SHIPPING.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 192, 8 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TaURANGA. ” cd sets this day ;—Morning, 7-12; Lw. ■>, f. High water at the H ads this day :—Morning, 0 46 ; Evening, 1.21. Alaou .—New moon, 14lh, 4.7 a.m. Arrivals.—J CXT, s—Southern Cross, ss, Sellars, from Auckland, via Mercury Bay, with general cargo. Pas* sengers :—Saloon — Miss Plan'd; i, Alisa Taipari, Airs Dalziell, Airs Brearley, Airs Taipari,Mrs Tucker and son.Alessrs Brearley, Btarkie, Hauaaud, Yercoo, Parke:*, Hori Haupapa. Storage: Messrs John Reilly and John Parveet,—Wm. W, . irdno, agent. 7—Swallow, schooner, Buehell, om Mercury Bay, with timber for Lundon and Conway. Departures.—J uly. 4 Gem, shooner, Diaz, for Waugapoa, from the Wairoa River, io bait t. 5 Rose, cutter, Janeon, for Wangapoa, from the W airoa River, ia ballast. 7—Southern Cross, as, Sellars, for Ohiwa, with sundries. Passengers—Mias Sawyer, and two original passengers from Auckland.—Wm. W. Cardno, agent.

STRANDING OF THE CUTTER ISABEL. We clip the following from the Hew Zealand Herald. of Saturday last ; “Last Friday, during a heavy north-east gale, the cutter Isabel, belonging to Air Wrigley, Tuuranga, was stranded on Buffalo Beach. She left Aluketu, bound for Auckland, on hursday, and the gale caught her between Tuuranga and Whangamata, about 10 p m. the same day ; she had as rnuoh as she could s gger under. nt 7 a.m. on Friday her ballast shifted, giving her a heavy list io port. It was bio wing so hard and there was such a heavy sea running they could not get below to trim it, so they had to run for Mercury Bay. She arrived in the mouth of the river at 10 a.m., the tide being about half flood, but the freshet was so strong that the current was still running out, and under the high land the wind was baffling, which caused her to drift to leeward. When she gob the wind steady again the master tried bis utmost to claw off the land but then he was among the breakers. When he found that not feasible, he dropped his anchor, to keep the vessel’s head to the sea, and let her drive up on the beach. She has sustained no harm, except the loss of her false keel. On Saturday Mr W, White commenced lifting her out of her bed preparatory to launching her, which he succeeded in doing, and she is now lying in the river. On Sunday last the cutter Start nearly came to grief on the Tairua bar. She was going out, when the wind failed her on the bar, and there being a heavy sea on she drove among the breakers, A boat’s crew left the mill to her assistance. After throwing part of her cargo overboard, they succeeded in getting her into smooth water. On Monday they got her afloat, and brought her up the harbour. Ail the damage she sustained ia the loss of one of her rudderirons and false keel.—[Own Correspondent, Mercury Bay, June 30, 1874.1 H.M.s. Challenger made a long passage to Wellington, having had to pub back to Sydney after she had been two days out. She also had rough weather on reaching this co: ?t, and took shelter in Port Hardy. After leaving Wellington the Challenger is to go to Auckland unless the Otago people induce the scientific staff' to pay them a visit, as they will make every endeavour to do. After a week’s st-y at Auckland she goes to Tonga bu aetd Fiji Islands. After cruising some time ia Polynesia generally the Challenger goes to Hong Kong, which she will make her main station for coaling and re-fitting. By telegram last night, we 1; rn that the Challenger left Wellington for Audklaud direct yesterday.