ARRIVAL OF THE 'GO-AHEAD.'

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 597, 8 December 1871, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'GO-AHEAD.'

later telegrams.

By the arrival of the s.s. Go-Ahead, we have received later Wanganui and Taranaki papers, and by the Flirt, Lvttelton papers to the 28th ulLiiuo.

BLUFF.

November 27. —Hugh Blacklor-k, shepherd, has been missing since Saturday night. He is supposed to have committed suicide in the harbour.—The Dunediri Rowing Club are building a boat, forty feet long, for the Christchurch regatta. —At a meeting of the Dock Trust, the contractors refused to accept the uoard's offer, but suggested arbitration. The Hoard dec-li led, resolving to go to law.—Six men arrived at Queenstown from Martin's Bay, after great privations. They reported the population there to be twenty souls. No vessels had called for three and'a-half months. There were only 300 lbs. of flour in the place, : and the people must starve unless immediately relieved. The climate is splendid, and healthy ; the mining prospects good. — A Chinaman has been* shot by Europeans at Nase!>y, but there are no particulars.—The Carrick Kanges reefs are attracting attention. Several new ones have been discovered, and large trial crushings i give from one to two ounces to the tOn. '-■