Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3223, 19 June 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER . To-morrow. Heads | Port Chalmers I Dunedin 11.28 p.m. 1 11-58 p.m. 112.43 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Claud Hamilton, 522 tons. Clarke, from the North. Passengers: Mr ana Mrs Ford, Messrs Ooote, Shaw, Campbell, Strong, Ballantinej and three in the steerage. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. INWARDS. Pioneer, 23 tons, Matheson, from Oamaru. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers: Mesdames Asher, M‘Kirby, and Maitland; Messrs Jones, Barclay, Cross, Pey7nn.r>j Walkem, Sennott, O’Meagher, Wilie, and three in the steerage. OUTWARDS. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, June 20 Elderslie, for Auckland, early Isabella, for Hokitika, early Janet Ramsay, for Wanganui, early Mary Ogilvie, for Wanganui, June 21 Maori, for Lyttelton, June 20 Pretty Jane, for Molyneux, June 21 Storm Bird,, for Bluff, June 23 Tararua, for Northern Ports, June 26 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, June 25 Wild Deer, for London, July 10 Wellington, for Northern Ports, June 24. An Auckland paper says :—We are informed by Dr Gould, the officer in charge of the immigrants on their passage from London to this port in the ship Woodlark, that the medical comforts allotted to him for the use of the passengers during the voyage were not nearly sufficient for the purposes required, notwithstanding the quick passage. It seems that before proceeding on board the vessel he went to Shaw, Seville, and Co. to see that the stores under his charge had been shipped in proper quantities. He received a list of what, he was informed, had been sent on board. On making an examination, however, he found that the actual amount of stores did not come up by any means to the description furnished to him—in some instances there being only half the quantity. The port wine supplied under the head of “ medical comforts” was lamentably deficient, and was exhausted long before the voyage was over, so that Dr Gould was obliged to furnish a quantity of wine from his own private stock, for tire use of the sickly who came out under his

hands. An English paper gives an accotint of a gallantry rarefy equalled, and perhaps never surpassed. This was displayed by Mr Bumbey, chief officer of the Coast Guards, at the wreck of the schooner Bridgewater in Stag Bay, beneath the romantically situated village of Clovelly, in Devon* England. The schooner went ashore during a blinding snowstorm. Hundreds of villagers congregated on the pier watching the blanched faces of the crew as they leaned over the bulwarks, expecting each moment to be swept into the breakers which raged between the ship and the shore. No life-boat could be launched* and death appeared imminent, when ( Mr Bumbey, who is a noted swimmer, stripped off his clothes, heedless of the biting blast, and, fastening a life-line round him, plunged off the pier, into the surf. With intense eagerness the spectators watched him battling with the waves, often disappearing for what seemed a minute, but at leng n, when evidently quite exhausted, he reached the vessel, and was dragged up the ship’s side amidst tremendous cheering from the shore. Communication being thus established, the crew one by one scrambled whore, Mr Bumbey coming last. At midnight on the same night, a mile from the scene of this heroic exploit, a similar service was rendered by one of the crew of a French schooner for his comrades, the shipwrecked men remaining at one side of a precipitous cliff, afraid to stir, and yet perishing with cold and exhaustion.