SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 706, 23 September 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : Sept 23—8 a.m, wind S.W, light; weather overcast. Barometer, 29.60 thermometer, 41. High Water : To-morrow (Sunday) Morning, 8.40 ; night, 9.06. Monday morning—9.32 ; night, 9.58. ARRIVED. Sept 23—Hawea, s.s, 462 tons, Wheeler, from Northern ports. Passengers— Miss Garrard, Mr and Mrs Mitchell and family (3), Mesdames Stevens, Westlake, and Bell, Messrs J. T. Peacock, Woodward, Croke, J. E. Brown, Cooke, Holder ; six in steerage ; and ten from South. Sept 22—Colonist, schooner, 43 tons, Bailey, from Picton. Sept 22—Catherine, ketch, 13 tons, Ware, from Akaroa. CLEARED. Sept 23—Catherine, ketch, 13 tons, Ware, for Chain’s Bay. Sept 23—Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, for Pigeon Bay. Sept 23—Hawea, s-s, 462 tons, Wheeler, for Northern Ports. SAILED, Sept 23-Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Rutter, for Mclntosh Bay. Sept 23—Minnie, ketch, 19 tons, Marquet, for Akaroa. The s.s. Hawea arrived to-day, just as our express was leaving port. LOSS OF THE CUTTER START. A recent telegram informed us that the captain Of this vessel was lost overboard, and that the crew, in endeavoring to save him, left the craft, which drifted on the Barrier. The Auckland “ Herald ” gives the (following particulars ‘ Information of a startling nature was received in town on Saturday night relative to the above cutter which left here on Thursday morning with a cargo of stores for Mercury Bay. She was under the command of Captain Diaz, a man well and favorably known in the coasting trade, and had a crew of two men, natives of Portugal, whose names we are unable to ascertain. From the statement made by the latter to Captain H. Elliott, the owner, we are enabled to furnish the following narrative, which appears more like a romance than a true story. The vessel left this port about 10.30 a.m on Thursday, and at 1 p.m had got about half-way across the Haiirakl (iulf, with a fair wind from W.S.W. In order to clear Cape Colville it became necessary to eibe from the starboard to the port tack, and in doing this Captain Diaz got entangled in the main aheet and was carried overboard. When the poor fellow was in the water, he cried out to put the helm down and launch the dingy to pick him up. This was done immediately, and the boat thrown into the water, the two men jumping into her. and pulling to the rescue of their captain. They Strained every nerve to save their late companion, but the wind and sea being unfavorable, they had hopelessly to witness the melancholy sight of their captain sinking to rise no more when they were within twelve fathoms of him. At the time of leaving with the dingy, the cutter had jib and staysail set, and the mainsail peak down, and the boom eff to the full length of the sheet. Seeing that their skipper was lost, the two men in the dingy turned their attention to getting on board the cutter again, and at once rowed back in the direction where they had left her, but were astounded on finding that the vessel had worked away to windward, and it was a task beyond their efforts to reach up with her. They at once headed for Cabbage Bay, and reached that settlement about 10 pm on Thursday. Next morning they walked overland to Coromandel, and came up to town by the s.s Argyle on Saturday night, and without delay informed the owner of the circumstances. "When the cutter was last seen she was heading towards Little Omaha, but, judging from the wind and the sail she had set, she ought to make almost a due northerly course out to sea, provided she weathered the Lljtle Barrier.’