TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 395, 17 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

("Per Press Agency.] THIS I)AX’S TELEGRAMS. Greymouth, September 17. Sailed—ll a.m., Maori, for Dunedin via Nelson. Passengers —For Lyttelton, the Rev and Mrs M‘lntosh and family. Wellington, September 17. A proclamation in the Government Gazette notifies that all copper coin of the United Kingdom in circulation within the colony shall be decreed and called in on 31st January, 1676. A piece of land at Purseyger Point, Preservation Inlet, has been reserved for a lighthouse, Auckland, September 17. A box. containing Caplain Church’s certificate and other papers has been washed ashore from the wreck of the Tawera. There is littie doubt but that all hands are lost. The names of the crew who shipped at Lyttelton last trip are—Captain Church, Peter Miller, Charles Anderson, and Charles Roberts (cook). Captain Church leaves a wife and three children. No bodies have been washed ashore. Mr Buckland reports store cattle in large numbers at 2s 6d to 5s lower; fat cattle (plentiful), 30s to 35s per 1001 b; sheep (usual supply), 3|d to 4d lb. Auckland, September 16. The schooner Tawera has been wrecked. The following report of the occurrence is to hand :—The Maoris on Tuesday found a laige schooner off Sandy Beach, about twelve or fourteen miles north of the north head of the Kaipara Harbor. She was dismasted ; her decks were clean swept ; a boat was lashed on deck. No signs of the crew were visible on board or on shore. They had no doubt she was the Tawera, which had left Foxton some time previously in ballast for Kaipara, intending to load at the Aratapu Mill for Lyttelton. The Tawera was owned by Mr F, Orchard, who, a short time past sold her to Mr Bailey, delivery to take place after the present charter. The sale is vitiated by the accident. The Tawera was a schooner of 55 tons, and was insured for £BOO in the New Zealand office. Captain Church was in command when she left Foxton. With regard to the crew being missing, it is possible they may 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 the hope that her husband will return. r .

Father Bojbieux’s funeral to-day was very largely attended. Wellington, Sept 16,

The inquiry into the collision between the Young Dick and Jane Spiers in Cook’s strait was concluded to day, which was the third day’s hearing. It appeared that the night was fine, and the lighthouses distinctly observable when the collision occurred. It is supposed that the Young Dick had no lamps burning, and that the Jane Spiers did not keep such a good look-out as she ought to have done. The certificate of the mate of the Young Dick was suspended for three months, and the Young Dick ordered to bear all the cost for damages, &c. Arrived—Phoebe, from Lyttelton. Geeymouth, September 16.

Arrived—Maori, from Dunedin via South, at ten last night; Isabella Anderson, from On mar u via Westport. Sailed— Alma, for Melbourne ; Mary Ogilvie, for Wellington ; Kaiuma, forWanganui; Merlin, for New Plymouth. The attempts to float the steamer Kennedy off the South Spit by means of ropes and winch were unsuccessful. The vessel requires launching, which will occupy about ten days, The vessel has' sustained no damage. The cause of the mishap is attributed. to defective steering.