Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 346, 1 February 1866, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

FORT OF NAPIER. ARRIVAL " January 2S—Success, schooner, from the Coast January 29—Queen, schooner, from Auckland DEPARTURES. January 30—St. Kilda, s.s., for East Coast January 30—Queen, schooner, lor Poverty Bay January 31—Beautiful Star, s.s., for Auckland January 31—Huntress, p.s., for Wairoa, (with troops) EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Bittern, cutter, from Auckland—daily Lord Ashley, s.s.. from Auckland—6th Queen, s.s., from Wellington—sth Bhelboume, barque, from London via New Plymouth

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Lord Ashley, e.s., for Southern Ports—7th Queen, s.s., for Auckland—6th Success, schooner, for Wellington—this day VESSELS IN HARBOR. Success, schooner, from the Coast Strathallan, ship, from London (loading wool) Sunbeam, barque, from London (loading wool) MARITIME NOTES. Since our last Issue, shipping matters have been particularly dull, there having been only two arrivals, the Success, from the Coast, with a cargo of wool; and the Maori schooner Queen, from Auckland, with a’general cargo for Turanga. The departures have been four—the St. Kilda, for the East Coast, with friendly natives; the Queen, schooner, for Poverty Bay, with original cargo from Auckland; the s.s. Beautiiul Star, for Auckland, with sheep; and the p.s. Huntress, for Wairoa, with No. 2 Company of the lath Regiment . The schooner Success will also leave this morning for Wellington, with a cargo of wool. ARRIVAL OF THE SCHOONER SUCCESS. The schooner Success, Captain Frost, arrived here on Monday night last, 2Sth ult., from Cape Turuagain, which she left on the morning of the previous day. She brought up upwards of 100 bales wooL MISCELLANEOUS. The Maori schooner Queen, from Auckland, arrived here on Monday night last. She is bound for Poverty Bay, but of course had to come down here in order to get permission to land goods at Turanga. Since she was here last the Queen has undergone a thorough overhaul; and will now, it is expected, continue trading between Auckland and the East Coast. The s.s. St. Kilda, Captain Kennedy, steamed for the East Coast on Tuesday evening. She takes back to their homos the Tupuroa natives which came up from Wairoa by her last week.

The favorite steamer Beautiful Star, Captain H. Morwlck, steamed for Auckland with another large shipment of sheep yesterday morning. The schooner Success, Captain Frost, cleared at the Customs yesterday, for Wellington, with a cargo of wool; and will sail early this morning. The p.s. Huntress, Captain Stalker, steamed for Wairoa yesterday afternoon, with a company of Il.M.’s 12th Eegt. under command of Captain Craw. ’ The P., N.Z., and A.11.M. Co.’s s.s. Lord Ashley, Captain Worsp, is due from Auckland on Tuesday next, the 6th inst.

The N.Z.S.N. Co.’s s.s. Queen, (or other boat) is due from Southern Ports on Monday next, the sth instant. The barque Constance, Captain Elliot, arrived at Auckland on tho 20th ult., after a rapid run of 45 days—having left San Francisco on the 6th December. She was the hearer of late American news, of which an abstract willbe found in this morning’s paper. During the month of November last, five of the arrivals at San Francisco were whalers, and thirteen ships in ballast seeking freights. The ship Commodore, Captain Colville, arrived at Wellington on tho 12th ult., 93 days out from London, with a general cargo and ten passengers. The ship Indian Empire, from Lyttelton to Loudon, got well away to sea at seven o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, tl e 10th ult.

The ship Robert Henderson, with a cargo of wool, gold, and other produce, sailed from Otago ou tbo 19tU ult. for Loudon.

Information has been received in Sydney from Thomas H. Haymaa, Esq., Master E.N., stating that a rock above water, and breakers, were discovered hv H.M S.S. Salamander, whilst on her passage from Cape York to Moreton Bay, on the 18th November, 1865, when the vessel was off the Great Palm Island, and steering the usual course, from North Palm, to pass to the eastward of the White Rock.

