Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3251, 22 July 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOBKOW. tt-, itv | Port Chalmers I Dunedin ill'm. I «p.m. I 3.24 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED, Tnlv 09 —Taranaki, 299 tons, Wheeler from the Nor Th. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Vivian Atkinson Messrs Wheeler, Nolle, Ut'thiv Orb ell Galbraith. Robertson, Cato, Chapman anti fire in the steerage. Pr’ettv Jane, from Port Molyneux. Wallabi put back. SAILED. July 22.- Samson, 124 tons, Echo, for Oamaru. _ CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. inwards. Taranaki, 299 tons, Wheeler, from LytStorm Bird, 67 tons, Fraser, from Bluff. OUTWARDS. Thomas and Henry, 215 tons, Clark, for Newcastle. projected departures. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, Ang, 2 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, July 23 Bencleuch, for Newcastle, early Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, July 24 Hadda, for Newcastle, ewly. Isabella, for Auckland July 23 J N. Fleming, for London, early Mary Webster, for Auckland, early Meteor, for Wanganui, early Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, July 24 Taranaki, for Northern Ports-, July 23 Tararua, for Northern Ports and Melbomjie, J Wauganui, for Northern Ports July 80 Deer, for London, duly 24 /Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this rl ; v . _ ships : Wild Deer, and Araby Maid Barques: Hadda, Frowning Beauty. At the Railway Pier Ships :J.N. Fleming, (Wrick. Barques : Horatio Sprague, Southern Cross, Glenary, and brig Thomas and Henry.

The Stormy Petrel, from Lyttelton and Dun'edin. arrived at Sydney on July 13. The Harbor Company s steamer Samson left for her usual trip to Oamaru, this morning, at of discharging the various ships bad to be suspended during this forenoon, owing to the inclemency of the weather. The New Zealand Company a steamer Taranaki returned from the North at 8.15 this morning, her passengers and mails being conveyetHo Dunedin by the first train. Captain Wheeler reports leaving the Manakau atl p.m. on the 14th, and arrived at Taranaki at 6 a.m on the 15th; left at 9 a.m. and arrived at Welsoii at 11.30 p.m. the same (lay ; left Nelson at 12.30 p.m. on the 16th, and arrived at Picton at 9 n m ; left at 2 a.m. on the 17th, and arrived at Wellington at 8 a.m. the same day ; left on the same day at 6 p.m,, and encountered «tmncr S W. gale throughout the passage to Lyttelton; arrived there at 9.30 a.ra. on the 19th- left at 10.45 a,m. on the 20th, and arrived at Port Chalmers as above, having experienced heavy S.W. gales throughout the passage. We thank Mr C. J. Ldmiston, her purser, for our Northern files. . At a meeting of sailors in Liverpool in favor of Mr Plimsoll’s Bill, one of the speakers said: —“I don’t believe there is a nation of owners under the sun which sends so many rotten ships to sea as our English owners and English Government, You will go m more tubs out of Ensrlish ports than the ports of any other nation, and our ships are worse provisioned. There is hardly ft nation under the sun where so many men come ashore from merchant ships suffering from scurvy as in England, and this is caused by want of proper grub and water. Let us stick to Mr Plirosoll, and he will do us some good. Let us stick to him like a brick, and that is all I have to say, ” A letter appears in the Auckland Herald purporting to be from the ship s company of H.M.S. Dido, at Levuka, complaining ot a letter which appeared in the Southern Cross stating that “ m less than twelve months more than 100 men have escaped from the i>ulo, which has been described at Auckland as a floating hell, owing to the intensely severe discipline or tyranny systematically practised on board the ship.” This statement the ship s company deny, and proceed As the Dido has been a most comfortable ship during her commission—over two years and as she has in that period only lost twenty of - her ciew, most of whom could be well spared, you will perceive how false that statement is. In point of fact, she has lost considerably less men than any other ship on the station ; and wherever she has been, in New Zealand or the Cape of Good Hope, &c., complimentary paragraphs have appeared in the local papers relative to the good bohaviour and general contentment of the ship s company.”

SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

Lytlelton, July 21: Hope, from London, 105 days out. The Wanganui sails for the South at one p.m. to-day.

THE SCHOONER FLORENCE.

At the Auckland Police Court, on July 11, Neil Beaton, late master of the schooner Florence, was charged with the larceny, as bailee, of twenty bags of oats, value Lls, the property of Mr B. Tonks, on the high seas. Alexander Stephens (a seaman) deposed: I know the prisoner Beaton. I sailed with him as mate on board the schooner Florence. I shipped at Port Chalmers on the 18th of February for Wellington. The entries in the log-book were made daily, while the facts were fresh in my memory. When we arrived at Wellington we stopped there for two days. We there received two casks of water, some small stores, and two flails —an outer and inner jib. When we arrived at Wellington there was about sixty gallons of water on board the schooner ; the casks taken in at that port contained about 100 gallons each. We left Wellington on Ist March. From the 19th of February to 3rd of March the heading in the log-book for each day mentions that the vessel is from Dunedin bound for Auckland. After leaving Wellington we shaped our course for Mount Egmont. We went West about because it was blowing fresh from the N.E. it would have been possible for us to have come up the East Coast. After the 3rd of March the destination of the schooner was not mentioned in the log, because when off Mount x>g* mont the defendant told me that the vessel and cargo were his own, with the exception of a little cargo, some furniture, he had for Auckland, and he would go to some of the I'iji Islands and dispose of his cargo. I said or course, he could please himself. Def ei } ( J as a reason for his not coming to Auckland tnat ho was indebted to Mr Williams. On the Gth March we were off the North Cape, W.S.W., 10 miles. The wind was hj. by N. With the wind on the 6th and 7th of March, we could have shaped for Auckland, but we were running N. by IS. by order of the defendant. The schooner arrived at Tahiti on the 15th of April. On tae I7th of same month weighed anchor and pioceeded to the wharf, and sent a sample of oats on chore. All the oats that were °n board were, I think, discharged at Tahiti. We lett Tahiti on the 4th of May, and arrived at Apia, Samoa, on the 19th of May. At Apia, the British Consul seized the schooner in the Queen's name. Up to the time that I made the last entry in tile log it tad a blue cover to it. it was taken off my log-book and put on the one now in Court. I was told by defendant to copy from the original log-book into the one just produced; he said he would deceive the British ConsuL I copied the entries for eleven days, because I afraid of my life; but knowing that I was doing wrong I went into the bush, where I stayed all night, as I was afraid Beaton would kill ine. On the following day I went to the British Consul, and after that I was not asked to make any more entrias.—K. M. Simpson deposed : 1 was lately in charge of the schooner Florence. I brought her from Apia, Samoa, to Auckland. The British Consul (Mr Willi amß ) seized the vessel In Apia, and I was put in charge of her. I had a conversation with the defendant, in which he stated that the oats had been Tahiti by him at a very low figure, and that the proceeds of the oats had been used for the expenses connected with the vessel.—Beaton was committed for trial.