Schooner SOUTHERN CROSS

LOSS OF THE SCHOONER SOUTHERN CROSS

We regret having to record the loss of the Melanesian Mission Schooner — the Southern Cross, on the 19th June, at 
Ngunguru, where she got on shore. The crew and the passengers, one of whom was the Rev. B. Y. Ashwell, of Taupiri,
got into the rigging, where they remained for seven hours. At the expiration of that time, the tide had so far left them 
that they were enabled to get ashore, where they were most hospitably received by Captain Stewart. We are told that
some hopes are entertained of getting the vessel off again. 

Transcribed from the Daily Southern Cross, of 28 June 1860, Page 1