Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 397, 26 July 1866, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF NiPIEE. AEEIVALS. July 23—Ahuriri, s.s., from 'Wellington 25—Balmoral, brigantine, from Hobart Town DEP A ETCHES. July 24—St. Kilda, s.s., for Poverty Bay 21—Thane of I'ife, brigantine, for Auckland 24—Esther, brigantine, for Wellington EXPECTED AEEIVALS. Betsy, cutter, from Auckland Blue Bell, schooner, from Auckland Celt, schooner, from Auckland Clyde, schooner, from Auckland Donald ITLeau, schooner, from Poverty Bay Eagle, cutter, from Auckland Egmont, s.s., from Auckland—hourly Greenwich, cutter, from IV airoa Hercules, cutter, from Auckland Joanna, schooner, from Auckland Lady Wynyard, cutter, from Auckland Nautilus, cutter, from Auckland Queen, schooner, from Auckland Hambler, ketch, fromWairoa Eose Ann, schooner, from Auckland Sailors’ Bride, ketch, from Siobaka Satellite, cutter, from Auckland Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland Star of the South, s.s., from Tauranga—this day Bt. Kilda, s.s., fr om Poverty Day Sturt, p.s., from Wanganui Success, schooner, from Auckland Taraipine, ketch, from Vvairoa Tawcra, schooner, from Auckland Tom, ketch, from Arapawanui Vistula, brigantine, from Sydney Vivid, schooner, from Wairoa Wellington, s.s., from Tauranga and Auckland—2Sth William and Julia, schooner, from Auckland VESSELS IN IIAEBOE, Alviriri, s.s., from Wellington Balmoral, brigantine, from Hobart Town Henry, schooner—repairing Kero, ketch, from Wairoa Lady Bird, schooner, from Wairoa Llahia, cutter, from Waikari and Jlaliia Secret, ketch, from Blind Bay PEOJECTED DEPAETTJEES. For Wellington and Southern Ports—Wellington, 29th Poverty Bay—Ahuriri, to-morrow Wairoa— Lady Li: ! and Hero, early CLEAEED OUTWAEDS. JCX.T. 21—Thane of Fife, brigantine, 121 tons, David Hughes, for Auckland, in ballast. 3 passengers.—Kinross and Co., agents. 23—Esther, brigantine, 54 tons, Campbell, for Wellington, with CO tons limestone, 3 bullock drays, and part of original cargo from the Coast. 1 passenger.—Master, agent. The s.s. Ahuriri, Captain Flowerday, arrived iu Hie Iron Pot at 2 - 30 p.m. yesterday, from Wellington, bringing the English and Australian Mails for this Province. The brigantine Balmoral, from Hobart Town, arrived in the roadstead yesterday afternoon. The e.s. St. Hilda, for Poverty Bay ; the brigantine Thane of Fife, for Auckland; and the Brigantine Esther, for Wellington,—all left for their respective destinations on Tuesday evening last. # The s.s. Eakaia arrived at Wellington at midnight on the 23rd July. The s.s. Ruahine sailed for Panama from Wellington on the 24th July. WRECK OF THE SCHOONER IRENE.— . LOSS OF TWELVE LIVES. The following narrative of the wreck of the Tahitian schooner Irene has been furnished to the New Zealand Herald. It is a native account, and taken down from one of the survivors, of whom there were only two out of fourteen souls: — EIGHTEEN HOT7E3 IN THE SEA. Related by Nuilai, a women of Atiu, to, and translated by the Rev. E. R. W. Krausse, of Rorotonga. On March 25th (Sunday), 18G6, the schooner Irene, of Tahiti, Captain Priour, arrived off the Island of Mangaia. ’She had on board ten natives and 4. ur European passengers—William Cochrane, an Irishman ; William Whiting, an American} another American; and a West Indian half-caste, Peter Heligen. It was very Stormy when she arrived, but the captain went on shore to buy provisions, and could not return. The vessel stood off and on under small canvas, and gradually drifted to about twenty miles off the land. On Monday it blew furious, and on Tuesday, the 27th, at noon, the vessel was struck by the full force of the hurricane, capsized and filled, end about three p.m. went down with all on board c'-cq t four —l utoa, a native of Atiu ; Nieuta, his sieicr, who was married to Cochrane; at. mk’s Islander; and a woman of the island of Mauki.

