SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF OAMARU.
VESSELS IN POUT. Brigantinea— Darcy Pratt and Endeavour iSchooners — Cora, Transit, and Jane Anderson.
ENTERED INWARDS. Jan. 3.— Nil.
CLEARED OUTWARDS. Jan. 3. -Nil.
There were no entries or clearances at the Customs yesterday. The Peter Mitchell, a schooner of about 100 tons register, has been chartered in New York to proceed to the wreck of the San Pedro de Alcantara, a Spanish vessel which, many years since, sunk w'th treasure to the amount of 6,000,000 dollars on the coait of Venezuela The Government of that State h;s granted a convention to Capt, Folingsby, the charterer, for the sole privilege of searching fur the treasure in and around the spot of the wreck during a term of six years on payment of a royalty of 5 per cent, on the salvage.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2082, 4 January 1879, Page 2
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