Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3457, 21 March 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. : • ' ‘To-morrow. , ■ Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 6.30 p.m. I 6.05 om, | 6,50 p.m. Monday. 6.17 p.m. I 6.62 p.m, | 7.37 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. March. 21.—Duke of Edinburgh, 450 tons, Sa npson, from Newcastle. William Ackers, 297 tons, Brown, from Newcastle. Elderslie, 202 tons, M‘Gowan, from Port" Esplanade, Tasmania. • sailed. March 21.—Jane Anderson, 97 tons, Paterson, for Wellington. , Samson, 1243t0n5, Edie, for Oamarn. j Phoebe, 416 tons, Worsp, for the North.! Passengers: ForLyttelton—Mrs Dunlop, Forj Reton—Mr Goff. For Napier—Mr Ross. For! ’ Nelson—Mr Moore'; and eight in the steerage. ! PROJECTED DEPARTURES. ■ ' . i Albion, for Bluff, April 2. , , ‘ | Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, March 25. , j City of Dunedin, for London, March 25, ' | Comerang, for Lyttelton, March 24. i Duhfillan, for London, early. , Lutterworth, for Newcastle, March 24. , Margaret Scollay, for Moeraki, March 24. 1 • Phmbe, for Northern Ports, March 21. ; Samson, for Oamaru, March 24. i Serene, for Auckland, early. ; > ■ Wanganui,’ for Bluff, March 25. . Wallabi, for Bluff, March 23. i . The ship Lutterworth will sail for Newcastle ©n Tuesday next. The ship Wild Deer is fast discharging her inward cargo into the railway trucks and lighters. The schooner Elderslie, from Fort Esplanade, Tasmania, was signalled at the Heads this morning. The Agnes Muir, having all her cargo on board, will be removed from the railway pier into the stream this evening, and sail for London on Tuesday/

Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s. Otago,, after some difficulty on .account of the ’ heavyS.W. wind and discharging at the inner berth, got under way at 5 p.m. yesterday, for Melbourne, via Northern and West Coast ports. Yesterday afternoon the barques Duke of Edinburgh and William Ackers were" signalled at the Heads,, but on account of the heavy S. Wt ■wind blowing, the tug did not proceed down. The Geelong went 'down early this morning and towed up the Duke of Edinburgh, after a rather long and' stormy passage. Captain Sampson reports leaving Newcastle on the 2lst of February, with aheavyS.W. wind, which increased to a gale the same night, the two top•nils being blown away. The gale continued Until the 26th, the wind then coming from the 5.8., and lasted till the 28th, when light van ablea and calms were experienced until the 15th , inst, , when she encountered a heavy easterly ‘ gale, which lasted for twenty-four hours, the wind shifting to the southward ; sighted the Solanders at 6 a.m. on’ the 17th, with light southerly and easterly winds, which continued through Foveaux Straits. At 8 p.m. on the 19th passed Dog Island, and when off the Nuggets oh the 20th, at 2 a.m., encountered a terrific gale from the W.N.W., which carried away nearly all her canvas. At daylight the wind shifted to the S.W., and continued to blow heavy. Made the Heads at noon yesterday/ She brings 570 tons of coal and 10 tons of coke. We thank Captain Sampsbnfor Newcastle papers to day of sailing. 'After towing up the Duke of Edinburgh, the .-. Geelong again proceeded down and towed up the barque William Ackers, with a cargo of coal for the Gas Works. The barque left Newcastle oh. the 28th of February, with a light N.E. Wind, which “increased to a gale on the Ist of March,-the vesfeel shipping a great deal of , water. At ,3 a.m. the wind suddenly shifted to •• with-heavy squalls of rain accompanied by thunder and lightning, which lasted for 24 hours, then light S.E, winds until the 6th, when it increased again with heavy squalls. At midnight'the wind suddenly shifted' to the southward, increasing to a gale, during which ■ several of thesails were split, and the decks were continually full of water, the ship laboring very heavily- ~ The gale lasted until the 10th; then fine weather, With light easterly winds, until the 15th, the wind then shifting to the N.Wt, 'With ram and heavy squalls for. 24 hours ; then moderate S.S.W. winds. until making the Solanders at noon on the 19th, when the wind again shifted to the N. W., increasing to a gale, with thick rain';'passed Dog Island at midnight; at 4 a.m. onthe2ofch the wind shifted to the S.W., with heavy squalls until making the Heads last night, and she arrived at her anchorage off Observation Point at noon to-day. r r SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. - i r., - Awosiakd,, March'2o.—Arrived : The East Lothian, from Dunedin. Bluff, March 20. — The Mary Ogilvie, from Greymonth,-bound to the Bluff, reports boarding the Eohinoor off the Solander, thirty days from Newcastle, bound for Dunedin; and she passed the Bluff this morning in a S.W. gale. Arrived;:, The Maty Ogilvie and Awarau, froin Greymouth. “ Invercargill, March 20.— I The brigantine Kate Brain,' 118 tons, belonging to Auckland, when leaving Mokomoko jetty, with a cargo of sleepers, for Lyttelton, on Thursday, got intp an eddy, which caugh't her stern, turned her right round, and carried her on to a rock, . where she now hangs by the middle in a dan- , gerous position., The pilot was oh board at the tune. A survey Will be held to-morrow. The . vessel is insured for L 2,000, and the sleepers for 1*560, both' in the New Zealand Company. >, .I •. ~.r * r-—: —— l . WRECK OF THE SILVER LINING. The inquiry into the loss of this vessel at Eakanuij was held on Tuesday last, before Messrs Udall and Sumpter, J.P.’s, with Cairt. Orkney as nautical assessor. After the evidence had been taken, the Chairman of the Bench (Mr Detail) addressed Captain Taylor as ■ follows :—ln the judgment which lam about to give the Bench are unanimous. After giving careful consideration to the evidence, the Court finds that you committed several grave errors. Your first error appears to be in shorteningsail, being so close in shore. You ought to have seen the danger, and avoided it by tacking while you had sea room. Your next error was equally gross. According to your own evidence, finding that the ship would not stay, you dropped your port anchor, and finding that did not hold let go a second anchor. The ship then brought up and you made a signal for the steamer, but before , »he could come to your assistance proceeded to " lift'yoUr second anchor—a step which! the Court .considers unseamanlike and a neglect of duty/and judgment.. The next error, for which yom- owners are, it is true, equally responsible with yourself, but for which you are clearly a's . master of the .ship; blameable, was the leaving the port whence you came without proper boats vojurlong boat being in unseaworthycondition, sad the vessel having only one other boat and that of insufficient size to be of any assistance in tune of need. This shows a recklessness of human life, highly culpable both on your part ; and,-on that of your owners. The next • .jaot brought out by- the evidence which the Court considers reveals grave neglect was .the vessel being unprovided with a kedgo anchor, two witnesses expressing the .. opinion, that,,had there been such, the vessel might before she struck have been warped out of Her dangerous position. l Then, again, there ia the fact that nolook-putwas kept for signals from shore. that when the indicating that you were standing into danger,'it was not ob- . : served either by yourself or any of the other ,ziine;menonboard.. Had you seen this, your vessel would probably now have been safe. The Court feels that it cannot pass over so manifest a neglect of duty on your part; and is unanimously that your certificate be suspended ; ; foy six months, ' Capt. Orkney added , .that the authorities of the port from whence the vessel sailed were much for allowing her to go to sea in such a state, ri t k o , plication of Mr Hislop, costs w«e allowed.