AUCKLAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 657, 22 March 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This Day. The Mongonui correspondent of the Herald sends the following telegram .respecting the steamer Glenelg, this evening : — The steamer Glenelg was off Three Kings on Wednesday night, short of water, provisions, and coals, and her sails blown away. She sent a boat ashore m charge of the mate and four men. The sea was very rough and one man was drowned m landing. They came ashore at Yates' station, near the North Cape. After landing, they could see nothing of the steamer, and the boat was unable to go back. When the boat left the steamer, there was only 3 inches of fresh water m the tank, and they had only a few biscuits. The steamer was obtained on the Clyde some time ago by Captain McGregor, of this port, for the purpose of running on the coasting trade m company with the steamer Rowena. The Coroner's inquest on SergeantMajor Frazer, of the Armed Constabulary, and Drill Inspector to Waikato Volunteer Cavalry, resulted m a verdict of " Suicide while laboring under temporary insanity." He shot himself m

the heart with a revolver m a bed-room at Te Awamutu. Frazer was one of the Six Hundred at the charge of Balaklava. Reports from the Taupo at Tauranga state her m a worse posilion than ever. The north-east gale yesterday was much injured her. One of her leaks has been stopped up, and it was expected that the other would soon be m a position to allow the vessel being floated. Yesterday's gale, however, caused her to rock about on the bottom, which broke out the stopped-up leak, and made the other much worse. A meeting of the Insurance Companies interested was held this afternoon, on the matter, but no decided resolution was come to.