SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 825, 3 July 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

WRECKS AT TIMARTJ. Timard This day. The brigantine Akabar, which went ashore at Timaru on Monday morning, is breaking up. Captain Watt, the master, ■was carried overboard, and never seen again. His wife, the boatswain, the cook, and a boy were also drowned. The owner and theTemainder of the crew were saved. No blue-lights were burned or signals given, so that no one knew that the vessel was drifting to destruction. The Pelican, topsail schooner, next went ashore. The barquentine George Noble also came into collision with the Pelican, carrying away the latter's bowsprit. The cargo of wheat afterwards shifting |captain Munro beached her. The crew landed without an accident by means of a line thrown by the local Rocket Brigade. The cargo and vessel are slightly damaged, but if fine weather sets m she will be saved. The Pelican is owned by Mr. W. Aitken, of Dunedin. The brigantine Seabird had a narrow escape. In the morning she was close on the rocks, near the Waimariri lagoon. The Rocket Brigade was waiting for hours, expecting her destruction, but at two o'clock p.m. the captain spread all canvas to a light breeze, and the vessel rode splendidly through the roadstead. The seamanship displayed was greatly admired. The barquentines George Noble and Annie Bold also got Bafely away. The brigantines Oceola and James A. Stewart were nearly on the Ninety-mile Beach, but succeeded m clearing their unsafe positions. Yesterday morning the harbor master received a telegram to the effect that a vessel was m danger near the mouth of the Temuka river. He at once signalled to the steamer Beautiful Star to that effect, and then started with a party of the Rocket Brigade. The brigade had to travel a distance of eleven miles, partly by road and partly by lagoon. As they neared the Tessel she was found to be the brigantine James A. Stewart, which left Lyttelton for Timarn on Wedenesday last. She was within 200 yards of the shore, but was being kedged. out. The Beautiful Star shortly after arrived, and towed the vessel on to Timaru, where she now lies m safety. The brigade deserve the warmest praise for their gallant untiring exertions during the last week, they having been on duty almost incessautly. A man named Clifford, who arrived from Sydney a few days ago, was engaged m diving at the wreck of the Belle m Lyttelton harbor on Monday. He made three descents all right, but the fourth time be went down he remained so long that those above became alarmed and hauled him up, when he was found to be quite dead. He was quite inexperienced at the work.