MARITIME INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 857, 13 July 1867, Page 2

MARITIME INTELLIGENCE.

REMARKABLE OCOURRENCE-A SHIP'S BOAT WASHED ASHORE. A well-informed correspondent thus writes from Poverty Bay :— " Being at Tologa Bay last week, I was informed by one of the residents there that just three weeks ago a boat came ashore at Kaiaua, a few miles further to the northward, which had evidently been for many months in the water, inasmuch as there were barnacles sticking to it about six inches in length. It is described as being about 18 feet long, painted blue outside and red inside, with a sharp stern but straight stern- post, and with a considerable false keel and extra garboard streaks, which would make it appear that it bad been a fancy sailing boat. The mast and sail were lying in the bottom of the boat, but the latter was quite rotten ; and in a looker in the stern sheets were several articles of women's and children's clothing, a pair of coarse women's shoes, some children's shoes, and a piece of tarpaulin, about 6 feet by 3, with an eyelet hole in eaoh corner, stamped with the Go-

vernment brand, the letters W. D~ and in a oirole the word " oondemned." Could this have been one of the missing boats of the Fiery Star ?" MISCELLANEOUS. The cutter Dolphin, Capt. Sohon, for Blaokhead, and cutter Betsy, Oapt. Trimmer, for Auckland via Poverty Bay and Tologa Bay, left on Wednesday last— both vessels carrying full general cargoes. The 8.8. Star of the South left for Auckland on Thursday, with 71 head oattle, 228 sheep, and several passengers. She may be expected back in about a week hence. The Lord Ashley, which is expected on the 14th instant, will leave for Wellington and Southern Ports next day, carrying the English mail via Suez,