SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 181, 7 January 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ;•*>: vr ARRIVED. .January?—Grace Darling, ship, 1042 tons, ;RBVfeU, from Geographe Bay, with Yarrah ■H sleepers. -. January 7 —Australian Sovereign, 533 tons, from Newcastle, with cargo coals. 7—Rose M., barque, Walkeley, with cargo timber. SAILED. #%H#mary 6—E. U. Cameron, schooner, 41 /"idnosif Ashman, for Akaroa. Cargo coals. •"Vi -January 7 — Bruce, s.s., 205 tons, Macfarfor Akaroa, Timaru and. Dunedin, passengers—Cabin : Messrs R. McEwan, Ogjlvie, J. Cooper, Dowling, Dixon, Grout, ’V January 7 —Reward, schooner, 41 tons, Westlake, for Akaroa. January 7—Agnes, brigantine, 128 tons, Short, for Mercury Bay, in ballast. , January 7 Emerald, ketch, 40 tons, Whitby, for Picton, in ballast. January 7—Alert, schooner, for Greymonth. Cargo general. January 7 —Bee, schooner, 31 tons, Green, for Amnri Bluff, in ballast. - v ' January 7 Nile, schooner, 24 tons, Smith, for Akaroa, in ballast. January 7 Strathnaver, schooner, 54 tons, Jorgenson, for Oamaru,

A. brig was signalled last night, and it was considered that it must be the Albion, with timber. It proved, however, that the signals were wrong, and that it was a ship, the Grace Darling, from Geographe Bay, long expected at the port, but detained through a variety of misfortunes. The barque Australian Sovereign was also at the heads, and both ran up the harbor at the same time, and also the Rose M,, from Sydney. FOUNDERING OF THE BRIG WINDHOVER. The “Sydney Morning Herald” reports that this vessel, under the command of Captain Roels, sailed from Sydney on the atteruoon of the Ilth instant, bound for Lyttelton, New Zealand, with a cargo of timber. The same evening she sprung a leak, and was abandoned on the 13th instant, the crew being taken off from the sinking ship by the barque Saxon, from Newcastle, bound South. Captain White, of the latter-named ship, furnishes the following particulars;—“ Sunday, 13th December, 1874, at 4.30 a.m., strong gale from S.S. W., sighted a brig; brig bore away for us, with signal of distress flying; at 7 a.m. the captain of the brig (Windhover, of Sydney), spoke and reported five or six feet of water In the ship, with all starboard bulwarks and stanchions washed away, and asked me to stand by him; wore ship, and stood to W.N.W.. in company with the brig, tor the land. At noon the Windhover, apparently becoming very heavy and Jow in the water, bore down to her, and the captain reported the water gaining on them, and his boat stove by the sea. The brig now had a very deplorable appearance, the sea running right over her. Hove ship to, and sent the lifeboat in charge of M. A. Bankier, chief mate, to communicrte with and save the crew, the brig apparently sinking. At half-past 1 p.m. succeeded in getting the captain and crew all safely on board, with some effects.”