Steamer VICTORY

We regret to learn that the Inter-Colonial Royal Mail Company's fine s.s. "Victory", met with an accident on Wednesday
night. She left Otago about an hour before dark with a strong gale blowing from the N.E., and ran ashore soon after 
6 o'clock in Wickliffe Bay, this side of Cape Saunders. Fortunately she went ashore on a sandy beach; had she struck 
upon the rocks a mile higher up in the Bay, in all probability the lives of all on board would have been sacrificed. 
As it is, the passengers and mails were safely landed, but we understand the vessel is so high upon the Beach, there 
being only 4 feet water at low tide, and so embedded in the sand, that there is no prospect of her being rescued from 
her present unfortunate position. Capt. Bowden, of the "Prince Alfred", and Mr. Young, Agent for the Company, proceeded
to the wreck on Thursday, and we learp that the mails were safely conveyed overland to Portobello and thence put on 
board the "Prince Alfred", to leave Otago for the Northern Ports and Sydney yesterday evening.

Transcribed from the Otago Witness, of 6 July 1861, Page 4