NEW PLYMOUTH.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 33, 23 July 1845, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH.

rprom our Tarar.aki Correspondent.'] The schooner Carbon arrived here yesterday afternoon from Wangaroa in two days, aud brought the melancholy intelligence of the total loss of the schooner Richmond, Brown master, with all on board. She was chartered when here, by Mr. J. Spencer, and left t he roadstead, in company with the Ann and Sarah cutter, on the 26th ult., for Kawhia, to receive a cargo for the Wellington market. On the evening of Saturday, the 28lh, both vessels were in company, off Albatross Point, and at 9 a.m. on Sunday, the wind blowing strong from the N.W., the cutter arrived safely in harbour, having first shipped a heavy sea or* the bar. At 11 a.m , the schooner, in getting over the bar, escaped the first and second seas, but the third passed over her, and threw her on her beam ends, and she then ! turned keel uppermost. In six hours she went to pieces. It is supposed she must have grounded on the north spit, broached too, and upset. The parties lost were the Captain and cre w, in all four hands; Mr. Frederick Aubrey, late of this settlement, and a young ro an of the name of Miles, on his way to England. The body only of the Captain, lashed to the main boom, has been found. The Carbon is now taking on board another full cargo, consisting of 10 tons of flour, 100 bushels of barley, 30 bushels of oats, 4 bushels of pollard, 2 tons of pork, and six barrels of lard ; It will sail this evening for Wellington. There is another full cargo ready stored for the Carbon's return, and intended for the Nelson market. If this, and future shipments should fail to convince his Excellency of the injustice of tampering with'the-prosperity of a settlement by an opinion unwarranted by facts and delivered with signal levity in the Legislative Council, it will be easily seen whether Taranaki with her exports, or his Excellency with facts staring him in tha face, deserve the term inaccessible. Mr. Henry Halse, passenger by the Carbon, has brought the latest Auckland intelligence, which he received from Mr. Constable, an Auckland settler. Mr. Constable stated that the day before he left Auckland for Wangaroa, in the latter end o( June, after the sailing of the Palmyra, the Rover's Bride from Welling--10.1 for Tahiti, had put in there with fever on board, and that of the passengers, Mr. Johnson, of the Firm of Johnson and Mooie, of Wellington, together with another passenger, name unknown,, had died at sea of it, and that she was immediately placed under quarantine by the Auckland authorities.