TOTAL WRECK OF THE STEAMER TITANIA.

Evening Post, Issue 147, 28 July 1865, Page 3

TOTAL WRECK OF THE STEAMER TITANIA.

This vessel, which left Nelson for Ilokitika on Saturday, the 15th, arrived off the bar of that river on Tuesday last, when she was signalled from the shore to keep to sea. On Wednesday morning, the bar being somewhat more favourable, she attempted to enter the river, but, through misunderstanding the signals, she did not take the channel over the bar, but kept fully fifty yards too far to the south. The consequence of this was, that she took the ground, and was washed up by the heavy seas on to the South Spit, where she became a total wreck. The passengers were all got on shore safely, and the cargo was mostly saved. Ou the following day, Thursday, when the vessel was examined, it was found that ehe had suffered most severely, and any chance of getting her off was wholly futile, The following letter from thu roaster of the Titania has been received by Messrs. Curtis, Brothers, Lloyds' agents in Nelson : — '¦ Gentlemen— l am sorry to inform you that the steamer Titania, under my coinmandj was totally wrecked on the Hokitika bar, on the 19th instant, and it is my intention to jgell her by public auction for the benefit of whom it may concern. " I remain, &c, " Joseph Hatnes, " Master of steamer Titania. " Hokitika, July 21. 1865." I "

The foundation stone of the new Surrey Theatre has been laid. It is to be built on the site of the old one, which was burnt down a few months ago, and will be of larger dimensions, and fhore commodious for the audience. It is expected to be finished within the next five or six months. A lady named Chappelle, residing in Pimlico, has been robbed of a diamond bracelet, valued at .£l5O, by a man who officiously volunteered to open the carriage door in which the lady left the Royal Italian Opera on a recent night. Daniel M'Naughten, who murdered Mr. Drummond in mistake for the late Sir Robert Petl, in 1843, died recently at the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadraoor. Listz, the celebrated pianist, has entered an ecclesiastical establishment at Rome, and received the tonsure from Archbishop Hohenlohe. On the previous evening he had executed several fine pieces at the residence of I.he Princess Barberini. An eccentric individual, named Joseph Constable, died at Chelsworth, a few days ago, at the great age of 94 years. The deceased lived quite alone for upwards of 40 years, and performed all his domestic work, ircluding washing and sewing. His dress as singular as his ways. For many

years he attended the Dissenting Chapel at Bildeston, frequently appearing in a suit of scarlet, including red stockings. On the proposition of the Mayor of Florence, the municipal council has resolved to contribute one thousand francs subscription for raising a monument to Beccaria, the well-known legist. A Roman cemetery has just been discovered near Briare, Loire, France, at a considerable depth below the surface of! the ground. Po\cral sepulchral lamp«, funereal urns, and pieces of money, as also a small broken statuette of Venus, have alreidy been found in the midst of a quantity of bones lying in brifk vaults Jlrinre is supposed to occupy Hie site of a Gallo Roman town, named Brissodnnnm.