PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11559, 12 June 1900, Page 1

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Flora, 8.8., for Gisborne and Auckland, to-day. Hauroto, s.s., for Northern ports and Sydney, June 15th. Westralia, s.s., for Wellington and Southern ports, June 16th. The Union Company's b.s. Te Anau arrived at the breakwater early yesterday morning from Gisborne and Auckland, discharged cargo, and left at noon for Wellington and Southern ports. The three steamers, Ahuriri, Fanny, and J.D.0., tackled on to the barque Quathlamba yesterday afternoon, and after about an hour's work managed to get her dear away, when she set sail for Sydney, with 380,000 feet of local timber. The Tangaroa loaded up yesterday for Wairoa, and will leave today at noon, should the report as to the Wairoa bar bo favorable. The Weka was to leave last night for Mahia and Gisborne. The Union Company's s.s. Flora is due this forenoon from Southern ports, and is advertised to leave for Gisborne and Auckland this evening, at 5 p.m. ' Sfessrs Bannatyne and Co., Wellington, have been advised from its San Francisco agents that that every available sailing vessel and steamer has been ohartered to j convey miners to Cape Nome. There has been an extraordinary rush tv the new goldfield, and it is estimated that in six months' time there will be between 100,000 and 150,000 men on the field. The agents were going at full pressure to provide outfits at the new El Dorado. When the last mail left there was still a guard of about 15 Yictqrian Permanent Artillery Btationed at Queenscliff, near Melbourne, protecting the wreckage from the ship Sierra Nevada, which is strewn along the beach for a considerable distance. The number of barrels of whisky recovered nearly tallies with the. number on the ship's manifest. A detectiveinspector's visit to the scene was a highly successful one in the interests of the Customs revenue. He discovered some valuable "plants" in the sand and among the scrub, and also found a quantity of goods in the possession of private persons, for which they could not show invoices. The people are to be prosecuted, .