TELEGRAM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 666, 12 July 1870, Page 2

TELEGRAM.

Wellington— July 12, 8.30 a.m., Wellington, from Lyttelton.

Mr Thomson, agent for Messrs Guthrie and Asher of Dur.edin, arrived in the Maori on Wednesday last. He brought with him screw jacks, an anchor, &c, and some heavy timber required to get the Aurora afloat again. Operations have been commenced, and Mr Thomson expects to conclude his labours this week. The. vessel seems little if any damaged, but before going to sea again as a regular trader she will receive a thorough overhaul at Dunedin. — Timaru Herald, July 9. - A telegram from Invercargill.in the Otago Daily Tunes of July 4 says : — The schooner Daphne was brought here on Friday from the Auckland Islands, by two men and a boy. She left Port Iloss on the 22nd June. ActingMaster James Cousins reports that, on the 19th May, Captain Wallace and Mr David Ashworth, ,part owners of the vessel, the latter beirfg one of the survivors from the wreck of the General Grant, together with a crew of four men, viz., Frank Leinster, James Cossar (diver), Joseph Moss, and James Bailey, lef * g^hooner in a whajeboat, with the intent' : ?tf preceding round the island to, the si*, where the General Grant was ■Hrtockcd...- They ..took -with them a Greek's provisions and diving appliances, their supposed object being the recovery of the gold lost in the General Grant. After waiting for five weeks without seeing anything of the boat, the two men. and the boy left on board the Daphne resolved to sail for Invcrcargill. Cousins was rated on the schooner's books as a cook, but he was nevertheless a certificated master. The passage across occupied nine days, during which heavy weather was experienced, and the vessel was repeatedly hove-to. The boy could not steer, and the two men had consequently to relieve each other at intervals of two hours the whole way across. No memorandum was left by -t^m on the island, so that, assuming the possibility of the boat having been stove-in in landing on any of the outlying islands, and the crew to have reached the shore, the Blanche would have no information to stimulate her to search in that direction."