The Clyde Disuster.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 128, 10 November 1884, Page 2

The Clyde Disuster.

(UNITED PRE?B ASSOOIATI6&) , ' „ '■ , CfIEISTCH Ü BQff,' Jfjiv. 7. The scene .jof the GJ^jdje. was a long low reef knoyrp a$ jghuffie Nose, ruontDg jO<rt, d j^H£ rji gb6 east head of ; fior§eßho9; jßay, aiul seven miles from Akaroa, Havbo^j .The boy whose body has ,been Recovered was named Herbert Bpble." jfiap, was hu first voyage to see whether he .would ok would nou"li|ce.'.ibQ.''i)e"'a.'fitulor. Careful, search . wat» made for phristophersou and the boatflwain, 'whom Gibson hoped saved themselves, bat without success;, «o that'theie can be* uio hope of tfeeir safety^* This 'calamity shows the 'necessity |br vessels trying to clear Banka Fewnsula frdifl* the south to. keep well o^sliore. The only lifeboat at Akaroa now is a miserable old l)oat, which leaked sa much yesterday when takeU out that those meu who volunteered to man heifwereup to their knees iv water* She tow. dso badly that, her stem got a severe wrench. Gibson says ha wa« very kindly tieafced at Macphail'a,, the house he walked to after jeaching shore. A report from -the policestates that no bodies jhave been l-e---covlred.'' The collector . of custom* has made temporary armngement* for the care ot [ Gibson. . ' ! „,. The Clyde was a strongly bu^t an<] well appointed vessel, having origin^ ally cost £13,000. The |ydne^ office of the' New Zealand Insurance Company hold a lisk of iIOOJO 'on the hull, and the .South and Union unices also have .£5(50 and .re»peo'ti.vely on hull. The remainder of the in.^rances cln the hull m all probabitity ai-e with some of the Sydney pffices,. The ia valued at £6000, and W insured m the 'National Insumnce office for J84600. Moat r of this amount, however, is re-iiisured m th!e , jßie^ Zealaud,, Soiuh, IBiitish, anil twtoi-ian Insurance Offices. Tfiere is:, a deep and wide-spread feeling, of regret for the untimely fate of Gaptiain Culmer -W d ;\fo. % mil y« ,Wh^le he was m Dnnedin he made many fwfends, and .all'thase. whose bu«iness brought them into coutuct wi^h him speak highly of his good nature-^d genial dwposi^ioni Jjb was expected that on leaving Lytteltpn -the Qlyde would have Bailed to Newcastle m. ballast.