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Wellington Independent, Volume XXV, Issue 3007, 16 June 1870, Page 4

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» •.• Mb Good's flax mills at Urenui were put in motion last week. Everythingconnected with them is of local manufacture, and are working satisfactorily. George Outfield, Esq, has been appointed Deputy-Superintendent, during the absence of F. A. Carrington, Esq, from the province, on that gentleman leaving to attend the General Assembly. Oa Monday evening last, between five and seven o'clock, a robbery was committed in the Masonic Hotel, by which Mr John Uncles is the loser of a sum of £64 Is 6d, and other property. He must have been watched, for while at tea the thief took advantage ol his being engaged to go up to the bedroom unperceived, and effect the robbery. The thief prized the locks of three drawers in a chest of drawers, and succeeded in securing £22 in gold, a £1 note, 30s in silver, and foui cheques —representing £39 5s 6d. Th< cheques were as followp: —a £10 cheque signed by R. Chilman; two cheques 0 £10 Is 6d, signed by Arthur Tuke, Arme< . Constabulary, and one for £9 2s 6d., signec , by L. Von Rotter. OPUNAKE. The Opunake correspondent of the"Herald" says that the cutter Lizzie, after being blown about for nearly a month between this place and New Plymouth, beached this morning, discharged her cargo, and in attempting to | beat out against a south-west wind, drifted on to the rocks on the north-west Bide of the bay, about four p.m., the tide about tbreequarter flood, and not much surf. The captain and crew did their best with the limited means at their disposal, to avoid the accident, but without avail. She bumped heavily on the rocks, but it was thought if slie was not too much damaged that she might be hauled off next tide. However on examining her at low water it was found that she had become a total wreck, a great many of her planks having started from the stem and stern posts. The men in the employ of the Cape Egmont Company, and a few natives, assisted the crew to remove the sails, ropes, &c, and it is expected that this night's tide will in a great inensure break her up." And adds—" Had she had about double the length of chain on board, she would have been hauled out far enongh beyond the surf to give her a chance to beat to windward." Owing to the wet weather, the opening feast of the Opunake Flax Works Company, was not the enjoyable thing that had been expected, though the appetite of the natives was in no way blunted. Mr Commissioner Parris starts for Otea to-morrow. Mr T. Kelly, M.G.A., also departs to-morrow, via Patea, en route for Wellington. We had a flood in the Waiaua yesterday, although there was little rain. It rolled down in a body four feet high, without any previous warning —in a few minutes it was at its full height, but it went down in a few hours, with no damage to the works.