SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 854, 20 March 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

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Weather Report. March 20 -Wind, S.W; fresh breeze; ■weather, clear. Barometer, 30.24; thermometer, 48. High Water. To-morrow —Morning, 8.43; night, 9.13. ARRIVED. March 20—XXX, ketch, 21 tons, Clarke, from Akaroa. March 20—Maud Graham, schooner, 80 tons, Jorgensen, from Kaipara. March 20—Wild Wave, schooner, 39 tons, Morland, from Akaroa. CLEARED, March 20—Beautiful Star, s.s, 146 tons, Berniche, for Timaru. SAILED 1 March 20 Sissy, schooner, 79 tons, Bayldon, for Manukau. March 20—Atlantic, schooner, 60 tons, Spooner, for Waikato. The schooners Sissy, for Manukau, and Atlantic, for Waikato, sailed early this morning. , , _ . The s s Beautiful'Star cleared the Customs for Timaru this morning, and will sail this evening. . , . „ . The Maud Graham arrived from Kaipara this morning. ARRIVAL OF THE WILLIAM COBB. This barquentine, which was signalled yesterday morning, arrived in harbor Irom Wellington m the afternoon. She has about 220 tons of Lew York cargo on board tor this port. The William Cobb is an exceedingly handsome model of a vessel, and very comfortably and tastefully appointed, bne was built at Dittor;, in Massachuseta, in 18/o, and is a fast sailer and good sea vessel. Arriving at Wellington on February 28th, she there landed her cargo for that pen t and left on Friday last at H a m with northerly winds and fine weather, which lasted to passing Cape Campbell at midnight; nex t day was calm until 4 p.m, when the wind came away from the southward, and blew hard on Saturday night. Made Godley light at 8 p.m on Sunday, took the pilot on board at noon yesterday, and beat up the harbor against a S.W. breeze, anchoring off tne Breakwater at 5 p.m. The William Cobb brings about 220 tons of cargo for this port. WRECK OF AN AUCKLAND SCHOONER, Supposed Loss of All Hands, Private letters have been received in Auckland from Noumea, New Caledonia, via Sydney, dated the 19th February, announcing the arrival that morning of the schooner Aurora (late Mary Melville) from the New Hebrides. The captain brought intelligence of a fearful hurricane having visited the New Hebrides Group in the early part of February. Intimation was received by the Aurora, from a native source, that the schooner Tanna, which visited this portl n December, had become a total wreck at Santa, one of the group, and that all hands perished, including the captain’s wife, who was on board, having left Auckland, where she had previously resided, when the schooner left. The information is of a meagre description, but as several firms have received advices ot a similar nature, we are afraid that the news is too true. Captain Douglas was in command when she lea here. and. as the owner did not proceed In her from Noumea to the Islands, it is highly probable thH the skipper was in charge at the time of the wreck. Another Auckland resident, George Finlay son, who worked in the yards ot Messrs Niccol, at the North Shore, shipped as one of the crew, but whether he proceeded to the New Hebrides or not we cannot vouch for. She cleared the Auckland Customs on December23th, and sailed immediately afterwards, with Mrs Douglas and Mr Hebblewaithe as passengers for Noumea. The crew were George I inlaylon, Augusta Buthe, Antonio, Jeaine, Boncef, the latter two natives. The schooner was ol 57 tons register, and owned by Mr McLeod, of Noumea, but letters received yesterday stated that he remained reference to a paragraph lately published touching the wreckage passed off the Cape of Good Hope by the barque Strathdon, the following extract from a letter received by Mr Andrew McKinnon, of Port Chalmers, from Captain Thomson, of the ship Maulesden, and published in the Otago “ Daily Times,” may perhaps throw some light on the subject. Captain Thomson writes fiom Liverpool, and the date of his letter is January 15th last, and he relates a startling Incident of the voyage from San Francisco as follows You will be sorry to hear that in the S.E. Trade we had a collision with an old barque belonging to Greenock, called the Marseilles; and sunk her—or, I should say, she sunk herself, for she came stem on to us just on the port side, right In front of the poop, aiid left the whole ot her bows in the mate’s office. We picked up all the crew and brought them home. The vessel sank in three hours after she struck us. We fixed up our ship and brought her home, and only damaged six bags of cargo. Ten plates on her port side, several frames, four beams, and the greater part of the poop has to be made uew, and it will take two months to get this done.” The writer does not give the exact position of the ship when the collision occurred, nor the date, neither is the date of the Strathdon’s passing the wreckage stated, but as she arrived at Sydney on the 24th February, sha may be assumed to have been off the Cape at the beginning c£ January. The Mauiesden sailed from San Francisco September Ist, and made the passage home in 117 days, thus arriving December 24th. Hence she may be assumed to have been in the S.E. Trade six or seven weeks earlier. Now, a few degrees south of the southern limit of the S.E. Trade beit the sweep of the South Equatorial Current sets to the eastward, and as the current off the Cape of Good Hope sometimes sets in the same direction, whilst to the southward of it there is an eddy current very frequently setting to the eastward, it would be quite possible for the wreckage of the Marsel les to have found its way just past the Cape by January, especially if its dritt were promoted by westerly winds,