SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 160, 9 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. ' December 9—Bruce, 8.8., 205 tons, Macfarlane, from Dunedin and intermediate porta. Passengers—Saloon: Mr and Mrs Wearing, Mrs Aitken, Messrs Gate, Rawson, Cross, Bridge, Wood, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Burmister, and 7 in steerage. December 9—Elizabeth Curb-,, schooner, 76 tons, Calvert, from Hokitika, cargo timber. December 9—Flying Cloud, schooner, 4b tons, Andrews, from Hokitika, cargo timber. December 9—Annie, ketch, 20 tons, Clark, from Kaiapoi. December 9—Margaret, ketch, 24 tons, Binnet, from Little Akaloa, cargo posts. SAILED. December 9-Kestrel, ketch, 24 tons, Clarkson, for Manuka Bay. December 9—Bruce, s.s., 205 tons, Macfarlane, for Dunedin and intermerdiate ports. Passengers saloon—Mr, Mrs, and Miss White, Mr Webster. The s.s Bruce arrived in harbour at 8 a.m. this morning. She discharged 60 tons cargo and 189 bales wool, and left again for South after loading, at 4 p.m. to-day.] Several small craft arrived in harbor this morning (coastwise). Several small craft were to sail to-day, but have been detained by the want of wind. The Levi Stevens was to sail for Newcastle to-day. We hear the captain hopes to return to this port and load wool for the Eastsrn States of America. Every one that knows him will wish him luck in getting a freight. WRECK OF THE GLASGOW STEAMER FAIRHOLM-FIV.K LIVES LOST. Durinf tlic dense fog which prevailed on Saturday, the steamer Fairholm. bound for Limerick from Glasgow with a cargo of coals, struck on a reef of rocks on the coast of Tory Island, and sank in a few minutes in four fathoms of water. The master, mate, two engineers, and one of the firemen who had all probably been below at the time, were drowned. Six of the crew were saved. The survivors were hospitably entertained by the islanders, who had them conveyed in a boat to Falcarragh, where they had new clothing supplied to them by Mr Geo. F. Brady, who also sravc each man sufficient money to take him to Glasgow. Mr Brady and Mr John M'Ginley, agents for Lloyd's, left for the island on Sunday to take charge of the wreck. The weather on Saturday bad been remarkably fine during the early part of the day ; but a dense fog gathered suddenly towards evening, and the ill-fated steamer being overtaken by it, struck on the north side of the island. The Fairholm belonged to Glasgow, and w«s owned by Hugh M'Phail and Co, 42 Broomielaw. The vessel carried eleven of a crew, and the five men drowned were—Peter Gibson, the master, and John M'Pherson, the mate, both of whom held captain's certificates, John Thompson, chief engineer; Thomas Paterson, second engineer; and the stoker, whose name is not known in Glasgow. The captain had been at sea for upwards of forty years, and had previously acted as master of sailing vessels and also of steamers. He was considered a very careful man, and under his charge the ship had acquired a name for the extraordinary rapidity of its passages to Limerick, and for being a safe coaster. The Fairholm was built at Pointhouse by Messrs A. and J. Inglis, in 1871, specially for the Limerick trade, and had a carrying capacity of 250 tons; the engines were of forty-horse power, and it was classed a9O at Lloyd's.—" Glasgow Herald," August 20.