docks, alongside the ship Langstone, now lying at Wellington wharf. The second officer of the Cospatrick was on the point of accepting a similar post on the Langstone, but he decided to remain by the Cospatrick; The doomed vessel left the docks on the Bth of September, in company with the ship Samuel Plimsoll, bound for Sydney. Four days later the Lang?tone sailed for Wellingon, but nothing was seen of the Cospatrick on the voyage, although the Samuel Plimsoll was sighted and spoken twice. The berth vacated by the Cospatrick in dock was afterwards occupied by the Glenlora, which arrived at Auckland on the sth. Every precaution for the safety of the passengers in the event of fire or shipwreck was enforced by the Board before the Cospatrick was allowed to proceed-to sea, and a new apparatus for the rapid launching of her boats was insisted upon by the Board, besides the addition of an extra engine in case of fire.

JPicton, This day. Arrived : ship Garnatic. She entered the Tory Channel at daylight on Sunday morning. All well. Two deaths.

Chbistchuech, This day. Outrage and Murder.

A girl named Isabella Thompson, aged 13, was found dead with her throat cut, in a paddock at Lyttelton, at 6 am. on Saturday. The appearance of the body and clothes leads to the inference that the girl has been outraged. A man named Alfred Osborne, recently released from gaol, where he has been twelve months for vagrancy, has been arrested on suspicion. A man named W. K. Grant, chemist, employed by Messrs Gould & Co., was found dead in bed yesterday morning. Supposed to have died from an overdose of morphia, which he was in the habit of taking to induce sleep. The yacht Eipple capsized in a sudden squall at Akaroa harbor on "Saturday. Sayle, the owner, aud C. A. Haider, solicitor, were drowned. Two others swam ashore. ... > ■• •'. j. :..