Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 679, 6 May 1869, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF NAPIER.

ARRIVALS. MAY. s—Ahuriri, s.s., from Wellington S—H.M.S* Blanche, from Wellington DEPARTURES. MAY. S—Hero, schooner, for Wairoa 6—Greenwich, cutter, for Mohaka and Wairoa 6—Mahia, cutter, for VFaimarama EXPECTED ARRIVALS. . Glimpse, cutter, from Wellington Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Lord Ashley, s.s., from Wellington, this day Lyttelton, p.s., lrom Wairoa Maggie, brig, 19L tons. Arnold, from Newcastle Mahia, cutter, from Waimarama Muriwai, schooner, from Poverty Bay Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland VESSELS IN HARBOR. Ahuriri, as., from Wellington Grayling, cutter, from Wairoa H.M.S. Blanche, from Wellington Jane Anderson, schooner, from Otago PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foil Aucs.LA.Nn—Ahuriri and Lord Ashley, this day, (Thursday) Peloeus'Sound—Jane Anderson, this day ENTERED INWARDS. MAT. 3—Lord Ashley, s.s., 29R tons, 11. Worsp, from Auckland, with I case, Robinson & Co.; 1 tin iuk, Harding.—Routledge, Kennedy & Co., agents. "s—Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, Plowerday, from Wellington, with 6 cases, Eobjohns; 3 cases, 2 casks, 5 kegs, 4 ovens, Drower; 3 cases, 3 coils rope, 6 kegs nails, 3 pkgs rope, 11. Williams; 1 cask, 5 cases, 40 cases kerosine, 5 drums oil, 1 drum turpentine, 1 bdl shovels, 1 bdl buckets, 1 bdl tubs. 43 bars iron, Rathbone; 20 cases, 1 case haras, 1 sack, Routledge, Kennedy & Co.; 2 cases, 1 case glass, 1 anvil, 1 vice, ipair bellows, 1 pkg, 3 boiler plates, Boylan; 40 cases kerosine. 1 parcel, 2 cases, 4 bales drapery, 6 coils rope, 1 bale, 1 truss, 1 bale leather, 6 grindstones, 6 sacks flour, 3 trusses leather, 50 sashweights, 11 pkgs sundries, Kinross & Co.; 4 cases hardware, 2 kegs chain, Tnxford; 2 cases, sundries, 1 case bricks, 9 ovens, 8 churns, 6 pkgs rope, 4 cases, 1 cask, 1 case gum, Stuart & Co.; 2 c:ises, 1 box tobacco, 1 case currants, 50 bags sugar, order; 1 parcel, 2 pkgs, Gowing; 1 prcl, Hitrgins; 2 trunks, 1 case, Reardon ; 2 pkgs Colonel Rassell; 50 qrbarrels ammunition, 30 pkgs sundries. Militia ; 5 pkgs, 1 truss, 7 cases drapery, order.—Kinross and Co., agents CLEARED OUTWARDS. MAY. 3—Lord Ashley, s.s., 296 tons, Worsp, for Wellington, with 1 case glass, Williams; 1 cask tallow, 13 empty casks, Routledge, Kennedy & Co. (agents) s—Jane Anderson, schooner, 92 tons, Falconer, for Pelorus Sound, with 2 boilers, 1 engine and fittings, part of original cargo from Dunedin.—Kinross & Co., agents s—Mahia, cutter, 20 tons, Hamilton, for Waimarama, with general cargo.—Kinross and Co., agents Arrival of the s.s. Ahuriri. The s.s. Ahuriri, Captain Flowerday, left Wellington at 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday last, 4th May, and arrived here at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, having experienced fine weather, with S.W. wind, throughout the passage. The Ahuriri will steam for Auckland at 1 p.m. to-day. Arrival of H.M.S. Blanche. H.M.S. Blanche, 6 guns, Captain Montgomerie, from Wellington, arrived in the roadstead at 6 o'clock last evening. Should no news arrive here during the course of this forenoon from Wairoa, the Blanche will, we understand, proceed thither. Telegraphic Shipping. PORT CHALMERS. Arrived. —May 3, Hydra, ship, from Newcastle LYTTELTON. Arrived.—May 4, Wellington, from Kaikora Sailed.—May 3, Gothenburg, for Wellington; Phoebe, for Wellington WELLINGTON. Arrived. —May 3, Lord Ashley, from Napier; 4, Airedale, from Lyttelton; Phoebe, from Lyttelton Sailed.—May 3, H.M.S. Galatea, for Kawau; Wellington, for Kaikora; 4, H.M.S. Challenger, for Kawau ; Ahuriri, for Napier; Storm Bird, for Picton ; Gothenburg, for Nelson; Airedale, for Lyttelton WESTPORT. Arrived.—May 3, Mary, from Melbourne PICTON. Arrived.—May 4, Storm Bird, from Wellington

