THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam” DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22369, 17 September 1934, Page 4

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam” DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

LOSS OF THE SCHOONER SEBIM. Capt.. Urquhart, of the schooner Sebim, is a passenger from Lyttelton by the steamer Auckland. He reports the loss of his vessel at the Chatham Islands, during a heavy gale which prevailed at the time of his arrival there from Otago. During the gale one of the Sebim's- chains snapped, and the vessel was driven upon the beach, in a situation where she very soon became a total, wreck. , . .Fortunately there was no loss of life, Captain Urquhart, Mrs Urquhart, and the crew being able to reach the shore in safety. WRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE AT NELSON. The Nelson Colonist reports the total loss of the handsome brigantine Delaware, winch arrived at that port from England on the 10th August. . . . Within twentyfour hours of her departure from Nelson for Napier she was a total wreck, and all that remains of her now lies upon the rocks off Wakapuaka and along the coast of the little bight where she was stranded in the fearful gale that prevailed, and all around the beach for at least three miles are strewn boxes, barrels, blankets, shawls, candles, innumerable tins of fancy biscuits, full and empty, and the debris of many packages of grocery, saddlery, drapery, and other goods, mingled with fragments of wreck, splintered in many instances into very small pieces. The mate, in attempting to swim ashore, was hurt by the rocks, drawn on board again, and left as dead, but subsequently appeared on deck, was washed overboard by a tremendous sea, and drowned. . . .

■\ The Government have promised immediately to advance L3OOO to the Town Board; so that the Bailiff will soon cease to be "in possession" at the offices, and some of the most pressing of the other demands will be met. ' . The ship Mataura, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Tuesday evening with nearly four hundred souls on board, and was placed in quarantine in consequence of the occurrence of smallpox and scarlet fever during the passage, still remains at the quarantine anchorage, and, according to a resolution of the Board of Health yesterday, will remain there until it is considered prudent to issue contrary instructions; ... A special meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade was held last evening at the Provincial Hotel. In the course of the business, Captain Rees stated that the whole of the engines and apparatus being within the premises of the Town Board, had been levied upon by the bailiff, and was therefore in possession of the Sheriff. He did not doubt that the Brigade would be allowed the free use of them iu case of a fire; but, if not. a forcible removal would have to be risked. Mr Hughes, the bailiff, who made the seizure, and who is also a member of the Brigade, said he had acted in the ordinary way of business, but that the engines and apparatus would be at the service of the Brigade, if required. Notice is given from the Colonial Defence Office that the Governor in Council has ordered that the Mutiny Act and Articles of War shall he in force with respect to all Officers, Non-Commissionod Officers, and Privates of the Colonial Defence Force in all parts of the Colony.