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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 67, 8 March 1876, Page 2

CRUISE OF TfclE TUSCARORA. THe^biUd State* war steamer Tuscarora (saj i the Brißl>ant'. Courier a. rived off Moret n (Bay on the 10. h i st. The vessel is a corvtte oi eight yuns, shp.'Lgei, an ! is ab Ut BUO tons- b\ird n The reetsnn of her visit ib an interesting one. shu having been engaged since the 6th of l>e<j<mb r last in completing a me ol deep-s a sounuiogs between'ban Ft anvisco and Briioane. this lioe/as now surveyed, touches at Honolulu, Ende>bury; Island (in tbe Phce-dx G•• up), and Yasawa (one of the w ft-m islands of tbe F>ji Git up), th - proposed ler-oiuu- being Bri.ba c In 1874 the iuscatort took the nece .ary sound ngs betwt en S«n Francisco and Honolulu, and in the cruiee just lerminatefyJshe has continued the >in« to Moreion Bay touching, oi couis«, t- c places named. Ihe ; cru'-86. or the corvette haa, so tar aa we have" been *n»bl_d to a-certuin, been a succeuslnf one; her cb-i'manaer, j: «. Mill ;r, repotting tne route as particularly favorable l'-r the' laying of the pr< pjeevt cable. Between Honolulu and Bria auu 107 c»st4 were made,: the deepest being 3443 fathoms, or neariy lour mius, taken between Eude bury lela-vd ani Ya->awa ihe deepest wattr between Hj: and Moreion Bay wa« ioand ahout three mil* s off Ca^e Moretou, the casting thete showing a d -pth of _9?5 {'(thorns. Tbe Tu6carora will remain at this port for about a week to coal ad provision, af.er which ehe will proceed t- 1 Auckland v a yd.icy From Auckland she is tv run a lint- ot -oundtngs to Kindt-vau, m-<st likely to at certain the lei.si biitty-iot couutctiag New Zealand by cable with that group.