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We are given to understand by a gentleman who arrived from Invercargill by the Guiding Star on Sunday night, that some excitement prevailed in that usually quiet town consequent upon the bringing down of a parcel of 27ozs. of gold from the Wakatip. The Accident to the “ Aldinga."— We have been enabled to glean full particulars of the accident to this favorite steamer. The steamer struck on a knoll or bank at 5.15 a.m. on the 24th, offWaipapapa point, but fell off the bank in about fifty seconds. Immediately after the accident Captain M'Lean took soundings, and found 12 fathoms water, and then lay to till daylight to ascertain the vessel's position, when he found her to be from 3| to 4A miles off the shore. As the steamer did not make any water, she was started for the Bluff; she landed her mails and passengers for Southland, and proceeded on her voyage. The hold was carefully examined every two hours, and there was no sign of the steamer having received any damage, until a strong westerly gale set in, increasing in force towards midnight, the vessel then being about 50 miles west of the Solander. She was found to be making water, and Captain M'Lean with admirable promptitude immediately put the ship about and ran back for the Bluff, where he arrived at 9 o clock the following morning, and beached her. There may be some difficulty in getting at the leak, as there is not much rise and fall of the tide where she lies, and the injury is in the afterpart of the vessel, and where she draws about 12 feet of water. Mr. Royse, of the firm of Royse, Mudie, & Co., the agents for the Aldinga, went to the Bluff yesterday, with a complete set of appliances and workmen for repairing the steamer, and we trust that in a few days this favorite vessel may be able to resume her voyage to Melbourne where she can receive a thorough examination and repair. Mhy is a bad horse I ke a bad play ? because it can't run, and won’t draw. If a man is doomed to the stake, he would generally prefer it should be beef. A Cox for Naturalists. —What creature may be said to live on their relations ? Why the Aunteaters, to be sure.— Punch.

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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 65, 25 September 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

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Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 65, 25 September 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 65, 25 September 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

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