A STORY OF THE SEA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2335, 28 June 1887, Page 3

A STORY OF THE SEA.

The barque Firth of Forth, Captain 1 Farqubav, from San Fraaciso for Victoria Docks, London, with a cargo of grain andcanned goods, landed on the 30th April two; men, two chronometers, and a chart box' from the sailing ship Dunnorthen Castle v which was wrecked on a sunken reef in the; Pacific in November last. Boon after the ; Dunnorthern Castle struck, the first mate; and seven men took a boat and made for; Honolulu, 2,000 miles distant, with the in-; teiition of obtaining means, to return ,and, take off the captain and remainder of the crew, who were standing by the wreck.' After an adventurous voyage extending

over 52 days the party landed at Honolulu, where the mate chartered a steamer and; went back to the scene of the wreck. On 1 their'arrival there the shattered frame of the Dunnorthen Castle was found, but no trace of the crew. Hoping that their companions had been taken off by a passing vessel the: officer ordered the steamer to proceed to San Francisco, where the missing men were found, having been rescued and taken' into that port by an American ship. A young Scotchman named Smiley, belonging to the Firth of Forth, was murdered and i thrown into the sea while the vessel was loading in San Francisco. As the body was nearly stripped of its clothing it is supposed that robbery was the object of the crime.