SHIPPING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1845, 4 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. This Day- -12.56 a.m. ; 1.18 p.m. T6-M0880W— 1.42 a.m. ; 2.6 p.m. A.RBTVED. ■-„-» July 3^— Dispatch,s p.s,fKitchihghamj from Hokitika. G W. Moss and Co, agents. July 3— Dispatch^ p. s, Kitchingham, for Hokitika. G. W. Moss and Co, agents. Wild Duck, schooner, for Lyttelton. •'■'' \ „•:-.-. Murray, from Nelson. -; ; ■■■'< "'■ "■'' '■ Charles Edward,'ffom Nelsom g f Wallace, from Nelson. ..? V.i Spray t from Lyttelton. ! • : :1 - ( Mary Ogflvie, from Dunedin. ' ; j ... i; , Owep, from. Melbourne. : „ ' 'Albion, from Melbourne. ' : • --' Claud; Hamilton, from' Melbourne. ' -t :•■ i\i:'-r.--'-'. ■':' VESSELS IN:PORT. " f;; . '. , „ Janet Grey, from. Wellington. „,•..,., : Zephyr, from Melbourne. '' . , The p.s. Dispatch arrived; last night from Hokitika, and towed to sea the schooner 1 Wild Duckj bound for Lyttelton with a cargo ■; .'oE-c'oaL 1 .--.•:! ■•-.!■ •: ,>:■] ■-.-. ■]■-•. : ■-.••':• The stranded; , steamer Waipara was ex- ., pected t j be put in the liver on Thursday i ' '■ niglit, 1 and she would certainly have been bo but for the lateness of the tide and the; dark dirty , night, which, prevented the men from working. She was. however, safely floated „ ; into the lagoon at 12.30 this morning. Great credit is due to the, contractors, Messrs Kilgour and ' M 'Millan, ' for the expeditious manner in which she has been launched.The Omeo is anaounced to leave here for „M elbourne, direct to-morrow. „ i , - ' The official inquiry into the • stranding of, the as. ;Waipara wasJield yesterday before., Mr Lundon, Collector of Customs. Several i" witnesses were examined,: but nothing new ; .r,.was:elicited l w.ith.regar4to M the cause 6f;the disaster. The depositions will be forwarded' '• '■' to Wellington in the usual course.' • ; ; . named A. ,Wi. Creighton.jwas^ - lostoverboard from the schooner Pacific, on ' her 1 ' late passage from Mercury ! 'Bay to ■'• ■ Napier. ■ ■ He was steering, and was knocked . n t ■ by : the . mainbpom. through >; the ;■ .., jibbing of the sail. , '"'" : ,; •..», '•'■■' ' " A • paddle 1 steamer, probably a tug, named :; the Leo,: of 73 tons register, bound for Ausi; n tralia, was on the slip in Table Bay, Cape-of Good Hope, refitting on the 9th of May. ■ H ' ! ' 'The' Blanche (the Governor's . yacht) is an i /.' oak.-built , craft of . between, , 6o and 70 tons,- - „ .s,chooner rigged, and drawingsome 10ft aft. 1 'one' is nicely fittedup below, Svith spacious , ; saloon and 1 a good ladies' cabin, but wants .: ..touching, up in her deck, fittings and rigging Uolohist. "' '."' ,"'' ' ! ' ; -'-Tr,,% eiicti if of v ; fifty 'ton crane at the V i*ra B -wharf; will be delayed through' , theliksoi tho:i^T<atel shp ßritish Admiral,: as there were about forty tons of fittings for tie. crane on board. The monster stone to .bear the iron foundation of the crane was ' '-"safely* bedded in its position on Saturday, 6th June. It_ was placed on- rollers," arid' "* ''cfcfawn''up'an inclined plane by two powerful derricks with ease and speed in threequarters of an hour. Duplicates of the lost fittings will have to be. supplied, and a . . : message has been telegraphed to England to . forward them as early as possible. . ' • '■■■'■■' V y V TheOtogrb ( l)aiZi/'Ttn?ea.of 13th June gives "* "the %116 wi n! g report '<)f- a 'peculiar inquiry into a peculiar collision which recently happened between two vessels at Port Chal- : - mere :— "The recent collision in the lower '■ '•■ i: barbpr.ibetween ; the barques Southern Cross . jand^Free Trader formed the subject for a Srivite ; inquiry^ that ; was' Held; yesterday at larkand Son's Store', Port Chalmers. The collision oocurred on the 27th of last month. *■ " and 'was of rather peculiar character, the one vessel runningi stern 'first: into the other Both were bound in, the outhern Cross, '■'beingin tow of the 'steamer Geelong, whist' ; v . the llr^e.Trader was working in under cauyass. Ther latter, , it, appears,; went in stays just as tHe Geelong and Southern Cross were, coming up to her, and gathering stern board .'■> as' th'e'y.'were paßsing'on the starboard hand, backed into the Southern Cross, her amidships, and carried iaway a section of .the bulwarks and. stanchions, and also damaged ■ , her. own stern frame. -Of course both sides , . claimed _ damages, and legal proceedings ■ 'seemed' immine at, When, to save time and " expense,.' it. ; was arranged to put the case to , , the, master,. mariners. Of, these three were ' ' chosen—Captain Sexton, of the ship DuAami consented to appear on behalf of the Free' JjTrader ; (and Captain Crawford, of the Janet . - Court, championed the cause of the Southern '' !> CrosS^whilst to Captain Harland, of the' „ ''Buckinghamshire,, ''Buckinghamshire, was entrusted the position I „of umpire. The inquiry was held with closed doors, and a great deal of evidence from both sides having been heard, the-; balance of v ! , opinion went in favor of the ?ree Trader, oh . the plea, that she being in sta>s was in a measure' unmanageable, and that conse- '••"•: quently the vessel in tow should have given way to her. This was the,decided opinion of Captain Sexton and Harland, whilst Captain/ '.■"'"Crawford was; of opinion thit there was blame on both sides, and that, each vessel M should /bear her own costs, whether the • •;: case is (definitely concluded, or that legal Brwjproceedings will be takenJiereafter by the owners of the two barques, remains to be' Seen .».-P ,:•;;!:)■; H ; •.»_;■; •* ;: „ ,^/gles writes in the AuatrpXaman .••-"-'lt is ' ' not a cheerful nor inspiring topfc,"but where .. publicity will serve a useful purpose silence . '■' "is treasonable. There have ; lately been ob'-! vious examples of the inferiority of mast and rigging of some of the new clippers. By the way' of supplement 'let me say what I know ;.: r ,of .the :hufl of another T bran new ship, lately arrived here on her first voyage. The facts,; ' 'which have been kept very quiet, are these. Some of her dead weight was stowed in the "j; ''tween decks— a proper; [precaution/ distri- \,, touting the weight of the heavy portion of the cargo so as to prevent rolling- But mark., ■the'tesult. So strongly was this powerful' iron clipper .built that the tranverse iron beams supporting the deck on which, this, ; ; portion' rif • the cargo ; 'wAS ! stowed lbst^theif 1 ; _.^arch-like, form and _sagged in the middle; '' This had the effect of drawing out hundreds of bolts securing the iron knees to the ship's" , ..aides. And this, forsooth, is one of the 1 splendid specimens of naval architecture over ~ '''whiph there was' the 1 cußtomary 7 champagne ' ;'' : rapture when launched from the building yards' of the enterprisinj; : firm of MacShio- '"• wrecV SihVem 'n'i'Co'npariy. Those who '■' fcnow' t li'm't'/tt f 'I- ii" a-iitrJoof themari- ''.: time diviiit-r- -j*it x ■ ling tbe complaisance of '"'- 'Lloyd s Coin ■'< ■ t-' : ia'perm.t inn lighter and weakfer maten Is iv saipbuitding is mdi!- -! re'ctly responsible." : '