SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3771, 16 August 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NAPIER

ARRIVALS

August. 15—Maori, s.s., from Wairoa. 10—Taiaron, s.s., from Port Chalmers

direct. 16—Southern Cross, s.s., from Gisborne. Passengers-Miss Kup, Messrs J. Finlayson, W. Curtis, Smith, and three

others. 16 Silver Cloud, three-masted schooner, from Newcastle, N.S.W.

DEPARTURES,

August. IG—Taiaroa, s.s., for Gisborne and Auckland. Passengers—Mrs Close, Messrs Vickers, Anderson, Proctor, and three natives.

The three-masted schooner Silver Cloud, Captain Balle, arrived in our roadstead this morning at 10 o'clock, from Newcastle, N.S.W. She brings a cargo of coals consigned to her owner, Mr J. H. Vautier. She left Newcastle on the sth, and made Cape Farewell in eight days, being only twelve days from port to port. She experienced fine weather till reaching the coast, when she encountered squally weather and heavy seas. The Union Company's s.s. Taiaroa, Capt. Piii'sons, arrived this morning , from Port Chalmers direct. Through the kindness of her purser, Mr Fremont Weber, we arc favored with the following report:—Left Port Chalmers at 4.15 p.m. on the 13th, and cleared the heads at 4.45 p.m. ; passed Akaroa heads at 9 a.m. on the 14th, Cape Palliser at 8 a.m. on the loth, and arrived at the anchorage at 3 a.m. to-day. Experienced strong head wind and sea throughout. Passed a three-masted schooner off Castle Point. She discharged her inward cargo, consisting of a quantity of transhipments ex British King - , to the lighter Sir Donald, and steamed on her course to Gisborno and Auckland at 9.30 a.m. The Union Company's s.s. Southern Cross, Capt. Allnian arrived from Gisborne this morning at daylight. She was brought inside and moored to the breastwork. She takes her departure for Wellington tomorrow at noon. The s.s. Maori, Capt. Anderson, arrived from Wairoa at 10 o'clock last night. [by telegraph.] Dunedin, This day. Arrived, Waimate, from London, all well. The Melbourne Argus of the 11th instant to hand by the mail, has the following:— " Another vessel that hns been long overdue is now abandoned as lost, viz., the brigantine Adieu, which sailed from Greymouth, one of the New Zealand ports, on the 10th of April, with a cargo of timber for Melbourne. She was under the command of Mr J. H. Rice, and owned by Messrs W. Glen and Co., a New Zealand shipping firm. At the time of leaving Groyinouth she would probably have had a crew of six or eight hands on board, and being in want of an overhaul it seems likely that she has become unmanageable, and foundered in heavy weather. The Adieu was a wooden vessel of 174 tons net register, and was built in 1870 at Brisbane Water, N.S.W. GitEYJrouTir, This day. The steamer Napier, which Avas outsido during the late bad weather, came in over <a rough bar yesterday, after having very little coal in her bunkers, and little food, and all cattle gone. Captain Fisk reports leaving Patea on Thursday. Encountered a heavy gale to Cape Farewell, put into Nelson, where GO sheep that were on deck were sold. - Left Nelson on Friday. All the cattle were then well. The weather was good to Cape Foulwind, but foul weather from there. A terrific gale was experienced on Monday night. Three bullocks wore thrown overboard on Sunday night, and on Monday night four more. The sea became so heavy and the vessel was shipping so much water that the captain deemed it advisable for the protection of life and property to close hatches in order to prevent the vessel foundering. The remaining cattle soon died. It rained incessantly and heavily the whole time.