Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3710, 13 January 1875, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-mobbow. Heads [ Port Chalmers | Doredib 7.14 p.m. I 7.54 p.m. | 8.39 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. January 13—Bruce, s.s., 205 tons, E. Jones, for Timani. Duke of Edinburgh, barque, 478 tons, Sampson, for Newcastle. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Brown, for Shag Point. Omeo, s.s., 605 tons, Calder, for the North. Passengers—For Lyttelton : Mrs Shury and 4 children, Messrs Shaw and Taylor, and onesteerage. For Wellington : Mr and Mrs Cornfoot, and Miss Barnes. ■PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Lyttelton, January 16. Invercargill, for London, January 19. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, January 19. Maori, for Timaru, January 16. May Queen, for London, January 25. The Margaret Galbraith was admitted to pratique to-day. The sailing of the Easby is postponed until the first train to-morrow. The barque Duke of Edinburgh, for Newcastle, was towed to sea this morning. The s.s. Maori, from West Coast and Northern ports, will be due at Port Chalmers to-morrow morning. The steamers Wanganui, for the Bluff, Omeo, for Newcastle via Northern and West Coast ports, and Easby, for Newcastle via Lyttelton and Wellington, sail this evening. By the N. Z. Mercantile Company’s circular for November we learn that the N. Z. S. Company despatched on November 5 the Candidate, 766 tons, for Port Chalmers, with twenty-six passengers. The Rangitike was to sail for Port Chalmers on 30th November. The Colonies are engaging the attention of large shipowners in England. Yesterday we published an interesting account of the first voyage of the St. Osyth ; now interest centres in that of the Whampoa, which left London for Sydney direct on December 28. The Whampoa was built at Newcastle in 1873, is 3,835 tons gross, length 399 ft., beam 42ft. 4in., with compound engines of 300 horse-power’. She returns from Sydney direct to London. A BOOK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. The New York ‘Sunday Mercury’ of 25th October publishes a rather sensational report of a rock in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean as a solution of the mystery regarding the fate of the steamers City of Boston, President, Pacific, United Kingdom, The Ismalia, and other vessels that have never been heard from * after leaving port. The rock, it appears, lies in latitude 40deg. N. and longitude 62deg. 18sec. It was discovered by Captain Pevasso, of the barque Tercia, which arrived at Queenstown 2nd October from New York. Captain Pevasso makes the following report of hie discovery;—On the 9fch of September, at three p.m., wind north, very light and clear weather, with a sea perfectly smooth, observed on the horizon a large rock, about four miles to windward, in lat. 40 N,, long. 62deg. 18sec. west. Tried to beat up to it, but owing to the lightness of the wind could not do «o. The rock lay north and south, and was of a reddish brown color. Discovered seaweed on it plainly with a glass. The dimensions are as follows Length, 100 metres, 3ft. per metre. On south part 10 metres broad, and about five metres out of water, which was low. About 2.45 p.m. the rock was bare, north, and we laid by. By chronometer calculation the reck was in the exact position, lat. 40deg. N., long. 69deg. 18min. W, Captain Pevasso says that he has a chart of 1848, by Noneyson, on board, with this rock marked on it; but there are two degrees difference in the longitude. This, he says, is accounted for by .the incorrectness of the old chronometers. He was surprised at not finding this rock on an English ■chart, by Wilson, dated 1572, and also on a French chart of the same date, which he has on board. He stated that he tried for soundings, but could get none ip the vicinity of the rock. According to Captain Pevasso’s report, the rock ie within a few seconds of the same degree as New York is situated in, and on a straight line from west to east, lying about 550 miles from the harbor, and directly in the course of ocean steamers, in what is known as the southern passage.

ANOTHER MARINE HORROR.

The British ship Euxine was burned at sea 4m the voyage from North Shields to Aden. The vessel took fire in latitude 36 south, and longitude 12 west. The captain bore up for St. Helena, but the fire increased, so that the ship had to be abandoned in latitude 31 south. Accordingly the crew, under the captain and first mate, went into a boat each, and the second mate into the third. The latter had no chronometer, the other two boats had. The whole three boats remained new the ship all night, and the following morning, the vessel being nearly consumed, they quitted her to proceed on their way, as they hoped, to St. Helena, or perchance to be picked up by some passing vessel. Soon after leaving the ship the Boats of the captain and mate outsailed the other, and by about sundown they were completely out of sight. The second mate steered N.E. by N,, but, as was said before, there was no chronometer in the boat, and having no means of calculating their course properly they were beating about at the mercy of the wind and waves for seventeen days, and then a gale came on in which their ,boat was capsized and everything in her in the shape of food (little as it was)—with the exception of a twopiu«d| U i >f|soup and bouiiii, which they found un the bottom of the boat alter she waj righted *nd the compass—was lo«t. They subsisted on •this soup for four days, and on the fifth, driven by tbe pangs- of hunger, and seeing no chance 4>l being picked up, they cast lots to decide who should die to be eaten by his fellows The men in the boat, it should be stated, consisted of seveiaj. nationalities. The second mate, James Archer, is a cotchman; August Muller, Victor tsaudstrom, Mauuo Schutt, and Alexander Vermenlcn, Swedes ; and Francis •'ihufus, an Italian. Upon this latter unfortunate man the lot fell twice out of three times casting to die. He quietly submitted to his fate, and did not jump overboard as stated in another account. .His throat was cut and the men drank his blood mixed with salt water; The quantity was -equally divided among them. The same night they were picked up by the ship Java Packet, and carritd to Batavia,

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, January 12.—Arrived: Vision, brig, from Duneuin. Sailed : \sTajtapgi, ship, for London, via Lyttelton.