Miscellaneous. Tut! following is the detailed manifest of the barque William Cargill, which left for London direct at an early hour on Sunday morning last: — 1,481 bales and 110 qr-bales wool, 1 case photographs, 2 cases merchandise, Kinross and Co.; 28 bales wool, Johnston and Co.; 18 bales wool, E. Pearce; 10 bales wool, Routledge, Kennedy & Co.; 1 case pictures, Miss Ogilby; 1 case personal effects, Grey. Her cargo was valued at £26,734, The schooner Hero, with a general cargo for Wairoa, left port on Monday afternoon last. ' The schooner Jane Anderson, Captain Falconer, will, wind and weather permitting, leave for Pelorus Sound this day, in ballast. The cutter Mahia left for Waimarama yesterday afternoon, with a general cargo. The cutter Greenwich transhipped the cargo of the cutter Grayling on Monday last, and sailed for Mohaka and Wairoa yesterday. The cutter Glimpse left Wellington for ttiis port on Saturday last. The s.s. Lord Ashley may be expected to arrive here this day from Wellington, and will have quick despatch for Auckland. The brigantine Prince Patrick, Capt. Andrews, hence the 20th March, arrived at Newcastle, N.S.W., on the 11th April. We learn that the postal service between Melbourne and New Zealand has been somewhat altered. For the future, Hokitika is to be the first port of call with the English Mail, and then the steamer which carries it is to proceed direct to Wellington. The upward steamer, after leaving Wellington will call at Hokitika, there to embark the mails from the Middle Island for Melbourne. The llangitoto on the 15th or 16th instant, takes the first downward mail from this port under the new contract (which is in the hands of Alessrs M'Meckan, Blackwood and Co.), and the Alhambra brings the Mail from New Zealand for transmission to the outward Guile Bteamer. —Melbourne Argus, Bth April.

Austrian Frigates.—The. caj.tain of the Prince Arthur reports while at sea, in lat. 42 deg. S., long. 38 deg. E., two Austrian men-of-war were in company for a couple of days. On sneaking they replied the ships were bound for Australia, but the imperfect pronunciation of English prevented Captain Thomson from learning at which of the colonies they were to touch.—South Australian Register, April 5. Arrival or the s.s. Investigator at Melbourne. —The s.s. Investigator, the arrival of which has been looked for here for some days past anchored in the bay yesterday about noon. Seeing that she is freighted with the submarine telegraph cable for connecting this colony with Tasmania, a special interest attaches to her safe arrival in these waters, and it will be gratifying to the promoters of the project for joining the two colonies to know that although the voyage from Port Phillip has been rather tedious, yet the weather throughout has been singularly fine, too fine indeed, for the making of a rapid passage, but by no means too fine for the safe conveyance of the cable during so long a voyage. The vessel herself is not without some record of an historic character, and it will be recollected that when quite a new craft she was purchased by the Home Government during the time of the Crimean War to convey railway plant to the scene of operations in the Crimea. The Investigator is a smart looking iron clipper of 700 tons gross, and 569 tons register. She was purchased some time ago by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, and has come out here under their auspices; and after accomplishing her mission with regard to the submarine cable, it 'is believed that no reasonable offer will be refused for her should a purchaser oif jr. The Investigator is commanded by Captaiu D. Crnickshank, a brother of the late Mr Andrew Rose Cruickshank, well known in commercial circles here as one of the promoters of the National Bank and a partner in the then firm of Dalgety, Cruickshauk & Co. Captain Cruickshank has been identified with the Investigator more or less ever since she was launched, and it is therefore with pardonable pride that be speaks well of the vessel. The delay which has occurred on the voyage out is attributable in no small degree to the light wiiu's and calms which prevailed throughout, but more especially from the channel to latitude 43 deg. S. Add to this she left England with some 950 tons dead weight on board, while her gross tonnage is only 700 tons, and it will be seen