WELLINGTON EXTRACTS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 366, 10 March 1849, Page 6

WELLINGTON EXTRACTS.

Mr. Thomas, the principal surveyor of the New Canterbury Settlement, arrived yesterday in the Fly from Fort Cooper, the capabilities of which district he has been for tht last three months carefully investigating. From the extent of level land and other advantages connected with the district, Mr. Thomas appears to consider it available for the purposes of the new settlement. A careful map of the district has been prepared from various surveys and sketches, which, with other local information, will be forwarded by the Cornelia to the New Zealand Company, H. M. Steamer Acheron was at Port Cooper,^where she arrived on the 19th inttznt—Spictator, Feb. 28. Loss of th« Katb. — The Harlequin, which arrived on Monday from Otago, having left on the previous day, has brought the intelligence of the total wreck of the schooner Kate, on the 25th January, in Open Bay, near the Cascades, on the West Coast of the South Island. The Kate had gone round to Open Bay to take in oil, and bring away the shore party at Captain Salmons's whaling station, and had nearly completed loading when the weather threatening to blow from the north-east, to which quarter the bay is open, she attempted to 'put to sea about 8 o'clock in the evening; there was very little wind at the time, and the sea was setting into the bay. She .missed stays and anchored, but shortly afterwards, with the assistance of the whale boats from the shore, she got under weigh again, and was apparently getting out to sea, when the wind, stilt proving light and baffling, she anchored again, and at this time she touched lightly on some sunken rocks. In trying to weigh her again they tore the windlass out. The chain was then slipped, and an effort made so return to her old anchorage in the bay, but the vessel struck several times, unshipped the rudder, and becoming unmanageable, she went broadside on to the reefs. It was now new midnight, the masts were cut away, and in two hour* after the vessel broke up. Four of toe crew reached the shore on a part of the wreck. The master and one hand remained on the deck, tne only part of the vessel left, until daylight, when they attempted to get on shore on the main boom, when the man was unfortunately drowned. About fifteen tuns of oil were lost The master and crew not a passage in the Amazon whaler, which touched a few days afterwards at Open Bay, to Stewart's Island, whence they proceeded to Otago in an open whaleboat. The master sailed yesterday in the Queen to Open Bay to bring away the whaling party.— lb. The Hotnraogi, which had gone up to H&wke's Bay on a trading trip, was plundered on the Ist

February, near Waikokopu, of goods and money to the amount of about two hundred and fifty pounds, by some of the white men connected with whaling nations in the Bay. By the exertions of Mr. Perry of Waikokopu, and some of the respectable whalers, and with the aid of the natives of the neighbourhood, the robbers had been traced ouf, and> considerable portion of the property had been recovered. Four white men were apprehended by the natives, under the direction of Mr. Perry, on suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery, and in consequence of the Hoturangi being too small to allow of their being brought round to Wellington, they had been suffered to go at large for the present, the natives promising to prevent their escape, until proper means could be adopted by the Government to bring them to justice.—/*.