THE WRECK OF THE BRITISH ADMIRAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1182, 25 July 1874, Page 12

THE WRECK OF THE BRITISH ADMIRAL.

From King's Island the Argus has a few more items of news on matters connected j with the wreck of the ship British Admiral. , This later intelligence lias been brought by the ketch Kangaroo, the same tiny craft in which the survivors from the ship were brought on here. The ketch brings none of the recovered cargo, but has only her own freight of wallaby and kangaroo skins, and a quantity of fish of various descriptions. The master of the ketch states that since the Pharos left, he and others had buried no fewer than 25 bodies, and from some pari ticulars he has giveu, several of the bodies ha^e been identified. One of the bodies is believed to be that of Mr Nicolson, son of the late Hon. W. Nicholson, of St. Kilda, and near it was another body, supposed to be that of Thomas Alley. Four of the bodies buried were those of females, and their names — as well as could be ascertained — were Mrs Bolger, Mary Dale, Miss Hayes, and Mary Treahy. The master of the ketch also states that he picked up a watch, and several books, letters, and photographic likenesses, belonging to a passenger named T. Jones, a native of Brenda, in Nori h Wales. The roaster of the Kangaroo was intimately acquainted with Jones in the old country. The whereabouts of the sunken ship had not as yet been ascertained, but cargo was occasipnally being washed ashore. Mr T. D. Hammond, the Customs officer in charge of the wreck, had shifted hi 3 quarters to Sandy Beach, as being a more suitable spot for noting operations. It was expected that the schooner Onward would have been despatched from Launceston to the scene of the wreck with bullocks and forage, but it seems that another vessel, the schooner Royal Charlie, has been chartered instead. The Royal Charlie left the River Don on Tuesday last for Currie Harbour, with Mr Henry (of Cummings, Henry, and Co. ) and 12 men, and with these additional hands, and also a team of bullocks which were shipped in the same vessel, it was expected that a good deal of work in the way of recovering cargo would be got through. The cutter Bertie was to leave King's Island about tho same time as the Kangaroo, but she had not been telegraphed as being at the Heads yesterday. The Kangaroo, it may be mentioned, entered the Heads on Saturday, but no intimation of her arrival there reached Melbourne. The Cygnet, which came over last week from the wreck, left the bay yesterday for King's Ia« land.

A little quick-lime mixed in water is aaict to immediately assuage the paiij caused fropj bees o* wa&2is<