. When the vessel went down, Putoa and the Clark’s Islander seized on the caboose, which fortunately floated off from the wreck, to support themselves, and while buried under a huge wave, Putoa saw his sister Nutai beneath him, seized her by the hair of the bead, and drew her to the surface and the caboose. Soon afterwards they saw a quantity of cocoa-nuts tied together, floating near, and the Clark’s Islander left the caboose and swam to them, saying,‘l am safe now; I haye food. You will die of hunger; you had better come hsre also.” He opened a nut, eat of it, and gradually drifted away from them. “At that time,” says Nuitai, “we saw nothing but the crests of the waves around us, and birds above us.” They now perceived the Mauki woman swimming near, and invited her to come and join them at the caboose, but she replied, * Tills is no matter of saving life; it is only matter of death. I shall swim this way.’ We could not at this time see any land. ‘We did not think of praying,’ saith Nutai, ‘at first, we were too frightened and bewildered; but now my brother and I prayed earnestly, and with a loud voice, calling on C od for help whenever our heads were above water, and our amen came always when the waves covered us. Our caboose now began to break up, so we hooked our arms together, that we might not be separated, supporting ourselves as well as we could with pieces of wood. “We had very little hope for life, and said to one another God will not hear our prayer now, because we have been so wicked, but yet we prayed without ceasing, calling aloud whenever our heads were above water. All we could see for many hours was birds over us, the white crests of the waves around us, and a large shark just under us, and swimming regularly with us, we said, ‘Ah that is our coffin ;” but behold it proved like a canoe to us, and served to indicate the direction of the land. We reached the shore safely, after eighteen hours’ swimming, and when the waves threw us on the reef, the shark turned and went to sea again, “ The people of Mangaia were very kind to us. They thought our escape a miracle. On March 29th the mutilated body of the poor Clark’s Islander was thrown on shore, and received a Christian burial from the people of Mangaia. Nothing was ever seen more of the Mauki woman, or any other of the ship’s company or passengers.” This native woman came on to Rorotonga by the schooner Good Return. This is one of tho disastrous events of the hurricane reported by me last voyage. The island of Mangaia had been very severely visited by it, and immense destruction attended the cocoaaut and other fruit trees, as well as the habitations of the natives. John B, Young, Master schooner Neva. Auckland Harbor, July 1, 1866. A Fobmxdable Chilian Oxidises Afloat. — We learn from private sources, likely to be thoroughly informed, that a formidable Chilian cruiser is now on her way from England to the Pacific coast, where we may reasonably expect to hear of her within a few weeks, making sad havoc with the Spanish fieet. This vessel, called the Heurictte, steamed out of tho Thames early in February, bound lor Chile, via the Azores and Montevideo. On the Sib of February she was in port on the coast of France, having put in to await the abatement of prevailing heavy gales irom north-west. As she was all ready to proceed on her voyage as soon as fair weather would permit, our news of her cannot probably reach the south coast before the Spanish fleet have had occasion to know all about her. Our information is that the Henriette had an ample armament stored away in her hold, and abundant stores of amunition—quantities of the latter having been shipped as iron castings. On the deck she carries three torpedo boats, understood to be similar to to the one in which Lieutenant Cushing destroyed the rebel ram in Albemarle Sound. Ex-Lieut. Hunter Davidsou, of tho United States Navy—subsequently in the rebel service—is on board the steamer, and expected to command her. With the exception of a single English officer, lately in the South, and once in the British navy, all her officers are men who served the late rebellion. They report their new ship as very fast, claiming that in ordinary weather and in trim she can steam seventeen knots an hour. On arriving in Chilian waters she is to be re-christened the Cochrane, and her chief mission is that of raising the blockade. A fine Spanish frigate sailed for Chile, via Montevideo, not long since. The Cochrane is expected to sink everything she meets flying the Spanish flag en route to Montevideo ; and at the latter port she will look out for the frigate aforesaid, with a view to experiment upon her with one of her torpedo boats. The Cochrane is partially iron-plated, and, and if her speed and armament are nearly equal to the claim in their behalf, Spain has nothing on the Pacific which can cope with her. It seems probable, therefore that the blockade of Chilian ports will soon be at an end. The officers of the Cochrane are not only brave but desperate men, who, having lost fame and country by their own misguided conduct, are doubtless ready to accept any risks as the price of future success. —Alta California, sth April.