SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE KETCH ROSE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 844, 1 August 1871, Page 2

SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE KETCH ROSE.

By a party just arrived in Westport from Kararaea we learn that the remains of a vessel's bulwarks, also hatches, water-casks, and dingy have been washed up on the beach between Wanganui and Karamea. Fragments of gin cases picked up with Bailie and Humphrey's brand on them confirm the supposition that the remains are those of the Eose, which left here for Brighton early in July. A party sailing in this vessel for some time, and who is at present mining at Wanganui Beach, is beyond all doubt certain that the timbers washed ashore are a portion of the remains of the Eose, formerly known as the Woodquest. Bradley was the name of the master, and we believe her crew consisted of two beside himself. She was built in ISSS at Eiwaka, Blind Bay, 17 miles distant frein Nelson

Upon further enquiry we learn that the debris of a wrecked vessel were first noticed on Thursday the 20th. It is also stated, though we fear upon very slender grounds, that on or subsequent to that date a ketch, supposed to be the Eose, was seen off the Buller. Waller and Harper, who arrived from the Karamea .yesterday, state that the beach is strewn with the debris of a small vessel, but nothing was seen by them to lead to the identification of the craft to which they belonged. They are certain, however, that the vessel must have foundered. As far as they know no cargo had been washed ashore. The ketch Eose cleared at the Custom House, Westport, with tho following cargo shipped by Bailie and Humphrey to Thomas Nevin, of Brighton : " Per Eose,for Brighton (July Ist), 20 bga flour, 12 do oats, G do maize, 75 do potatoes, 6 cases porter, 6 do sarsaparilla, 1 do lobsters, 1 do sauce, 2 do ling, 2 do pickles, '4 do bitters 1 cask soda, 1 chest candles, 8 hams, S boxes soap, 4 boxes tobacco, 2 do tea, 1 bag salt, 1. case sundries, 1 do glass, 7 pkg paper, 1 jar acid, 2 boxes pipes, 22 bags sugar, 20 cases brandy, 10 do claret, 2 do coffee, 6 do colonial wine, 2 qr cks wiue, 4 cases geneva, 2 do champagne, 1G mats sugar, G bags wheat, 6 kegs butter, 2 do rum, 3 cases cocoa, b do colonial wine 4 tins biscuit, 1 parcel."

The above list, may, in the event of any of the cargo being cast ashore, give a clue to the identification of the wreck. It has not been considered necessary to despatch any person from Westport to the scene of the wreck, as, from the time that has elapsed and the state of the remains washed up, there is no reasonable hope that the unfortunate crew can have survived. We cannot state accurately who composed the crow of the Eose, but it is said that there were two hands in addition to Bradley, the owner and master. Two men, strangers to this portion of the colony | joined the vessel at Ouehunga in April last, named Henry Earles and Louis Brown, and they are believed to have sailed in her from Westport on her trip to Brighton.