Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4101, 19 April 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-mobeow. Heads. I Pt. Cuaxmees. I Dunedin, 0.13 p.m. I 0.38 p.m. ( 1.38 p.m.

POET CHALMERS.

ABBIVE!) April 18.—Matau, s.s , 104 tons, Urquhart, from Oamora. Passengers : Miss Paterson, Messrs Brown, Moody, Hill, Hislop, Thomson, Paul, Bremncr, Bede, and four steerage. April 19.—Hawea, s.s., 452 tons, Wheeler, from the North. Passengers: Misses Holmden (2), Qillon Rov. Mr and Mrs Carr, Mr and Mrs Buckland, Mr and Mrs Dignan, Messrs Quick, Ligloy, Hawley, and six iu the st e> ago. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, from West Coast ports via the Bluff. Passengers : Captain Alladyce, Messrs Smythios, Harding, Kemp, D. Strang, Simp son, Kennedy, Sergeant, Cheyne, Nolan, Daniels. Longton, H. T. Dodd, M'Kny, Hewitt, Alexander, M'Kenvie, Ah You, Ah Chimg, Ah Jong, Ah Jnig Pomoua, ship, 1,200 tons, It. Taunock, from Glas. gow, via the Bluff. Pa aungers: Mr and Mrs Campbell, Miss Brownlie, and fourteen immigrants. Ringarooma, s.s., 623 tons, M-Lenn, from the Northern Ports. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Harding, Mrs Wilson, Misses Cargill, Gibson, Messrs Fraser, Pole, and six iu the steerage. April 10.—Shag, s.s., 31 tons, Wing, for Shag Point. Hawea, 461 tons, Wheeler, for the North. Pnssenge s,—For Lyttleton: Messrs Culpan, Staite, Levy, M‘Kenzie, Ings, Morrison, Palmer, Harrison.—For Wellington: Mesdames Senior.aud Parr, Messrs Reid, McDonald. Harford. Morton.—For Nelson: Mesdames Harley and Beethrm, Messrs Harley, M'Laucblan,—X’or Mauakau.- Mrs Dixon and child, Messrs T. W. Leys, Binnie, Nixon: 19 steerage for all ports. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co's ss Ringaroon-a left Wellington on the 16th, and arrived alongside tho railway pier at 11.50 this mornmg. We thank Mr Jugo (purser) for report and exchanges.

The s.a. Hawea returned from Northern ports at 830 this morning. She lofr. Onehunga at noon on the 13th. We thank Mr Newman (purser) for report and exchanges, *

The 8.8. Maori returned at 7 this morning from her monthly trip round the Middle Island. She P<wt Chalmers at 5 p.m.on the 3rd, called at Lyttleton, Nelson, Hokitika, Greymouth, Jackson’s Bay, Big Bay, Martin’s Bay, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Facile Harbour, and left there at 1.45 p m on the 17th, and arrived at the Bluff at daylight. Left, again at 4.15, and arrived oa above. We thank Mr Matthias for report, which, owing to pressure on our space, we hare had to condense.

THE LOSS OF THE BANSHEE,

this vessel left. Townsville with a. fair wind ami made such progress to the Palm Islands, that n splendid run was anticipated. However, before passing Hinchinbrook Island a tremendous burrican came on, the sen rose to a terrific height, and the captain finding that there was danger of the horses being killed by the hcavv rolling of the steamer, decided to put into Sandwich Bay, at; the north part of the island. The weather was too thick to discern even the fore part of t he vessel. Captnhi Owen, her commander described it as running the ship into n hedge. The breakers woro not soon until the steamer was close upon them. The oidei was at once given to pork the helm, and bring the ship s head round ; but she refuged to answer her helm, and st; uck heavily on a ledge of rooks, twenty , JtzoQ from the shore. ▲ heavy sea lifted her over

this reef, when she went broadside on to the rooks inshore, and went to pieces. The scenes were described as heart-rending. One woman with her husband and family, was swept away with the deck-house. Several other women were swept under the vessel, and were then dashed to pieces against the rocks. The horses were literally cut to pieces, aud legs, heads, and portions of their intestines were seen strewn on the rocks. There was one remarkable instance of preservation. A man who was in the hold, unable to reach the deck, remained there until the whole affair was nearly over, and then got out of a gap in the vessel’s side, and was in safety before the waves could seize him. ' Mr Mullen, one of the survivors, in a communication to * The Cleveland Bay Express,* says '" All went well till noon, when the wind increased, and by 8 p.m. it was blowing a furious S.E. gale. At about a quarter-past 3 I heard the awful cry, *We are going ashore.* I was reading in the saloon at the time, and jumped up and rushed on to the main deck. The rocks were right ahead, about forty yards distant. At that instant we struck aft on a rock, passed over it, and went right ashore broadside on to the rocks. There was no confusion, though the sea was breaking over part of the vessel. I rushed on to the bridge and, taking advantage of the roll inshore of the vessel, jumped to a rock, but was immediately washed away to ene lower down, to which I managed to cling, and then scrambled up unhurt. I turned round, and at that moment the saloon on deck was dashed to pieces, burying beneath it all the women and children except Miss James, the stewardess, who escaped by clinging to a rope, and being washed in was dragged ashore by Peter Connell, fireman, assisted by the captain. At this time the scene was fearful —masts, funnel, deck-houses, all swept away, and men, women, children, and horses being crushed together between the hull of the vessel and the rocks. In eight minutes all was over, and all that remained of the Banshee was a small portion of the bows and stem. Antonie, the colored cook, and a stowaway had a miraculous escape. They were unable to leave the vessel till the wreck was washed on to the rocks high and dry, when they both coolly walked ashore.”

ARRIVAL OP THE POMONA FROM GLASGOW, VIA THE BLUFF.

The Pomona was towed up this momiag, under the charge of Pilot Moore, by the tug Geelong, and anchored off the railway pier. She Is a fine iron vessel of 1,200 tons register, and was built in the year 1867 by Robert Steele, of Greenock, to the order of J. and A. Allen, of Glasgow. Her fore and mam masts and lower yards are of iron, while her mizen mast and yards are of wood. She has previously been employed trading between India and v e p°l° nies ; was chartered for the present trip by the Albion Shipping Company, and brings three saloon and fourteen steerage passengers, and about 1,000 tons of cargo, dead weight, for this port. We published in Monday's issue a full report of the vessel s passage to th©. Binff. W© now learn from Captain Tannock that boat drill toek place on several occasions during the voyage out, and he expresses himself in high terms of the merits of Douglas’s lowering apparatus. The Pomona left the Bluff at 5 p.m. on (Saturday, after discharging her Wot- Had calms until Monday, when she got a N.E. breeze which continued until midnight, when it shifted to the S.W. and continued bom that quarter until arrival.

SHIPPING TtfLEGEAM. Napier, April 18.—News from Poverty Bay reports that a vessel was wrecked on the East Cape on the 11th inst. The name is ascertained to be the Helen, property of Watt Bros., laden with ceal, nrom Newcastle to Napier, She struck on the East Cape Island, then drifted to Horoeka, and in deep water. No lives were lost. All who were on board are at the Native Settlement, and will be forwarded to Auckland on the first opportunity. The vessel is insured in the New Zealand Company for