Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3635, 16 October 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER, To-morrow. Heads | Port Chalmers | Dunedin 6.40 p.m. | 7.15 p.m. | 8.0 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. October 16.—Isabella, brig, 268 tons, Greenwood, the Bluff. SAILED. October 16.— Parsee, ship, 268 tons, Nelson, for San Francisco. Passengers: Mr Redmayne, five children, and servant, Mr and Mrs Nuttall, two children, and servant, and one in the steerage PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, October 24. Bruce, for Lyttelton, October 18. Columbus, for London, October 30. Circe, for Moeraki, early. Conflict, for San Francisco, October 20. Comet, for Cooktown, October 19. Excelsior, for Napier, October 20. Easby, for Newcastle, October 25. Otago, for London, early. Owake, for Wanganui, October 19. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, October 17. Peter Denny, for London, early. Tararua, for Bluff, October 28. Wanganui, for Bluff, October 20, Waikato, for London, early. H.M.S. Blanche will sail for Sydney tomorrow. The s.s. Beautiful Star will sail this evening for Oamaru. The s.s. Bruce will sail for Lyttelton and intermediate ports on Sunday afternoon. The s.s. Wanganui took on board transhipments from the Haddon Hall this morning. The ship Parsee, for San Francisco, was towed to Sea yesterday afternoon by the tug Geelong. The ship Bunker Hill, for Manilla, commenced to unmoor this morning, and will be towed to sea this evening by the tug Geelong, The De Castro Troupe are passengers by -her. The p.s. Golden Age transhipped the single women and the nominated immigrants from the ship Invercargill to the railway pier this morning. They were conveyed to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. The coasters Janet Ramsay, for Catlin’s River ; Hope, for Toi Tois; Pioneer, for Shag Point; and Spec, for Oamaru, came down this morning and anchored in Carey Bay until the weather moderates.

The Royal Mail Company’s steamer Liffey, Captain Donne, from Southampton to Buenos Ayres, was totally wrecked at St. Ignacius, Uruguay, in August last. Passengers, crew, mails, and specie saved. This steamship was well known in New Zealand as the Panama Company’s steamer Ruahine, and was purchased and newly named by the Royal Mail Company, when the Panama and New Zealand Company dissolved. After towing out the ship Parsee yesterday afternoon, the Geelong took in tow the brig Isabella, which arrived at the Heads yesterday morning from the Bluff with a full cargo of timber. The Isabella left the Bluff at 3 p.m. on Monday, with a S.W. wind, which increased to a gale towards midnight, and continued throughout Tuesday, during which she carried away a portion of her bulwarks. The wind then moderated and came from the N.E. during the rest of the voyage. At Oamaru on Tuesday morning it came on to blow heavily from the S. S. W. Of the other vessels in the roadstead, eleven sail, nine put to sea but the Emulous was in an unfit condition to attempt to do so and accordingly tried to ride it out. Unfortunately, however, she parted her anchor, and the vessel was run ashore, as it was impossible for her to make any port had she gone out, and she had no ballast or provisions aboard. She took the beach immediately opposite the mouth of the Boundary Creek, where she now lies. The vessel does not seem to be injured, and Mr Jackson, will attempt to get her afloat again.

