WRECKS WITH LOSS OF LIFE AT TIMARU.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2237, 30 June 1879, Page 2

WRECKS WITH LOSS OF LIFE AT TIMARU.

Last night intelligence from Timaru reached us to the effect that two serious shipping disasters had occxirral at that place yesterday. The news is exceedingly iueagre, and all we can say is that the brigantine Akbar is a total wreck, and that the topsail schooner Pelican is ashore. Our correspondent says briefly that the Pelican is beached, and that he thinks she will be got off all right. The Akbar, it appears, drove ashore early on Sunday morning, about or before daylight, or at anyratc at a time when there was no one to render assistance from the shore. We are led to believe by our correspondent that the master of the Akbar, together with his wife, the boatswain, the cook, and a boy belonging to the vessel, have all been drowned, and that none of the bodies had been recovered up till last night. Both the Akbar and the Pelican had hocn lying in the roadstead on Saturday. The Akbar ia an English vessel, and the Pelican is owned by Mr Henry Aitken, of Oamaru. The latter vessel has been particularly unfortunate, having been now beached three times during the past two yens, at Hokilika, Fo\bon, and now at Timarti. In all probability she will, according to our informant, bo again got off.