Found - one teak gun carriage

Olwyn, a Kiwi in Texas, sends us this item she discovered, from the Otago Witness, 19 February 1891, Page 15:

The Hinemoa returned to the Bluff at 7 a.m. on Saturday after a further search for the missing steamer Kakanui. The survey party, which has been down at the Snares surveying the site for a lighthouse, returned by the Hinemoa.
-----They discovered traces in a cove or cave on the west side of the Snares of a wreck having taken place there, whether recently or some years ago is a matter of conjecture.
-----A topsailyard, with halyards attached, and also the topmast of a ship were found in this cove, also a quantity of candles and a teak gun carriage. On part of this carriage are the letters MLSXH, but no clue to the identity of the vessel was found. Although the evidence is very slight, yet the lettering on the gun carriage mentioned above may serve as a clue to the identity of the vessel from which it came.
-----It is evident that some good ship has met her fate on the treacherous Snares, and this is only a further illustration of the urgent need for a lighthouse on these islands, situated as they are right in the track of ocean-going ships and exposed to all the storms that rage in the "roaring forties".
-----Three ships during the last 10 years, bound to this colony, which have never been heard of were the Knowsley Hall, which disappeared 10 years ago; the Min-y-Don, a vessel which left Newcastle for Lyttelton about seven years ago, and was never more heard of; and the Trevelyan, which left England for New Zealand about five years ago, and never reached the colony.