Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3924, 22 September 1875, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER.

A.X •-A Id t>LU UJii, To-iiouHOw,

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PORT CHALMERS, ARRIVED.

September 21.—Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Sheppard, from Timaru. September 22.—Prnnci* Lewey, brigantine, 378 tons, Lewey, from New York. Nautilus, cutter, 30 tons, Baker, from Timaru. SAfT.NI>.

September 22.—Kate Brain, brigantine, 118 tons Gay, for Mokoinoko. ’

Flour de Maurice, barque, 333 tons, Galichar for Melbourne. ’

Wanganui, s.s., 17b tons. Fraser, for the Bluff. Otago, s.s.. 800 tons, Odder, for Melbourne via flic Bluff. Pa.‘s,.jjgc:rs : For Melbourne—Mis Col ■iiihonn, and four children, Messrs Jones, Richmond, Yd. G. Neil, and nine in the steerage. For tho Bluff—Messrs Campbell, Keith, Davidson, and one iu the steerage. ’

;he s.s. Wanganui took her departure from the railway pier this afternoon for the Bluff.

'the brigantine Kate Brain sailed ibis morning for Mokoinoko.

I he sctc 11 Palmerston hauled a’ongsidc the ship Altcar this morning to take in a cargo of cement for Oaiuiiru.

The ketch Defiance, from Kakanni, and cutter Hope, from Oa/naru, arrived yesterday afternoon and passed up to Dunedin, ’

Messrs M’Meckan and Blackwood's s.s. Otago left the railway pier for Melbourne via the Bluff this afternoon.

iTho barque Fleur de Maurice, in ballast for Melbourne, was towed to sea this monnn- by ihe s.s. Jane,

The tug- Geelong - was taken into Miimy's floutin'--■lock yesterday to he cleaned and have her bottom rcnoaleil.

The L mon Co.’s s.s. Tanpo having completed her necessary repairs, and been cleaned and recorded was taken out of the Graving Uock this morning and hauled alongside the railway pin- to take in elmi ■Die will rail for the Northern ports to-morrow afternoon."

GROUNDING OF THE S.S, TAUi'O.

\n inquiry into the alleged grounding of the r-.s. Timpo cm the Fish Beef on the 12th inst., a-.-.s h-h! this morning at the Custom House! before Mr Hackworth, Collector of Customs, ; m) Captain Logan, of the Albion Shipping ■ V-mpany. The principal evidence was yiven

Captain Macfarlane, captain of the s H ILupo, who said : 1 hold a Hoard of Trade i.eitihc.ite, Iso, 11, dM). the Taupo was reds- '' *’ n ' *in Glasgow, and belongs to the U. S/S, *, 'inp.uiy. V\ e lefi. Ly( teltou for Ounediu on unlay, the 13th instant. A ft.t-r wo left the f enmsula it blew very hard flora th- rt W all ni/ht ,tf pompey’s Pillar. I was intentionally Of'i'i]!': manic my nruao between I'uuippy’s iMhr and Otago Hoads, on account of the wind and sea. On the morning of the Ithh steered Horn Cape Wan borough S. $ K. till we struck. Captain Logan : S. I E, would have taken you about three miles outside of that reef. Then you must have found yourself astonished at finding yourself on the reef?

Wiiiio* ; Certainly I wan. On going wneu- the mate was I noticed the kelp. 1 knew then we were nearing Tish b’evf. f v.vnt forward on the bridge again and sawmoro uelp on the fort-board than on the sb.rb. . M id. anil reported to the helm. Almost immediately Tter the steamer struck, and wo went in-ide the met. She struck three times ; on neither oncasum was her way stopped. I immediately ordered the Dumps to be sounded, and she was making m , water. I entered -traigat for the laud, but finding she was linking no water put her on hev ordinary '■ou.yo mmm. Nothing hirtlu.r occurred, and wo arrived safely m Port Oh aimers. Vvh< u wo •otiohed Hsh Reef 1 thought we wevo further I” 1 - Ul '' we really wee. I never - vmro found the compasses to deviate so much. 1 have been thirty y.-ars at sea, and for the Inst v, f ysa.u hay- been trading on the New yamhu.d coast. 1 have often within two or three ships lengthy of Pish Reef

, . . -rtficed the Pea brralc, but always before not half-a-rniia of It is qmte usual to o{ tho officer on b iah Reef. It was the out> He was busy the watch to Iwep a ook , tch myst lf. Tho aft, and I was on the wu rudder . Taupo had since been dock., acked in two post-and keel were found to bee ,i nn « nn places, but these Ido not believe w \ rnn „„ n . A this occasion. The cracks had the a y " of long-standing, and on the lower on. . ’ whs a portion of saud and a live barn. ,• This, I believe, was done when she strut on entering Nelson Harbor in charge cf the pilot in July lasi. ijnestioncd tne pilot on Unit occasion if he thought any inn in had been lone to her. Ho said “No,” and I therefore did not deem it necessary to report the circumstance.

The mate and other officers of the steamer having hj mi examined, the Commissioners rz--retd their decision.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM,

Auckland, September 2f.—The barque Union has snivel from Newcastle, having left there ov. the JOth inst.