that a rapid passage was altogether out of the question. In addition to the submarine cable plant, which is some 220 miles in length, and weighs about 450 tons, the steamer had also about 500 tons of coal on board, besides her stores, and on leaving the Thames she was loaded almost to the water's edge. The Investigator left Greenhithe on January 8, and met with light winds and calms to St. Vincent, where she put in for a supply of coals, and remained for three days. After leaving the island, light winds continued to the line, which was crossed on February 5, in long. 14 deg. W. The same provoking light weather, with frequent calms, was experienced to lat. 43 deg. S., in which parallel the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was passed on 3rd March. From the pitch of the Cape until about 100 miles west of Cape Otway, the Investigator had to depend solely on her canvas, and when a slant of favorable wind was obtained she was equal to ten knots, and that too with the euoumbrance of the screw propeller dragging through the water. The voyage, in fact, may be summed up in few words, fine weather and calms being the almost daily record, so fine indeed, was the weather, that the barometer, except on three occasions, never ranged under 30in. The arrangements on board for the safe conveyance of the cable are complete. After necessary consultation with parties immediately concerned, the Investigator will proceed to Western Port to commence the laying of the cable.—Melbourne Argus, 13th April. Fearful Sueeerings oe a Shipwrecked Crew. —Captain M'Arthur and seven of a crew of the brigantine Freestone, of and from Prince Edward's Island, with oats, deal, and hardwood, was landed at Queenstown on Tuesday by the barque Erycina, which picked them up in latitude 47 deg. N., long. 30 deg. 11 min. N. The crew state that the vessel encountered fearful gales, with mountainous seas, in which she labored heavily, the waves making a clean sweep over her. She was thrown on her beam ends; they had to cut away the foremast and rigging to lighten her. She was also struck several times by tremendous breakers, which carried away her cutwater and all her provisions. On the 19th December she sprung a leak, and notwithstanding that the crew kept the pumps going without intermission for the space of twenty-four hours, she became water-log] ged. The crew were on the wreck for seventeen days, having nothing to subsist on during that period but a small quantity of bread, salt-water soaked, which they lived on for six days, and during the remainder of that period, eleven days, subsisted on oats soaked in salt water, which was dashing about the decks. All her canvas was carried away. Two oars were rigged, with flags attached, with which they managed to work the vessel. In consequence of the extreme coldness of the weather, and the heavy seas which deluged the vessel, they lived together in the deck-house, in which they had a stage erected to keep themselves warm. They lost every article of their clothes and effects, and had barely what they stood in.—Weekly Dispatch, 16th January. Hugo Levinger, charged with the murder of three Polynesian natives on the high seas, in October last, was again brought before the city Bench on the 7th April. Mr Gurner, who prosecuted, asked for a remand, to permit the arrival of witnesses from Sydney. Mr C. Smyth, who defended objected to any such proceeding, unless his client was admitted to bail. The magistrate granted the remand asked for, but refused to accept bail,—Melbourne Argus, Bth April. The following extract from a report by Navigating Lieut. Stanley, R.N., Admiralty Surveyor to the commissioner of Trade and Customs, is published in the Gazette: —"I consider the the whole of the strait between King's Island and Tasmania as most dangerous, and one whieh, if possible, should be avoided altogether. The tides run very strong, and nothing but great local knowledge would, I should imagine, be able to form any conception of them. Vesssels would do well, at night time, to keep in the centre of the strait, out of the tidal influence, or else borrow on the Tasmanian shore."