Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3534, 20 June 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. . Monday. 7,36 p.m. | 8.16 p.m. ( 9.1 p.m. To-mobbow. Heads [ Port Chalmers I Dunedin 8.24 p.m. ) . 9.4 p.m. | 9.49 p.m. POET CHALMERS. ABRTVED. June 19.—Annie, ketch, 29 tons, Haswell, from Moeraki. SAILED. June 20. Atrato, s.s., 2,051 tons, Husband, for Lyttelton.Eureka, barque, 555 tons, Chappie, for Lyttelton. Euphrosyne, three-masted schooner, 75 tons, Dawson, for Oamaru. Cora, schooner, 45 tons, Russell, for Wellington. Samson, p.s., 124 tons,'Edie, for Oamaru. (PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, early. Circe, for Hokitika, early. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, June 22. Freetrader, for Auckland, early. Hadda, for Auckland, early. Mikado, for Northern Ports, June 30. Maori, for Lyttelton, June 21, Otago, for Northern Ports, June 22. EdoJLoge, for Lyttelton, June 27. Star of the JJouth, for Fiji, June 27. • 'Samson, for Oamaru, June 23. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, June 22. Wanganui, for Bluff, early. Wallabi, for Bluff, early. The p.s. Samson sailed last night for Oamaru. The 8.8. Atrato sailed for Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. The barque Eureka, for Lyttelton, was towed to sea this morning. The barque Hadda was towed down from Dunedin this morning by the Geeling. The ship Asia was removed from the railway pier to the lower anchorage yesterday. The s.s. Wallabi came down from Dunedin, and will sail for the Bluff this evening. The three-masted schooner Euphrosyne, for Oamaru, and Cora, for Wellington, sailed yesterday. The barque William Gifford was removed from the stream alongside the railway pier, to discharge her Dunedin portion of cargo. At high water last night the tug Geelong succeeded in towing the ship Himalaya off the bank, and she will be taken to sea to-morrow morning. The favorite South Australian ship Collingrove, Captain Angell, arrived in Table Bay yesterday morning from Adelaide. The run from Adelaide to near Algoa Bay was rapidly made in thirty-five days with very fine weather; but from there to Table Bay the Collingrove encountered heavy head weather, which took her a fortnight to get through to this port. One heavy sea shipped by her off Algoa Bay did damage- to the extent of LIOO. She is, however, now quite taut and trim. When he reaches England, Captain Angell is going to build, or get built a new ship of 1,200 tons, which is to he a perfect model, with every modem improvement. She is to cost L 25.000, and is to be owned jointly by himself and three others, two of whom are the well-known Adelaide millionaires, Mr Elder and Mr Hughes. The Collingrove is likely to remain here until Wednesday next. —* Cape Argus,’ May 9. Quite a chapter of accidents occurred on board the steamer Tararua while in the Hokitika roadstead, about a fortnight ago. Previous to the 'steamer Waipara going alongside, the crew (says the ‘Register’) were engaged heaving up the anchor by means of the patent windlass, which is connected by cog-wheels to the capstan on the forecastle. In consequence of the steamer pitching a good deal ia the heavy sea, the capstan pawls became unshipped, and of course the whole of the strain was then thrown on the capstan bars, and the men being unable to resist the strain, were hove about in all directions, some being seriously injured, and one man was hove overboard, but was fortunately rescued. Another accident occurred subsequently. It appears that one of the second cabin stewards was proceeding along the deck, and losing his equilibrium through the rolling of the vessel, he, to save himself from falling, grasped at the steam winch while it was working, and his hand unfortunately came in contact with the cog-wheels, whereby he sustained a severe laceration of the fingers, so severe, indeed, that it is probable amputation of some of them will be found necessary. Through the wreck of the Corsair, No. 1 Pilot Company sustained a loss that was expected to amount to not less than L 5,000. On Thursday last, Pilot Rocket, with one of his company, waited on the Hon. Mr Cohen, to ascertain if any relief could be granted by the Government. The Minister received the pilots with much kindness, and expressed his sympathy with them in their misfortune, recommending them finally to see the Chief Secretary. This they did, when Mr Francis told them in his bluff, frank style that no public money would be voted for such a purpose ; but, putting his hand kindly on RockeVs shoulder, he uttered one of his emphatic expletives, and said, “You are worthy of great consideration, alnd rather than see you stumped, I’ll see what can be done for you. Come with me.” The result was, an arrangement was concluded with the bank for the purchase of a new vessel through Mr Francis’s intervention, that will save the company a very large sum of money in interest. By this act on the part of the Chief Secretary, the pressing anxieties of the members of the company are entirely remoVed for the present.— ‘ Geelong Evening Times.’ WRECKS ON KING’S ISLAND. (From the Melbourne Daily Telegraph.) From the year 1830 up to the present time there have been seventeen wrecks on King’s Island, exclusive of the loss of the British Admiral, and a total loss of lives numbering 734. The following is a tabular statement of the wrecks, with the number of lives lost WEST SIDE OF THE ISLAND FROM THE CENTRE SOUTHWARD.

The old City of Melbourne, steamer, ran ashore at the southern end of the east shore of the island in the year 1851, but was got off, and was the only vessel excepting the Eebecca that escaped total wreck on the island. To show the necessity of a light being placed on the west of the island, it may be mentioned that this part of the coast is exposed to the whole swell of the Western Ocean. Many captains make this part of the island as their landfall. It is prudent on the part of sea captains approaching Melbourne to make land to the westward of Cape Otway, and thus if a master gets out ef his reckoning, the chances are that he finds himself on the southern shore of the west jside of King’s Island. According to the chart it appears that had the captain of the. British Admiral .anchored when ne first nghted the island-having previously gone the outer reef, there would have been no danger, the vessel would hp-ve bben saved, ana no lives would have been lost, as there was

plenty of deep water, and any quantity of room-to allow of the chain being paid out. The reef upon which the vessel struck, however, was a treacherous one, and was probably not known to him. On the occasion of the wreck of the Netherby in 1866, when the Victoria and the Pharos went down to afford relief to her passengers and crew, the Victoria navrowlj escaped running on to the same reef, and her commander (Captain Norman) had to signal the Pharos to escape the same danger. Since thon Captain Stanley has made a survey of Kiog’s Island, and according to his new chart, the British Admiral must have struck about two miles distant from the shore, and about thr same distance from where the Netherby wa i wrecked.

Name of Ship. Year WreckedNumber of Lives Lost. Isabella 1840 o Cataraqui 1843 414 Brahmin 1854 7 Maypole 1855 3 Aurora 1865 1 Waterwitch 1866 o Netherby 1866 0 NORTHERN PART OP THE WEST SIDE OP THE ISLAND. Neva 1830 300 Rebecca, afterwards got off 1843 1 Loch Leven ... 1871 1 Mary Ann 0 Ocean Bride ... o Elizabeth o Whistler 0 NORTH END OP THE EASTERN SIDE OP THE ISLAND. Martha Lavinia ... | 1871 o CENTRE OP THE EAST COAST. Europa [ 1867 0 Armagh j 1868 7