Shipping In telligence.
LOSS OF THE MKRIDIAN.
(From llio Sydnry Hpnild.) 'I'br jwrliPitlnin of tbc owful wreck of tbi» fine v<«tl linvf lirrn copied by 1110 M. M. Herald liom n Mniirtms pappf. Cnptnm IHrnnroßii wan well fcnotfii in Sydnry. Ho win 11 gunt'omiuily miin and a firxl-mt. mnmim. Siimn yi'/irn nco ho was in tbid port in fommnrd <il llic St. Genre*, » smnll htt ant ; and U" fcaann In- <li-rlmr K eil the Mi-rld-.nn hire, and lr.ad.-d at Mon-tnn \Uy for Loudon. Tnp American wh.ilrr Moinnciutli. Cnptiln Luiilow, arfivpr] \ n n ever.me f.om Annicrdnm Inland, with one hundred and five p.i«.fiiircr«, being the crew nrl p«Mcnstts or the Meridian, from London, binnd tnr Sydney, wmth vtispl writ wrecked on a ri-ef of rnrks oil llic; noinh-wi'st part of that island, .„» (lit- pv.ni.ig of the 21-1. August la.t, at about hvimi in lh" evening in » pile of Wind. ln« ■sTWm/liun lelt Loncicm Mir 4th of Juno ; win uesrlV k mw vt«ipl, ihirtfon y<ar» A 1 570 win regular, mid if. .Tlirritt'fd to he north nb»ui twelve Ihimmnd poiiniN, Th« car^ii i» vi.lurd about tw-niy-flve ihou»«n.l joundii not iiicludin X n considerable iimoiim ofAyi-cu- Mnnijiiiß n» paint-tigers "eorly ihc wlmli 4f wlnph has hi en ln«t. The vcs-h-I went to pifc.i v.-iy nhonly after >hn »a» on the rcefn. (apt Ilernamaii, ber commander, Tliomnf. George, the cook, iii.fl a &wim iiccnuo pnam-ngfr, imu.cd Flnu "rip nnshfd fiom ihn di-cU ; ami it »iein» nro?Hliiiti,.l H.nt, in Hie fin;lllful eitunlion of tbc v..*fiil, «« few I v(s wi-ro lum. especially *s there wore h sreat m..iv cuildtcu amotiß the jinni-tigers. Til.) nnly shore ibat preii-ntid nuel^lo ihc p»»ien. fr>r«;, aftrr llnv I'll tin wrick was an nlmir-t per» l'i.tifii<umi ro(k. 115.1111*1 wlndi the (.ea rljnlied, -I) that it'liiid 'o bi- climbed bcloie they wcra lA-f.il.-v/ M v ( rv low provision* wern i«cd, <hi etexftu pnvniiciin we;, njffercd, wbioh of .■ours. aivniuiUrt 'iomd.iy to (l,iy,imiilstu'v*tion bifjan to «t«re il.e iiifit-ifri m the fnre. Pon tunntely on ih- 2'Uli h.h'm, utK-r they hud bun *\\ dnyf oh tin inliidd tlwir vßmlv ß ml ot distresk w«8 «c. n hy Cpt. Uidlow.wh., cimt to thtir lid|> wiih 11 ) rompu uilr tha; doen Imn bon»m. Att< r v ims« Huge of three wicki, ih>« Moiirnonlli arrived in lbi» liailmiir without hnvinf? lotl aßiniilc life.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 77, 18 January 1854, Page 2
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385Shipping Intelligence. Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 77, 18 January 1854, Page 2
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