BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2263, 8 August 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from our own correspondent.) Auckland, August 3.

The seai'ch of the Samson for the Tauranga hae proved fruitless. She must have sunk immediately. Great excitement has been caused by the affair, and the enquiry into the circumstances of the collision is proceeding. There are seventeen lives lost, the names being as follows ; Captain Bolger ; Mr Monroe, mate ; Mr Harwood, engineer ; W. Daveny, C. Jobson, firemen. Crew : George Oldham, Griffith, Pritchard, Charles Low, W. E. Ransome, W. Forster. Stewards : W. Hahn, W. Kell. Cooks: Charles Reynolds, W, W. Clifford. Passengers : E. Hector, Land, and Waters. There are six widows and twenty children left. A cutter which has arrived passed some kauri gum cases, spars, and a sailor’s chest off Whangarei. There was a high sea on, and the cutter did not know of the wreck, so she did not attempt to pick them up. The steamer Challenge and the Customs cutter -are now out in search.

The Cleopatra, from Fiji, reports the arrival of the Lapwing from Lyttelton, the Jupiter from Picton, and the departure of the Dancing Wave to the Line Islands, and the Crest of the Wave to the Solomon Islands, for labor. The Argylshire has arrived from Glasgow with fifteen passengers. R. Nichol and G. Moffitt died of consumption on the passage, and J. MTntosh was drowned. The Sydenham has arrived from London with fifty-five passengers, and the Excelsior, from London, with eighty passengers, half of the number being for Napier. A thousand trout ova arrived by the Bella Mary from Hobart Town, Many are alive.

The capital of the Bank of New Zealand has been raised to one million. Ten thousand shares have been allotted to the present proprietors at LI3 cash, and the rest will be gradually disposed of within four years. August 4. The Tauranga’s boat has been picked up at Pukeri, also a dead terrier dog. A huge dog swam off to the Kenilworth when passing Sail Bock, eight days after the wreck; he belonged to the Tauranga, and was sent up by the schooner .Tessie. Hencoops and other portions of the wreck have been washed ashore. Port Chalmers, August 8. The lost gold belonging to the Chinese has not been recovered, and in consequence the owner was unable to return to China by the Queen of the Seas, which is now about to sail.