SHIPPING

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1031, 15 October 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING

TOST OF LYTTELTON. Weathbb Effort— October 15. o a ra -Wind, N.E., fresh Lrceze; weather clear; "and blue sky. Barometer, 30.00; therinometer, 51. _ High Water—To-morrow. Morning, 11.30; night, 11.52. Arrived—October 13. Albion, s.s., 501 tons, Tozer, from Melbourne, via Wist Coast and Wellington. Dalgety, Nichols; and Co iirents Passengers—saloon: Mis?, Bossvick, Mr Green, Master Green, Mr Gcogh, Mr and Mrs Lau-hlin, Mr Wakened, and 1 i in the steerage. October 14. Claud Hamilton, s.s., 530 tons, Clark, from Melbourne, via South. Dalgety Nichols and Co atrents Passengers—saloon—From Hobart Town Mr" and Master White, Mrs Fowler and fluiuiv (2 Mrs Fuller and child, Mrs Amos and family W. M« " lld mss Eicnal t s ' 3 ? is L l,intl I ! a # M™sr/piH, senr., Pitt-, junr., Hunt, Master C. Lamb From Fort Chalmers - Messrs Gunn, Iveßon's Bay. Master, agent, Sett, ketch, 17 tons, Molyneaux, from Pigeon B Kestrel, St ketch, el 20 tons, Semb, from Pigeon Bay. M oliwaru! e schooner, 09 tons, Rae, from Hokitika. F. Jenkins, agent, Cleopatra, brigantine, 92 tons, Brown, from Greymouth. C. W. Turner, agent Arrived —October 15. Tui s s OH tons, Wills, from Foxtou, Wellington and Kaikour,, G. Mackay agent, Passengerssaloon: Messrs Bnndel and Teuny, and two in the S Emperor, brig, 284 tons, Clear.v, from Newcastle. W. H." Hargreaves. agent. Bee, schooner. 31 tons, Shepherd, from Amuri Bluff.' Master, agent. Cleared—October 15. Lucy James, ketch. 28 tons, Clarkson, for Pigeon Bay. *F. Jenkins, agent. Claud Hamilton, s.s., 530 tons, Clark, for Melbourne via North. Dalgety, Niehols and Co., ag Tui,'s.s.,ot tons, Wills, for Kaikoura, Wellington, a'nd Foxton. G. Mnckay, agent. Volunteer, schooner, 22 tons, Marquet, for l.e Bon's Bay. Master, agent. Sailed—October It.. Taranaki, s.s., 327 tons, Anderson, for Northern Ports Miles, Hassal and Co., agents. Passengers —saloon for Picton—Mr and Mrs G. Blackie. For Manukau—Messrs Warren and A. Hall. SteerageMr and Mrs Thomas and 3 children, Mr and Bliss O'Keefe Mrs Holdsworth, Messrs E. Gaudm, A. C. Metson,' W. J. M'Cormick, P. B. Baker, Willis, Wilson, W. Mezer. Sailed—October 10. Albion s s., 530 tons, for Melbourne via South. Dalgety, Nichols and Co., agents. Pas-seu-ers-saloon : Mr and Mrs Carter, Mrs Berrglar, Miss Purkies, Mr E. Dawson. Steerage—Messrs B. Gibson, H. Eogers, M. Lawlies, and twelve original. The Albion for Melbourne via South and Hobart Town, sailed at 1 p.m. to-day. The Claud Hamilton sails for Melbourne via North this afternoon. The barquentine Empress of China was on the berth at Hobart Town for Lyttelton when the Claud Hamilton left, and was expected to sail at an early date. . The Pet barque arrived at Newcastle on October Ist. , . n ~ The Eli Whitney case has advanced another sta<-e. The Registrar and Assessors, who held the enquiry lately into the question of awards, have ffiven judgment that the owner of the hulk is entitled to half the cost of removing her, as part of the damages allowed ; but the question has yet to be finally settled by the Court. It is confidently reported that all preliminary negotiations for the purchase of the barquentine Alma by a Westport proprietary have been concluded, and that the vessel will in future trade regularly between Westport and Melbourne. THE STEAMEES HANKOW AND CUZCO. It would be seen by a late telegram that the steamships Hankow and Cuzco have left Plymouth for Melbourne via the Cape of Good Hope. The Hankow belongs to Messrs Watts, Milbnrn and Co 's fleet of steamships, which includes the bt. Osyth and Whampoa. The Cuzco belongs to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's fleet, and comes out to the colonies under the auspices of the Orient line. She is sister ship to the Chimborazo, which recently arrived in Melbourne, bringing later English news than that brought by the mail steamer The Cuzco was launched in 1870 from the building yard of Messrs John Elder and