Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4182, 22 July 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER, TO-KOKBOW. HvADfl. | Ft. Chalmkbs. | Dpnkiub. 4.18 pjß. I 4.58 p.m. | 5.43 p.m. Monday. 5.05 p.m. | 4.45 p.m. ] 6.80 p.m. POBT CKALMEBB. *' ftJUUVKU. July 21.—Kestrel, ketch, 51 tons, Bern, f.om the Coast. Madeleine, barque, 503 toss, Morine, from the Bluff. BAIIKD. July 21.—Grace, ketch, 16 tons, Dixon, for Waikouaiti. Good Templar, ketch, 42 tons, Carrie, for Oamaru, Ladybird, s.s., 262 tons, Griffiths, for Lyttelton, via Timaru. Taiaroa, s.s., 2'S tens, Stewart, for Timaiu. The Union Company's steamer Taupo is advertised to leave the railway pi?* to-morrow morninp. Passengers are request' d to jfin ner upon the arrival of the 9.30 a.m. train froin PUnedin. The ketch Kestrel, from the Cosst, passed up yesterday afternoon. , The ketches Grace, for Waikotiaiti, ailu Good Templar, for Oamaru, sailed yesterday afternoon. The steamers Ladybird, for Lyttelten, vi: Timaru, and Taiaroa, for Timaru, sailed last evening. The Union Company's steamer Beautiful Star steamed down from Dunedin yesterday afternoon. She was taken into the floating dock tais morning for her periodical overhaul. The French barque Madeleine, with a cargo of railway plant from the Bluff, was towed up to her anchorago yesterday afternoon by the 1 ujr Geelong. Stio left the Bluff on the morning Of the 19th inst.; experienced calms and light S.W. winds to arrival off the Heads yesterday forenoon. The Auckland ' Star' reports the arrival, on the 15th inst., of the ship Bebington, after a passage of 160 days from London, or 140 days from Fortemonth. She left Loudon on the 6th February, ard proceeded to the Downs. After getting under way from therejiegan to beat down Channel,- but unfortunately came into collision with another vessel, and sustained loss of jib-boom and headgear. Put into Portsmouth on the 14th February to refit, and remained there till the 23rd. Experienced very contrary weather in the Channel, and did not clear the laud till the 12th March. Got very little benefit from the N. E. trades. Beached the Liue on the 9th April. Had no S. E. trades at all. On rounding the Cape the supply of coals for the condenser ran short, and the captain deemed it advisable to run into Algoa Bay, wbich was reached Jf4th May. Lay there till 2nd June, taking in coals and stores. Across the Southern Octan weather of <he ordinary description was oncoautered, but nothing occurred worthy of remark. Tasmania was passed on the 2nd July. From thence to New Zealand very dirty squally weather was experienced. There were over 800 immigrants on board, and typhus fever, scarlet fever, and other diseases broke out, causing no less than sixty-seven cases of sickness. Fifteen persons died, inoluding four infants. During the passage there were ten births. The Bebington is described as being very bluff bowed, and rather clumsy looking, and gives one the impression {a correct, one) that she is a very strong, ship, but no wonder at sailing. She was altered from a ship to a barque while last in London, in accordance with the prevailing tendency at home.

THE BKERBYVOBE. A passenger by the Skerryvore to New York seudsto on exchange an extraordinary account of the voyage. The ship appears to have been loaded chiefly with exhibits for the Ceutennial Exhibition. After leaving Lytteltou, New Zealand, the troubles of the passengers and crew commenced. The writer says: —wo had a very good run (for such a Teasel) to Cape Horn, which we were in the longi tude of on Oth February. I need not say we had favorable winds all the time, and that the captain passed bis time between eating and sleeping and displaying his ignorance of evorylhing, navigation included, for ho was dunce enough not to know you gain a day on tho completion of the eastern round of tho world, and that consequently he should have dropped a day to put him light in his calculation of our position. However he wns pig-headed enough to ridicule the idea, and to go on keeping the ship's time until wo reached New York, when of course we found that, instead of its b%iing Saturday, May 6, cs he made it, it wa? Friday, May 5. Fortunately the chief mate was quite able to take correct bights, and work them out properly, so that we always knew where wo bad got to, but the ship was sailed by the captain's calculations, he having an awful "down" on the poor old mate, and trying on every occasion to annoy him and frustrate his attempts to put things straight. When the captain left Melbourne he had plunged tbo ship heavily in debt, which was onl v added to by his Lyttelton exploit. It seems ha had already lost a vessel some years bfiiore, and the penalty of losing another,, oxcept by causes beyond his control, weald be the loss of his certificate, which with him wculd bj beggary. Ho had falsified his accounts, and WBS afraid to meet his owners, to whom h* knew he would have to give up the vessel when ho rt ached New York. It seems that the Sunderland code of morals admits of the captain losing a ship entirely—eay by foundering, fho, or running on some hopeless coast—but the partial loss, in which something is saved, and the vessel's insurance only recovered in part, is a mistake; so that, whilst »t c'ptain who lost his ship would get another at once, as a matter of course, he who only made a partial loss would be mined for ever. At any rate tuese are the ethics of Captain jjtoddurdt, late of the Skerryvore. Time aftor time—again and agaiu —he used to harp on the one subject, about the loss cf the vessel. This made us uneasy and watchful,

and I kept a gimlet eye on him and canvassed every leuiark ho made, and noted his utter regardlessness of our position and frequent dangerous proximity to shore with a foreboding heart. In the course of the voyage the suspicions oi the writer and the crtw were aroused by the captain not merely painting the lazarette, but doing it himself. Shortly aftciwaTda the mate observed that the vessel xvns very deep in the water, and sounding revested the unnleasant fact that thf re wore over seven feet of water in the hold. The writer continues:—The captain uud the chief mate wore at once fetched on deck, when the former cnine up lookiug of a s ekly green hue. and with a furtive glance looked at the pump rod, and kept it idly du.Dgling on his hand, saying it whs useless to try to save the vessel, as she bad too umok water in. " Good God," said I, "are you not going to try to pump the water out of her." " I know what to uo, he replied, and sulkily gave orders for " all hands at the pump?." Wo all wired in, the tw.i rcatcs, five scame , and I, and tho captain, for very « T >ame sake, was obliged to join in. Shortly afterwards the captain paid a second visit under the cabin floor, end thun the ship was easily kept dry. The writer says:—What is the conclusion ? Whv that when he was first down in the lasarette, he bored the holo to sink her (two augurs ase außsing, which are not to be found, and ho was known to have them) took the plug out at a suitab'o ticse to himself, and when he found wo were determined to save the vessel if possible, w.nt below again and put in the plug, and thus stopped the leak as suddenly as it broke out. I could give more circumstantial evidence, but it is too Jong From thia time Jackson and I watched him night and day, for we were afraid he might fire her, failing sinking. However, we are here. A new eaptain ha* charge of her, and Sloldarf has gono to England A considerable porti-n of'the•exhibits must bo damrged. but we canaot tell how much vet