Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-12-26 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TERRIBLE STORY OF SHIPWRECK.  Particulars have reached Plymouth of the wreck of the ship Sarah, Captain Greenhaigh, while on the voyage from Manila for Vancouver. On November 22 the look out man reported Cape Beale light, which, however, was found to be a mistake, and it was then seen that the ship had lost her bearings. The Sarah continued her course until the cry of "Breakers ahead!" was raised. The captain then dropped two anchors, but they dragged, and her stern port struck on the rocky bottom. An enormous wave shortly afterwards dashed over the deck, causing the ship to heel and knocking a seaman named Kerr senseless from the davits to the deck, whence he was washed by a sea into the hold and was not seen again. The chief officer went to look after the second mate, and was horrified to find the longboat launched and the crew pulling away from the vessel. Both the chief officer and the captain entreated the men to return, Captain Greenhaigh especially begging them to save his wife and child; but they refused, and landed in safety. There were left on board altogether the captain, his wife and baby, the steward, chief officer, two able seamen, and two ordinaries. They did their best to launch the remaining boat, but unsuccessfully. Sea after sea struck the vessel broadside on, until at last Fielding and Morris, ordinary seamen, were washed overboard, the latter being drowned. A raft was made and the captain lashed his wife to It; but as soon as the captain and steward had pushed off a heavy sea turned it over, the woman, of course, being underneath. The mate, however, who remained on board, managed to pull them back again. Mrs. Greenhaigh was found to be still alive. Two days passed, and there seemed no chance of getting off, when a huge wave struck the vessel, parting the davits of the remaining boat, and thus effecting what their own united strength could not do. All scrambled into the boat and safely reached the shore, where they found Fielding safe and well, but almost starving. Help soon arrived, and the survivors were taken to Victoria, British Columbia.  A shoemaker, named Gustave Vanderavero, agcl 25, has been convicted at Namur of having murdered three brothers and a sister by posisoning them. He was sentenced to death. The crime was_discovered through an unsuccessful attempt on the part of prisoner to poison a fourth brother. The Hon. F. W. Holder, Colonial Treasurer in South Australia, announces that the estimated surplus for the year will be reduced by about £27,000, owing chiefly to the wheat crop having fallen short of the estimate. The American musical critics appear to be in danger of exhausting their vocabulary in praise of Paderewski. Here are some extracts from the latest notices of the performances of the famous pianist: His head is "delicately poised on a throat as white as a virgin's"; "his nimbus of hair is indescribably coloured"; "his complexion is the sulphur that lurks in the heart of the white rose"t and his touch is "original, languidly tired id Chopin's nocturnes, lierctly powerful in Lisztiaf rhapsodies, and velvet and golden in broad cautilena."