Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 469, 11 April 1867, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

FORT OP SAPIBS, ARRIVAL. April S—Star of the South, a.a., 147 tons, from Wellington, with general cargo and 3 passengers. —"Wart; Brothers, sweats, DEPARTURES. April B—Beautiful Star, s.s., 125 tons, for Poverty Bay, with sheep, horses, Ac.—Kinross and Co., agents. April B—Mariner, schooner, 3S tons, for Auck--1 and, with wool, oil, &c.—Stuart and Co., agents. April 10 —Dolphin, cutter, 17 tons, for Wairoa, with general cargo and 11 passengers.—Watt, Brothers, agents. _ April 10—Star of the South, s.s., 147 tons, for 'i'ologa Bay, wtth sheep, and 3 passengers.—Watt, Brothers, agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Agnes, cutter, from Auckland via the Coast Beautiful Star, s.s., front Poverty Bay Dancing Wave, schooner, from Wellington Dolphin, cutter, from Wairoa Dunelm, ship, from Wellington. Hero, ketch, from the Coast Lord Ashley, from Tuuranga and Auckland—15th April Saucy Lass,schooner, from Mercury Bay Star of the South, s.s., fumt To’oga Bay Taranaki, s.s , from Southern Provinces (with English mail), 23rd April PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ton Auckland — Mavis, schooner,. this day ; Taranaki, 23rd April Southern Provinces —Lord Ashley, s.s., . Monday, April 15 Tauranga— Taranaki, s.s., 23rd April Waikaßl —Mahia, to-morro v (Friday) Wairoa— Mahia, to-morrow (Friday) VESSELS IN HARBOR. Mahia,’cutter, from Wairoa Mavis, schooner, from Auckland via Tairna Sea Shell, cutter, from Lyttelton Tay, cutler, from Wairoa ENTERED INWARDS. AI’RIL. 6—Btar of tlio South, s.s., U 7 tons, Bcndall, from Wellington, with 170 casks, 119 cases, 33 qrcasks, Walt, Brothers; 2 kegs tobacco, Kinross & Coy, 0 cases draper} - , t> cases sardines, 4 casts sauces. 5 oases caudles, 5 kegs oatmeal, 1 cask bia-kmg. 2 boxes raisins. Id drum Oil; I bate paper, 4 bales corn sacks, 10 halfchests tea, 3 cases preserved fi-.li, 15 barrels sugar, 25 drums oil, 5o boxes candles, -1 kegs 1 bag staples, 6 casks barley and peas, 20 casks ofit'.ueal, I‘i casks soda crystals, 2 cases seed 1 air,-cask. Watt, Brothers; 1 crate, 1 hhd„6 i; boxes candles, i case drapery, 1 truss, 1 case drapery, Newton, Irvine, & Co ; 1 case drapery. Meat & Close; 1 coil netting. Whitmore; ! stove, Russell; 7 coils rope, 2 barrels tar. 32 oars, i bundles oakum. 1 case cocoa, Routledge & Co.; I cask rice, Richardson ;20 sheep. Mason, 1 bull, Williams; 6 ions coarse sail. tons fine salt, Watt, Brothers. Passengers —Messrs Watt, Irvine, and Mason.—Watt, Brothers, agents.

