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THE STRATHGRYFE ASHORE

MELBOURNE, April 10. A four-masted barque is reported ashore at Fish Creek. The stranded ship is the Strathgryfe. bound from Capetown to Sydney. The crew are safe. The captain states that the vessel is safe, lying on a sandy bottom, iind making little water. He think" s she will come off when the ballast is discharged.

Tin 1 StratlijjiyfV appear- to be an unlucky <-lnp. It will be remembered that on Sun day, M.uvh 23, last year, sd.e put into Port Clialincin. portion of her cargo of wool haMiig taken fire while on the voyage from Sydney to London. Most of her cargo was discharged, and after tho fchip had received attention she resumed her voyage. The Strathgryfc is a four-masted steel fchip, of 2270 tonb register, owned by the Greenotk Shipping Company. She was built in 1890 by Russell, of Greenock When she put into Port Chalmers she wat- commanded by Captain D. M 'Ritchie.

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One of the departure- to b^ <-ug^i-tcd at I the annual meeting of the Wellington Cham j ber of Commerce next week is the vetting up i of a sectional committee of the ih.unbei to deal with matter- connected with the dairj trade. I It i, not always the case that I.ngn-h peer members of Parliament make thenname in the House ot Common= Lord | 'William Poulet, once chairman of committee of the House of Commons, vva- a great dunce, and could scarcely read. Having to read a bill for naturalising Jemima, Duchrss of Kent, he called her Jeremiah, Duchc=s of Kent. This v.as an ancestor of th-> organ- i fnndiaa B*ti 1

The Havana Po-t announce 5 , on the aiithuntv of ouo of the contrai tor-, that the woik of lai-ing the vvrrck of the United State- war-hip Maine will begin in a \eiy '■hort time. The Bishop of Iwndoii =peaking al a meeting in London ireently, drew attention to the fact that 1500 of the ckrgv of the Chinch of England leceivo lei than £67 .1 year from their " livings,' and that in nearly 5000 cfi=e=; the income va- under £155 a year. He contrasted tlie-^e stipend, with the incom"- lcccived by minister" of the Free Churches and declared that he "was ashamed of the chuich to which he | belonged, that these things were posjobhi,"

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Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 15

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THE STRATHGRYFE ASHORE Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 15

THE STRATHGRYFE ASHORE Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 15