Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 552, 17 February 1868, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OP NAPIER. ARRIVALS. FEBRUARY. 13—Ahuriri, s.s„ 131 tons, Fiowerday. from Tanranga ami Auckland, with general cargo, one racehorse. Passengers—l2. 14_Hero, schooner, 20 tons, Campbell, from Wairoa, with maize, wool, Ac. DEPARTURES. FEBRUARY. 13—Lord Ashley, s.s„ 291) tons, Worsp, for Southern Ports, with wool, sheepskins, Ac. Passengers -17. 13— Cleopatra, p.s.. 21 lons, Palmer, for Poverty Bay and Wairoa, with sheep and general cargo. Passengers—3. 14— Ahuriri. s.s., 131 tons, Fiowerday, for Southern Ports, with wool, grass se f -d, Ac. VESSELS EXPECTED. Betsy, cutter, from Poverty Bay Cleopatra, p.s., from Poverty Buy Lord Ashley, s.s., from Southern Forts—Thursday, 27th February Maggie, brie, from Newcastle Matoaka. ship, from London via Canterbury Success, schooner, from Auckland via Waugapou VESSELS IX HARBOR. j Annie, schooner, from Mohaka j Hero, schooner, from Mohaka and IVairoa j Mat tin, cutter, from Poverty Bay | Muriwai, schooner, from Poverty Bay i PROJECTED DEPARTURES. j Foe Tauranoa and Avcseand —Lord Ashley, s.s..] Friday, 2Sth February' Mahia and Poverty Bay- Muriwai, this day PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. In the Ahuriri—Mrs .I ones and 2 children, Mr mid Mrs Friberg and child, Messrs Hunter, Harris, Bathgate, Loddor, Walters, and Nelson. OUTWARDS. In the Lord Ashley—Messrs Duncan, Homy] (native chief), CUDu-e, 11 of the crew of the Echunga, and 3 natives In the Cleopatra—Messrs Dodd, Poynter, and Johnson ENTERED INWARDS. FEBRUARY. 14— Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, Flowerday, from Tanranga and Auckland, with 3 eases vestas, 1 care axe handles, 30 cases kerosine, .T cases oil, 1 case, Stuart & Co.; lease pain killer, order; 30 case* 6 cases, 10 cases, 30 eases. Rut ton; 120 hags fiour. Watt Brothers; 12 hags flour, 1 case biscuits. 2 chests tea. Bishop Williams; 1 horse, Holmes; 1; case drapery, Sims; 2 cases drapery, Knowles; 21 cases vestas, Neal and Close; 1 pkge. leather, Higgins; I pkge. engine packing, Bout ledge. Kennedy j and Co.; 1 parcel, Ellison; 5 pkgs. saddles, 2 pkgs.| cradles, Officer commanding iKth Xlegimont; 1°; boxes soap, 2 boxes candles, Neal and Close; 3 bags, harness, Tuxford; 1 truss drapery. Withers ; leas,; drapery, Routledge, Kennedy and Co.; 1 case confectionery, Bibby.—Kinross and Co. CLEARED OUTWARDS, FEBRUARY.

13—hord Ashley, s.s., 2H6 tons, TVorsyi. for Wellington r.ml Southern Torts, with 0 bale--. 10 bills, sheepskins, Kentledge, Kennedy ft Co.: U-3 hales wool, Kinross and Co.—Kentledge, Kennedy ft Co. agents.

13— Cleopatra, p.s., 21 tons, Palmer, for Poverty Bay and Wairoa, with 420 sheep. Podd ; and miscellaneous cargo.—Kentledge, Kennedy and Co., agents. 14— Ahuriri, 5.5.,131 fons.Tlowordii.v, for Wellington and Southern Forts, with 68 hales wool, pig bags grass seed, Kinross and Co.; 2 packages hammers, 1 hale, 1 bag twine, 2 burs steel, Stuart ft Co, —Kinross & Co., agent s.

Tnr. s.s. Ahuriri, Capt. FlowerObiy, lea Xapier at 7 am. on Saturday, Bth Feb., with a canto of sheep, &c„ for Auckland. Arrived at Tauranga at 3 p.m. on the 9th. Left attain at 5 p.m. same day. and arrived at Auckland at 7-15 a.m. on the 1‘ tin After landing cargo wont alongside the brig Princess Alice to coal. Next morning took in a cargo for the South,— leaving Queen-street Wharf at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, nth inst. Arrived at Tauranga at 9 a.m. on the I2th. Left again at 10 30 a.m. and arrived in the Ahuriri roadstead at 9 o’clock on Thursday evening. Fine weather was experienced throughout the passage. The Ahuriri steamed for Southern Ports at 5 p.m. on Friday last with the English Mail via Suez and a cargo of wool, grass seed, &c. The s.s. Lord Ashley steamed for Southern Ports at noon on Thursday last, with a cargo of wool, sheepskins, &c., and 17 passenger*. The p.s. Cleopatra steamed for Poverty Lay and IVairoa on Thursday last with 130 sheep, a quantit y of miscellaneous cargo and 3 passengers. The barque Dominga, Captain IVing, arrived at Auckland on the 11th inst.., from San Francisco, which place she left on the 14tfc December. She brought a full general cargo and 47 passengers, most of whom arc for the Thames diggings. The Dominga was the hearer of later English and American news, particulars of which will be found elsewhere. . The Daily Southern Cross of the 11th inst. says By the arrival yesterday of the cutter tTaterlily from TTangapoa, we Icam that the cutter see Ilclie. which recently went ashore on Hie heach at that place has been totally destroyed during the heavy weather which prevailed in the early part of last week. The Sea Belle was a .•mart Auckland cutter, and was timber-laden at the time of her going ashore. The sails, rigging, boom, spars, and gear w ere brought into town by the owner, in the naterlily. yesterday, ihe hull having been burnt OD tbe boach bCf'IVC ICIiViTJ O, fcVio tt«io vr.insnvpfl • End ihp Joss will be severely felt by her owner.

