Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 739, 29 November 1869, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OP A HUB IB I.

ARRIVALS. NOVEMBER. 25—Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, F. Holmes, from Auckland. Passengers—s 26-Success, scliooner, 58 tons, Fletcher, from Auckland „ _, „. 27—Eagle, s.s., 146 tons, Mailler, from V> ellmgton and Southern Ports DEPARTURES. NOVEMBER. 25—Wellington, s.s., 202 tons, F. Holmes, for Wellington and Southern Ports. Passengers—4 27—Mary Ann, brigantine, 131 tons, White, from Newcsatlo, N.S.W. 27_Colonist, schooner, 42 tons, Jones, for Poverty Bay, with general cargo 27—Coquette, schooner, 40 tons, Mathoson, for Auckland 27—Eagle, s.s., 146 tons, Mailler, for Sydney via Auckland PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. In the Wellington—Messrs. Fox, Hussoy, Sims, Croeombc, and Arundel Iu the Kaglo Messrs. Graham, Bennett, Smith, Coolu, Brown, Leslie, Ambridgo, Mr and Mrs Jones and family, Mrs and Miss Summerton, and G in the steerage OUTWARDS. In the Wellington—His Honor Mr Justico Johnston, Messrs Ingpcri, Hewitt, and Robortson In the Colonist—Mr Hardy and several others EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Chile, ship, 768 tons, from London via Auckland Flying Squirrel, ketch, from Duuodiu Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Jennie Ellingwood, barque, from Port Chalmers Keera, s.s., from Auckland Mahia, cutter, from Wairoa Eangatira, s.s., from Wellington and Southern Ports, on or about 2nd December Star of tho South, s.s., from Auckland VESSELS IN HARBOR. R. T. Tuvnbull, barquo, 367 tons, dimming, from London Success, schoonor, from Auckland PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For London—E. T. Tuvnbull, barque, early Auckland—ltangatira, ou or about Thursday, 2nd December Waimauaua amd Mangakuri—Success, this uay

Arrival of the s.s. Wellington. iTjie Now Zealand Steam Navigation Company's 's.s. Wellington, Captain F. Holmes, arrived in Ahuriri roadstead at G a.m. on Thursday last, 25tli inst. We have to thank Mr Moss, purser, for the early delivery of our files and the following report :—Left Auckland at 3.40 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 23, and arrived here as above. Experienced fine weather and smooth water to the Mast Cape, and from thence to port strong southerly winds and heavy head sea. Reports passing the stock steamer Keera oil' White Island at •!• a.m. on the 21th inst. The Wellington brought 5 passengers hut no cargo for this port; she steamed southwards at 2 p.m. on Thursday, with the outward mails for Europe;, &c., to he forwarded per Tararua from Wellington this day.

Arrival of the schooner Success. The scliooner Success, Captain Fletcher, from Auckland, in ballast, arrived in port on Friday morning last. She left Auckland on the lfith inst., and Kawau on the 10th. Had variable weather until off Poverty Buy on the 22nd, when a strong southerly-gale set in, in consequence of which hove-to until the evening of the 23rd, when a light nor-castcr having sprung up, she resumed her voyage. Was off Table Cape on the 21th, when the wind having chopped round to the S.W., put into Wangawclii for shelter; left again at 10J a.m. on the 25th, and had light N.E. winds fill arrival in port at 0 a.m. on the 2fith (Friday last.) Capt. Fletcher reports having sighted the bri;r Maggie off Tologa Day on the morning of the 23rd instant.

The Success, we learn, leaves this port to-day or to-morrow with stores for Waimarama, and will return with a cargo of wool.

Arrival of the s.s. Eagle. The s.s. Eagle, under the command of Captain R. Mai Her (formerly of the p.s. Comerang), arrived in the roadstead at 4- o'clock on Saturday morning, from Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She brought a general cargo and a number of passengers. The Otago Daily Times informs us that the Eagle is a wooden vessel, built at Sydney, and is rigged as a three-masted schooner ; has fine roomy cabin and steerage accommodation for passengers, both compartments being well ventilated. Her ladies' boudoir is a saloon of itself, with twelve sleeping berths ; while her main saloon, which is fitted with horse hair cushions and backs, can be made to accommodate 13 gentlemen. Her steerage—one of the best we have ever seen—contains 30 berths. On deck she has a donkey winch on an improved principle, to facilitate the discharge of cargo, also captain's and ollieer's cabins. She has 30 horse-power engines, capable of being worked up to 50, and when under canvas there are few vessels on the coast will beat her.

The s.s. Eagle steamed tor Auckland at 8 p.m. on Saturday, with 8 casks preserved meat, 31 calf skins, and 34< hides. From Auckland the Eagle will proceed to Sydney, and, according to the Evening l'ost, may be expected to return to Wellington on or about the 25th December; the Sydney Herald states that she is to be placed in the South Sea Island trade.

