Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 742, 9 December 1869, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF AHUBIBI. ARRIVALS. DECEMBER. 9—Star of the South, s.s., 161 tons, W. Bendall, from Auckland DEPARTURES. DECEMBER. 7— Comerang, p.s., 152 tons, Chrisp, for Auckland via Poverty and Tologa Bays B—Muriwai, schooner, 22 tons, M'Lennan, for Poverty Bay PASSENGER LIST. OUTWARDS. In the Comerang—Mr Meldrum EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Chile, ship, 768 tons, from London via Auckland Enterprise, ketch, from Poverty Bay Jennie Ellingwood, toarque, from Port Chalmers Keera, s.s., from Auckland Rangatira, s.s., from Auckland Three Brothers, schooner, from Dunedin Wellington, s.s., from Wellington and Southern Ports (with English Mail) VESSELS IN HARBOR. Hero, schooner, from Wairoa and Waikokopu Mania,, cutter, from Wairoa B. T. Turnbull, barque, 367 tons, Gumming, from London Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland Success, schooner, from Auckland PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foe London—B.. T. Turnbull, barque, early Wellington—Bangatira, on or about Friday, 10th December Auckland— Wellington, on or about Saturday next, 11th December; Star of the South, early Waieqa—Mahia, early Waimakama. and Mangakuex—Success, this day

The s.s. Star of the South, from Auckland, arrived in the roadstead at an early hour this morning, after a splendid passage to and from Auckland.

The barque R. T. Turnbull has now (with the exception of a small quantity of coal) completed discharge of inward cargo, and is now taking in ballast, after which she will commence loading wool.

The schooner Three Brothers, —a craft of some 26 tons register—may be daily looked for from .Dunedin. This vessel takes the place of the Flying Squirrel,—the purchase of the latter, owing, we hear, to some misunderstanding, not having completed. The barque Jennie Ellingwood has not yet arrived from Dunedin, but she may be hourly expected. The s.s. Rangatira, from Auckland, may be expected to arrive here to-morrow, and will have quick despatch for Wellington and Southern Ports.

The s.s. Wellington left Port Chalmers at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 7th Nov., and arrived at Lyttelton at 9.10 a.m. yesterday. This vessel has on on board the English October mail, and may be expected here on Saturday. She will steam for Auckland shortly after arrival. The schooner Success, Hamilton, master, left the Iron Pot yesterday, and came to an anchor in the roadstead. She will probably leave for Waimarama and Mangakuri to-day, and will return to this port with a cargo of wool. The schooner Muriwai, witli a miscellaneous cargo for Poverty Bay, left port last evening. The p.s. Comerang left this port on Tuesday afternoon for Auckland via Poverty and Tologa Bays, at which latter place she will take in a cargo of sheep. The ship Chili, from London, had not arrived at Auckland at our latest dates (Dec. 3), she being then 102 days out. The schooner Coquette, hence on the 27th ult., arrived at Auckland on the 2nd inst.

A very unfortunate accident, nearly resulting in her tutal loss, occurred to the ketch Falcou bound from Wellington to Blenheim, on November 19. She sailed in the evening with the wind northwest, having on board a general cargo valued at about £7OO, none of which was insured. Endeavoring to get as far, as possible to windward for her run across the Straits, she seems to have hugged the shore too closely, and about midnight struck heavily on the Tom's Rook en this side of Cape Terawiti, where she hung for about five minutes. After getting off, the captain at first intended to make across the Straits ; but the vessel leaked so fast that he determined to put back to Wellington, and managed to beat up in about four hours. The utmost efforts of the crew with pump and buckets were required to keep the vessel afloat, until she was run aground alongside of Pilchers wharf, where the cargo was taken out of her this morning all more or less damaged. Great credit is due to the captain and crew for saving the vessel; had they slackened in their exertions at all, she must infallibly have gone down. Tom's Rock is the same on which the Midas was nearly wrecked four years ago, and on which the unfortunate City of Dunedin is supposed to have struck. The Ealcon had just received a thorough overhaul on the slip, and been newly coppered. The Falcon was hauled on the slip on Saturday evening. More damage is found to be done than was at first supposed ; several planks are shattered, and altogether, reckoning the loss of time in the busy season, the owner will lose from £7O to £loo.—Evening Post, Nov. 22. The ship Timaru, from London, arrived at Lyttelton on November 18. Pilot Stevens boarded her outside, and she safely crossed the outer and inner bars, her draught of water being 20ft. 6in. forward, and close on 20ft. aft. After crossing the inner bar, with topsails set and tug ahead, in mid channel, abreast of the lower red beacon, the vessel was brought to a sudden standstill; soundings were at once taken, and five fathoms found all round the vessel, with the exception of forward, when on close examination it was discovered that a knoll, about half the length of the ship and about 30ft. wide, obstructed the channel, on which there was only 19ft. of water. At the time she struck, it was at high slack water. Endeavors were made by the fug to tow her off, but without avail. Her easting, which was run down between the parallels of 40 and 44 S., was characterised by very unsettled and boisterous weather. On the 29th October, in latitude 43.16 S., longitude 90.5 E., she was caught in the tail end of a cyclone. At 3 a.m. on that day shipped a terrific lump sea over the port bow, which carried away water-closet, broke rail and stanchions round the foremast, tore off battens and tarpaulins of forehatch, swept overboard buckets and all movable articles, started all the bitts and deck ends of topgallant forecastle, lifted the anchors from their lashings, moved the spars on the house, and washed out spar beds and anchor chocks; also, killing Andrew Lee, an able seaman, aged 40, a native of Falmouth. At daylight the poor fellow was found lying quite dead between the foremast and deck-house, with his head split open and one of his legs broken. Two other seamen were injured at the same time; one on board now is still an invalid and has recourse to crutches. The same sea poured down the fore-hatch before it could be secured, and. damaged much cargo, (

The following curious incident is related by the Nelson Evening Mail:—ln January, 1862, the barque Lady Flora Hastings, Captain German, Delonging to Mr J. Wilson, Billiter-st., London, from Moulmien, bound to Falmouth, with teak timber, foundered in a cyclone, 1,300 miles to the eastward of the Mauritius. The crew of the ill-fated ship were on the foremast for five days and nights, were taken off by the French ship Leoni and landed in the Mauritius. The desk (the only relic of the vessel ever since seen) of the Chief Officer, Mr H. Hall, now of Nelson, was picked up by the American ship Samuel Russell, after floating about nine weeks, taken to New York, and then sent to his friends in London, who forwarded it to him by the barque Hera, just arrived. It contains family portraits and letters in a very fair state of preservation.