ANOTHER PASSENGER'S STATE. MENT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12122, 10 August 1895, Page 2

ANOTHER PASSENGER'S STATE. MENT.

Dr Copjrinn states that when the work wa» transferred to the ttarbonrd cutter, he went fo'ward and gat into ia willi come others. Bc ceral nttoinpts ware made togot-tbh outter hto the wafor, but the pitilosß 'seas breaking ovof ' tha vasaol hampered (he work terribly. Ultimately a great wave broke on board and smashed tho cutter to pieces. Those who were in it wore thrown into the wifcer, eic ifing my. sslf. 1 managed to cling ta a span of tha davit, and bung there in a dcepente condi twt) for somo timo. I judged tb,e time to be hours, but it could only have bson a vory . few minute?. Breakers were rolling over the reef with a tomblo roar, and seas seething a chasm banaath ma. How [ olung to tho span I (jo not know, but at last I heard a boat splash in the water and beard a hail . beneath me. Then I let go my hold, and dropped into the water, and with good fortune sank right in front of the lifeboat, A moment later the Outtertun diaapptared entirely. We mado earoful search of tho tho wreck before wo left, and stood by until daylight, Fraser was an engineer proofing to Port Darwin. Lorings was an English tourist. Captain Shannon was a rmrried man with two childron. Tho o&hers were married men fli'.h the fiception of Adami, who was to bare boon married in six months. The- engineers woro single 1 A lo al shiomistor sirs he U astounded to hear that tho vessel was so close io, ned could not understand what would cauee the vctßel to bo so close to tho shore. Tho Seal Rocks are so much further eastward of Port I'tephoas that thero could not ba any misbake as to the lights. Captain Crai/, an old offioar in tho Ohina trado, t'links rh-j oourso must havo been altered *too toon. Had tho stoamer gone en for anothor quarter of an hour sho would have olourod' deal Rock. The vossol was a staunch ship, Bbo' had not got a double boltom with modern water ballast tanks, but had a water billast tank, though njt of the latest pattern, b/it thia would probably cause her to sink more rapidly thsn otherwise. LpiJEpiN, August p. Theie were no Now' Zealand passengers On the Caterthun, whiofy was tho flrat of the Company's liners for 85ine tjine that had no returning Chinamen. WfILLING^OS, Au^Ußt 1 Tho mall of August 1 for Hour Kong, ani the Bluff mails of July 20 and 20 for tho same place, wero on board the Catei' thun.