Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 363, 2 April 1866, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

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ARRIVALS. ’ . . March 29—Sea Belle, cutter, from Auckland 30—Taraipine, ketcb, from Wairoa 30—Hero, ketch, from Waikokopii April I —St. Eilda, s.s.. from Wairoa DEPARTURES. March schooner, for,Auckland 29—St. Kilda, s.s., for Wairoa April I—Cosmopolite, brig, for Hokitika EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Beautiful Star, s.s., from Auckland Betsy, cutter, from Auckland Huntress, p.s., from Wairoa . Danish Beauty, barque, fr om Gravesend via Nelson Kauri, schooner, from Auckland Lady Bird, s.s., from Southern Ports— sth Lark, schooner, from Auckland —hourly Lord Ashley, s.s., from Auckland—6th Maggie, brig, from Sydney—daily Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland Shelburne, barque, from Lohdonyia New Plymouth Success, schooner, from Dunedin Vivid, schooner, from Wairoa , ZHlah, brigantine, from Auckland - ' VESSELS IN HARBOR. HOro, ketch, from Waikokdpu Lady Bird, schooner, from Wairoa Idahia, cutter, from Wellington Sea Belle, cutter, from Auckland via Mercury Bay St.Kilda, As.,from Wairoa Taraipine, ketch, from Wairoa ENTERED INWARDS. . . MARCH. Sl—Sea Bello, cutter, 27 toils,‘John Lewis, from Auckland via Mercury Bay, with 20,000 feet timber, Watt, ■ Keanedy and Watt.—Watt, Kennedy, and Watt, agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. ' - MARCH. 30— Cosmopolite, brig, 145 tons, W. Girdwood, for Hokitika, with 26 head cattle, 250 shoe, 79 trusses hav, 237 bags potatoes, 35 bags carrots, SO Colonial cheeses, 3 tons soap, order. Passengers.—Messrs A. Graham, and John ' Baty.—Kinross & Co., agents. ‘ 302-Kauri, schooner, 36 tons, Shearer, for Auckland, {with leave to call on the East Coast,) with 23 bags maize _ Salmon and Co.—G. E. G. Richardson, agent. MARITIME NOTES. ARRIVAL OR THE CUTTER SEA BELLE. '- The cutter Sea Bello,. Captain Lewis, from Auckland via Mercury Bay, with'2o,ooo feet sawn timber, arrived in the roadstead at eleven o’clock on the night’of ■ Thursday last. She left Mercury Bay on the 25th instant; spoke the Lord Ashley off Hicks’ Bay on the 27th, and arrived off Wairoa (for which place she was bound) on the night- of the 28th. -Waited there for two days, but found thewator too shallow for a vessel of her draught of water. Therefore, having received on board despatches for his Honor tho Superintendent, she left for Napier at half-past 4 on the evening of Thursday, the 29th instant, and arrived off the Ahuriri Bluff as above. She entered the Iron Pot at , aopn on Friday, the 30th inst.- ; s . • The p.s. Huntress was ashore at Wairoa when the Sea Belle left. ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. ST. KILDA. The Colonial Government s.s.,St. Kilda, Capt. Kennedy, left Napier at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 2uth Starch, with his Honor the Superintendent, .T, Rhodes, Esq., and several other-gentlemen'; arrived off .Wairoa same evening, and landed passengers, &c„ at daylight on Friday. Leri for . Poverty Bay at 6.30 p.m., encountering a strong 5.8.-galo immediately after. At 10 p.m. an accident occurred to ■ the engines, wnieh for the time completely 'disabled themand the vessel had immediately to bo put under sail. At ■midnight, finding that she was rapidlyjdyiftmg towards tho shore, anchored with the best bovver in; 15 fathoms of water, and veered to-60 fathom's. The-seu ran very heavily until noon on Saturday, when the wind having gone down the anchor -was weighed, and the. engines ; worked high pressure, until arriving at Long Point, wheu.au express was sent 1 overland to Wairoa, to communicate with ins Honor, who had remained at that place. The wind having 'shifted to N.E., she started ht 10 p.m., and" arrived hero at 8 a.m. on Sunday (yesterday), Ist April. It is expected that the damage done to the engines can be' repaired in about two days. ■ ’The p.s. Hiintress, which was -stranded at the entrance of the Wairoa river, had not been got off when the St Kilda left that-piace.. ■ ■ ” MISCELLANEOUS. -The brig Cosmopolite, Captain Girdwood, took her departure for Hokitika, at ten o’clock last evening. No sign of the brig Maggie from Sydney. * WEECK OF THE STEAMEE LONDON. (From the Home News, 26th Jan.) A NARRATIVE OF THE SURTITOES. The following narrative has been collected from the statements of Messrs Munro and Main, two of the survivors who are now in London. Messrs Mubvo and Main were passengers on board tho London, and they say that on the Tuesday a kind of gloom jirevailed amongst the ■J&ssengers. That was the day on which torn away. As matters became worse, they all grew mere resigned. Early ou Thursday, morning, husbands and Wives and children assembled in the saloon, listening to the-Rev. Mr'Draper, and praying devoutly. A complaint was made that the married men wore prevented- by their wives and children clinging to them from working at the. pumps; bni the answer was, " How can I leave them?” Mr Munro says it would bo impossible to describe the barrowing scene. 