On Saturday Oct. 12, a barque was S signalled from the North. As she was ** grate sixteen miles away she could not be mdc oat. At 6 p.m. the tag Lyttelion took the barque Acacia in tow for sea and Iteo proceeded on to the stranger, which moved to be the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's erstwhile ship and now barqae OtaßO, commanded by Captain Norman, who arrived at Lyttelton last from London on July 23rd, 18S8, with a general cargo for this port. She loaded for London and got away on August 9th of that year. From London in January of this year, she went to Port Chalmers, where she arrived with a general cargo in April of this year. She then went to Sydney with produce, aniv ing there in June last, and there she was chartered by Messrs Dalgety and Co. to load for London, which was completed on {he 10th of August last, the vessel sailing for Borne on the 13th of that month. It Jβ of that passage we now have to deal, and it will be one that will be remembered Cor life by the crew. A writer of fiction coald hardly have imagined such a scries af disastrous oat , fearful weather as the good men on board the Otago experienced. The details will be given later on; here iijmay be mentioned that the vessel was all but lost, that one seaman (Johansen) was washed overboard, and that the car penter sustained injuries from which he died. The chief officer, Mr White, told oar reporter yesterday morning when the latter Doarded the vessel, that he never expected to see dry land again. *' Fancy," he said, ♦'having the starboard side down in the water, with the sea rushing in and oat of the cabin, and being higher in the saloon than the saloon table. When the steward took the carpenter, who was injured, away from the wreck of the captain's room he Was up to kis neck in wacer, and it was with great difficulty we found a place to put the poor fellow. He did not live long after his accident." Mr White said that trhen the first tremendous sea came fcboa.d he war standing on the weather tide of the poop, and he coald see WChing, except something white which Ms grinding along the dack, and heard timbers crushing. 