Shipping Intelligece.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 727, 18 October 1869, Page 2

Shipping Intelligece.

PORT OF AHUKIRI. (There have been none since our last issue.) DEPARTURES. OCTOBER. 11—Star of the South, s.s., for Auckland EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Ahuriri, s.s., from Wellington, on or about Thursday next, 21st October Edith, Government surveying schooner, from Wellington E. T. Turnbull, barque, 307 tons, Gumming, from London (10G days out) Star of the South, s.s , from Auckland Wellington, s.s., from Wellington and Southern Ports, on or about Sunday next, 2ith Oct. VESSELS IN HARBOR. Esther, brigantine, from Wellington CreeDWich, cutter, from Wairoa Hero, schooner, from Wairoa (repairing) Mahla, cutter, from Wairoa PASSENGER LIST. OUTWARDS. In the Star of the South—Messrs. Cruickshank, Swindley, M'Donald, and Parsons PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foe. Wellington via the Coast—Esther, brigantine, this day

The s.s. Star of the South steamed for Auckland .direct at 2 p.m. on Thursday last, with 1100 sheep and several passengers. As strong southerly winds have prevailed since her departure, the present trip of this favorite boat, barring accidents, will probably have been a rapid one. The shipping reporter of our contemporary in the Herald issue of the 15th inst. observes that—

The wharf at the entrance is going on very slowly; indeed, at the present rate of procedure it is not likely to he finished this year.

—Possibly not: bad weather and the absence of skilled labor (a scarce commodity hereabout) prevent sucli rapid progress with this fine structure as was formerly made, but we have mucli pleasure in stating that, with improved weather, there appears every probaoility of much being done, if not completion, within the next fortnight;—accidents, of course, are beyond control. The weather during the past few days has been very unseasonable—worthy, indeed, of the deptli of winter. On Thursday morning the wind set in jfrom the southward, and has continued veering from S. to S.E. up to t hour of going to press this morning—at times blowing a perfect gale, accompanied by heavy rain. The like weather has prevailed at several of the southern ports. There is a heavy sea on in the liay this morning—breaking right across the bar. The repairs to the schooner Hero are now nearly completed, and we confidently expect to see her afloat once more before the end of the present week—admittedly a stronger vessel than she was previous to the disaster which befel her off the entrance to the Wairoa river.

The Colonial Government gun-boat St. Kilda is now undergoing repairs at Wellington—all hands, the captain excepted, having meanwhile been paid off. The command of the surveying schooner Edith (purchased in Sydney by the Colonial Government) has, we learn, been offered to Captain Eox, but we have not heard whether he has accepted it or not. We learn that six Maoris belonging to the boat used for transporting stores from Port Ahuriri to Petane (from thence to be forwarded overland to the "front") were discharged on Saturday last Having received their quota of pay, a "spree" yesterday was tlie result. ' The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Ahuriri, we believe, may be expected to arrive from Wellington on or about Thursday next, 21st., and will have quick despatch for Auckland. The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Wellington, Captain P. Holmes, from Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, will be due here on or about Sunday next, 34th October, and will steam for Auckland on the following day. The C.S.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Lord Ashley, we learn, ttiay be expected to again visit this port in about three weeks. The Jennie Ellingwood, from Boston, U.S., arrived at Port Chalmers on the 14-th instant, at 5.40 p.m.