AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 60, 16 May 1877, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Friday. A tidal wave was experienced here this morning. It rose to 9 feet. Pears are entertained for the saf ety of the Sarah Pile, which left Kaipara on the 2nd April, for Wanganui. No tidings have been received here of her arrival. Saturday. The sheriff has received a telegram that His Excellency the Governor does not propose to interfere with the sentence of death passed on Te Pati. The sentence will probably be carrried out next week. Tuesday. The brigantine Helena arrived from Tonga and Samoa, about March -20th. The May Queen was at Rua, having taken on board a cargo of sheep. A hurricane came on suddenly -and the vessel was lost sighirof . Nothing seen, or heard of her. since, although the Man-of-war Sappho and King of Tonga have '. used every effort to trace her. The hurricane lasted twenty-four hours, and" destroyed on Tongata Bow and Keppel Island over one. thousand houses, and. sixteen churches were blown ddwn. Ifcj is generally believed that the MaJjH Queen'is lost with all hands. Captain^ Menzies, late chief officer of the Countess of Kintore, was m command, and the following were known to be on board : — G. Bullock, salesman for Owen and Graham of Auckland, George Owen, jun., with mate, and crew of four Kanakas. Mrs Menzies had landed at Samoa. _ The ketch Pearce, during the hurricane was thrown high and dry on a reef at Tonga, but was got off with only slight injury. A deputation of Samoan Chiefs has gone to Fiji to claim British protection for Samoa, where all troubles are now at an end. ■ ■