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Ainai.. a—TJnilmflp.r.’ (’nUer Wt tons, Moses, for Auckland via the Coast, with 1 case, 1 ooii rope, 3 holts canvas, I pkg twine needles, 1 cgsk, 1 keg—Kinross £ Co., agents, £>—J!o.iUUl'ul star, s.s., 123 tons, Morwiok, for Po vei (y Bay, with 1,100 sheep, 2 horses, 3 boxes candles, 1 hall-ton Ilnur, 1 case saddlery. S cases drap ry, 3 camp ovens, 3 boxes tea, 1 case jam, 5 cwt salt.— Kinross & Co., agents 6—Mariner, schooner, 3S tons, Stroud, for Auckland, with So bales ( :3,SOU':,s) wool, 12 casks oil.—stuart & C- 1 ., agent. JO — Mavis, schooner. 2« tons. Purchase, for Auckland, with 2S bales (lO.’fllGlbs) wool, Stuart A Co. 2 i-uropeau passengers.—John Stuart, agents. JO —Dolphin, cutter, 17 tons, ?chon, for Waiioa, with a large cargo ot general merchandise. Passengers—Mrs Duty -and two children, Miss Pnwdrell, Messrs I’owdrMl (2), Duval, and b others.—Watt, Druthers, agents. JO —Star of the bomb, s.s., )17 tons. Bcndal!. for Toioga Bay, with 1,330 sheep and 3 passengers,—Walt, Brothers, agents.

REPOETS,

Star of the South (s.) —The s.s. Star of the South, Captain Beiulal!, left M c-llington at S n.ni. on Sunday, April 7, with large general cargo and S passengers. Had fresh head winds and heavy swidl throughout the passage, and arrived at the anchorage, Ahuriri Hoads, at 8 p.m. on Holiday, April 8. There was no sign of flic s.s. Mat aura, from Panama, up to the time of the Star of the South’s departure.

MISCELLANEOUS,

The s.s. Beautiful Star, Capt. Morwick, steamed for Poverty Bay on Monday night last, with 1100 eheep, 2 horses, and sundry other cargo. She may bn expected to return to Napier to-day. We understand that the next trip of the Beautiful Star will be to Auckland, with sheep. Tiie schooner Mariner, Stroud, master, sailed for Auckland on Tuesday last with 80 bides wool pad 12 casks oil. The cutter Dolphin, Schon, master, sailed for Wairoa last evening with a full general cargo and 1-1 passengers. The s.s. Star of the South, Captain Bendall, steamed for Tologa Bay at a late hour last night, with 1,330 sheep, and 3 passengers. The schooner Mavis, Purchase, master, cleared fit the Customs yesterday, with 2S bales wool, for Auckland, and will probably get away' to-day. The cutter Mahia, W. E. Baxter, master, is laid on for Waikari (going on to Wairoa should sufficient inducement oiffir.) Inday (to-morrow) Is her advertised day fur sailing. The cutter Tay, wc understand, will shortly be placed on the, Wairoa trade again. Captain K. Baxter, formerly of the schooner Henry, Mill, it ;s said. be. placed in charge of the Tay. The clipper schooner Dancing "Wave, Brown, piaster, is advertised in the latest Wellington papers to leave for Napier with <pii?k despatch. The s.s. Lord Ashley, Captain Worsp, is due here from Tauranga and Auckland on Monday next, loth inst., and will leave for Southern Provinces the same day. carry ing the English mails Via Suez. The s.s. Taranaki, Captain Francis, (or other of the N.Z.S.N. Company*® boats), is due here from Southern Provinces, with the English February mail, on Tuesday, 23rd April, and will leave for Tauranga and Auckland the same day. Two cnppcr-, the Louts Walsh mi Charlotte ■White, from Callao for Europe, made a race and leached Gibraltar in 104 days'—the Louis Walsh fOßßing by twenty-dye minutes, I

Total Wreck or the s.s. Queen. —All Hands Saved. —We regret to learn of the total wreik of ths N.3.5.N. Company’s s.s, Oucca. ia Cook’s Straits, on the sth inst The following particulars of the disaster have been furnished to the Evening Post by Captain Kracft, who commanded the ill-fated craft, and appears iu that journal of the 6th instant" The Queen, which !ia4 just been repaired in this port, left for Nelson in ballast about five o’clock yesterday evening, in order to be placed on ths Company’s slip. The weather in the Strait was very dark, and about midnight, when four miles to the northward of the Brothers, the vessel was felt to bump heavily. Every one jumped on deck, but the danger was not to be stayed j she struck again, and then drifted off into deep water. All ellorts to keep her afloat being useless, three boats were lowered, and all hands got into them, fortunately just in time, for within the space of half an hour after she first struck she went down head foremost ia sixty fathoms water. The boats made for Tory Channel, where they were seen and picked up by the s.s, Airedale. The Queen was not insured, and the company are heavy losers by the wreck.”

