SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1300, 20 May 1878, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF LYTTELTON, Weather EEroRT-May 18. 9 a>ln> Wind, calm ; weather, clear ana hlno Bky. Barometer, 30.00. Thermometer, 38.00. High Water—To-Morrow. Morning, 7.56; night, 8.23. Arrived—May 18. Eotorna, s.s., 576 tons, Carey, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast. D. Mills, agent. Passengers —Saloon —Mr and Mrs Ford and two children, Mr and Mrs Wadsworth,Mesdames Munro, Marshall and two children, Hall, Miss Pilcher, Eov, Mr Coates, Messrs E. S. Harley, Hassel, Tannin, Sams, T. Collins, Broadbent, Faill, Harman, Levin, Pooks, Cutler, and 9 in the steerage. May 19. „ . . Contrahantiere, cutter yacht, 10 tons, Pennal, for Wellington. May 19. , Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Muir, from Wellington, Dalgety, Nichols and Co., agents. Passengers—saloon : Messrs Davies and McMasters, and one in steerage. _ . . _ , John Knox, barque, 291 tons, Davis, from Sydney. W. Montgomery and Co., agents. Cleared— May 20. Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Muir, for Melbourne •via South. Dalgety, Nichols and Co., agents. Wakatipu, s.s., 1158 tons, Cameron, for Sydney via Wellington. D. Mills, agent. The s.s. Wakatipu sails for Sydney via Wellington this afternoon. _ ... . The s.s. Alhambra arrived from Wellington at 8.15 this morning, and sails for Melbourne via South this afternoon. The barque John Knox, from Sydney, was signalled this morning, and was coming up the harbor when our express left port. The yacht Contrahantiere sailed for Wellington yesterday morning. She has thoroughly refitted during her stay here, and we wish this Weatherly little sea boat a flue trip to her destination. Wednesday’s “New Zealand Times” says :—Wo are indebted to the officer in charge of the Marine Department for the following information:— “ Picton, 11th May, 1878—Jackson, of Tory Channel, reports having found a few days ago at Oiifenbech, Qticen Charlotte Sound, part of gangway of a vessel, about 6 or 8 feet long, blue gum stanchions, apparently kauri pine planking, brass hinges, painted inside, white panels, blue mouldings. I have not heard of any wreck. Probably it may have been washed overboard in bad weather from some sailing vessel. An inquiry was made on Friday last concerning the ketch Margaret, reported missing. Probably she may be in Port Underwood.— (Signed). J. Allen, Collector of Customs.” In our issue of 6th instant we gave an account of a visit by the New Zealand Government steamer Hiuemoa to Dusky Sound, whore the remains of an old wreck were inspected, and some relics brought away by the captain of the steamer. We then stated that she (the wreck) is said to have lam for over forty years in that spot, but a correspondent points ont that in all probability, instead of fifty years having elapsed since the timbers were laid to rest there, it is probable that it was upwards of eighty years since the wreck occurred, and refers to “Collins’s New;South Wales,” second edition, published in 1804, where an account is given of a voyage of the good ship Endeavour, of 800 tons, which arrived at Sydney from Bombay with a cargo of rice and 133 head of cattle, on May 11th, 1 i 95. She had been eleven weeks on her passage from Bombay, and was commanded by aMr Bampton, who had previously visited the colony in the shin Shah Hormuzur, and who has left his name still on the charts attached to shoals, &c., discovered by him. He sailed from Port Jackson again for India on September 18th, 1795, and nothing was hoard about the ship until February, 1796, when the following paragraph occurs at page 315 of the before-men-tioned work“ By the return of the Eeliance from Norfolk Island accounts were received that Mr Bampton, who had left Port Jackson in September, on reaching Dusky Bay in New Zealand had found the ship so leaky that with the advice of his officers and people she was run on shore and scuttled. From thence the crew and passengers, amongst whom were several emancipated and escaped convicts, reached Norfolk Island.” This account renders it extremely probable that the wreck now in Dusky Sound is that of the Endeavour, which was abandoned there in 1795 —eighty-three years ago; and assuming it to be correct that the woodwork comprised both teak and English oak, it would be an excellent test of the comparative durability of these woods under equal conditions. —“Australasian Shipping News, April 20th.