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Evening Star, Issue 3041, 16 November 1872, Page 2

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(From the Xcw Zealand Press Association.) Auckland, November 15. Breadstuff's are linn. Canterbury flour, Ll4 to Ll6; wheat, 6s 3d to 6s 6d; oats (overstocked), 2i lOd. Biscuits have advanced ‘2os a ton. Potatoes, LB. Good Woolongong salt butter was auctioned at fijdp.Tlb. The body of a man named Nelson, employed on hoard the steamer Gemini, was found in the I)arbor. It is believed he fell over the wharf.

Oamaiu*, November 16. Mr Steward, M.H. K. for Waitaki, .addressed his constituents at Oamaru. at/the Volunteer Hall there, last evening. About 250 persons wore present. He defended the Public Workf. and Immigration Policy ; and explained the causes of Mr Stafford's temporary success, and his subsequent defeat. A few questions were put and answered ; and vote of thanks to the chairman was on the motion of Mr Steward passed. Subsequently the chairman was recalled, and a vote of thanks to Mr Steward passed. A vote of want of confidence was subsequently moved, on which a direct vote of confidence was moved. Most of the meeting having left, neither motion was put from the chair. Nelson, November 16. The Taranaki met the schooner Canterbury in Queen Charlotte’s Sound yesterday, which had got on board tho master and Mr James G. Fox from the wreck of the barque City of Newcastle. The City was wrecked early on Thursday morning, near Tory Channel, not far from where the Three Brothers went ashore, with her bow on a hie.h precipitous cliff The first boat was swamped iu lowering. The captain’s gig, containing three seamen aud four women and three children, was got afloat, but was soon lost sight of, and it is not known where she has gone. The third boat, with the master, Mr Fox (of the Armed Constabulary), four sailors, and ship’s steward, got away, very leaky. The wind rose high from and boat being half full of water, they had to be perpetually baling her. They ran through the dangerous rocky pass with a b'anket Ur a sail, and after a few hours’ sailing we e picked up by the schooner Canterbury. The men were dragged on board, the boat sinking almost immediately. Those left on the wreck were Mr Abbott, of Nelson; the second and third mates, the carpenter, cook, and one seaman. The master reports that by cutting the foremast and falling it against the cliff the men could get ashore. In the gig with th ree seamen were Mrs J. G. Fox, Mrs Pilcher of Wellington, Mrs Jones, and Mrs Cameron, both of Sydney. One of the seamen is an old sailor, who knows the locality ; and it is hoped they were able to make land before the gale rose, which it did about an hour after leaving the ship. They might make the Tory Channel. There were no provisions or water on board the gig. The captain of the Taranaki, on bearing of the disaster, changed his vessel’s course, aud took the master of the City of Newcastle to a whaling station iu the Sound, while the steamer went near the scene of the wreck, but did not observe the wreck. The Taranaki passed a ship’s rudder and portion of a sternpost. The City met with bad weather on Sunday, and anchored in Cloudy Bay till eight o’clock on Wednesday night, when she set sail again with fine weather and a favorable wind. The people on boa’d went to bed about eleven. A mist came on very suddenly at four a.m., and the vessel amost immediately went ashore There was no shock, the vessel having glided gently on to the shore. There w T as a great wind and storm at Picton and its neighborhood on Thursday night. Wellington, November 16. The City of Newcastle was owned by Mr Dransfield, of this city, and was insured for L 1250. She sailed from Wellington, for Newcastle, on Saturday last. The Bangatira hj s gone iu search of the missing boat.