EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. News per Press Association reached town yesterday that the barque Clyde, 552 tons register, had [gone ashore at Duvanchelles Bay, near Akaroa Heads, The following par ticulars have since reached us : Chki.stchuucii, November 0. From accounts to hand, it would seem that the Clyde went ashore about 4.30 a.m. On receipt of the news of the wreck, Kinsey Ward and Co, agents, telegraplud orders to Akaroa for the steamer Akaroi to proceed to Horseshoe Bay, and that everything should be done for the comfort and survivors. At 4 p.m. the steamer returned with the sad news that the barque had broken up, and nothing but wreckage could be seen around the spot where she struck. It thus appears that the captain, his family, and all on board except the lad Gibsou—eighteen lives in all—have perished. One body was recovered, that of a boy about 14, also an apprentice of the ship. It was arranged that tbc B.S. Hawea should call at Akaroa Heads at C p.m. on her way south from Lyttel ton, iu order to ace if the ill-fated barque could be got off, but need for t) is no longer remains. The surveyor of the Underwriters* Association left in the Hawea for the scene of the wreck. Tha lad Gibson is det lined at Akaroa for tho inquest ou the body' picked up. He is aLo rather ex hausted, and requires re*t. Kinsey, Ward, and Co, are advised it is doubtful if anything will be saved from the wreck, aa the ship *ia in pieces. Gibson has telegraphed to the agents, asking them to send a message to bis mother at Newcastle that he is safe, and they have cabled to her through the owner (J, Ellis, of Newcastle).
