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Southland Times, Issue 3026, 9 March 1878, Page 2

The cutter Sarah Jane, when going out tbis morning, struck on the stern post of the --wreck of the Ocean Chief, staving three of her planks below the water line. She was then run ashore on the beach and temporarily repaired, and proceeded to Stewart s Island. ,^«ii . Messrs H. Houghton and Co.'s steamer Oreti, Captain Bayldon, arrivedafc the JVew Pier yesterday, at 2.30 p.m. For the first time since she took np the trade she has made a good runup, and we therefore hope that the singular spell of bad luck which attended her is at last ended. Her trip this time was nnartly made, Port Chalmers being left at 730 P.m. on Wednesday, the Heads cleared at 8.10 p.m;, and Bluff Harbor breasted at 9.30 a.m. yesterdayi She pushed on for the . wer, and came to an anchor off Mokomoko, •when the tide made steamed slowly up the harbor, and reached the Tier as above. Light •winds were experienced to the Nuggets, and thence calms and light south-west airs. The Oreti brought 6J tons of cargo, discharged it Yesterday afternoon, and is to leave early this lor jjuueuw, a-irtrur icrfVb v"«- \)T__uri 6> oa. I•barking passengers by the last train from Invercargilh Two ketches—probably the expected Kestrel and Palmerston—were passed off the Nuggets on Thursday nighfc by the steamer Oreti. The schooner Mary Silen finished loading yesterday at Murdoch's for Dunedin, and will " sail first slant of wind.