VIOLENT STORMS IN THE SOUTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9497, 28 April 1894, Page 5

VIOLENT STORMS IN THE SOUTH.

THREE CUTTERS WRECKED. TWO MEN DROWNED. BRIGANTINE'S SAILS BLOWN AWAY. iBT TELEGRAPH. association.) InVkkcaruill, Friday. Word has just been received at the Bluff of the wreck of tho oyster cutters Alarm, Anna, and Deveron, during a storm on Tuesday morning, in Caroline Bay, Ruapuke Island. The Alarm broke from her anchor at three a.m., and was smashed to pieces on the rocks, but her crew managed to scramble ashore. The Anna went adrift at eleven o'clock, and collided with the Deveron. Her master (M. Doyle) jumped overboard, but the other two of the crew stuck to the Anna, which went to pieces on the rocks, and the men were drowned almost immediately. They were Only known as George and Tom, but one had been a fireman on the To Koa, and the other a butcher on the Hawko's Bay, both of which recently culled at the Bluff. Those on board the Deveron managed to beach her in a safe spot. There was no insurance on the cutters. Port Chalmers, Friday. The brigantine Sarah and Mary, with a cargo of wheat) from Lyttolton for the Bluff, has put in here with the loss of the whole of her sails*, which were blown to ribbons. On the 23id instant, about 25 miles east of the Bluff, she encountered a hurricane from the westward, which held until the 241h, her lee rail for hours being under water. On the night of the 24th Captain Smith was compelled to run before the gale to clear the eentro of the cyclone, until midnight, when the vessel was again headed towards the land. She anchored under Moeraki Peninsula until the morning of the 26th, got under weigh with a northerly breeze, and ran inside the Taiaroa Heads to procure fresh canvas.