TARANAKI IRON SAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1273, 22 April 1876, Page 4

TARANAKI IRON SAND.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir — The following, re Taranaki iron sand, supports Dr Percy's opinion, as related by Sir J. Vogel. Mr Carl Steinhoff, of this city, told me casually, only about a month ago, that while on a tout- in Europe he was reliably informed that Mr Krupp, of Essen — the great steel manufacturer — was of opinion that it would never pay to manufacture the sand into iron.— Yours, &c,

CrUSTAV HIRSCH,

In connection with tho wreck of the Strathmore, a graphic account of which by one of the passengers will be found in another column, i f , may be cf interest to htute that nearly twenty years ago a vessel cf the same name left London for Port Chalmers, and like the ill-fated vessel she wa3 on her maiden trip from Dundee docks. Some time in the month of July. 1856, just nineteen years before the recent disaster at the Crozets, the passengers on board the old Strathmore, when she was off the South American coast, were alarmed one morning at grey dawn by the cry which went through the vessel of " Land ahead !" The ship was at once put about, but her head could not be turned seaward before she \ras close in-shore. An hour more of darkness wonld in all pro» bability have resulted in shipwreck. The Strathmore had also a narrow escape from running on the Snares when she was approaching the New Zealand coast. Amongst her passengers, who have commented upon the coiccidence, we have had mentioned to us the names of Sir J. L. O. Richardson, Dr Hulme, Mr John Hislop, Mr W. T). Murison, Mr Howorth, Mr A. Livingston, Mr Colin Allan, and Mr W. B. Ogiivie.