A FIFTY YEAR OLD DISASTER.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 7

A FIFTY YEAR OLD DISASTER.

If is half a century since tho.m.aftt, deplorable wreck recorded in the j annals of New Zealand, shipping—-the, Orpheus tragedv■—occurred. It w.\> s oti i February 7, 1803, the Orpheus ' reached : the Mnmikaii \bur .from .Sydney..- Tlic,: •vessel took the: - -wrong channel;, and with too terrific • s-su ■ruuti'mg of the time tlte,ship ■rapidly..' broke up. Tha' small coasting .steamer."Wonga Wonga (Cuptain Renncr) was just leaving Oiiehunga, and recognised the gravity of the position, rendered all the help in her power. Taking two of the »\\ir,ship's boats, which had landed at t; ]ic pilot station, in tow, and with the pilot on board, she steamed as near as cafety would permit, and sac'- rod a gnnd number of lives, bub IS7 out of thetotal on board of 25-i wero drowned, infjluding Commodore Bamett. It is said that a deserter, who was a prisoner on board, told those- around him that a fatal mistake was being made in' the navigation of the ship, but tho warning was unheeded.

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