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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3923, 4 June 1877, Page 2

The s.s. Jane Douglas steamed for Port Chalmers at a quarter-past eight on Saturday morning, with a large cargo of tallow, to be transhipped at that place for London. Captain Fraser will take the opportunity while there of placing his boat upon the patent slip. The two steamers Result and Manaia are still lying in port, awaiting news from the Wairoa of a favorable change in the state of the bar at that place. It is to be hoped that before long the welcome news will be received. The s.s. Rotorna, with the San Francisco mail on board, left Wellington for this port at noon yesterday. She may be looked for here at about 7 a.m. to-day. Upon her arrival she will be tendered by the steam launch Bella, and she will leave again for Auckland and Sydney, taking the outward San Francisco mail, at 8 a.m. The s. s. Rangatira, from this port, arrived in Wellington at midnight on Friday. She leaves Wellington for Napier at 9 a.m. tomorrow. The s.s. Ringarooma arrived at the Bluff Harbor at 8 a.m. on Saturday. She was the bearer of the Suez mail. The schooner Isabella Pratt, which left this port for Oamarn on the 18th of May, arrived in that port on the 24th. Captain Traill reports that after the recent tidal wave had receded in Half moon Bay, a large fish of a species hitherto unknown, even by the oldest inhabitant on the island, was left high and dry on the boach. Traill describes it as being 17ft long, with a head and blow-holes much like a whale. It also has the flukes of a whale measuring 4ft Oin from tip to tip. The most extraordinary feature is a long bill, formed like that of a bird, measuring oft long and oin at the butt, and tapering olf to almost nothing at the extreme end. The fish has no teeth, and only one fin besides the flukes. The bludder has been tried out, and thirty-nine gallons of clear oil secured. Traill intends keeping the skeleton as a curiosity. — " Southland Times."