TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2603, 28 November 1867, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Nelson, November 26. Sailed— 7 p.m., Hangitoto, s.s., for Hokitika. Poet Chalmers, November 26. Sailed— 2 p.m., Egraont, s.s., for Ly Melton ; 4 p.m., Wild Wuve, for Newcastle ; 5.30 p.m., Tairoa, for Molyneux ; Eleanor, for Newcastle ; Pcfc for Newcastle ; 7 p.m., Airedale, s.s., tor the j Lyttelton, November 27. Sailed— s.4o p.m., Egmont, s.s., for Wellington. . ♦ The departure of the Government steamer St Kilda upon the surveying expedition, to which we have before alluded, has been postponed until the arrival of Mr Balfour, C.E., from the Middle Island. T . „ • j The 8.8. Wanganui, Captain Lmklater, arrived from Wanganui at 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, having left that port the same morning. She made an attempt to leave for Wellington on Monday morning, but both she and the Knngatira, the latter bound for Manukau with troops, were compelled to put back again owing to the strong gale blowing and the heavy sea on the bar. The Wanganui went to Evan's Bay yesterday morning for the purpose of adjusting her compasses. Telegrams from Dunedin state that on Sunday last, rU Oamaru, the schooner Caroline had to run ashore during a heavy south-east gale. She ■was valued at £500, and belonged to Messrs M'Eay and Goodfellow. Strange to say, her insurance policy expired on Sunday. The New Zealand Herald of the 15th says ;— Another melancholy accident has occurred, by which two men belonging to the schooner Albatross have lost their lives. The Albatross was, it appears, lying at the Manukau Heads on Sunday last, -which, as our readers will remember, was a very rough duy. The mate, named Massingham, and William Braund, the carpenter (the latter a distant connection of the master, Capt Braund), took the vessel's boat for the purpose of going to the rocks for oyßters. When leaving the schooner Captain Braund cautioned them that if they ventured they would probably have to swim for it. They, however, did venture, and the captain having taken his ship's glass was engaged watching their progress. While doing so his hat blew off, and on recovering it and again looking for the boat, could see neither it nor the men. He at onco started the vessel in the direction of the spot where ho had last seen the boat, but failed to discover any vestige of it. On going on shore afterwards, he conversed with some fishermen living near the spot where the accident occurred, and they informed him that they too had been watching the boat, and thafc it had suddenly disappeared. There can be no doubt bub that the unfortunate men have been drowned. Their bodies have been searched for, but without success ; and it is surmised, from the fact that at the time of the occurrence the tide was ebbing, the bodies were drifted out to sea.