A FRUITLESS SEARCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2130, 20 December 1894, Page 35

A FRUITLESS SEARCH.

The tug Awarua ro'urned to tha Bluff from the West Coast on Saturday afternoon (though the Free* agent did not telegraph the fact), hec search for traces of the wreckage which was reported to hove been seen there recently being fruitless. Captain Macdonald mn.de a thorough search of tbe coastline to West Cape, but not tha slightest trace of wieckage was discovered. Th" Awarua sjh ku the overdue cutter Pride of the Ocuan in Preservation Inlet, and again on Saturday morning off Centre Island. Tho search made by the Awarua would indicate that no vessel largely laden with American pine shelving ht« been lost on the coast;, otherwise some of the boards must almost certainly have been sp*n. The Union Company's steanvrs to and from Me' bourne, and from West Coast ports also, run Id scaicely have failed to Bee such flotaam in the straits.

The cutter Pride of the Ocean, which feft on a sealing cruise in June, returned to luver* cargill on Sunday. She was bar- bound in the Cascade river for six weeks. The orew r»n out of provUions, and lived on fikh tolely for nearly two months.

of racing shall be decided by the Stewards or the Metropolitan Club. Their decisions on all points in connection with the carrying out of the procramms shall be final. Entries received only on these conditions. No bookmakers or spielers will be admitted to the Racecourse or enclosures, and any person laying totali&ator odds will be ejected and " warned off " : and all admission to the course will be by ticket, with this regulation printed thereon. W. QUIN, 20d Secretary.