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Dunstan Times, Issue 586, 11 July 1873, Page 2 (Supplement)

A correspondent of an Auckland pap thus writes of the Martin's Bay aettlejmt —There are eight houses, live only 4< <>& i are occupied. There is very little J jfo an the half of what there is is swam C - Tit selection of the site is bad ; aud, mufeii is three years since the settlers laude'thfp. scarcely anything has been done amongst 6 whole lot. Only twelve acres have be cleared ; no stumps have been removed, t!i ground between being only scratched t; with a hoe or rake, and sown with wheatd potatoes. This extensive area, I was tulc, was next year to be increased by four acres There are no fences. Three persons ha« made gardens, and an area of half an acs will comprise the whole. The settlenieit possesses, in live stock, about two dozen fowls and three pigs. The latter have been placed on an island up the lake to breed, so this | their owners might be saved the trouble i looking after them. The produce of the cultivated plots is scarcely enough to last tie settlers until next season. There is no bread, and the people live on a stew made of pigeon aud vegetables. The people occupy all their time in abusing the Provincial UovermiieJt There is no whisky, or the state of thirtf would be horrible. Can the periodical starves which the dwellers are subjected to be wondered at ? A remarkable story of the foundering i'f » ship and the death <>f her captain, has ken communicated to us by Messrs Bury, Leech, and Co., the agents of the barque Lindsay which lias arrived at Melbourne from Christiana, Norway. It is contained in the following statement by the master of the barque, Captain A. if. Hull : -"On the 3rd February, 1873, in. lat. 48' 45' north, long. 7° 53' west,tl fell in with the Satellite, of Liverpool, bound from Cardiff to Bio do Janeiro with a eargn ot coals. Found the vessel in a sinking state, and sent a boat with four men and the mate to l- r - The mate found the captain of the Satellite. 1 ' 1 his cabin, and he refused to leave the ship. W° mate stayed on board some time, endeavor:"-' <" persn.i'.e the captain to leave her, but **■ unable to do so. The cook, who was the o n 'y other person on board, left tiie sinking ship aid came on board of our vessel. We stayed with the Satellite until she sank, at about half-past one o'clock p.m., and also waited about for some time afterwards, in the hope of picking up the captain. We, however, saw nothingof « im » and then proceeded on our voyage. T' ie cO , said that the crew had left the Satellite on the night before (2nd February) in a boat, at about ten to eleven o'clock. I saw nothing of them. On the 15th February, 1873, fell in with the Bovina of Aberdeen, bound from Liverpool to New Orleans, and we placed the cook oil boanl of that vessel, at his request. A, M. Bun, master of Lindsay,"— Argw,