SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 910, 25 May 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Weather Report.

May 25-9 a.m., Wind N.E. light; weather clear. Barometer, 29.04; thermometer, 53.

High Water. To-morrow—Morning, 2.43; afternoon, 3.09.

Arrtved. —May 24.

Flora, brigantine, 130 tons, Hughes, from Kaipara. W. Montgomery and Co., agents. Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, from Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. May 25.

Wellington, s., 279 tons, Lloyd, front Dunedin. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Hyams and child, Captains McClatchie and Cole, Messrs Christian. Edward and Logan. Nellie, schooner, 66 tons, Armstrong, from Thames.

Eliza Firth, brigantine. 143 tous, Stevens, from Greymonth. E. U. Cameron, schooner, 41 tons, Aschman, from Akaroa. Fawn, brig, 216 tons, Veal, from Newcastle.

Quiver, ketch, 19 tons, Smith, from Le Bon's Bay. Cleared. —May 26. Nonpariel, barque, 399 tons, Leddra, for Newcastle.

Wellington, s,s., Lloyd, for Northern ports. Atlantic, schooner, Spooner, for Auckland.

Catherine, ketch, Ware, for Le Bon's Bay

The s.s. Wellington arrived at 12 45 p.m. to-day from Dunediii. She sails North this evening. The brigantine Eliza Firth, from Greymouth, and brig Fawn, from Newcastle, arrived shortly after midnight.

The brigantine Flora, Captain Hughes, from Kaipara, arrived in harbor yesterday at 4 p.m. Left Kaipara on the 19th inst. with an cast wind. Made Cape Egmont following day, and held a N.W. breeze till noon when oft' Cape Campbell. Thence to Kaikouras N.E. breeze was experienced, being followed by a strong gale from the S.W. which held till Tuesday. Thence to arrival as above baffling winds. WRECK OF THE BARQUE FERONIA. The Feronia, wrecked at Kaipara Heads, was a barque of 315 tons register, under the command of Captain J. J. M. White, with a crew of eleven hands, all told, and was owned by Mr John Hughes, of Melbourne. At the time of the accident she was bound to the Saw-mills on the Wairoa River, to load with timber for Melbourne. The following narrative, furnished by the captain, describes how the accident occurred: —The Feronia left Wellington in ballast last Monday at noon, for the Kaipara, to load with timber. Off Kaipara Heads the wind was blowing moderately strong from the eastward, and the water lumpy, and we saw nothing to deter us from taking the vessel in. While beating through the channel the wind suddenly died away, and the ship was taken aback, and ran stern first ashore, inside the North Spit, about two lengths from high water mark. Bumping heavily, she rapidly filled, and with a view to placing the lives of the men beyond jeopardy, got out the boats to establish communication with ticfl shore. The first boat, under the second oilier/ with three men, was launched and sent away with a line, but when it got into the broken water it swamped, and its occupants were thrown into the sea. Being in close proximity to the shore all the men managed to land, and the boat being washed closed to hand, it was secured by the painter and hauled high and dry. The second boat was then manned by all the hands left on board, and by skilful steering and watching their opportunity, the boat was safely landed on the beach. Seeing no means of saving the barque, Captain White, the second officer, and steward made along the beach for the signal station, five miles away, and on arriving there the person in charge telegraphed the news of the stranding of the barque to Captain Lowrie, at the pilot station. This gentleman at once rode over to the scene of the wreck, and, on arrival, saw that nothing could be done to save her. Early next day the barque Ansdell, Captain Barnes, from Nelson, arrived, and the skipper of this vessel, in conjunction with Captain Lowrie, held a survey upon the stranded barque, and, finding her a total wreck, with no hope of her floating, recommended her abandonment.