BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3921, 17 September 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Auckland, September 16. The schooner I awera has been wrecked. The following report of the occurrence is to hand. The M-cries on Tuesday found a largo •‘chooner off Sandy Beach, about twelve or fourteen miles north of the north head of the Kaipara harbor. She was dismasted, and her decks were clean swept. A. boat *as lashed on deck, hut no signs of the crew were visible on board or on shore. They had no doubt she was the Tawera, which had left. Foxtnn some time previously in ballast, for Kaipara, intending to load at tho Aratapu mill for Lyttelton. The Tawera was owned by F. Archard, who a short time pasi sold her to Mr Bailey, delivery to take place after the present charter, so that the sale is vitiated by the accident. The Tawera was . a schooner of fifty-five tons, insured for LBOO in the New Zealand office. • Captain Church was in command when ■he left Foxton. With regard to the crew being missing, it is possible they might have effected their escape, though they were not seen by the Natives who brought the news to Aratapu. The wife of Captain Church is waiting at the Pilot Station, Kaipara, in hopes of her husband's re 1 urn.

Father Boibeaux’s funeral to-day was very largely attended.

September 17. A box, containing Captain Church’s certificate and other papers has been washed ashore from the wreck of the Tawera. There is little doubt but that all hands are lost. The names of the crew who shipped at Lyttelton on hj r last trip are Captain Church, Peter Miller, Charles Anderson, and Charles Robert (cook). Church leaves a wife and three children. No bodies have been washed ashore.

Greymooth, September 16. Tho attempt to float the steamer Kennedy off the South Spit by means of ropes and a winch was unsuccessful. The vessel requires launching, which will occupy about ten days. She has sustained no damage. The mishap is attributable steering.

Wellington, September 17. A proclamation in the Government' Gasette' notifies that all copper coin cf the United Kingdom in circulation within the Colony shall be decreed and called iu on the 31»t January, 1876.

A piece of land at Purseyger Point, Preservation Inlet, has been reserved for a lighthouse.

Patea, September 16. The confiscated land sale held to-day was a great success. The attendance was large, and among the competitors was a fair sprinkling of visitors from other Provinces. The bidding for suburban sections on the east bank of the Patea River, opposite (ho town of Carlyle, was particularly brislc. This land is of a swampy character, and the sections were put up at L 3 per acre, but realised from L 5 to L 34 per acre. The purchasers were principally local men. The allotments in the Okutuku district were not so keenly contested for, but the allotments sold realised a considerable advance on the upset price, the top figure being per acre, and all the allotments offered were sold, with the exception of about twelve. The character of the laud was said to be rugged and thickly timbered. The total amount realised was L 13.500.

Christchurch, September 17. Sir Cracroft Wilson is reported to be very ill and confined to bed.

The Acclimatisation Society advertise for a new curator, the late curator having been dismissed for insubordination.

(From our own Correspondent. )

Auckl .kd, September 16. The Good Templars are bestirring themselves here with spelling bees and tea meetings. A sewing machine was given away last night for the best juvenile e.ssay on intoxicants.