WRECK OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN.

Evening Post, Issue 190, 16 September 1865, Page 2

WRECK OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN.

OFFICIAL REPORT. * Dr. Hector has the honor to report to the Hon. the Postmaster-General that J. W. Rayer. sent, in compliance with instructions to Bearch the coast near Cape Terawiti, for traces of the wreck of the City of Dunedin, p.s., returned last evening, having examined the shore from Lyall Bay to Oharin Bay. He reports that — 1. In bay west of Tongue Point, he found the back of a saloon seat, with iron racks, painted green, and quite uninjured. Within a few yards of the same place, was the top of a round table, a cork fender, and lining floato from the inside of a life boat ; also, a staved water cask, a little further up the coast. 2. On inner Ohaoa Point, which faces northward, he found a second saloon seat back, but severely injured and battered. 5. At. Ohariu Bay, pieces of two boats, one painted green, with black and white streaks, and the other blue 4. At Sinclair's head, part of the rounded stern-rail of a vessel. 5. Planks — as if of bulk-heads, scattered along the whole ccast. Examined those to the north, being most battered.^ When at Terawiti he made inquiries respecting what had been seen by the girl Macmanamay, aged 15. She left Wellington to ride out to Terawiti on the Saturday the City of Dunedin left port, and when about a mile from home, and just before dark, she saw a steamer close among the rocks, and looking as if it was going round and round, and would not steer. The sailors were pulling the sails up and down, and appeared to be in confusion. On reaching home she asked her mother to come out and see, but she 'her mother) was busy and did not go. The manager of the station had passed the girl in Happy Valley, on his way into town, and Borae time after saw a steamer clear the port on a westerly course. He says it was a fine evening, but the wind fresh from 9.E. On the Monday following, a shepherd named t M'Leod saw from the top of a cliff what looked like a sheep's carcase flouting in the sea with a large bird on it. As one of his own sheep had slipped down the cliff he thought it might have been it washed away, but on descending the cliff, he found bis sheep still there. Rayer is to return at once, and continue thn search nortwards to Otaki, where there is a report that a large quantity of coals have been cast up on the shore."