PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3999, 16 June 1870, Page 3

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

Cleared Outwards. — June 15. Stornibird, 98 tons, Doile, for Southern ports. Passengers— Colonel G-orton, Messrs. Harrison, Allen (2), Foster, Samuels, Day, Stephens, Rosenchell, Margett, Revifi, Wilkins, and five original passengers. — Combes and Daldy, agents. Industry, schooner, 26 tons, Grundy, for Raglan, via Waikato. Passengers — Mr. and Mrs. Vercoe and family, Miss Jackson, and six natives. — A. Barnes, agent.

. . .. THE LATEST OCEAN HORROR.— THE LOST SHIP CREST OF THE WAVE. (FROM THE "NEW YORK HERALD.") The ship Crest of the Wave sailed from Liverpool on the Bth of March last, bound to Baltimore. She was built in Warren, Maine, in 1854 of 940 tons burden. The story of the furious gale that tore the vessel's sails from their fastenings, the heavy aeas that washed her decks, the relentless waves that dashed her staunch hull on the rocks, the critical moment when the crew and ofßoers took to the boats to save their lives, and wer« dashed gasping, struggling, into the watery gulf, will never be told. One con■olation remains, poor though it be, that a portion of the bodies of the crew have been washed ashore and. received Christian burial i at the hands of humane men. Besides the three bodies found — which show that the experiences that they passed through before death were terrible — there have been Washed ashore, on Cobbs Island, .quantities of women's and children's- clothing. The^additiohalparticulai'a" relating to the wreck and burial of four bodies,, were received in this city yesterday by letter by Captain I. J. Merritt, of the^Coast. Wrecking Company. Mr. Caulks letter is as follow* : — " On , board r the cutter , Admit, off nortlr end of JEEogJsl/md^ Atlantic Coast, April 13, . 187 ft— Captain I. J. Merritt, Coast Wrecking Company, New York.—Dear'sir,— On a

cruise this day to visit a vessel ashore near Cobb Island, loaded with coffee, I found the ship Crest of the Wave, of Baltimore, from Liverpool, -with, railroad iron and earthenware, &c,, sunk, and all handa drowned. I went ashore on the island at once, just below the wreck, and found that four dead bodies had been, picked up by the Messrs. Cobb Brothers and Mr. Doughty, and humanely buried by them. To all appearance the crew had manned the boats to reach the shore, when they filled in the terrible sea and all were lost. This will account for the bodies being found, as was the case, eight or ten miles south of the wrecked ship The apparel of ladies and children was picked up upon Hog Island, and the supposition is that there were both ladies and children on board. No other bodies than those mentioned have been picked xxp on Cobbs Island."