Wreck of the s.s. South Australian.— From a telegram ia the N.Z. Advertiser, dated Dunedin, Aoril 3rd, we learn that the s.s. South Australian lias become a wreck, on her passage from Dunedin to Melbourne. The following is the telegram referred to ; —“ The steamer South Australian, Captain John Mackie, bound from tlxis port to Melbourne, was wrecked- on a reef, four miles north, of Coal Point, and nearly twenty miles north of the Nuggets. The crew and passengers, amongst the latter being several ladies, were all saved by the boats, of which there were four. Oae boat made the Taieri river ; the remaining three no doubt went south to the Molyneux. The cause of the wreak is suspected to be variation of the compasses. Wreck supposed to be total. The night was pitch dark. There was gold to the value of £13,000 on board, and it is not yet known whether any was saved or not. The South Australian had just been purchased by Messrs. McMeckan and Blackwood, of Melbourne. She struck on the reef about half past ten o’clock last night, and half an liour afterwards the water had risen to her engine room combings. Some passengers haVe already arrived in town. The steamer Geelong will leave Dunedin to-night with the agent of the Australian, and a number of assistants, for the scene of the wreck.” Total Wreck of the Schooner Albion, of Sydney. —Loss or Five Lives. —The Sydney Morning Herald, of the Ist April, lias the following ; —“ It is once more our painful duty to report the loss of life by shipwreck. In this instance, the schooner Albion, the property of Mr. J. Shoobert, of Balmain, is the unfortunate vessel. From Samuel Waters, one of the two survivors, we glean ilie following account of the sad catastrophe ; ‘ The Aibiou, a schooner of 170 tons, William Watkins, master, left Bulli for Sydney, with a cargo of coal, on Thursday morning, at 5 o’clock, the wind at that time being ligut southerly, and luring the forenoon it dropped quite calm. On’ Friday there was a light N.E. breeze, which continued from that quarter until 2 p.m. on Saturday, when it veered round to the southward, coming in squalls all night, accompanied by rain and dark dirty weather. At half past 9 o’clock the captain stood off the land to try and make out Sydney light, but, failing to do so, came in close for the purpose of endeavouring to recognise the land. It being too dark to see what the land was, he began to wear the ship, and in doing so she struck on a reef near the south head of Port Hacking, at 10.30 p.m.; she then began to break up, the stern going first, and the crew, wishing to slick to her as long as tliey could, assembled on the bowsprit until 11 o'clock, when the bows parted and precipitated them into the water. Thomas Williams, Samuel Waters, and another, called Jack, whose surname we were unable to ascertain last night, got on to a piece of the bulwarks, where they rcuioiued until 7 o’clock yesterday morning, having bam drifted about three miles to sea, when the ride set them iu again ; Jack, however, about 2 a.m., died from exhaustion. The following are the names of the crew - : —William Watkins, master (drowned) ; Charles Nelson (drowned) ; Charles Morgan (drowned); Christopher , a Swede (drowned) ; John (drowned) ; Samuel Waters (saved); Thomas Williams (saved). All the crew were single men, with the exception of the captain, whose wife aud family reside at Miller’s Point.’ ”

