IDENTIFICATION OF WRECKAGE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9547, 1 October 1892, Page 1

IDENTIFICATION OF WRECKAGE.

Auckland, September 30.—The.identity of the wreckage found at Russell has been established by Captain Farquhar, of the Clansman, as that of the Auckland schooner Reward, wrecked at Cavallis in 1887. The number on the combinga, 75,134, coincides with the register, a figure being partly erased and illegible. The piece of pine is part of the deckhouse of some other vessel that hal probably been thrown overboard. * The s.s. Tekapo steamed up from Port Chalmers yesterday forenoon and loaded cargo at the Victoria wharf. The s.s. Omapere left the Rattray street wharf yesterday-evening for the West Coast ports, via | Timani. The barque Routenbeck is taking in stiffening ballast at tlie cross wharf. Messrs H. Guthric and Co.'s. barque Alcestis, Captain Rogan, lefc Brisbane on September 12 for Dunedin, via Longne Island, Chesterfield group. Another week or 10 days should bring up to the heads the barque Star of the East, from New York. She is now 110 days out. The s.s. Tekapo, Captain G. Allman, from Melbourne, via Hobart and the Bluff, arrived at Port Chalmers at 6.45 a.m. .yesterday, and after a couple of hours' stay alongside the George street pier she steamed up to Dunedin. She loft the Queen's wharf, Melbourne, at 3.25 p.m. on the 20th ult.,'and cleared Port Philip Heads at fl.£o p.m.; had strong head winds and sea to arrival at Hobart at G. 50 p.m. on the 22nd ; left "gain at i a.m. on the 2'.ird; met a strong S.E. gale with high sea, which lasted for three days, when it moderated ; sighted Puysegur Point light at 0.00 a.m. on the 27th, passed the Solanders at 1 a.ni. on the 2Sth, and arrived alongside the Bluff wharf at 9.45 a.m., discharged and took in cargo and left again a 1.10 p.m. on'the 2.'Hh ; had head winds along the coast, arriving as above. The barque Luttcrworth was to leave Liverpool on August 15 for Wellington and Dunedin. The Cunard steamer Umbria, which made her first trip across tho Atlantic in October 1884, lias just accomplished her 103 rd trip in about four hours less time than any of her previous ones Leaving Queenstown at 1.33 p.m. on Sunday, July .11, she passed Sandy Hook Lightship at 7.5 a.m. on Saturday, August 6, thus making the nassage in 5 days 22 hours 7 minutes. Her daily runs were as follows:—46l knots, 502, 500, 427, 502,' and 388, total 2750 knots —showing an average speed of 19.37 knots per hour.