The story told by the survivors resembles, except the terrible struggle with the elements, that other frightful maritime episode, the loss of the London. On the morning of the 10th of January, a telegram announced the arrival at Bluff of the whaling ship Amherst, Captain Gilroy, having on board ten persons (one of them a woman), the sole survivors of the crew and passengers of the ship General Grants which sailed from Melbourne for London in May 1866, with a valuable cargo of wool, skins, and gold. Once more we have received information of a disastrous shipwreck, attended by loss of life, in the Auckland Islands. The details of cargo and passengers are extracted from the Melbourne papers: The following narrative of the loss of the General Grant has appeared in the New Zealand journals.
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