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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3646, 24 January 1899, Page 5

A link connecting New Zealand with South Australia—in addition to the interesting fact that Sir George Grey was Governor of -both colonies ut different periods in hie career—is provided in the circumstance ■ that the warship .Buffalo, which- conveyed to South Australia Captain Hiudiaarsh, the first Governor of that colony, lies stranded on the New Zealand coast, where some of her planking is still intact. At the official luncheon at -Glenelg on Commemoration Daj - , the- Mayor, SiVlr H. Y- Sparks, announced; , amidst cheers, that he had commissioned two friends to endeavour to get from the Buffalo sufficient wood to construct a Mayoral chair for the town, which' he hopes to have made before; he vacates his office. Mr Sparks is thus giving a suggestion which emanated from the Adelaide " Register ” last December, that a relic of the'Buffalo should be procured for ’.permanent preservation in tbs 'colony. H.M.S. Buffalo was one, of the many wooden vessels which vent ashore and were' abandoned cither with;.or without: loss: of life in the earlier years of Now Zealand, colonisation, and to South Australians her ‘ sturdy old hull possesses the same sort of interest which in England attaches to the limbers of Nelson’s famous flagship Victory. * Mr Robt. C. Cox, a,South Australian-gentle-man, now travelling- through New' Zealand, is making inquiries as to the location of the wreck of the Buffalo, and means to make an endeavour to secure a jiortion of her timbers.