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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 851, 26 October 1870, Page 3

A sitting of the Vice-Admiralty Court was held at Auckland on thi? Hth inst., before his Honor the Chief Justice, when a motion was brought on for hearing relative to awarding the claim for salvage of the barque Cantero. His Honor granted an interlocutory decree affirming the right of the salvors to the amount claimed (£381), as salvage. When the proceeds of the sila are brought into Court, an order for the apportionment of the money will be applied for.

At the Spelter Works, near Swansea, in South Wales, where between 60 and 70 G'.ruianß are employed, by the orders of the proprietor, a few days ago, the whole of the German hands were mustered, and they were to-d that if any or all of tht:m chose to go hcm<* and fight for Fatherland they could do i>u, and that no obstacle would be thrown in the war. Th>'V ail declined to a mau to leave England.

The news from Coirmander Selfrirlga's surveying party on the Isthmus of Darien is not at all favorable. No satisfactory results have been accomplished. The men are disheartened ; sickness prevails; desertions are frequent, and would btioaie more numerous if the chances of getting away were more readily obtained. The expedition will soon return, and from what we have heard of its labors up to the present time, its mission will not prove as fruitful as was anticipated when it left here. At date of our advices, Lieutenant Hubbard's party had surveyed twenty miles from the beach, at which distance the highest land elevation found was 305 feet, the elovation of the river's bed being 295 feet. The surround jn» country was very rugged and difficult Donkey transportation has been abandoned, and provisions for the working party were sent forward in etnull quantities on the backs of the men. —New York Herald.

The San Francisco Bulletin gives the following sequel to a piratical raid upon Guay. ma 3 ;_After the pirates had landed at Guayiiia.«, and had lauded their plunder, they allowed the two small schooners they had pressed into their service to return to Guayram, and then proceeded up the river to Tecupan. The U.S. steamer Mohican was. then despatched from Magadan, in pursuit. Brin"ing up at the mouth of the river, an ex peditlon, consisting of six boats, manned by 68 men, wa* despatched up the river At mid night, the Forward was made out uhead, and as the boats approached her they received a vol'ey from a battery worked by a concealed force of Mexican- on s'lore. The latter having heard from tht-ir scouts that the United States boats w< re advancing had deserted the Forward, and lay in ambush along the banks. Where the Forward* was run aground the river curved, and the guns ot the pirates were arranged so as to sweep herdeks, and destroy the boarders. The coxswain of the boat commanded by En?ign Mainwright was killed at the first fire, the officer was mortally, and four men severely wounded. The fire was returned but owing to the darkness its effect was not discovered. Tlie Forward was then boarded, bur. finding it impossible to tret her afloat, she being imbedded several feet in the mud, she was tmrned to the water's edge. The hoars returned to the Mohican, and Mainwright received surgical aid, but be died on the following Sunday, having been shot through the right lung. If is supposed that the party of Mexicans numbered about 300. Three ot the wpunded men arrived last, evening in the Continental. Toe body of Mainwright, which has been embalmed by the surgeons, was also on board. It is to be sent hast. AssistantSurgeon Gillespie, of the Mohican, eame up ju ciiargp of the w uaded,