The Rakaia. —The Panama Company’s s.s. Rakaia, Captain Wright, arrived at Wellington at 5.30 p.m., on the fith instant, having left Sydney on the Ist inst. Respecting this steamer the Sydney Morning Herald, of March 30, has the following:—“TheP. and N.Z, Company’s s, Rakaia, having undergone a most thorough overhaul in hull and machinery at the hands of Messrs. M‘Arthur and Co,, Waterview Bay, made a trial trip down the harbor yesterday morning. The Government steam surveyor was on board, who expressed himself highly satisfied. On the measured mile she made 12,V knots.” The Rakaia was to have left Wellington with the homeward mails via Panama, on Monday last, Bth April. Tiic ketch Falcon, Milo, master, arrived in harbor this morning at half past 10 o’clock, from Havelock. On Thursday evening,, while passing through the Sound, a seaman named Martin Griffin jumped overboard, and notwithstanding every exertion which was instantly made by Mr. Milo and his men, the unfortunate man was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered. —Evening Post, April 6. The, s.s. Airedale, Captain A. Kennedy, arrived at Wellington on the Gth inst., from Picton, Kelson. Taranaki, and Manukau. She had on board 'Capt. Krecft and the crew of the s.s. Queen, which was wrecked oa Cook’s Rock at midnight on the sth lust.

The barque Constance left Auckland on the 14th ult., and made Sydney Heads at 6 p.m. on the 23rd ult.; but (lie evening closing in very thick and hazy, Captain Elliott deemed it pmdent to haul oft until morning; but as the night advanced the wind from E.N.E. increased to a heavy gale, and it was only by dint of great perseverance that the ship, under close reeled topsails, secured a safe offing, standing off on the port tack. The weather continued rough to the 27th, by which time the ship had been driven by a strong current to the southward of Gabo Island, and she has been endeavouring to get to the northward ever since ; but the wind baffling about from every quarter has prevented it. At 2 a.m. cm the 30th ult. Gabo light was visible.—Sydney Morning Herald, Ist April.

The Jane Lockhart, from Hokitika, has been on this coast some days, but was compelled to keep an offing from the continuance of easterly gales. She made Jervis Bay on the 29th ult.—lbid.

Newcastle.—The business of the port has been of a very quiet nature this week, and there have been but few arrivals. The harbor has a rather scant appearance. The .shipment of coal has also been much smaller than usual, the quantity shipped being about 10,830 tons—2,Bo3 for Sydney, S,SSI for Melbourne, 3.294 for South Australia, 1,037 for New‘Zealand, £26 for Singapore, 140 for Brisbane, and 508 for steamers and home consumption. —Newcastle Chronicle, March SO,

The 12th akd 57xh Regiments. —Now that (he above regiments are leaving the colony it may be interesting to give a brief account of their services in this island : The 12th Regiment arrived in detachments from Sydney in 1860, and a few companies served through the whole of theWaitara campaign, one company being present at the attack on No. 3 redoubt by the rebels, on the morning of the 23rd January, IS6I, when Captain Miller was severely wounded. The regiment was kept continually in active employment until the cessation of hostilities in 1862, when they embarked for Auckland, and there, together with the 2nd battalion of the 14th Regiment, were employed in constructing the great South Road. Subsequently they were engaged at Roheroa cn the 17th July, 1063, at Rangiriri, where they sustained severe losses, both among officers and men, and in fact throughout the whole of the Waikato campaign. The head quarters of the 57th Regiment (Altai era Richards) arrived at Taranaki from Bombay in 1860, under the command of Colonel Warn-, C. 8., and were follovred shortly by the remainder of the regiment under the late gallant Colonel Hassard. They were engaged throughout the campaign of 1860 and lt-61, under Generals Trait and Cameron, and were at the battle of Maboctahi and at theWaitara, suifering considerable loss. This fine regiment has sacrificed many promising soldiers during its term oi service in the country, and many gallant officers have sold out to settle in inis island. The following are tbe names of those killed in action—Brevet Licut.-Colonel Bassard, Captain Lloyd, and Lieutenant Tragget. —Rvenisg Post*

Seizvbb of Butlets.—ln consequence of information received, the police on Thursday searched the Maori pah at Petoni, and discovered, secreted behind a whare, a bag containing two thousand ballets, of which they immediately took possession u contraband*—'lndependent, Apijl 6, '