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Within the next twenty four hours scarcely a vestige of the ill fated Minerva was to be seen, the waves having washed everything away with the exception of a few beams and ribs connecting her keel with the timbers of her bows or head. During the next ten days also, the shores of the bluff of the inner harbour and of the bank beach, were strewn with the remains of the cargo, emigrants’ chests and stores of all decryptions. These as they floated in or were washed up were removed to beyond high water mark, and a police judiciously selected placed in charge, still numerous robberies were effected during the nights of Saturday and Sunday. Several sailors and others are in custody as being implicated.

The public sale of the debris and the right of beach takes place on Tuesday, at the bluff, and in the meantime a most exciting scene occurs daily in front of the Custom House at the point, where all the floating and cast up things are brought to a depot.....[regret last three lines of image not legible]