Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 508, 12 September 1867, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

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AURiVAi.3. ski'Tk.mukh. U—Maid, cutter, from Waugawelil DEPARTURES, sjcmtsi tilth. Ml. V ES EXPECTED. Aimls, - ‘ o;-.; Wairott ’titimm. riii ter, from Auckland imlphm, cuuer, Hum Waivoa Heim, schooner, from Wairoa J.m-d Ashley, ss.. Irom Tauraiiga & Auckland j'.i.igdove, culler, from Wangapoa Saucy bass. schooner, from Auckland Star of lie- Souilf, s.s., from Auckland bl. Hilda, s.s., from Wellington I‘HOJEC.TED DEPARTURES. Malria, culler, for Wairoa, early VESSELS IX HARBOR. Grayling, culler, from Wairoa (repairing) A 1 atiin, culler, from Mangakun Maid, culler, from Wangawehi ENTERED IN WARDS. SKI’TKMI'.F.R. 9—Maid, cutter, 11 tons, Snipoy, from Waugaweti, with tiOO bushels mai/e. Suipey. Tassongeis —Mr Smith, and twelve natives.—Watt Brothers, agents.

Six Pkrsoxs Poiminki) nx ISo.vuu run Smr Aecexu.vnt. —The Bangkok Monitor gives the following account of au attempt to poison a number of persons on hoard Hie ship Ascendant, which in one ease proved fatal:—We lay before our readers a verbaiim account, received from the then chief chiccr of the ship Ascendant. He says that on Sunday, the -'Hi of April, at “.30 a.m., the chief ollicer oft lie Biilish shi|i Amaranth, came on board the Ascendant and invited Captain Smiby and himself to breakfast on board the Amaranth. Captain Saaby refused the invitation ; so both the mates 101 l Hie Ascendant iu company and remained on board the Amaranth for bieakfast and for tillhi. Mr Wliitrogg. chief ollicer of the Ascendant, says, he intended to return on board his own ship at 5 p.m., their usual dinner hour. But this was providentially prevented by a strong sea breeze springing up with an accompanying sea, and Mr Whilregg was enabled to reach his ship at 0 p.m. On a booby hatch in from of the cabin door he found the second olli vr (also an Hiigiishman), purging and vomiting in a frighllnl manner, in 1 lie cabin he (bund the captain ami his wife, and till agreed in telling him during the intervals of their torture tlull then soup must have been poisoned. There was other viands for dinner, and also some light wine, but none of these except the soup had been tasted by the cook, who of all the jicrsons poisoned exhibit's! the worst symptoms. At 1 a.m. on Monday the captain died, but the other persons poisoned had natural force enough to rosist its etKvls. Ihe remains of captain Suaby were immediately taken to tlie ilritisir Consulate by liis chief ollicer, and a post mortem examination was immediately held by Hr Cambell, who gave it ns his opinion that Hie decease 1 met his death by a vegetable poison. The finding ol the murderer is we arc sorry to say, almost an impossibility. .1 Lascar named Datit, who lias since deserted'from the ship, had been seen moving suspiciously round Ibe galloy on the day of Hus horrible catastrophe, and as no tidings of him have been heard wo might be permitted to wonder tor what purpose so large a police force is maintained at Bangkok if not to apprehend all persons aeauned of crime whether Sian ios-.*, Maluvs, Uhhutmun <*r r.nroin)aus. Thcl following I> u list «»!* on hoard tin* M\) Aseendiiiu—Caji'. Jr.movh* o.nihy. diud ; -Mr* Mtaby, . rii.'ivm olliriT. Shields, nri'-sonycr, Chinese carpenter, Chinese cook, recovered.