Mr Samuel has concluded negotiations with Captain Bendall, of the Underwriters' Association, as to the release of t' Bellinger, pending the Admiralty suit, which Mr Samuel claims £2000 as salvage for the Waitara steam tug towing and taking safely into Tie Waitara river the Bellinger after she got ,fast on the Waiongona reef. Captain Bendall has agreed to deposit a bond for £2000 in the Admiralty Court until a decision is given in the case, and there fore Mr Samuel now sets tho vessel free. She is now afloat in the Waitara river with an extra pump of good power fixed in her and all the holes in her bottom Btopped with cement and bags. She may leave the Waitara to-day or to-morrow for Wellington, where she goes on tho slip for repairs.
Mr Oldfield is getting everything cleared up at the Henui Ironworks, and the plant altered and put in repair for the trial smelting, which it is understood will take place under Mr Smith's supervision in a month or six weeks from date. A number of American kilns to bo built [of brick are yet to be erected for the purpose of burn ing charcoal and drying wood, which will be the sole agents used in heating the furnace.
The Shah, who fell dead in the Fljing Handicap at Wanganui, was purohased in 1886 by his last owner, Mr Saunders, for £31. In the last two scaaons, according to the Napier News, the animal had won £1500 in stakes alone. A CROSS BABY.
