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Evening Star, Issue 3351, 15 November 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

high water. To-morkow. FHH-AD3 I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 1211pm. I 12.51 p.m. | 1.36 p.m. Monday. 12.9 p.m. 1 1.9 p.m. i 1.51 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. November 11.-Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Lady Agnes, 286 tons, Inend, from New York. Passenger —Captain Duncan Sherman. SAILED. November 14. —Beautiful Star, s.s., 11b tons, Hart for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Woodville, 302 tons, Hodge, for Newcastle. projected departures. Albion, for Northem Ports, Nov. 21 Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, Nov. 19 Jane, for Moeraki, early Peter Denny, for London, early Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, early Samson, for Oamaru, Nov v lß Tararua, for Melbourne, Nov. 27 Wanganui, for Bluff, Nov 18 Wellington, for Northern Ports, Nov, 18 The ketch Flying SquirreTwas taken out of dock this morning. The ship Lady Jocelyn will commence discharging on Monday. . , , , . , , . The s.s. Beautiful Star sailed last night tor Lyttelton and intermediate ports, and the p.s. Paterson for the North. The ship Bebiugton, for the Bluff, with transhipments from the Rokeby Hall, will be towed out this evening. Captain James Smith has received the appointment of keeper of the new light ship to be placed on the Timaru Bank, In the passenger list of the p.s. Paterson, for Wellington, Captain Stevens, Dr Tuck, and Mr Beaver’s names were omitted. The fine American schooner Fannie Hare nailed this morning, via Oamaru, for Auckland, where she loads for San I rancisco. The barque Lady Agnes, in being removed from the stream to the railway pier, got foul of the ship Wild Duck, but fortunately did no s.s. Wallabi, from the Bluff, arrived at 4.15 p.m. yesterday, having left at 6 p.m. on the previous evening. We thank her steward for Southland files. The steamers Wellington, from Northern ports, Maori, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports, and Wanganui, from the Bluff, are due at Port Chalmers to-morrow. There were seven persons removed yesterday from the Quarantine Island. There is one child nowin the Hospital with suspicious symptoms. The others are progressing favorably. The barque Woodville, which was taken into the floating dock yesterday, after having a few sheets of copper replaced, was out this morning atuf towed to sea by the tug Geelong. Yesterday afternoon, the barque Lady Agnes arrived, under the charge of Pilot !K.elly, and anchored off Carey’s Bay, after a long and protracted passage of 107 days from New York. Captain Friend reports leaving New York on the 31st July, with fine weather. Light and variable winds were experienced to the equator, which was passed after forty days, on account of having no N.E. trades. The equator was crossed on the 10th of September, in long. 28 W. The S.E. trades were then caught well to the S.E., which continued good and steady until lat. 36 S., long. 26 W., the wind hauling well from the north. On the Ist of October the meridian of Greenwich was crossed ; on the sth strong westerly wind, which increased to a heavy gale from the N.W. ; shortened sail to close-reefed topsail; continued until 6 p.m. ; at 7 p.m. she shipped a heavy sea, which broke the wheel, washed the binnacle and lamps overboard, filled the decks fore and aft and the cabin ; hove the ship to until daylight next morning, when the crew went to work to repair the damage ; bore away again at 6 p.m. on the 6th ; on the 22nd passed the Kcrguclin Group to the southward; on the 25th passed the Crozct Islands to the north. Her easting being run down on a general parallel of 49 and 50 S. ; off the South Cape on the morning of the 12th; sighted the Nugget light in the evening, with fine weather and head winds from thence to arrival. She brings a general cargo of Yankee notions, part for this port and the remainder for Auckland. On the 25th of September, when_ in lat. 321, S. and long. 20 Wi, spoke the ship Isabella Kerr, coal-laden, bound to Bombay from Greenock, which was on fire. Her captain refused assistance, the fire not being very strong, and she was making for the Cape of Good Hope. This was the only ship spoken oft the voyage. About six months ago several paragraphs appeared in the local papers in reference to the ketch Mary Ann, which left this port in April last, for Omaha, to load with firewood for Napier. It was known that her master and owner had a shingle loose in his upper story, and fears were entertained for the safety of the vessel and crew. Since then we have been favored from time to time with scraps of intelligence regarding the missing vessel; the last published being extracted from a New Bedford journal, stating that the ketch had been fallen in with by a whaler in May last, and been supplied with provisions and u chart. Our Norfolk Island correspondent writes under date October 25. “Since the date of my last report, 20th September, we have had the American barque California call for letters only, leaving immediately after on a whaling cruise. Captain Chase reports having spoken a ketch in lat. 28 S., which had been blown off the coast of New Zealand, short of water, provisions, and sails. Captain Chase, after supplying the little craft with what was most needed, advised the master to run for Norfolk Island, as he bore the appearance of being somewhat in distress. Same day the California spoke a large ship from San Francisco, bound to Sydney, with a large number of passengers on board. The master of this vessel also was advised to run for this Island, bsing very short of water. On the evening of the Ist October a small craft was noticed making for the island. Tha following morning she was only a short distance from the Cascades, and seven of our boats pushed off that morning in search for whales, and succeeded in killing one. While towing it towards the landing one of the boats passed pretty close to the ketch —then under canvas—and to their surprise a man was noticed to jump overboard from her and swim towards them. He was ipeedily picked up, and when questioned as to the reasons for quitting bis vessel in that strange manner, he replied it was better to jump than be thrown overboard. Altogether, the man’s behaviour and his general appearance gave rise to a suspicion that he was a little deranged. However, towards evening, Mr William Quintal, Magistrate, and his.two deputies, paid an official visit to the vessel, and then discovered her to be the same small craft alluded to above—the Mary Ann—five months from Omaha, Auckland, bound to Napier with a load of firewood. While endeavoring to make the passage down the East Coast, she encountered very boisterous weather, and got blown off the coast. The stock of provisions apparently held out for upwards of six weeks, so that for a firewood boat she must have had a pretty good stock at starting to have lasted these three men so long. The first opportunity of recruiting ship was at Lifu, where they succeeded in getting a supply of yams and cocoanuts, and also at gome other island they got some additional cocoanuts. The captain, whose name is Stewart, expressed a wish to pay off his crew, which was done in the presence of the Magistrate, the men receiving somewheie about LSO between them. They appeared to be delighted at the chance of getting clear of the vessel, which they pro nounced a laaky old hooker. So the vessel was anchored in a good position, and everybody went ashore from her that evening. Saturday, Mr Champion went aboard and pumped her out, making all snug for a breeze, putting down additional moorings, kc. Sunday she rode out quite a stiff north-west gale to the surprise of those watching hei from the shore. On Wednesday evening Champion and the Captain went off and attended to the pumps, and when the time arrived to go ashore Captain Stewart insisted on being left alone aboard the vessel. Champion therefore sculled himself to the landing, feeling at the same time a doubt about leaving the man bv himself. Next morning, however, she was noticed some distance from the land with canyas set. The barque Merlin happened to be m

the vicinity of the Cascades with a boat ashore, so a crew speedily got together and put off to the barque, which immediately gave chase and overtook the ketch. Mr Champion and another went on board and assisted the captain in working back to the anchorage, which was reached towards the latter part of the afternoon. Instead of coming to anchor he persisted in standing m close to the shore, all the time ret dning possession of the helm. When they tried _to put her round she missed stays. There being no room to wear she quietly drifted ashore and was soon a wreck, adding another to the already too numerous list of casualties or more or less the result of carelessness. —N. Z. Herald.