THE MISSING SHIP STRATHMORE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 590, 2 March 1876, Page 3

THE MISSING SHIP STRATHMORE.

Ttfs mystery is now cleared tip, and ttrenty souls have heon saved from the , wreck. Alluding to the telegram -which We republish elsewhere, "the " Hei'ald " ' says :—": — " The news, by telegram, of the rescue and safety of this little 'band, : although Very "scant, beara with it a fearful tale. It appears that the ship Josh Bently touched at Pdint de Galle on the 24th February, and twenty snrvivers of the Strathmore, bound from London to NeV Zealand. The latter had been wrecked on tho Crozet Island, in July, 1875. The rescued people are described as having been in a wretched condition when taken off the island, on the 22nd of January last, after a forced sojourn of six mouths in this inhospitable region. Their escape was due to the American whaler Phtenix sailing near the island, and probably perceiving their signals of distress. She embarked'the shipwrecked people, ahd'falling in with the Josh Bently, transferred a portion of them to her. Wo thus learn that Mr Crombie was landed at Galle, while Mr md Mi's Wordiwbrth, Mr Walker, and Mr Keith remained in the whaler, Amongst those who perished in the loss of the Stvathmore are mentioned the Unfortunate captain and mate. The cablegram does not enlighten us aa to how the vessel was lost but it is probable that she was driven ashore on one of the islands and thus wrecked. The Crozets are a volcauic group of. islands in the Ar6fric Ocean, and lte between Kergaelen's land on the east, and Prince *i)d ward's Islands on the west, about midway between Patagonia and New Zealand. Situate almost within the circle of the Entartic legions, there is a possibility that the loss of tfee Stmthraore may ba j owiD£ to a coUision with an iceberg,' one of the perils that attend navigation in these : ioe-encumbercd sea's, and such of the passengers and crew aa were saved may have escaped in a boat and landed on one of the Crozets. These islands are uriinhabited, and are described as bearing a certain resemblance to the lauds in the more immediate neighbourhood of the Polar Circle in their general dreariness of aspect, and the scantiness of tDei'r "vegetation. This will pror© that the nurvivors must have endured fearful privations during their many month's fetay on these rocky islets, and as their wretched condition, when reicaed, would shew. In all probability their only subsistence would have beeh fish.

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