ARRIVAL OF THE INVERCARGILL. The ship Invercargill, 1,246 tons, Captain Lilley, from Glasgow, was towed up to the quarantine anchorage yesterday by the Geelong. She is another of the Albion Company’s new ships, and is almost a copy of the Dunedin, She measures 240 ft in length, 36ft beam, and 21ft depth of hold, and was built of iron by Messrs Duncan, of Port Glasgow. She has a patent windlass, worked by either steam or hand; her pumps also can be connected with the steam winch. Her saloon is very well finished, with a poop 80ft long. She has a total number of equal to 390 statute adults. There were six deaths: on August 8th, Annie Porteous, 8 months, from measles and James Walker, 20 months, tubercular disease; 17th, John Smith, 12 months, convulsions, and John Caskey, 18 months, tubercular disease: September 5th, C. Stuart, 28 years, hysterical fever from premature birth; October 4th Charles McAteer, 42 years, bronchitis. The births were: August 24, Mrs McLean, of a boy; September 1, Mrs Hennesy, of a girl; 16th, Mrs Matheson, of a girl; October 5, Mrs Shand of a girl. The weather being so very bad there can be no means of forming an opinion of her condition, but there appears to be a general feeling of satisfaction amongst the passengers, some of whom of course, as usually, complain; but these are a very small minority. Dr Stewart is well spoken of by all the number, as Captain Tilley, who in return speak highly of those in their charge. The ship left Greenock on the 16th July, and came out by the North Channel, and took her final departure on the 17th; had favorable weather to the N.E. trades on the 29th, in lat. 33 N. The trades were dead aft, and the ship made little progress ; lost .the trades on the 8th August, in lat. 12 N.; had three days’ doldrums, and then S.W. wind, which gradually veered round to the S.E. trades; and the Equator was crossed in long. 23 W. on the 11th, the ship being then thirty-three days out. The S.E. trades were moderate, and lasted up to lat. 28 S. on the 28th, after which she had moderate and variable weather up to long. 7 W., when she first caught the westerly breezes; and for thirty-two days she made an average of 237 miles per day, this bringing her right up to the Snares. Crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 12th September, in lat. 40 S. Her best day’s work was 310 miles on the 15th, which would have been more, but some of the gear gave way, and an amount of sail had to be clewed up on that account. The easting was made between the latitudes of 44 and 48 S. with S.W. and N.W. winds. The Snares were made on the 12th, in a heavy gale, and under very awkward circumstances, the compass being all out, and the sun not having been seen for some days previous, until an hour or two before coming to the Snares. Up the coast she has had a very rough time, with terrific gales and high seas, bad compasses and thick blinding weather. She hove-to off Caps Saunders on the 13th, and stood off from the land; on the 14th she again stood in, but the wind fell off and again came in from the N.E. She reached the Heads at 6 o’clock on Wednesday, and knocked off and on till yesterday, when she was boarded by the pilot at six o’clock, and afterwards towed up as above.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Westport, October 15.—The schooner Alma has arrived safely at the wharf, much knocked about. Her starboard bulwarks have gone as well as her top spars, galley, deck-house, and all cargo from the forehold. Two hands were lost—James B. Farden, chief-officer, and Andrew Brinstone, A.B. She got the gale on Monday night while lying-to sixty miles N.W. of Westport. A PLIMSOLL WANTED.

It is a very startling thing to find, first: that a vessel in such a condition as the United Brothers could be allowed to go to sea at all: and Second, that an lnsurance Company could be found to risk the sum of L500 upon the chances of the safety of a rotten tub. That there ought to be a proper system of inspection of all sailing or foreign-going, as well as of steamers, is beyond a doubt; and that that inspection should be thorough, complete, and frequent. Where is

that protection when valuable lives and costly merchandise are suffered to be risked in such frail and utterly unseaworthy craft as the Brothers must have been? What says our reporter? “The stern-post is almost entirely rotten, and the deck looks as if so many rats had been eating holes in it. Here you find a hole filled up with cement, and there another filled in with tallow; in fact one of the men said ‘as fast as we pumped the water out of the hold it ran back again through the holes in the deck.’ ” And that this is not one whit an overdrawn picture, We have the testimony of the master, Captain Tall, who informs us that he offered the Customs authorities, at the preliminary inquiry recently held, if they were not satisfied with his testimony as to the condition of his vessel (which is, we believe, of an unknown antiquity), to bring them a bucketful of her planking as ocular demonstration. It is impossible to condemn in language too strong the carelessness of life and property which permits of such floating coffins being sent to sea. But what shall we say of the further carelessness of Insurance Companies in risking the money of their shareholders to the tune of hundreds of pounds on such frail and decayed craft ?— ‘ North Otago Times.’ ENGLISH SHIPPING. Per Mataura, from London on August 17. For Otago : First cabin—Mr Thomas Hack and family, Mrs Margaret Shaw. Mr James Shaw and family, Mr G. M. Walton, Mr W. L. Walton, Mr M. W. Gordon, and Mr V. Saunders. Second—Mr Robert Richardson and family, Mr Charles H. Vince, Mr Frederick Bilton, Mr John Downie, Mr Mark Chennells, and Mrs Racheal Adshead. Steerage—Elisa Carter, Edith E. Carter, Henry Welch, Maria Welch, Helen Henton, Herbert Henton, Michael Carey, Barry Strangman, Julia Carey, Geraldine Eustace, John Heaslip, E. J. Collins, Harry A Graham, and Micheal Joyce. Per May Queen, Captain Tachell, from London, on August 18. —For Otago : First cabin— Mr and Mrs G. A, Tapper and family (2), Mrs Haley and family (3), Miss M. A. Keeshau, Miss Jones, Mrs, Miss, and Master Taine, and Messrs G. Babot, W. and S. Stirres, Max Alexander, H. E. Edmunds, Dr George Wilkin, and Revs. Higgins and Gleasure ; also sixteen second cabin, and thirtyfive steerage passengers. . A New York telegram, dated August 10, states that the Rosalie (Peruvian), from Port Blakely for Dunedin, has put back leaky. The departures from London for this port in August were—Calypso, 1,013, on August 5. The vessels loading were—Araby Maid. 837, at London; Auckland, 1,250, at Glasgow; City of Dunedin, 1,084, at London ; Florence, 859, at London; Janet Cowan, 1,277, at London ; Jeannie Louttit, 493, at Liverpool; Sophie Joakim, 995, at London; Warwick, 1,005, at London.