Miscellaneous. The schooners Colonist and Coquette both took their departure on Saturday last, —the former for Poverty Bay with a general curgo and a number of passengers ; and the latter for Auckland direct with 580 bags bran, 159 bags sharps, and 20 bags wheat.

The brigantinc Mary Ann sailed in ballast on Saturday last for Newcastle, N.S.W. The s.s. Keera, from Auckland, may, we hear, be expected to arrive to-morrow. We heard yesterday that the barquojjennie Ellingwood had left Dunedin for this port early that morning.

We understand that the discharge of the barque 11. T. Tumbull will be completed on or about Wednesday next. We clip the following from the Evening Post, 25th November : —Mr Seager is getting on rapidly with the repairs to the Taranaki, and will, if things go on as they are doing at present, have the necessary iron work done within three months. The iron beams of the bridge and forecastle have been straightened, and the planking for their decks prepared and partially laid. Altogether a very commendable spirit of industry is displayed, and it is much to lie regretted that the absence of a slip prevents everything requisite for the complete refitting of the Taranaki being accomplished in Wellington,

A Long Calm.—The European Mail, September 10, says that her Majesty's frigate Topaze, just home i'roin the Pacific, got into a dead calm on August 7, in latitude 42.45 N., longitude 28.20 W.,—a little northward and westward of the Azores. The calm was one of those great stillnesses of the sea which are rarely witnessed in any zone, and certainly not with especial frequency near' the western isles, at least for anything like the length of time during which the hnsh of the elements on the present occasion appears to have continued. At sunset on that day no fewer than sixty-two vessels were all lying asleep upon the sleeping waters, not a breath of wind ruffling the glazed roll of the ocean, the splash of every flyingfish an event, the falling overboard of a beef-bone causing a commotion. One of these vessels, the Agra, had been locked in this trance of nature for fourteen days, and the frigate had to supply her with provisions, so that the calm must have lasted a long while before the Topaze drilled into it. Sixty-two sail visible from the masthead at once on the wide Atlantic, and not one with a puff to blow the vane-ribbon straight.

Wrecks .and Casualties. SUPPOSED LOSS OP THE SHIP MATOAKA. There is too mueli reason to fear that tho ship Matoaka, which left Lyttelton for London on the 14th May, with a valuable cargo of wool, hides, &c, has been lost. On the 23rd September the rate of insurance upon the ship had risen to sixty per cent. This alone is a sure proof of what the best judges —the members of Lloyds—thought of her chance. BURKING OP THE SHIP LIGHTNING IN COIUO DAY, MELBOURNE. The Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes as follows date Nov. 4: — The quietude of the Sabbath has been a second time disturbed by the report of an appalling disaster. At an early hour on Sunday morning, 31st October, that fine old clipper, the Ligiitning, which had nearly completed her loading with wool, was found to be on fire as she lay alongside the pier at All the attempts to get the fire under proved unavailing, and after burning for sixteen hours she was at last prevailed upon to go under water at a short distance from the pier, in about twenty-seven feet of water. The loss is expected to be very little short of £70,000, making, with that of the Victoria Tower, an aggregate of losses by the underwriters of something like £IOO,OOO, and all in a couple of Weeks ! A meeting wis held in Geelong on Tuesday, N0v.23, at which the principal underwriting companies wore represented, as were also the banks and wool merchants interested At (hat meeting it was determined to raise the cargo of the Lightning, instead of selling it with the wreck. The actual quantity of wool recovered on Sunday was 317 bales. It is expected that by far the larger portion of the remaining cargo of wool—about 20U0 bales—will be recovered, as well as the tallow, about 110 casks, and some 200 tons of copper ore, besides a quantity of colonial wine. An inquest lias been sitting on the cause of the fire, but some of the witnesses, who could have thrown light upon it, are gone away in the ship Lanarkshire, which sailed on Tuesday morning. The jury, upon such evidence as they had before them, could only return an open verdict ; but they gave it as their opinion that it did nut. arise from spontaneous com bastion. There seems to be a strong opinion amongst competent judges that the fire originated from carelessness or intemperance on the part of the sailors. The manner in which rope, oakum, oils, tar, &c, are too commonly left about the fore part of ships, and exposed to the danger of contact with lii'e, has b.'en frequently noticed of lac, and the wonder is that more ships are not burned. When the fire broke out in the Lightning, a number of the sailors had jhst returned from spending their last night ashore, and were in a state in which they were not at alt likely to be careful of the combustible stuff lying about them, it is very dllietilt, under such circireumstanees, to get at the truth, especially win n one of the chief actors litis disappeared.