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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2

Lord Bute has declined to negotiate with the Cardiff Corporation for the sale of the Cardiff Docks, but intimates his willingness to negotiate with any public body composed of freighters, shippers, and others interested in the trade of that port. Twenty-one men, part of the crew of the African mail steamer Ethiopia, which was lost on the coast of Africa, have arrived at Plymouth in the Conway Castle. The Ethiopia ran on a sunken reef„ about two and a half miles off Indian Point, near Lodugo, a small port of call, about 7 a.m., on July 28, it being rather hazy at, the time. The vessel immediately began 'to make water, and in a few minutes listed? heavily to starboard. The passengeis, and specie were sent on shore, and the Crew left the ship at 11 o’clock. Even thiis early natives had come off, bnt they di]l not at first assume a hostile attitude. Next day the crew went off and endeavoured | to save provisions, but they found some hunldreds of natives in possession, who had opened the hatches and taken the powder, all th® liquor and a large assortment of helmets, with which they adorned themselves. (bn the third day the crew were unable to\ board the ship, the natives who swarmed ton the deck, advancing with spears and tomamawks to drive them off.