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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12122, 9 August 1895, Page 2

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EIGHTY-ONE PER-ONS DROWNED, Sydn.t, August 8. Intense excitement was caused in the city by tho loss of tbe Cath.rthun, accentuated by Iha uncertainty as to the fate of tbe missing peonle. The weather for the past day or so his boen boistorou', and an angry sea was iunuinp when the steamer left Sydney yesterday, Th) survivors wero very much exhausted when they reachad the land. The vessel must bave been somewhat to the south of tbe lighthouse, as the keeper did not see her. A tug just returned reports high sets and no sign of the vtssel or boats. She bad eighly-ono on board, all told, The a.counts are conflicting as to the number saved.and it is variously stated aa 22 and 25, but the latter is certainly the limit. Several cors'al steamers passed the Seal Rocks during tin (a.y, and the.r arrival was anxiously awaited here ton'ght in almo.t forlorn hope that they miyjiuve picked up a boat. The passengers saved are Dr Cop9man, of Lmdon, Captain Fawfce?, pilot, and Mr Crane, of the Official Eastern Extension Company. The spot where the survivors landed 13 20 miles f.oin the Seal Rocks. Amongst the mis3ingare Mrs Mathias, wife of a captain of a Btesmer tradingin Chinese waters, who was formerly connected with Money and Wigram's Australian steamships j Dr Anderson, the ship's surgeon ; and a your g Victorian doctor named Smith, wbo joined the ship at the last moment. Tho hull was insured in a London effice. and the general cargo was insured for between twenty and thirty thousand pounds. . •Those chiefly interested are Derwent, Tamar, Canton, and other China traders There was £10,800 insp cie onboard.