We notice by onr files from the different, Provinces that the first wool ship of the season, for London, was our old favorite the Astcrope, and that she carried the most valuable cargo.—New Zealand Advertiser, 24th January. We understand that the s.s. Storm Bird is about to be placed en the Hokitika trade in conjunction with the Wonga Wonga. The Storm Bird will be commanded bv Captain Renner, and the s.s. Queen will be taken by Captain Thompson.—lbid. Wreck. of the Schooner William and Mary.— We have unfortunately to report the total wreck of the schooner William and Mary, which went ashore on Monday afternoon on the North Beach. The vessel was in tow of the Lioness, and attempting the bar about an hour after ebb, and the bar not fit to take. Owing to some mistake the Lioness took the ground, and, to save herself, the tow-line was cut adrift; and the steamer had hard work to back out through the breaker's. The schooner, of course, rapidly drifted to the northward, and finally went ashore, about 150 yards from where the Nelson now lies. Unfortunately, when the ti de left her, she list od over to the seaward side, an d the following tide made a complete breach over her, and speedily breke her up. the cargo washing ashore in all directions. We visited the wreck yesterday afternoon, and found only the stern part of the vessel remaining whole; and, from the rapidity with which the sea was then swashing her up, we expect, will by this time have disappeared altogether. We may say that wo have heard another version of the disaster, which is that the tow-line got entangled in the paddles, and was cut in two by them; but for which, the steamer would have been able to save the schooner. Of course all the cargo of a perishable nature is saturated with sea-water, and but little has been saved. On the 11th, an official investigation into the cause of the wreck took place before the Resident Magistrate, at Cohden, from which we learn that the Lioness tug, which had the schooner in tow, had got out of the channel, and struck on the South Spit:—“ All at once she shoaled from two and a-ha.f fathoms to five feet, and took the ground heavily. The Lioness was drawing about sis feet two inches, and tl e schooner nearly the same. On touching, the engines wire stopped, and reversd with the intention of backing out. The William and Mary ran up to the port side of the sti amer, and a heavy sea t hrew her against the port paddlebox. As she passed, the Lioness got afloat again and the schcoaer was rapidly approaching the ground. The Lioness hacked astern, thinking to check her off, but the tow-line Is supposed to have become entangled in the paddle-floats, and so fevered. After the line parted, the Lioness put head to sea, to render assistance to the schooner, hut the latter was carried so rapidly to the northwaid, t! at the Lioness could not approach without endangeiiug e • own safety. The William and Mary consequently drilled on the beach, north of the Nelson; her masts v, int by the hoard, and she rapidly broke up. The evidence, so far, goes to show that there was no wilful risk run by tie Lioness, and the probability is that, hut for the tow-line breaking, she would have been able to save the schooner.”—C rey River Argus, 10th January.

The ScHoojEa Sx. Kilda. —Ey the arrival yesterday of the barque Kate, )rom Sydney, we learn that the schooner St. Kilda, whoa so long defied capture alter her escape from the cus oly of a Customs officer at Wangaruru, where she was seized on a charge of smuggling spirits, hft Sydney for this port on the 11th instant, in charge of Captain Macfarlane, to whom she was entrusted on behalf oI'HAI, Customs at this port. Information ol her seizure and arrival in Sydney was received here last mail, and Captain Macfarlane was despatched in the Alice Cameron, in order to bring ler down to Auckland. The captain, supercargo, and crew of the vessel were to he forwarded to *ydney m the John W esley, from Apia, Navigator Islands where they were captuiel. We have no intelligence ot her arrival in Sydney, but presume the men will bo sent on to tuts port per first steamer affer their arrival. The narrative of the capture , as furnished hy Captain Clarke, of mo W. B. Dean, a vessel lying in Apia at the time the St. Kilda put in there for provisions, is worth repeating. Captain Clarke says.0a the Ssth October, a schooner came off the port of Apia,

South Sea Islands, and the supercargo, named Cohden, landed in the boat, and reported the schooner to be the Success, making some excuse for the vessel not coming in. This person purchased goods to a very large amount of Messrs Schwelg and Meuiil, of Apia, giving bills on an Auckland tirm. Captain Clarke, of the W. B. Dean, who fortunately went off with the first lot of goods, on behalf of his owners, recognised the vessel as the St. Kilda, which he knew to be a smuggler. Captain Clarke, having shipped the goods, proceeded on shore atO a.m., and gave informato the British Consul (Mr Williams), who procured an armed crew and went out to the vessel. In the meantime Captain Clarke waited at the heads as a decoy, having the remaining portion of the cargo which the schooner hore down to receive, when she was seized, and those on hoard were all under arrest before they had time to offer any re sietanco. The master’s name was Smith, and, when seized, said had he known Mr Williams was coming to seize them he would have put a bullet through him. The vessel was brought into Apia, and the British Consul appointed Captain Clarke to her command, and she left the latter place on the 9th September, consigned to the Collector of Customs Sydney.—Daily Southern Cross, 23rd January. In reference to the foregoing the Sydney Morning Herald says: —“ Captain Clarke was formerly master of the Government schooner Sea Witch, of this port, and is well and favorably known here. He ran a considerable risk in capturing the vessel, and as it was the cause of his losing the command of the W. B. Dean, we hope the Government will take his conduct into consideration, and not allow him to be a loser by his proceedings for the protection of the revenue.”