SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 247, 25 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. March 24—Volunteer, schooner, 27 tons, Foster, from the Bays. CLEARED. March 25—Transport, brig, 307 tons, Fox, for Newcastle, in ballast. March 25—Success, schooner, 59 tons, Lake, for Wanganui. March 25—Langstone, ship, 746 tons, Mitchell, for London. SAILED. March 24—Syren, barque, 300 tons, Rees, for Newcastle, in ballast. March 24—Clematis, brig. 249 tons, for Newcastle, in ballast. Passengers—Messrs Simpson and Hogan. March 24—Nile, schooner, 27 tons, Neilson, for the Bays. March 25—Fawn, brig, 216 tons, Brent, for Sydney. March 25—Herald, schooner, 53 tons, Hamilton, for Wellington. BARQUE OCEAN BEAUTY, FROM LONDON. This vessel was signalled on Tuesday last, but owing to strong head winds was unable to get up the harbor. Yesterday she ran up and anchored on" the quarantine station, as she had powder on board. The Ocean Beauty is consigned to Dalgety, Nichols audCo, and is chartered by Shaw, Saville and Co. We have no full report of her passage, but will insert one in our next issue. She left Gravesend on the 3rd, and the Start on the 14th December, thus making the run from Gravesend in 110, and from the Start in 99 days. The passage was a fair one till near the New Zealand coast, but a strong gale was encountered off the Snares, and the wheel broken, bulwarks washed away, aud other slight damage done. The run from the Cape to the Snares was, we hear, accomplished in 39 days. Her captain is J. N. Seagrove. During the passage a melancholy accident occurred. It happened in latitude 42.11 south longitude 40 east, on February 17th, in VV. Smith, the second mate's watch. The ship was before the wind, going about eight knots, the weather being hazy. It was 3.45 p.m., and Alfred Blacket, an ordinary seaman, was putting a shackle on the mizen boom wire pendent when a new hook, just fitted and holding boom, broke, and the boom falling on the tatlrail, jerked the lad overboard. The second mate threw some life buoys within a few feet of the lad, but he failed to catch one. The ship was put all aback, and a boat lowered, into which the second mate and lour hands got. The vessel was kept tacking übout the spot, and a watch kept at the mast head till dusk, but the unfortunate lad was never seen again.