SHIPPING DISASTER.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1693, 7 January 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING DISASTER.

TfielateWMelbourne'ilrfiiiM" to hand, tae 30th, says **• T -J •«> .ty.i o'J" j A rumor was current in shipping and commercialcircles yesterday, to tho. effect that 1 the large iron clipper ship Theophane, which leili . this port , for'Madras with . horses 1 ' on n Wednesday 'night,* 'and, which 1 .cleared Port ""Milip He'adsipn tne ; following morning, had JJ/ ;bfeen dvertakiin by terribie disaster, and that •''fill onboard, with theexceptioiof three of. the • crew, : had perished. ' The T report lo^t nothing by .circulation, ' and the source^ from - -whence the supposed information was derivdd ; xi wbre noi onlyvaried, but occfesibn^ally'p'uizling. Now it was a schooner from King's Island which had brought the news, but no such f^vcssel' had 'Arrived here|- 'then :< if was ia t .schooner i from iLaunceston, which had seen ' .the s^ip..*; turn turtle,", and. had sent the •' n'e%!i oa shore at Que'enacliff -again ib was ,'! said that a letter Kad been > received from „Qaeenßch'ff Vjerifyiqg this, report, and also adding that the three survivors from the ship ■ had •■landed son 1 a raft; ; but ibt- one of the . many statements was substantiated on inquiry, r j>On; hearing [the reporo theCommis. Bionpr of Customs caused inquiry to be made a't«QUc;6nßcliff, and at Capes Schanck and Otwayj-'drid other- "points along the coast, wbetheft.anybhing had been s'en or heard of a nature to warrant the spread of such intel.,.Jigencei)butjnothin^ bearing ; on the : alleged jj^atastrpphe.jhaSi^conae mnder^the, notice of nr. '!»;:?? •ia. t cftarge. I:) ;IEhei jagents/ 6f j^he sbip, Messrs' Geo. Martin ondCoijlrad no information on the matter 'up to the close of I /business! rhou'rsy and it'is 'tb.be presumed ii Ithftt It&tf.repdirfcuhaa ! briginated' with Bbme very Btupid individnal, who had no cooe'ep- - tion of the mischief which might be caused . Jby his thoughtlessness. Captain Follett, 1 of the Theophane, has left his wife with'-her B!iWlatiyeßi'heifß, in conffequeiice i of i delicate Ylibe^*h*f.aft<i.iJb;inayireadily.be>im(igined'whati -aithe effect of the, rumors spread yesterday ijnWOHid:; JJaVjeuupoQ.ib'er. . J£ .the .hfioiued with^jHialiciona intent^ th^n aheavy punishment should await the- wrongdoer. ;