DEPARTURES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3534, 4 November 1882, Page 2

DEPARTURES.

November

4-—Manapouri, s.s., for Southern ports and Melbourne. Passengers—Mr and Mrs J. V. Brown infant and servant, Mesdames Williams and Yon Tempsky, Messrs Robert Little, W. Beamish R. Miller, M. R, Miller, J. N. Williams, Martin, A McLean, F. Hampton, H. Saunders, E. Dawbin, J. J. Mackersey, P. fcharp, Morris, and Somerville.

The Union Steamship Company's s.s. Manapouri, Captain Logan, arrived in the roadstead from Sydney via Northern ports at an early hour this morning, and was tendered soon afterwards for mails and passengers by the launch Boojum, and for cargo, some 35 tons, by the ketch Admiral. Wo were not favored with the report of this vessel's passage. Her outward Melbourne and Southern mails and passengers were embarked at about noon, and she steamed on her way shortly afterwards. The steamer Kiwi, which was expected to arrive here from Wellington this morning, has not yet arrived, having been probably detained on the coast. She is not now expected to arrive before Sunday night or Monday morning. The launch Boojum returned from from Wairoa at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, bringing passengers and cargo. The steamer Oreti leaves for Auckland this afternoon, taking a load of life stock and maize.

The s.s., Maori, Capt. Anderson is to leave for Wairoa at 10 o'clock on Sunday night, taking a full cargo.

The Union Steamship Company's s.s. To Anau left Wellington at 8 o'clock last night, ■with 62 tons of cargo, for this port, and is expected to put in an appearance at about 3 o'clock this afternoon. She will be tendered on arrival for passengers and cargo, and is announced to steam for Northern ports at 4 o'clock.

The Union Company's s.s. Omapere, which left Wellington at 2 o'clock yesterday, is not expected to arrive here until late this afternoon, and her time of departure for Gisborne, Tauranga, and Auckland, has been postponed until 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon.

The barque Alexa, which arrived afc Wellington from Foochow the other day, had a Tery narrow escape through encountering a terrible cyclone on August 19th. Ifc came on to blow a perfect hurricane from the N.N.W., the ship being then on a lee shore. Bain fell in torrents and drove along with blinding force, the lightning also being terrific. Happily the wind shifted to westward, and enabled the ship to run through a channel between Sundon rocks and the mainland, bufc for which her destruction was inevitable. The Alexa scudded before the gale under lower topsails, bufc the same night the tempest suddenly burst on her from the S.E., throwing the vessel on her beam ends. The topsail sheets were let go, but the sails •were instantly blown out of the bolfc ropes. Afc midnight the ship was still on her beam ends, with her lee rigging about ten feefc under water, only a small part of the weather deck being visible. The weather backstays -tvere cut to let the topmasts and topgallantmasts go over the side, but the ship was lying over so much that the masts were almost flat on the water, and the wind was blowing along them so that ifc had no power to carry them over. All the spare spars and deck hamper went overboard. The typhoon reached its height about 2 a.m. on the 20th, when the barometer bad fallen to 2990, after which ifc began to rise, but the storm did not abate till 4 a.m. A strong sulphurous smell prevailed during the typhoon. One of the boats was blown off the skids, bufc waß canghfc by the rigging. The poop ladders were blown away; at 5 a.m. the wind shifted and the ship righted. She then scudded under bare poles. Afc daylight she presented a most; dismal spectacle, with tattered sails, ropes broken and twisted round the rigging, and everything in disorder. The sea was terrible, but the Alexa behaved beautifully.

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New York, November 1

The Merchant Shipping and Underwriter's Asuociation report the arrival of the ship Laurita from Auckland (sailed June G).

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Dunedin, November 4. Arrived, Nerens, Captain Wolledge, 99 days out from London.