Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thursday 24 December 1891, page 4


THE MELANESIAN MISSION SCHOONER SOUTHERN CROSS.

Respecting the now Melanesian Mission auxiliary screw

schooner Southern Cross, recently built in England, and her subsequent misfortune in the English Channel, Captain William Ashbv, whose name is intimately associated with tho home-New Zealand trade writes -" I had the pleasure last month of mentioning that we were despatching the new mission yacht Southern Cross for Auckland. She left Gravesend on the 6th, and shortly after leaving encountered very heavy gales of wind from the south-west, with torrents of rain, for several days, and when off Portland encountered tim full force of a gale from the south-west which disabled several vessels, theo Southern Cross being one of them. She put into Cowes, and is now (5th November) at Messrs Day,

Hummers, and Co's yard at Southampton for repairs and aIterations. All being well, she ought to leave that port for Auckland about the 10th November No lives were lost, nor was any person injured, and if the ship had not been well handled by Captain Bongard, in my opinion you would

never have been able to see her in the colonies. "