Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 358, 15 March 1866, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

POST OF NAPIER.

ARRIVALS. March 13—Clyde, schooner, from Wellington DEPARTURES. March 13—" Vistula, schooner, for Sydney March 13—Saucy Lass, schooner, for Auckland March 13—Betsy, cutter, for Auckland PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Southern Pobts—Queen, s.s.,—l7th Auckland— Lady Bird, s.s.,—l7th; Clyde, schooner —early EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Beautiful Star, s.s., from Auckland—daily Betsy, cutter, from Auckland Hero, ketch, from Waikokopu Danish Beauty, barque, from Gravesend via Nelson Kauri, schooner, from Auckland lady Bird,.s.s., from Southern Ports—l6th Lady Bird, schooner, from Wairoa Lark, schooner, from Auckland —hourly Lord Ashley, s.s., from Southern Ports—2sth Maggie, brig, from Sydney—daily Mahia, cutter, from Wellington Queen, s.s., from Auckland—l6th Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland Shelboume, barque, from London via New Plymouth Success, schooner, from Dunedin St. Kilda, s.s.,from Chatham Islands Taraipine, ketch, from Wairoa Tawera, schooner, from Auckland Tivid, schooner, from Wairoa ZiUab, brigantine, from Auckland VESSELS IN HARBOR, Clyde, schooner, from Wellington Huntress, p.s., from Wairoa ENTERED INWARDS. MAKCH. 13—Clyde, schooner, 50 tons, Cheshire, from Wellington, ■with 49 tons coal, J. H. Vautier.—Master, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. 2JABCH. IS—Vistula, schooner, 133 tons, Patten, for Sydney, with 116 hides, 1 calf skin, 8 hhds. 5 casks tallow. Watt, Kennedy & Watt. Passengers,—Captain Stalker. Mr and Mrs Alexander.—Watt, Kennedy and Watt, agents. 13—Saucy Lass, schooner, 38 tons, M’Kenzie, for Auckland via Open Bay and Mercury Bay, with 16 bushels wheat. No passengers.—Master, agent, 13—Betsy, cutter, 35 tons, Bushell, for Auckland, via Tuparoa, with 650 bushels maize. MARITIME NOTES. Since our last, the shipping done at this port has been exceedingly small. There has been but one arrival, that of the schooner Clyde, from Wellington, with a cargo of coal, after a run of forty hours. But we expect there will, ns usual, be a regular host of vessels coming in very soon, which will make the harbor assume a rather more animated appearance than it presents just now. The dopar-,. tures since last publication have been three, the schooner' Vistula, for Sydney; the schooner Saucy Lass, for Auckland ; and the cutter Betsy, for Aucklandthus leaving the harbor with only two vessels, the p.s. Huntress, and the schooner Clyde. (Of course the Henry is still lying on the beach.) MISCELLANEOUS. The N.Z.S.N. Co’s steamers Queen and Lady Bird will be due here to-morrow (Friday,) the 16th Inst, —the former from Auckland, and the latter from Southern Ports. They will both leave again at noon on Saturday. The schooner Vistula, Captain Patten, sailed for Sydney on Monday last, being towed out of the inner harbor by the p.s. Huntress. Capt. Stalker, (late commander of tho Huntress) proceeded to Sydney by this oportunity. The schooner Saucy Laas and the cutter Betsy both sailed for Auckland on Tuesday last, via the Coast. Tho p.s. Huntress, —the crew of which vessel has been engaged during the past week in taking up the buoys in the outer harbor, painting them, and placing them in their fotruer positions,—came into the Iron Port on Tuesday evening last, to coal, water, &c. At the Hobart Town Sitting of the Supreme Court on Tuesday (reports the Launceston Examiner of the 25th ult.) Samuel Morrison pleaded not guilty to an Information charging him with having on the 26th day of November, 1865 past, feloniously and maliciouslyjeast away a certain Vessel,'the property of George CladhlU and another. The Solicitor-General said this was a new case, or at least, he did not remember a similar case ever having come before the Court. The facts were simply that defendant had been commander of a little schooner, thirty-three tons register, named the Blanche. On the day in question the defendant was at anchor in Sister’s Bay, D’Entrecasteaux Channel, having oniy a man named Heywood on board besides himself. From some unexplained cause, defendant slipped tho cable after making several boards across the bay, deliberately cut away the mast, and let the vessel go ashore. All this happened on a calm day, as several witnesses would prove. Assistance was tendered by several parties on the vessel going ashore, but defendant declined to make any attempt to save her. It was singular that prior to these proceedings the defendant had stripped the vessel of very much of her furniture and sails. After a long trial, the prisoner was sentenced to four year’s imprisonment ; his Honor Sir Francis Smith intimating that the prisoner would have received the full penalty of imprisonment for life had there not been mitigating circumstance*. It was a new offence; no lives had been endangered ; prisoner had been recommended to mercy by the jury, and the evidence went to show that the prisoner had been led Into the commission of the crime by the act of another, who was the principal, and that the prisoner was only the agent. Another man named GladhiU has since hecli apprehended in connexion with this case.