'Money, watches, chains, aud valuables of all kinds were lying about, All was dust now. The catastrophe was now near at hand, and: at this point the narrative of the boat begins;— . . . At a little before 2 o’clock, the hour at which the vessel went down, the ladies in an insensible state were floating about ou the poop of tho ship, and at this time both Mr Munro and Mr Main, looking out upon the little boat that . was tossed like a cockle shell—now close to, and anon 20 .yards from the vessel’s, side—remarked that if they hud a chance they would not go into her, believing it impossible for her to live. But, suddenly they felt the big ship leave as it were their feet, and then, it was that they re- . solved to take chance in the small craft. As soon as Mr Munro got into the boat the doctor’s assistant offered lilm ■ £SOO it they would take him iu. To this oiler one of the ■ sailors replied, " Keep your money and look alter yourself.” To this tho assistant answered, “ I am your doctor, tmd'you are bound to take me with you.” All this time they were pulling away from the ship, which live minutes afterwards sank beneath the waves, and although at this awful moment the small craft was some considerable dis- ' tauce off, still it is the opinion of tho sailors that had they been one minute later in leaving tho ship’s side the boat would have been sucked down iu tho vortex. It is a matter of great' surprise to those who fortunately look • refuge in the boat that she should live iu such a, sea, and 1 that too with seven persons more than she was built to cany. Ail tho now wearied crew bad with thorn were ' three bottles of brandy, one bottle* of champagne, some fresh water, aud a bunch of raw carrots, 'ifrey had not started long, however, upon their dreary journey before their fresh water was destroyed by the constant seas that ‘broke over them. They consumed -the bottle of champagne, and two bottles of the brandy during the Thursday night, aud the third they could not find, so that they were Jeti almost at the outset with but a lew carrots for sustenance. Leaving the scene of the wreck, they put the boat’s stem to the sea, and drifted due south dead before the wind, in the very opposite direction to which they desired to make, but to have attempted to steer the' boat would have been instant destruction. They continued thus at the mercy of one of the most terrific seas that CTer tolled in the Bay of Biscay-till about la o’clock ab pigiil, i. xpccting every moment to be. swain pied. At this hour the wind somewhat abated, and veered to s.sjl., hut so blpck was tho night that thty.'could not see each other 6K». They »u prayed for daylight, and as soon as dawn’

was seen breaking in the east it seemed to impart to the sufferers fresh life and a confidence that they would be saved, for, to quote Mr Muuro’s words, “ I felt convinced that, as our little craft had lived .through the dreadful night, she would live through any sea we might encounter.” * *- '• - "As the morning advanced the wind decreased-in violence, and the black clouds that kept sending forth drenching showers descended , almost to the sea. They Saw the first vessel about. 4 o’clock, bht owing to the wind and tremendous sea over which they were being carried, it was impossible for the vessel to find them. About 7 o’clock ou the Friday evening they saw a .schooner ou the port side, and held a consultation as to whether they should pull towards it, but Mr King objected, and shortly after that one of the. men .in the-boat jumped up and exclaimed, "There’s another' ship,”boys.” King still objected to facing the weather, upon which One Of the crew swbre'that it was. then - 'only chaucey and that if King refused to make for it, he would “stave 1 tho -boat iu.’ King then said, " Well, I go;” aud they accordingly pulled to the vessel that rescued them from their perilous position, and brought them safely-to port to relate the sad disaster that has thrown a gloom, over the United K’ngdbm. ■;' A -■ a; Mi - ; Munro, from whom a portion of this narrative has been derived, is a native of Montrose, 1 which he left some time ago to go to Australia, where ho had business connections with the gold diggings.