New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-10
GENEP : - FOREIGN NEWS.
PERILS OF THE SEA.

RCM0RS REGARDING THE SAFETY OF THE ARIZONA
THE BRITANNIC SAFELY DEACHED.
LONDON July 9.-The correspondent of The Ship
ping GGsette. at Schulz, County Cork, southwest
coast of Ireland reports under date of the 9TH inst
as follows:
to-day package OF letters forty in number bound by
Il is snpos"d a the man ny rrk ,a nU @ tn nos M M
Closed IN a chest or case as the bundle quite dry.
The finder states that be swan for thcn. The first
IL signed by Captain Murray of the steamship Arizona
grams Waits are COMING asborc me an" The 'eysI
schulz ooasteard have been requested to report what
Lloyds believe that the report contained in the
dispatch to The Shipping Gazette from Schulz relative
10 letters having been picked up supposed to belong
to the steamer Arizona. etc. to be hoax.
The dispatch created much excitement among the
friends of the passengers, both in this city and at
other places. Several kilograms were received at
Williams q Guon's Office making inquiry for the
latest particulars. Te each it was replied that the
cable dispatch was purely malicious" and that no
doubts need be entertained of the vessels safetv
The following communication was sent to the Office
of the Associated Press The company looks upon the
report as purely malicious There is ground what
ever forsuch report and shall be pleased have
you allay the anxiety of friends of the
D. W. Slmonton, manager of the Associated Press,
replied that he doubted the truth of the report but
as the information had been cabled lie felt obliged
10 give III the customary publicity. Passenger
Agent Gibson said il was very strange that. with
the extensive means of communication along the
coast OF Ireland, and the nearness of the Valencia
Bay Telegraph station the company had not re-
cclved information from the Williams & Onion
office, in London before the dispatch reached this
CITY especially the letters wcro found two days
The Arizona left Queenstown at a. ,n July q
passing cape Clear the same day, where Castle
Schulz mentioned in dispatch is sippOacd TO be
where the letters arc reported to have been found
As some o the letters were said to lee from Captan
Murray, commander of the vessel, 10 HIS wife il was
considered rcmark kable that the captain could have
tonnd time TO write and throw the letters overheard
II The vessel was III danger of being lost. ii such
letters were found "a reported il is thought they
may nave been III "A package inruscd 10 the pilot
10 take ashore, and he having lost them ovcrboard
failed to report It, The Arizona IL due here t..
morrow morning.
Postmaster Pearson, speaking OF the rcuortcd
accident to the steamship Arizoua. said yesterday
that the iHtt that some papcrs had been picked up
ON The IRISH coast did not alarm him. " The boats
OF the Williams 4 Guion line said Mr. pearsnn
her last TRIP brought only sixteen letters. do not
tlilnk that the facts reported are auY indication
OF disaster. Il is possible that the matter found
may he some Old stun which was thrown overheard
through the headlights of the vessel II The matter
hau Dctn submitted to the British postal authorities
We might know something about il. The Arizona
j. cue mere tomorrow and she viii bring cons icc
letters only"
THE BRTTANNIC SAFELY BEACrrD.
LONDON, July 9.-'rhe White star steamship Brit
annie, which ioatcd yesterday of Kimorc.
while towing out sprang fresh leak in her engine
room which filled with water in an hour She was
towcd into the South Bay Of Wcx ford and hrachrd
III five fathoms, in a sheltered position and on a
smooth, sandy bottom.