SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1866, 24 September 1874, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

'■...' ">■,.- '-+—■ ——-. (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Tress Agoacy.) I Auckland, Wednesday/6,60 p.m. There 1 was>; great gale from'the west last night and' this morning. Before daylight it blew a hurricane for nearly four hours.. The sea in the harbour was very high, and rain squalls ;came on at intervals. The cutters "Triad/ 'Helen. McGregor,' and ' Seabird' were,, wrecked to the westward of the wharfy/" The shipping here was heavily bumpingagainst the piles, and vessels and the wharf sustained great injury. The barques 'Moneynick/,'Harriet ArmitageZ/Jfost Lothian,'jnd' Thames,' and the schooner ' Mera,' were all'damaged. The' Moneys nick' was most injured. Her bulwarks, -' were battered,, the stanchions sprung, ~ the ship generally'strained.'"The 'Mera' was nearly as bad.. The, '.Thames',, used bales of flax as, fenders, 'the wooden fenii ders being smashed up like tinder, Oxley's yacht, the . dragged her moorings, and drifted down close to the barque 'Loch tfrr'.' Captain Ken- ■ ' nedy, and the schooner ' Effie Meikle/'put. off,, andl after, nearly two hours, and; rowing; a distance ; of a quarter of a mile, succeeded >iri ! attaching to a rope connected with" a' buoy. The shipping eastward of- the wharf.-, was flot interfered with'. 'Great;injury was doke to the .wharf. ...AboatJ, twenty. ; piles ! ;we'fe', 'smashed : along the. west .side of tlie st'rucr r . ture, which is now very shakyi'and (will/ have to be l strengthened.;-The' ! barque . 'Montana'drifted in spite'of two anchor's ; and,Bcrew m'oqrings,'and carried theJa'tter away- early; this morning,, and Mtiof. ly / escaping collision-with; the ship''-City q£ .Auckland,/ The'barque 'Femdale/ana / steamer/Hero/broughiup,to, thVeast- ;/ ward' pf /the jriiarf.—Tlif''' E'owena' started for the BayVfislaiidEf J on 'Hbhday : i night, but returned: last jnight. She lost, her propeller off 80 miles north, , and could wharf/owing to the heavy sea;' The/- damage/' '■/- done to-day is/estimated' at £1,500.— ■'■-.; In the Police, ~!Cotfrt;_'evidence 1 ; ia the charges against;; Chiles. Blake for ; robbery, with violence'ik.Symonds^stree.t,. generally corroborated;, the .account pub- . lished:'. The apt was comtnitted;in-ord! er yto.gireV. woman/the money. -He wa5,,.,,-/ committed for trial.—William.. Baxon,_iii//£/ an";'affiliation; case;; at P4patoi^i^.jyas^ftJ/ ; ordered:to.pßy i ß3(per ! week.|v . ///^ Sharemarket :-rSales: All Nations,: 8s I' Galedoaiaa,i)£B ,f r,B.txyer3: s < of :/*' / ;London,;34s. jSeUers,:Jhamßs,Gas,3|3,; /;. iT]iamesG.l.o.,^s;srigh : tSm|e^V/: : Cure;9a6d \ Suby;.ls ; ■$#&{-/;