ARRIVAL OF THE 'JOHI PENN.'

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 109, 16 May 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'JOHI PENN.'

LATEST SOUTHEEN TELEGRAMS

LOSS OF THE BEAUTIFUL STAR,

By the s.s. John Perm we regret to learn that the steamer Beautiful Star has been lost at "Wanganui. The vessel was proceeding down the Wanganui river with a full cargo of wool, tallow, sheep, and pigs, for Dunedin, when she struck on a snag, and sunk in ten feet of water at high tide. A considerable part of the cargo was transhipped into the John Perm on Friday morning. Captain Christian intended landing the remainder on the following day, and would without delay commence operations with a view of floating her.

WELLINGTON, May 11

The public meeting about the port of call was held last night. .Resolutions were passed affirming the desirability of a line such as Mr. Collie proposes. -An influential committee was appointed to use all their efforts to obtain the establishment of such service. Messrs. Rhodes, Fitzherbert, and Pharazjn were appointed a deputation to urge the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce to use their influence with the Victorian Government to induce it to join the New Zealand Government in eatablishing the line.

WESTPORT, May 9,

Captain Deuchrass, of the schooner Mary Ann Every, which has just arrived, reports having seen a steamer under sail apparently broken down, ten miles S.S.W. of Rocks Points, on Satuni •• > afternoon, at five o'clock steering northwar. I, believed to be the Charles, Edward.

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Captain .Deuchrass says he is certain the steamer he saw was the Charles Edward, as he was becalmed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. close

to her

She had either broken down, or was short of coal, but made no signals.

He distinctly saw Captain Holmes on the bridge.

DTJNEDIN, May 9.

A father and son named Lawson have been drowned while crossing the Upper Taieri

The Cromwell Quartz Company have crushed 250 ozs for a week's work. The Escort brought down 6700.