THE CLEMATIS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5287, 22 September 1876, Page 2

THE CLEMATIS.

The jmhcnUis of the recent history of tbis vessel m iy u- interesting :~Tht hrst to unilei take the nuil of lighting the ketch wasCaptiui H.ill, ot rhc ship City of Dublin, and the vessel was tow. .1 in alongside his »hip. After nuking fom ait'iiipN, however, and carrying .iw.iy hn geai, C'ii«r,ini I fn.ll gave it up, and teudcis woo niTitfl bv tin- Insurance Company for the completion of (lie woik, that of Captain Kich.ud Woo 1 hein- iccopto.l. The Clematis w.is taken close to the (i\ idstono Tier, and the bi lg Dei went btotiglit <nvi <ind moored closo by, and fiom liei the woik w,is cm led on. Four chains woio passed loiiml the wieck, twoof which led to the brig, nnd t)jr> otlier two to the piles of the whutf. The hist tual wis made on .Saturday, but owing to the ti If lnMua; very slack and the heavy westeiiy wiud blowing, one of the cliaiiih cained tv/.iv tinough the vewel surging. On Monday 1 nt, the whole of the gear was over hauled and w iovi-, the falls being led fiom the brig back on to the wharf and attached to poweiful winches. About half- tide that morn ing, at 7 o'clock, work wai again renewed, uml at about lmlf i>.i^t 9 the Clematis was righted, all himU turning to to pump her out I!y 2 o'clock sin- v. is diy. During the morning a large number of people hud asseaibled along the whaif, ni'l whnn the vessel turned ovei mani festeil' tlifii :ijtpl.iuie most heartily. The appeal anco of the ClemiitiK was very forlorn with tilt mizeu matt broken off »boat 4ft. above the

tleck, mainmist gowe entn el> hom the stopping, and bowspnt cuued away close to the cap. The bulwatks and ct.uinclKons on the staiboaul side fiom muUhips foiwud weie also canied iwiy _ Evoiy paitielo of urging, .1c, was entiiely gone, and the ch mi plates nil inoie 01 loss Inokun off Hie wheel and svmounduiu; poitions of the .essel weie mining, • and amongst the debris weie found two thwaits belonging to the boat. Sonic of tlie hatches were gone, the others being stove 111 The \Mtich, iX.e , of the centio-boaid was «ilso goiie V w.itiM cask, harness cask, ouo anohoi, and some pi. inks, th it weie p itt of the vessel's deck loul, woie all that lemained on deck Down bilow it was found tint a'l the beitlis m the cabin had been caniod away, ind ill th.it was found in the w ly of puional piopeity wis a bilvei watch with gold ch nn at t ic'ied, winch wis hanging on i hook undei a shelf, a pai dlel iuIpi, buriMe of kimes nid toiks, a hilf ctonn i ml floiin, .mil a p m ot binooulu i;lis<ies Undoineith the flooi of the cabin, in the hzuette, wis found the body of v in in, lying fice downwaid-., and with only i pan of oiNlcm tiouseis- on The bod> wis tiken chaigo of by tlie police, and conveyed in a shell to the "Moui.e The beiths in the foicctiitlo weie all nitaut, and some of these and a leather poitniantcui weio found down theie, but no tiaoe wlutcvei of any inoie bodies. The cause of the accident will, m all human piob.ibility, Jicvei be ascei tamed. Opnuona vaiy on the subject ; some think th.it she must have been stmck by a laige vo-^el and capsized, but it seems most piobible tint the vessel was caught in the seveie weithei at the beginning of August, when, it will be lemeni beied, tlnjie weie some teinfic southeily g.iles, and capsized in one of the squills It w.ib ov pocttd Mi it moie boiliea would Invo betn found m the nii'ck. as in all ptobabihty theie would hive ivH-n li ul the accident not taken pUce, as we suppose, duiing the diy. Had it occuired during the night, it is almost ceitain tint thoie would have been moro lamentable evidence to stiengthen that opinion. Tlie situ ition of the diowncid man must have been, fenful m the extreme, and he must have made a desperate sfciug^le for dear life befoie the air wheip lie was became exhausted. Aliik-* fo\>ul in tho ceiling, neai the keelson, a,bo\e where the body was found, show tint he U'omnted to cut tlnough the pianks and aoesno 1 [mm lm living tomb An inquest w\b hold o. iiody yestonlay, as will bo seen in inothu \> u t of oui issue. The vessel la now in the hands of the undci ivritets, and mil, no doubt, be otieied for sile at once as the hull has not sust lined any d image wh itevei, as La as cin be seen externally. A fuithei examm ition will be nude as soon as the cargo is out, the disclnii<e of whiuh commenced yesterday. — LuttrHou Tuna, Septembei 14,