SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3490, 18 June 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Jane 17. Bailed -Wsnnta. Passongers for Wellingtons Tffesßrs J. Mill, W. J. Ashley ; for Ljttelton : Mr and Mrs Wilkinson and »ix children. WBi.MJfGTOS, Juno 17. Arrived-~Laurel, schooner, from tho Bay of Islands. , . The Steamer Huia when endeavouring to cross the Foxton bar on Friday v oraiDjr.took tho ground and still remains fast. S o has saatained no dam* age, and is expected to bo floated off oa to-mor-row morning's tide. Oamaru, June 17. Arrived— Waitaki b.b. and Sfc Kilda, fl.a. from Danedln. Sailed— Waitaki, for Btmedinj St Kilda for the North. Dunedin, Jane 17. Arrived-Otago, ship, from Glasgow, after a passage of 102 days. Had fine weathor throughout, excepting a storm at the Start, whioh compelled hor to carry her pilot to Madeira, where he was landed. Three deaths ocourred on the passage. B, M'Kay diedon the Sunday after the ship left port of acute inflammation of tho brain. A seaman named Donald Kemiedy fell from the fore-royal mast-head into the sea, and the efforts to save him wore without avail. The otber death was that of Joseph Welsh, steerage passenger, of hemorrhage •of the longs. Nonpareil, torque, from Newcastle. Foiit CnALMEita, Juno 18. Arrived— The Albion, from Lyttolton : the Torotua, from the Bluff ; the Wuitaki, from Oamoru, Sailed— Tha Friendship, on a scaling otcisa.