SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 153, 30 November 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. November 28—E. U. Cameron, schooner, 41 tons, Aschman, from Akaroa. November 30—Phcebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Dunedin. Passengers—saloon; Madame Goddard, servant, and Company, Mrs Rainford, Messrs Hornby, Whitcombe, Raine, and 11 for North, Steerage : Messrs Rother, Farris, and 11 for North. November 28 Clyde, s.s.. 27 tons, McConville, from Saltwater Creek. Master, agent. November 29 —Hopeful, barque, 32- tons, Luly, from Newcastle. Miles and Co., agents. November 29 -Mallard, barque, 602 tons, Duncan, from Newcastle, with coals. November 29—Queensland, barque, 414 tons, Grey, Grom Newcastle. W. Montgomery and Co., agents. CLEARED. November 30—Spray, schooner, 50 tons, Clarkson, for Timaru. November 30 —J. G-. Coleson, brigantine, 70 tons, Wills, for Pelorous Sound. November 30—Phcebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for Northern ports. SAILED. November 29—Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, for Dunedin, via intermediate ports. Passengers—Opera Troupe (30), Mr Suckling, Captain Foster, and 12 immigrants. November 30 Phcebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for Northern ports. G. Mackay, agent. Passengers—Saloon : Messrs Ambrose, Fletcher, Flindell, Jacobs and family (3), Miss Jacobs, Mrs Flemming, Mr Mackay, and 11 original. Steerage : Messrs Sharpie, Thomson, and 11 original. November 30 —Margaret, ketch, 20 tons, Bennet, for Little Akaloa, cargo produce. VESSELS IN HARBOR. Ships Dorette. Inverallan, Merope, Endymion, Duke of Edinburgh, Waitara, E. P. Bouverie, John Nicholson. Barques —Especulador, Elizabeth Graham, James Hannell, John Knox, Hadda, Ardour, Hopeful, Mallard, Queensland, Barquentine—C. L. Taylor. Brigantines and schooners —Levi Stevens, Malcolm, Spray, Saucy Lass, Lcetitia, J. G. Coleson, Volunteer, Isabella, Bee, E. U. Cameron. Brigs— Emperor, Rio Loge, Fawn. Three-masted schooner Craig Ewan. Fairlie. Ketches —Linnet, Alice Jane, Minnie, Kestrel, Quiver, Courier, Margaret, Flying Squirrell. THE E. P. BOUVERIE. The following testimonials were presented on the arrival of the K P. Bouverie: “ Port Lyttelton, November 25th, 1874. “ We. the undersigned, passengers of the Edward P. Bouverie, have sincere pleasure in acknowledging the great civility and kindness of Captain D. T. Roberts towards us during the passage from London to New Zealand, and hope that he may live to bring many more equally pleasant voyages to as successful a termination. “ Signed by the passengers.” “Port Lyttelton, November 25th, 1874. “We, the undersigned, passengers of the Edward P. Bouverie, have sincere pleasure in testifying to the universal civility and kindness of Mr R. P. Scott, chief mate, towards ns, as well as to the skill and energy lie displayed in the discharge of his arduous duties during the passage from Loudon to New Zealand. “ Signed by the passengers.” LOSS OF THE CAROLINE HUTCHINGS. The following graphic account of the loss of the Caroline Hutchings is taken from the “ Frccmantle Herald ” of October 24th. and is an extract from a letter written hy a Mrs Ward to her parents residing there: —We arrived here (Formosa) on the 28th of July, and had to lay in the outer harbor, as there was not sufficient water on the bar to enable the Catherine Hutchings to go over. The next day it came on to blow very hard, and the next it blew still harder; the following day it was a typhoon, the horrible fury of which is indescribable. On Thursday afternoon we thought we could bold out, as the wind began to lull a little, and kept so until about six o’clock on Friday morning, when one of the anchors parted, with some 105 fathoms of chain. The ship now commenced to drag, the sea breaking over her in huge waves that swept the decks of everything, About seven o’clock my husband came below and told me to prepare for the worst; he fastened a life-buoy round me, and then went on deck. About half an hour after he called me up, so that I might be near him if the ship broke up on the rocks, to which she was closer and clo-er approaching. To prevent my being—by the sea that broke over us—washed away, he lashed me to the ship’s side. The sea was frightful. 1 never saw anything like it before, and pray I never may again. About nine o’clock we slipped the other anchor as she was dragging right down on the rocky bar, and had she gone on to it, not a soul would have been saved, but God was near ns to save us, for soon after the anchor was slipped she fell off, with her head towards a patch of sandy beach, the only piece for miles along the coast. She bumped heavily several times before she went ashore on the sand. The saltora were alarmed lest the masts should come down, for every time she struck, the masts jumped and shook frightfully. About 1 o’clock we got assistance from the shore by the aid of our brave dog Spring ; Frank fastened a thin line round his neck and flung him overboard in hopes he would swim ashore. For some time lie swam round and round the ship, and we began to fear he would’nt make the land; at Inst, attracted hy the harking of some dogs on shore, he struck out boldly in the direction of the beach and reached it sately. Ready hands on shore soon took the line, and hy attaching shorter ones to it, we soon had a number of warps out, which the people on shore fastened to trees or anything strong enough to prevent the ship drifting on to the rocks. By means of the ropes we all,' thank God, got on shore safely. During the three days of the typhoon deatii eaeli moment stared us in the face, the agony of the few minutes from the time we slipped until wc went ashore on tiie sands I cannot tell, it was tearful, even the sailors, used as they are to danger, were pale and silent from fear. After landing, I had to travel several miles over mud hills before I reached the residence of the only European lady in the place. I was completely exhausted and ill. I cannot speak too warmly of the kindness and generosity with which we have all been treated. After several ineffectual attempts to get the ship afloat, she was condemned and sold as a wreck.