TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 22 July 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton: 218t — 3.50 p.m., Wellington, for Wellington. Napier : 21st— 3 p.m., Rangatira, from Wellington. A rumor was current in town last night that a schooner, supposed to be tho Helen Macgregor, went ashore the other side of tho Manawatu. Considering the severity of the weather on the West Coast, we shall not bo surprised to hear of some casualties. The s.s. Go-a-Head, Captain Doile, was at Wanganui, on Thursday last. She came down to the heads, but the weather being tempestuous, and a heavy sea on the bar, she did not go out. By our recent files we have the following particulars of the accident or suicide reported in our telegrams yesterday, as having taken place on board the Collaroy on her trip from Sydney to Newcastle The Newcastle " Chronicle" of July 6, says the Collaroy left Sydney at her usual time on Monday evening, bound for this port, and was rounding the North Head of Port Jackson at about thirty- five minutes past eleven, being two ship's lengths distant from the shore, and travelling at tho rate of W\ knots, having just set her eanvaa, engines were immediately eased, then stopped, when therearoseacry of ' Man overboard.' The and afterwards reversed tc full speed astern, and the life-buoy was thrown from ther quarter ivithin five yards of a man who was distinctly seen floating on the surface by Mr Richardson, of Raymond Terrace, and the second officer. One of thequarter-boatswas in the water within a few seconds and pulled in the direction of the life-buoy, picking it up, but failing to discover the man, who made no attempt to keep himself afloat. After searching for a quarter of an hour without any result, the boat returned, waß hoisted up again and the steamer proceeded on her voyage. AMr Mailler and one of the crew state that they saw the deceased get on the port rail and deliberately lower himself over the vessel's side, just forward of tho wheel. The seaman rushed to the spot, and endeavored, but too late, to catch hold of him ; and he let go, passing under the wheel, which must have killed him instantaneously. The Buicide,who was a steerage passenger, was a perfect stranger to every one on the boat, wa9 perfectly eober, of middle age.rather stout build, and had the appearance of a labouring man. Tho schooner Cora, from Dunedin, with a general cargo for Invercargill, arrived at the Heads on Saturday, July Ist, and was delayed there until this morning, pending an arrangement with consignees to discharge her cargo here instead of Invtrcargill wharf. She got under weigh to beut up to the wharf with the flood tide to-day, and while standing over towards Tewais Point missed stays, and touched on the rocks, but came off immediately, and proceeded on the other tack for the wharf. Captain Russell thought at the time that she had not received any damago but on trying the pumps, found that she wa3 making wuter very fast. She was then run on the beach below the wharf. By this time there was between three aud four feet of water in her hold, from which smoke was issuing, caused by quick-lime (part of her cargo) becoming heated by the water. Observing some thing wrong, a number of boats put off to her assistance. A signal was made at the mainmaßt head for a pilot, but from the position of the vessel it could not be Been at the pilotstation, and a messenger had to be sent to the Harbor Master, who, with the boat's crew, shortly arrived. She was then hauled on to the beach alongside the east end of the wharf, and the main hatches taken off, when a volume of smoke and steam began to ascend from the hold, into which a dozen men jumped and began to pass up the cargo with amazing rapidity ; but " humans" could not stand this work long, so they came up, made a furious attack on Martin's beer, then went down to it again, when bags of sugar, flour, and other light packages came up flying up like feathers before a gale. In a short time all the cargo that was not thoroughly immersed in water "was on the wharf. The goods principally damaged are bottled beer, hhds of salt, 6ugar, flour, and rice. When the tide bad receded, and left her partly dry on tho beach, a hole was found on the starboard side, under the foremost, which appeared aa if made by a sharp pinnacle of rock. This will be temporarily repaired, when the remaining part of the cargo discharged, and afterwards she will be beached for thorough repairs. — "Southland Times," July 7. That the ocean abounds with wonders ia daily being exemplified, and seldom more forcibly co than in the experience of Capt Ward, of the barque Providence of Hartlepool, who has just returned from Dantzic, at which port he was frozen up during the the late severe winter. He Btates that during his outward voyage to that port, in November last, the ship sprang a severe leak during a gale in the Baltic, and Iris crew were all but exhausted in their efforts at the pumps to reduce it. One day she suddenly stopped muting more water, and eventually tho vessel reached Danlzie, safely. After the discharge of the cargo a search was made for the leak, resulting in the discovery of a hole in the centre of one of the after planks from the yielding of a knot in tho wood, and in this npperture was wedged a dead fish, whose collision with fchcvc33ol when alive had been tho evident cause of the stoppage of the leak, and consequent salvation of the ship and crew. — " The Times."