RUMOURED SAFETY OF THE CITY ON DUNEDIN.

Evening Post, Issue 107, 13 June 1865, Page 2

RUMOURED SAFETY OF THE CITY ON DUNEDIN.

Port Chalmers, Thursday, 10 p.m. A report has reached Port Chalmers by road, that the steamer City of Dunedin has arrived at Waikouaiti. Capt. Spencc, of the Golden Age, volunteered to proceed to Waikouaiti ; but a party subscribed to pay the expenses round of the steamer Samson, and she started on her mission at 9.30 p.m. "With respect to the foregoing, the Otago Daily Times, of the 10th 'nstanfc, states that there is no foundation whatsoever for the rumour relative to the safety of the missing steamer. The report emanated from a man named Devino, a driver of one of Cobb's coa'-hes, who has either been the perpetrator of a foolish hoax, or a man of a very fertile imagination. The steamer Sampson ran into Wakouaiti Bay, and the many gentlemen en board were not long kept in doubt as to the falsity of the report, as they communicated with the crew of a whaleb tat which came off from the shore, from whom they learnt that not only were none of the passengers of the ill-fated vessel in that bay, but also that no tidings of them were to be discovered in any of the bays to the northward. The fact that the people of Port Chalmers considered the report sufficiently reliable to induce them to despatch a steamer to the spjt decided the Dailj' Times in giving the above telegram insertion.