SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE "WAIKATO TIMES." (From the Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 270, 3 February 1874, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE "WAIKATO TIMES." (From the Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency)

Am; Jnii", 7 IJ> \< n ' The >atc»t. inU>llt^a» rejudin^ 'hn niv<;k oi a cutter ?r, tbo MiuiuLau bar ih t>> the Ufa ! ttiat nt<3 o'c!o<«k the n^ualma i at th<s Mitnukau matld oat a riltor lutionn^ rorj het-vily in a stiff auuth-wceteri? (»ale, rndratuunng to ra»ke the i iitmnce to t!ie 'larbor. A vf-ry hvsvy aca h fin running *»t ;'n> time, mi the *ignal was,hoiBto(l "bar dangerou* — stand ott." Tle putter, whether from (Jutrein or noinc other cam-, Htoort "n far the h<»r, and Wok tho south channel All went we!! till just wl.on it -.ru* thou^ji ohe had passed all dau^t-r j »lio then broached t«i, capsizfi. nnd sunk ulutott unuiv-ilinteh. Particulnra as to tli* l'ientity of the vessel are anxiously looked for but not irrivrii, tho bar being still in a dangerous s'ato. It is [puepilly bel.ered tint the un fortujiato vessel was tho Fior.i MoDjiuiJ, of 18 toiu, wliioh oro*Hod tho bar tast ni>>hton her vr^y to Rtgl.in. This resnol liad tlneo p.iH^piigors on board, brdides the cioir. The mailci V nuve i»J L Kenny, and tho-pa^i'ti^ei-a namoi are J Ora'iam, — QUfii, nud a natut. Tuero it h |)o-ibihl\ tl.ut the ressel was not the Flora Mc-Donahl, bm the DiiA'n. o\ported in the Manukau. I'll.- Wellington, s s.. lias bren detambd till to-morrow morniKg.onin^ to Ine roughness of the bur to-day.