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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 29 June 1868, Page 158

The Cutter Dolphin. —The fate of this vessel (says the Daily Southern Cross), remains a-' matter of painful unsertaintv. Since her departure from this port on the Ist of May—heavily laden for a vessel of her tonnage, viz, 17 tons re-lister—with 15 tons of flour, 21 bags of coke, and 30,000 • shingles,- we have made inqn iries from time to time with the view of ascertaining whether she had put in at any pojrfc, or been sighted on her passage to Napier, but we have failed to elicit any information respecting her. It has not been reported to us that she- has been seen by a single vessel on her way thither. The cutter Nautilus, which arrived from Napier on Thursday evening, tended to confirm our conjectures that the vessel had met with a melancholy fate,for although Captain Jones put in at every port on his passage to Auckland, and. had kept;a sharp look out for her' along the coast, be was unable to obtain the slightest, clue to her or the hands engaged on her. Captain Bendall of the ■Star of the South, which arrived yesterday, reports that at Napier all hopes were given up of ever hearing of.her .again. That the amiable and kindhearted master of the Dolphin, alike with all his gallant crew, has met with a watery grave, we.-fear is now ‘almost beyond a doubt. \. ;; Sandwich ; Islands —News, has. been received from these Islands, by. way of San Francisco, of dreadful volcanic disturbances. by Mauna jLoaibeginning on the 27th March. .The. eruption commenced with qf " earthquake's ' and was ■ ac? coinpanied witli us ual streams of lava, arid inundation of .the sen.! About 80. lives had been lost J bat no Enropoaus destroyed.