ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume IX, Issue 549, 22 March 1876, Page 3

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

The following are the passengers by Shaw, Saville, and Co.'s Mauleadeii, which left London for Port Chalmers on December 23 :— Cabin : David Cox, George- Moore, and Lewis Potten. Second Cabin : Bober b - Beir, 2dra Kcir, Josepti 3osda,xi, Harriot Jordan, Arthur Jordan, and John Milne. Steerage : -Abraham Pickett." K[ary Piokett, Benjamin B. Welsh, Bobt. G, liOgan, Donald M'Kay, Peter M'NeiU, A. <*. Brett, Thos. Geo. Gilbert, George Manly, Wm. Stranger, Wm. Philpot, Eowara aimmons, Alfred Collard, Alexr. Marshall, Ann Marshall, and Hugh Black.

A fine barque was recently wrecked in the Hntnber, and four lives were lost. The wreck occurred ,ou the 01' I Warp Sand, about eight inilas west of Hull. This saiidi^'very dangeroyfl-'andif once a; vessel strikes upon' <t there'- is r little chance of her coming off again* <¥he barque in ou's tiou is the Cora jSpn, a , vcsßei- of 467 tons, hailing from Skwehtvui', and command' d by Captain Henry York. Slie arrived in the' Hull Roads' from Syttelton, New Zealand, Ituteii witTi' a cargo of ! wheat, which, was to be delivered' at Uoole. At I eight o'clock in the irorninsr sh© left the Hull i Eoads for her destination, being taken, in toti; by j two tug steamers. All went well for about an hour, [ aud tlieu the barque struck the sand. The tide was \ running strong at the time, and the vessel at once : capsized. The oaptain's wife and two children were in the ship's cabin, and so. sudden was the ■ disaster that they were unable to make- their es-U-ape, and the three were drowned. ■ An apprentice. SMne4 William Ijwasn, iras also drowned,