Jfcv.-s was b:. tight by tbe K'dkouya that U.SI.S. Brisk had Wt Sydney foi Free mantle. Tfestera Australia, to aid in quelling a serious riot, caused it is said by Fenians, hut which, it is more probable, is a rising amongst the- convicts. This will necessitate the Falcon remaining here for some lime longer,—Wellington Independent, GtU February.

The Colonial Government gun-boat St. Hilda, Capt. Fox, arrived at Wellington, on the Ist Feb., from the Chatham Islands, after a rough passage of sixty hours, with 12 discharged prisoners and their wives and families, Captain Tuke and eight of the guard, Messrs Traill, Eolleston, and Hair, native interpreter, Mrs Thompson and. three children. Captain Fox brings good news from Waitaugi; the health of the Europeans and prisoners was good. The whaling barque Sophia, Cap;am Comstock, called at the Island outlie 23rd nit. for repairs, having had her iib-hoota carried away. The American whaling barque Eliza was cruising on rue Islands. The ship Salweev left Brisbane on the 7th ult., bound for London, having on board 1,50 s hales wool, 700 hides, 50 casks tallow, and 13,000 treenails, and on the loth ult. at 6-30 a.m. she anchored in the Quarantine ground, Port Jackson, the cargo being on are. She was scuttled and sunk, and the fire extinguished. The cutter Bittern may bo expectedemdy from the East Coast. She was loading cattle on the 30th fit. r.t open Bay. for this ;port.-—jfew Zealand Herald loth Feb. The steamer Charles Edward, which ran ashore at the Grey, has bens got afloat, and brought to ; Nelson. Before she could be launched she had to | be moved a distance of LUSO feet. Captain Thompson, late of I lie X.Z.S.X. Co-’s s.s. Rangatira, Ims been appointed chief officer of the Prince Alfred, the P..M.Z. and A.R.M. Co.’s spare steamer at Panama. At Queca.sc.ilf, on Ino 251 u Jan., the ship Sehaldis 'went ashore on the Marco Polo Beef, between | Quccuseliff and swanspitlightship. It was expected that she would he got off. The Sehaldis was out-ward-bound for Callao, The Black Bali clipper ship City of Melbourne, a vessel of 1,828 tons burthen, in command of Capt. Jones, was burnt at Melbourne on the 2‘Jth Jan. The City of Melbourne, at the time w'ben the lire broke out, had on board 32.50 bales of wool, besides a quantity of tallow, leather. Ac. it is not known whether this vessel was insured. An official inquiry Into the loss of the Esmeralda was begun in the Resident Magistrate’s Court here on Friday last and was concluded the next day. The Court expressed its opinion that Captain Kerr should have attempted to go into Opara harbor, ami that in not doing so he showed want of promptitude, .Hid they fhcretore adjudged him to be reprimanded and cautioned him to be, more caretul in future.— IVcUington Independent, tilh February. Tun Massacbkov tiikC.m'tai.n and Cm iv oftiik Mabios Rkxsy.—AVe have been informed by one of the crow of the .Marion Rcnny. who fortunately' remained on the is.and of San Chri.-i.c. a,'.. that Capt. Bolany proceeded to Rubiana, to trade with' the unlives for be.d e-de-mer and tortoise-shell. Londo, a enief of Rnih na, was communicated ’■bill in to procuring ameles.f, trade, but said he could not vet tin-i c e-shrll tin the following dm’. Captain lh-laue <l-qcri;.n;ed to wait, but a-io

still put him mi wua a promise that it should he! hrougot uu board mi 11,. i’.Prd dav. tnihemean-j time, it apnea--s Umt tl.i- natives ha i tiMi acoun-i ml Dll the Item ami formed a ph-t M mas--;mr,jj tin; crow and -eiro the v -s-'Ci. ’! 1;-v went oul nnar I; the eaiitam was in the cabin „t the lime. Tiicy called on him to come on deck to buy some lish they b-nl promised to get for him. The captain declin-d. and Lon,Jo slid requested Captain l>e ; av..v to eo,ne on deck, but he told the native , hi! ;in trade witn the mate. Lot;;!., called out in b.snativctongue. •• Are yon all reedy- round the men !" They immediately ru.-iied the men. look tm-ir arms, am! ilirupv- cP-.,, tP.e-.ii on deeu.l As no natives wen' allowed : ■ eon.e ng h.iard wildi| aril,", i ;:,-y made u.-e of liit-ir hands,—about ten \ia-j lives to on-.' ihiropegn. Wl:lie this was .going on on (leek bond ) went d'-wn into the cabin, mid, taking the captain unswans, attempted to strangle him, «hen. a struggle sued, in which Capt.l I'clany threw the chief and .lumped on him. The; 'chief then railed en his, men to as-i.-i hmi; thr/ n jot iUem went into the cabin, and all f>mr bound! Itlie unfortunate Captain Dei.iny. dragged him m,' !doek, audit is supposed, killed him by dashing! jont his brains against the cables, as lits'grcy Uairi! j were seen on them. Tne deck wav covered with! •flood from the galley aft on both sides. This in-! | formation was obtained tVmn the friendly natives | on the island-. We presume that Jsfei s will be i-akcn to )miDmi tnese savages.—Sydney Moraine Herald, 31, t January. i