WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3919, 21 July 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. The steamer Wakatu, which is ashore at Patea, is not much damaged, and is expcted to be floated off by five this evening. One of the blades of the propeller is broken. It is expected the Maggie Peterson will break up. Her crew proceeded on board this morning and furled the sails. Tbe proprietor of the Te Aro Club was fined £20 to-day for selling spirits. The Whitelaw trial is proceeding. Fifteen of the jurymen were challenged. A southerly gale is still blowing. Shipping business is at a standstill. In reference to the submarine disturbance near Channel Island, off Cape Colvine, Captaiu Fairchild, of the Government steamer Stella, has supplied the following telegram to the Marine Department : —" There is no mistake about the volcano reported by Captain Anderson, near Channel Island, off Cape Colville. We found it without any trouble. The water is boiling up like a spring for a space of about one hundred feet, and Channel Island bears N. by W. three quarters of a mile. The water is muddy, and the yellow water drifts away with the tide, and in shape very like the tail of a comet. There is no change in the soundings, and the least water we found was twenty four fathoms, so navigators need not be afraid to go their usual track. When passing there I took the Stella on tbe spot and dropped the lead right into tho centre of the boils, and there found twenty-four fathoms. I left the lead down as long as I could to see if it would come up hot, but it came up quite cold, and brought up broken shells.