Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 557, 5 March 1868, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF NAPIER. ARRIVALS.

MARCH. 2—Saucy Lass, schooner, from Mercury Bay 2 Lord Ashley, 5... from Southern Ports 3 Cleopatra, p.s., from Poverty Bay 4 Hero, schooner, from Mon aka and Wairoa DEPARTURES. MARCH. 2—Lord Ashley, s.s., for Tauranga and Auckland 2 Sturt, p.s., for Opotikl 3 Coquette, schooner, for Auckland VESSELS EXPECTED. Annie, schooner, from llohaka Betsy, cutter, from Poverty Bay Maggie, brig, from Newcastle Slatoaka, ship, from London via Canterbury Sluriwai, schooner, from Poverty Bay Eose Ann, schooner, from Bay of Islands Saucy Lass, schooner, from Kennedy’s Bay Sea Gull, brigantine, from Newcastle Taranaki, s s„ from Southern Ports—loth March VESSELS IN HARBOR. Cleopatra, p.s., from Poverty Bay Dolphin, cutter, from Auckland Hero, schooner, from Mohaka and Wairoa 1 Mahia, cutter, from Poverty Bay Queen, schooner, from Mercury Bay Star of the South, s.s., from Tokomaru PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Auckland—Star of the South, s.s., to-morrow VTai no a— Dolphiu, cutter, early PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. In the Cleopatra—His Honor the Superintendent. .Messrs. Locke, Heath, Hague, two Native chiefs, one native woman ENTERED INWARDS. 3—Saucy Lass, schooner, 39 tons, M'Korzic, from Auckland via Mercury Bay aud Bay of Plenty, with 33,081 ft. sawn timber, 31,300 shingles, Lc Quosnc. —Master, agent. We take the following from the Nelson r.xami- : ner of the 17th ult.:—Tho s.s. Beautiful .- tar, Ce.pt. Chuck, left Wanganui for the BuHer ou Sunup.vj at i p.m.; fine weather. At 0 p.m., fresh Im-crl-. from S.E., all sail set; at 8 p.m. wind increased to! heavy gale, with very heavy beam sea; double- 1 reefed fore-and-aft canvas, lee-rail continually mi-! derivator; at, 10 p.m., wind and sea increasing very much, shipped large quantities of water fore ’ aud aft. Hauled the heads of the trysails in ; at 11 p ut., for safety of all concerned, battened’the main-hutches down, and commenced to i brow over sheep, in order to let the water off the decks. At midnight no improvement; took in all sail aud steamed head to sea full speed; |ship m iking better weather. Opened hatches to save stock ; at 1 a.m. a heavy si a struck the ship- 1 washed away the binnacle, ami stopped the en- I gines- On examination found the air-pump gone. Set all fore and aft sails to reach the shore. Very 1 heavy sea still running. At 4 a.m, moderating, succeeded in working the engines slowiv at hieil pressure. At S a.m. shook out the reefs'and name for Nelson, Brought up off the Boulder Bank at Gp.m. The Beautiful Star is from Dunedin, via Wellington and Wanganui, and has 100 tons cargo on board, beside". 12 horses and 160 sheep, having thrown 100 overboard. She is also full of nusengers, cabin and steerage. The necessarv" repairs are now being effected, and she will sail for the West Coast on Thursday nest.

Opium Eating in England.—Opium eating, it is said, goes on to an incredibleextent in tlie eastern counties. Dr. Hawkins, of King’s Lynn, tells the readers of the Medical Journal that hrif the opium imported into England is consumed in Lincolnshire and Norfolk. O ne Lynn chemist sells two hundred pounds, another one hundred and forty pounds a year of solid opium, besides five or sis gallons of! laudanum, and five or six gallons of Godfrey’s Elixir, (a pint of laudanum in every three gallons) a week. People will be startled to hear of drawers full of half drachm packets of opium, of which many customers take three a day. A. farmer came in to get some good laudanum. “ Howmany drops?” asked the chemist. “Drops!’’ was the reply, “ give me an ounce and. a half.” The- chemist looked at him, saw he i was in the habit of taking it, and gave him! the dose. He drank it off, returned twice j in the day for the same quantity, and took i home a half pint bottle full with him when; he left the market. The habit is no new ! one. The present writer can vouch for its] existence in and around Spalding, and even I' across in Leicestershire, a dozen years ago i' The excuses would be obvious—deficient i food with the poor, ague and “ rheumatiz,” ' needing an anodyne, with others. But it is a growing habit, and Dr. Hawkins speaks very strongly of its pernicious efforts ’n ,< poisoning the blood. To it he attributes*) the excessive infant mortality in the dis tact, and the miserable, feeble, brownish ' yellow countenance so striking among many I nf !,hft inhabitants. } «