Shipping Intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3090, 23 May 1881, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

FORT AHURIRI

ARRIVALS.

21—Fairy, s.s., from M'ahia.- PassengersMessrs Parker and Williams. 21—Venus, ketch, from Mercury Bay. 21 —Maori, s.s., from Wairoa. Passengers — Mcßdam.es Light and Taylor, and Mr Percival. 22—"Endeavor, topsail sshooner, . from Oamaru.

DEPARTURES

fMav .■ 21—Albion, s.s., for Northern ports. Passengers—Misses Dougherty and B. M. Boyle, Mr and Mrs Hansen and 4 children, Mr and Mrs Anderson, Mr F. J. Moss, M.H.R., Messrs Roach, Boyd, Hira, R. Henderson, Blucher, D. Peck, Beegan, Marden, Dunstall, Leacock, J. H. Brown, and Waddington, Master Griggs, and about 25 original.

Tho Union Company's s.s. Albion, Capt. Anderson, steamed for' Northern ports at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening. The s.s. Maori, Captain H. Anderson, arrived from Waivoa on Saturday evening, bringing a small cargo and some passengers. She is to leave for the same port at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning. The steamer Wesnlt, Captain W. E. Baxter, is to leave for Wairoa to-morrow evening, The'steamer Fairy, Captain Campbell,_retnrncd from "Martin on Saturday evening, bringing two passengers, 25 casks and 2 drums of whale oil, and 9.2 sacks of maze.

The topsail schooner Endeavor, Captain James Dick, arrived from Oamaru yesterday morning. She reports having left that port on Monday last, and experienced principally strong N. winds during the passage. She brings a cargo of 100 sacks of pollard, 590 sacks of oats, and 475 sacks of flour, to various consignees.

LOSS OF A SEAMAN OVERBOARD

The ketch Venus, Captain John King, arrived yesterday morning from Mercury Bay with a cargo of 31,000 feet sawn timber consigned to Mr H. R. Gunn. She reports having left on the 11th instant, with a westerly wind, which lasted till Friday night, when she was off Wairoa. _ A southerly gale then sprung up, compelling Captain King to heave the vessel to. On Saturday morning at 7 o'clock, when about one mile to windward of Portland Island, a very heavy spa threw the vessel on her beam ends/making a clean breach over her, and carrying Richard Jones, a sailor, overboard. He was at the time of the accident standing aft, to leeward of the captain, who was steering. As soon as the vessel rose again, Captatn King, seeing the man in the water, threw him a plank, but as he made no effort to reach it it is thought that he must have been stunned against the lee rigging or bulwarks. It was impossible to put the boat overboard in such a heavy . sea, and to have put the vessel about would have been almost certain destruction for the craft itself. As soon as she was clear of Portland Island she ran into Whangawehei, and lay there until Friday, when she again started, arriving here as above. Captain King believes Jones to have been about 35 years of age, and a native of Wales.

[BY TELEGRAPH", j Welxington, May 23. The mail steamer Zealandia, with the London mails of the 21st ultimo, left 'Frisco for Auckland on Sunday the Bth, one day late. The City of Sydney, with the colonial mails, arrived at 'Frisco on the 18th, one day in advance of her due date.

[by cable.] London, May 21. The steamship Orient arvivod ufc Plymouth to-day with the Australian mails of April 6th. Sydney, May 21. Arrived, H,M,S, Wolverine from New Zealand.