PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 113, 11 May 1909, Page 4

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

FROM PICTON

Te Anau, for Wellington, this day, at

5.30 p.m. Arahura, for Wellington, Wednesday,

at 5.30 p.m. Te Anau. for Nelson, Wednesday, at

6 p.m. Te An-au, for Wellington, Thursday, at 5.30 p.m. Te Attau, hv Nelson, Friday, aft 6 p.m. Te Anau, for Wellington, Satarc&y,

at 6.30 p.m. Arahura, for Nelson, Sa.tua-day, at 6

p.m. ,Te Anau, for Nelson, Monday, at 8

p.m. Te An&u, for Wellington, Tuesday, at 5.30 p.m.

FROM BLENHEIM. Opawa, for Wellington, early. Waihi, for Wellington, Thursday, at ■11 a.m. The Alexander arrived from Wellington, last night, and1 sailed' for the Coast a.t 10.30 a.m. to-day with chaff.

The Pukaki, with genera cargo from Southern ports a.nd Wellington., arrived at Piotoni/ last night. She proceeded to the Coast via Nelson.. .

Owing to heavy weather the Blenheim did not put out to sea from Picton as intended last night. She was to have sailed for Wellington at 1 p.m. to-day.

Mr W. Beckett, the well-known diver, returned to Melbourne on 21st April from the scene of the wreck of the Falls of Halladale, near Cape Otway. He reported having made a most interesting discovery during a journey on the sea bottom in the vicinity. Having occasion to enter a small bay near the remains of the ill-fated barque to ascertaifi whether any of her cargo had been distributed on the sea floor, he found right in the mouth of the inlet—which is about 100 yards long and 50 yards wide—the remains of a wooden vessel of about 500 tons burden. "She was lying with iher head pointing to the sea," said Mr Beckett, "and there was only the bottom of her left. I should say that she would have been between 150 and 160 feet in length. A few of her ribs were sticking up, but I saw at once that it was many years since she had sunk, for the rocks had closed in on both sides of her, and .there was a thick growth of seaweed fully seven feet long all over her. I walked right from bow to stern over the ship, moving the weed down, but could not find anything to identify her by. On returning to the shore I mentioned the matter to some of the local residents, and one of the oldest of them told me that in the year 1840 a vessel, of which he had forgotten the name, was wrecked in the bay. All her pasengers and crew were landed in safety, and were met by a tribe of blacks, who were at first friendly, but the shipwrecked people, 'asking them, where some fresh water could be found, the blacks led them some distance inland to a small lake, and there murdered them. The small bay has since then been called Massacre Bay. There is about 17 feet of water over the ancient wreck, and had the Falls of Halladale not caught on the reef she would have been wrecked right on top of her."