Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 370, 23 April 1866, Page 3

Shipping Intelligence.

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AEMVAM. DEPARTURES, t April 20—-Beautiful Star, s.s., for Auckland i EJECTED ARRIVALS. Balmoral, brigantine, from HobartTowa Beautiful Star, 8.8., from Auckland' Betsy, cutter, from .'Auckland Clyde, schooner, from Auckland Banish peauty, barque, from Gravesend via Kelson 1 Huntress, p-s., from Wairoa Kauri, schooner, from’Auckland . Lady Bird, schooner, from Wairoa I Lady Bird, as., from Auckland—2sth lark, schooner, from Auckland—hourly Ashley, e.s„ from Southern Ports—26th I Princes Alexandra, schooqer, from Sydney—daily * t Q&een, schooner, from Auckland I Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland I Shelburne, barque, from London via New Plymouth I Success, schooner, from Auckland 1 Taraipine, ketch, from Wairoa • Thane, s.s, from Wellington—daily Vistula,_s4hooncr. from Sydney via Newcastle— daily Vivid, schooner, from Wairoa Zillah, brigantine, from Auckland PROJECTED DEPAETyEES. B Auckland—Lord Ashley, sja,—26th Southern Ports—Lady Bird, s.s.,—26th Sydney—Maggie, brig—on discharge of inward cargo VESSELS IN HARBOR. Hero, ketch, from Walkbkopu Maggie, brig, irom Sydney Mabia, cutter, from Cape Turn again pt. KUda, s.s , from Poverty Bay jTawera, schooner, from Auckland via Poverty Bay ' MARITIME NOTES. Ajdt nine o’clock last night a schooner, supposed to he th'Vistula, from Sydney, dropped anchor in the outer haor. OP THE SCHOONER SHAMROCK, PROM t THE FIJI ISLANDS. \ (From,the Lyttelton Times, 3rd April.) |jtain Hayes reports leaving the Island of Vatalloa, txf.ging to the Fijian group, on the 15th March; es-fc'-moid fine weather and favorable winds to North Cfi: passed the above on the 22 nd; was Off Wanganui him Sunday, 25th, at 6 a.m.' The first mate, MrThos. ' Jo i, in' charge of the first boat, and the second officer in -c'lje of the second boat, landed passengers and luggage; at a.m. the boats returned to the ship, when Osptaln ti took charge of the second boat, and landed his wife ;wo other passengers. The boat in charge of the officer attempted to take the bar, when she got ped, drowning four of her passengers; a Fijian wqm, and a Thos. Eyan. got ashore. The names of the otis drowned are Mr Johnson, Mr W. H. Roberts, Mr Edrd James, and one of the ship’s crew, a Fijian. Eyan waftved by Capt. Hayes. Left Wanganui on the 26th for.is port, arriving on Monday, at 10 a.m. Hercargo ■ctnjises a large quantity of oranges, lemons, cocoarnuts, jiitjii, shells, coral, and other articles of curiosity. Her oaijis consigned to Messrs Hargreaves and Co. (pin Hayes also furnishes us with the following para hurricane which passed over the Fiji group on them and Bth of January, 1866, experienced by the tenter Shamrock,atTaboa Bay:— sday morning, January 7th, set in with thick weather unbht northerly winds, with constant rain. At 2 am., liefsqualls coming in quick succession; veered out to thij fathoms of chain, vessel laying in five fathoms, with goqmd bottom. 3 a.ra., very heavy squalls from north* easfith heavy rain; let go the starboard anchor, and ve«| out to thirty fathoms; veered out to forty-live fails on port anchor; barometer falling fast. 4 a.m, vedout all chain on both anchors; blowing harder, andrometer 28-90, and falhng fast, 9 a.m., blowing so haiat no one can stand oh deck without holding on to Msthhig, vessel plunging bows under, and shipping BciHlit fore-and-aft j barometer, 28 60; vessel drifting sloflto wards the shore. At 12 noon, it was blowing haul with a deluge of rain; wind veering to westward. At Bi. on Monday, Jau. Bth, wind slightly moderating, wett clearing up. 4 a.m., barometer standing at 23-70, stilßwing a hard gale. 6 a.m., weather moderating fasfiirometer 23-90, and rising. 8 a m., light south-west breßwith clear weather. During the hurricane the vcsßrifted about two miles. lathing on shore at the town has been destroyed; eonf the houses were filled with water to the roofs. •Thecr baa risen about thirty feet, and as the banks are I6w las swept everything before it. ’ AoSnda,! the Osana Islands, and all the adjacent Asia, the people are in a slate of utter starvation, aveiing is destroyed. The cotton plantations and all theit in the Bewa district and in the mountains are to* destroyed. T entre of the hurricane passed across Qvalan Island, at i.ka. The brigantintfAdolphns Tates, and schooner "Wived several small crafts, got on shore and went to piea All the coooa-nat trees and a great number of the bocivere blown down. All the yam and Taro plantations washed away. The Island of Wakaya, belonging to frown, the American Consul, is the only one la the wha-oup where no damage has been done.