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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 604, 20 January 1879, Page 2

The schooner Telegraph, with a cargo of timber, which left Auckland last week for Gisborne, m going out into the stream, got foul of the brigantine Active, and the jibboom of the latter, by some means or other, got fixed between the masts of the Telegraph. The vessels remainined m this position for a considerable time, and the Telegraph finally dropped down with the ebb tide. Little or no damage was sustained by eithar vessel. The barque Scbiehallion (the wreck of which was mentioned m our English cable news of Friday last) left Auckland for London on September 21st. She was within a day's sail of her destination when she was wrecked on the Isle of Wight. The barque was one of Messrs. Shaw, Saville and Co.'s, and was loaded with a valuable carge of cobra, gum, wool, and other produce to the value of £18,242. The vessel was a smart iron barque of 650 tons, and commanded by Captain John Levack. She was heavilly insured m the local offices. She had on board 11 passengers, but it is apprehend from the telegrams that they were saved, as no intimation has been received to the contrary. The following are their names : — Mrs. Susan Smith, Mr. and Mrs. George Chapman, G. F. and Mabel Chapman, Mrs. Storey and children, and William Taylor.