HOKITIKA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 5, 13 July 1865, Page 2

HOKITIKA.

ANOTHER RUSH.— OPENING OF THE BAB BY A

HEAVY FLOOD. —TWO MORE WRECKS.

By the schooner Dancing Ware, which arrived on Sunday from Hokitika, we learn that there has been a heavy flood in the river which has greatly deepened the channel over the bar, and made it more direct. The bar being thus improved, the following vessels wereabb to enter the river’: the Rifleman, from the Chatham Islands ; the Quiver, from Lyttelton; the Mount Alexander, from Dunedin ; the Jupiter, from Lyttelton ; the lona from Wellington; and a largo ketch name unknown. Two other vessels—the ketch Esther fram Lyttelton, and the Sir Francis Drake, from Dunedin —were leas fortunate, as both of these went on shore. The Esther broke up the same day, and there is no hope of recovering the Sir Francis Drake. The steamer Omeo arrived off Hokitika on Thursday last, having about 150 tons of cargo (among which was a portion of the telegraph wire to be fixed between Hokitika and Christchurch), and ninety passengers, forty-five of whom were in the saloon. Captain Buxton of the Dancing Wave, went outside for the pur* pose of lightering the goods and passengers of the Omeo, there being no steamers available for that purpose at Hokitika. On the Thursday afternoon much of the passengers luggage, and one or two, passengers, were taken on board the schooner but night compelled the crew to desist. The next morning, at daylight, the Omeo was nowhere visible, she having, it is presumsd, left her anchorage in consequence of the glass rapidly falling, demoting the approach of rough weather. The Dancing Wave, after vainly looking for the Omeo, and not being able to cross the haras a heavy sea had got up, made for Nelson, where she arrived on Sunday afternoon. Another rush has taken place to a flatfa few miles from the Kanieri and which promised to prove a rich digging. The news from the goldfield still keeps mostjebeering. The steamer Nelson has been launched altogether" about 110 feet, another 150 feet will place her in deep water, once more. The contractors for launching the Bruce are also, making rapid progress.—Nelson Examiner, July 4.