OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 150, 26 June 1889, Page 5

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE

NO FURTHER NEWS.

(by telegraph,—special reporter.).

Wellington, this day. Further correspondence in reference to the supposed Dart disaster has passed between the Marine Department and the officers in charge of the Customs ac Mangonui, but very little light is thrown upon the affair. Ib appears however that the boat and it 3 appointments were nob discovered together as was coaveyed by the information received yesterday. On the contrary, they were scattered about the beach of Tom Bowling's Bay, while the- separate life belts were found right away on the West Coasu of the island, 10 miles south of Cape Maria Van Diemen and more than 30 miles round the coast from the poinb where the boat appeared. It is not expected that any further information as to the search of the coast will be received until Sunday as the messengers have a largo area to traverse, The Dart could nob have been moving very rapidly for though she lefb Auck-. land on sbh, she did, nob pasa Wan-

garei till fane 7th, and would be about Sorth Cape till tho next day, about the time when the very stormy weather occured, and the hope is still cherished by the authorities thab it will prove that the boab was simply washed overboard.