Local Intelligence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XX, 7 September 1861, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

Dun Mountain Railway.— The first rail for the Dun Mountain Railway was laid on the 4th September, at the bottom of the line. The contract for constructing the remainder of the line, from the foot of the incline in Brook-street to the port, has been taken by Messrs. Blythe and Carter. The Schooneb Hebon.— This vessel, which arrived here on Thursday last, left Wanganui for Auckland on the 30th August, with thirty-five head of fat cattle. On coming out from the latter port she struck upon the bar, and grounded on the North Spit, in a south-easterly wind, where she lay thumping heavily until high water the following tide, when she hove off with the aid of anchor and hawser, and, being found perfectly tight, proceeded oa her voyage towards Auckland ; but, heavy breezes prevailing from the northward, with a strongly rolling sea, and ten head of the cattle having died, Captain H. Laing bore his vessel up for this port. In hauling off from the spit the anchor and about thirty fathoms of chain had to be slipped, but fifteen fathoms of chain were afterwards recovered. The Heron will be im« mediately laid on the bank here, so that her hull may be thoroughly examined. Captain Laing, who kindly furnished us with a late Wanganui paper, an extract from which is given in another column, reports that the schooner Tyne sailed from Wangauui for Otago on the 29th August, and the Wonga Wonga for Taranaki on the 30th August.

The T asm an ian Maid.— By advertisement in another column it will be seen that this vessel, now the property of the Nelson and Marl borough Steam Navigation Company, will, on Monday, September the 16th, resume her former coastal service. #

The Bbig Sttsan. The brig Susan, Captain Anderson, libb arrived from Newcastle with coals for the I.R.M. Company. She experienced a very rough passage, which lasted fifteen days, having, from the 25th August to the 4th instant, encountered a continuation of heavy squally weather, in which her maintopmast and figure head were carried away. By the kindness of Captain Anderson we are enabled to give our readers, in another column, some account of the strike of the colliers at Newcastle. The Susan passed the Cairngorm, homeward bound, on the 23rd August.