NON-ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL STEAMER ‘LORD ASHLEY.’

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 22, 17 June 1867, Page 140

NON-ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL STEAMER ‘LORD ASHLEY.’

Tns mail steamer Lord Ashley, Cant. Worsp, not liaviug arrived in port up to the time of our going "to press this" morning—although due cr. Salurthr. last—leads us to surmise that site has passed ot: tc> Wellington without calling. Possibly there might have been so heavy a sett outside the Bay as to lean her commander lo suppose (errun musty,- we believe) that it would not be practicable to communicate with the shore. Her e.inyt for liti? port- was no: lauded on her upward trip, nr.d both Utis arid her downward cargo, as well as passengers, ttre, we presume, now taken on to WAiiti.giou, whic'.t will occasion much inconvenience. Want is also of importance, our mails for liuropi-via. Suez and Marseilles arc once again left behind.

The cutter Grayling, Owen, master, sailed for •'Wairoa on Monday List with a quantity of flour, timber, Sic. Tire s.s. Star of the South, Captain Bendall, lor Auckland on Tuesday afternoon last, With 80 head large cattle, 20 calves, and 401 plifcc-p. She also took eight passengers. Tim cutter Dolphin, Captain Sehon. is loading for W.iirun, and is ndrertis:.! to leave iu-morrew (wind and weather permitting.) The Colonial GovernnruUguu-bonf'Sturt, Cnpt. Fairchild, arrived in port cm Thursday morning I-.ft, from Wellington, Raving left that port at S <m Tuesday. After coaling, Ac., the Suit; gleamed for the Erst Coast er. Thursday evening. The cutter Nautilus, Lovercak, master, sailed for Wairpn on Timrsday evening last, wiih miscellaneous cargo and (i passengers.' The cutter Dolphin.-Seiion, master, will sail for Wairoa this evening - should the weather prove l’ai Yoruble. Tbs East Coast mnil-mr.n reports to our Waiyarapa contemporary t'aat while at Pahau, on W e^ncs day, the Gdi instant, a hot lie was picked up on the beach containing some writing, which was dated 2-ith March. The writing being in pencil was nearly illegible, but the letter ‘*ll,” . which is supposes to b-sriu the name of the vessel, „pud “ Pencr.vrc.w Head” were plainly to be seen. This finding of a bottle on the coast containing writing wo’Jld of itself be no evidence of ahvreck, but, unfortunately, there are much stronger evidences of the iaet. The leg of an adult human being, supposed to be that of a roan, was picked tip in the vicinity, and near to it a case of brandy, pieces of tiinker and fragments of cases are also scattered about on the beach, which arc supposed to have belonged to some vessel, and the impression is that some vessel has been wrecked, but in the absence of further evidence the truth cannot b& ascertained with any degree of certainty.—Advertiser, June 10. Captain Holliday, llarbour Master, informs us that, being told by Mr Charles Howard that some wreck was lying on the beach outside the Heads, : he proceeded to the Heads yesterday morning to the spot indicated, and found a quantity of wreck (strewed about the beach, near the site of the old pilot station, It consb-ied, of a. piece of fleck plauk, 17 feet long, painted yellow one slue; a place of 4)- inch oak plank, 10 feet long, which had been fastened with trenails aud copper bolts g portion of a skylight, about 10 feet in length.; fittings, grained on. one side and : painted light blue, cm the other, one piece having the numbers 200 and 201 painted upon it, being (evidently berth numbers ; n hatch, six feet long, painted' red inside, and one end having been Impaired with a piece of New Zealand red pine, p'hiicli was unpuinlcd; and a number of small pieces of painted wood, apparently cabin fittings. Captain Holliday searched the beach for a considerable distance. It is impossible to form a conjecture as to wlmt vessel the wreck cnce belonged, but it must haye been a ship of a large fize, and fitted to carry passangers.T— Eyening fest, June 11,