THE CITY OF DUNEDIN, STEAMER.

Evening Post, Issue 99, 3 June 1865, Page 2

THE CITY OF DUNEDIN, STEAMER.

Yesterday's Nelson Colonist contains no other news of the City of DuneiHn but that received from the Wellinuton pipers. The Suiiofly was dispatched 10-dny by ! Government to make further search for the the missing vessel. The arrival of the newa nt Canterbury oC this vessel's loss ennstd considerable ixeito nvnt. A vague hope is enfc rtuined there that, diiven before the gale, she lmy have run out ot the straits far to the westward, the portions of wreck found having been swi-pt of? the deck. The fullowing nre the names of the passengers, who went by her from Lyt- | telton : — For Hokitika : Mr. Bisl-np and Mr. Johnson. For Nelson : Mr. M'L-iren. Steerage passengers — Mrs. Briggs, D. Moukay, H. Dawson, J, Bartel 1 , Mr, and Mrs, Moody, Mrs. M'Laren, J. M'Lean, J. Rowe, and RCrawford. We regret to state that Mr. John Bcswick and Captain Levy were passengers by the City of-Dnnedin from Lyttelton ; Mr. Valence Bishop, sail of Mr. C. W. Bishop, was also a passengtr, and must have shared the fate of that vessel whutever it nny be. There were 15 steerage passengers from Dunedin. From information received from the Wni- i rnrapa, it appears that quantities of wreck, and portions of cabin fittings are being daily washed on shore in Pal User Bay. A gentleman writing from a station in that district, under date the 27th May, says : — ?• We have had some excitement about a wreck that has evidently taken place somewhere. Yesterday the Ma ris came and told me, that thpy had picked up porti ns of wreck, cabin fittings, &c, all along the beach. I at once rode iound the beach to Cape Palliser, and found fragments all the way, right up to the extreme point. I saw lots of small pieces of plank, all, I s-hould say belonging to deck fittings— a bucket, a life-buoy, and an oar, on none of which were any marks. The only thing with any letters on it, was an empty case, which had I think contained npp'es, as there wrs a little straw in it, and beside it I picked up a fresh apple. The case wus marked * s.s. Rungatira stori%' and also on the paint the figure* A 2-780, the latter I take to be the original mark of the exse, since which it has contained stores. The natives found portions of ihe wreck ou Tuesday, the 23rd May." Mr. Cameron's shepherd arrived in town on Wednesday last from Pahau, with a number of sheep. He states (hat from Wanga Moano, (Mr. Russell's stationj to the Muka Muka Rocks, the beach was strewed with the debris of a wreck. Amongst the relics found were part of a ship's wheel, boats' oars, a full tin of kerosene oil, sperm candles, a carpenter's tool cheat, the framework of a ctbin window i and a hatch about eight feet in length, on which the name of " Limih" was cut with a knife. The Maoris were most active in collecting everything that came on shore.