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Star (Christchurch), Issue 664, 9 July 1870, Page 2

"•' The s.s. Maori, Capt Malcolm, sailed for ' Danedin, via intermediate ports, at 10 o 'clock last evening. The s.s. Airedale sailed for Dunedin at 1.30 p.m. The barque Alexandrine hauled into the Railway Wharf this morning to discharge. : ■ The schooner Clyde cleared the Customs this morning for Auckland. - .■ ■ The Lady Barkly was sent on a trip in the Bay on Saturday last, for the purpose of testing the quality of the coals procured from the Collingwood mine; and, at the invitation of Mr Cross, her.owner, a number of persons interested in the enquiry accompanied her on .her trip. The weather was wet andunfavour- ' able, but sufficient opportunity was afforded '""to test pretty accurately the usefulness of the product of this mine, although large allowance should be mode for the coals being ■ of an intermixed quality, and so far inferior to wbat the best seam in the mine can produce. It is of a very gaseous quality, and burns most brightly in household grates. For steam purposes it is a very quick fuel, but it " clinkers " somewhat, and the fires have to be cleaned every four hours; further supplies however, may be found to be exempt from the shale which has produced this effect with the first parcel, and the quality as a steam coal be thus commensiirately improved. —Nelson ' Colonist, July 5. The Guatemalan ship Clarissa was wrecked near Papieti, on the reef Motu-uta, on the 9th March last. The wreck took place on the same spot where the Indefatigable was lost about eight years since. On Monday, the 18th of April last, the French „ transport Euryale, which had been for six years on the Tahitian Naval Station, was • wrecked at Starbuck Island, 800 miles from Tahiti, in latitude 5.37 south, and longitude 158.16 west. The Euryale stuck on a reef i near that lonely island, on the night of the ■sth of March, seven days after the sbip left Tahiti. No liv* s were lost -, and the mail and much of the provisions, &c, were saved. , Starbuck Island is comparatively but little known. The west point of the island has now been exactly determined by the officers . of the Euryale to be in 5.37 south, and ,15816 west of Paris. The island extends for six miles from east to west.--Southern Cross, June 28.