Co., Glasgow, her cost of construction being £93,838. The dimensions are as follow:—Length between perpendiculars, 370 ft. ; beam, 41ft. ; and depth of bold 35ft. The gross register is 3815 tons, and the net '''436 tons; and the displacement at 20ft. draught is 4996 tons. The capacity of hold is 137 850 ft., aud the bunker space 48,805 ft., the mean draught of the Cuzco being 22ft. 6in. She is fitted with engines equal to the effective power of 3000 horses, and her consumption of coal is about 35 tone per day. THE SHIP ZEALANDIA IN COLLISION. Mr F Barraud, of Wellington, has permitted the " Post" to publish the following account of the Zealandia's collision, received by the San Francisco mail from his father, Mr C. D. Barraud, who was a passenger by the ship The letter is written from Eio, and is dated 31st July : On the 7th, we were in company with several other vessels, tacking about with a light contrary wind Spoke two in the morning, the ship Niagara and the barque Ellen Lamb, both 37 days out from Liverpool. About 10.30 p.m., when we had, most of us turned in, we heard a call of "a light on the port bow," followed by plenty of noise and a rush to the wheel, then the order " hard a-port, and almost immediately we smashed into the Ellen Lamb just before her foremast, cutting right into her The result was she sank within five minutes. Twelve out of sixteen of her crew are with us, the captain, carpenter, one seaman, and a hoy went down with her. The fault was entirely with the captain of the barque, who was obstinate, and reversed the helm after the chief mate had put it hard a-port, and when it was too late to clear us. We being on the port tack, and they on the starboard they should have got out of the way. As it was, she came right across our bowsprit, her foremast falling over it a'.d carrying it away with all our jibs, foreroyal, mast, and yard, and destroying our foresail also. But, worst of all, we have a large hole near the stem big enough for a man to creep through, fortunately, however, m the col-lision-box, a watertight compartment, and above the water-line, or close to it, and the stem is split. These two injuries have filled the compartment up to the water level, but a shield has been made of thick wood covered With sacking and tar, and let down by a rope outside and drawn into the hole, being firmly lashed inside and tightly stuffed with tar and oakum which has effectually stopped it in the meantime, but the other appears to be the most serious injury, and the most difficult to get at. All day Sunday was occupied in repairs, the ship being hove to, and a, miserable day it was for us all. Monday—day and night—most of us helped to pump continually to get the water out, and on Tuesday they rigged the pump on to the condensing engine, which has been going ever since, keeping it down effectually, but I think it is quite understood she is not safe to do the last part of the voyage, land that we are to go into E'o which is on our course, and from which we are now' [l4th July] about 2000 miles distant. You mav imagine what an alarm it was to all of us, but I am happy to say all acted well, and kept quiet, causing no confusion. I suppose we were never nearer being all lost together thau at that dreadful moment, and but for the skill and presence of mind of our captain (whose watch it was), the barque would have taken us behind our compartment, and then I doubt if anything could have saved us. The remainder of the letter, written at various dates, describes the run to Rio, which was a very favourable one, the ship making capital travelling although " unable to carry royals or skysail, and with mere apologies for jibs," and beating all other vessels she fell in with. She arrived at Eio on the 25th July, and repairs were commenced on the 31st, the date at which the letter was closed aud posted. The repairs then wore expected to take 23 days. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, October 13. Arrivcd-Spray, from Lyttelton. Sailed—Forest Queen, tor Lyttelton; Tui, for Kaiko-ra and Lyttelton at 3 p.m.