Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 781, 25 April 1870, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF AH URJEI. ARRIVALS. APRIL. 23—Airedale, s.s., 286 tons, A. Kennedy, from Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin 22—Kauri, schooner, 41 tons, T. Shepherd, from Wellington 22—Esther, hrigantiue, 54 tons, Campbell, from "Wellington . _ , 23—Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Holmes, from Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin ' 23—Hero, schooner, 20 tons, Campbell, from Wairoa __ 23—Three Brothers, schooner, 26 tons, H. Boss, from Wairoa and Nuhaka 23—Comerang, p.s., 56 tons, Chrisp, from Auckland DEPARTURES. APKIL. 21—Colleen Bawn, schooner, 39 tons, Thompson, for Cape Turnagain 22—Airedale, s.s., 286 tons, A. Kennedy, for Auckland 23—Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, F. Holmes, for Auckland PASSENGER LIST. INWAK.DS. In the Airedale—Messrs Adam and Allan In the Wellington—Messrs. Knapp, Stobo, Peacock, Robertson, Towgood, Melville, Mrs Smith and three children In the Hero—Mr Finlayson, Mr Powdrell, and two Maoiis In the Three Brothers—l Armed Constabulary prisoner * In the Comerang—Mrs Crosling, Messrs. Smith, Matheson, Banks, Days, Connor, Eagan, Read, and another ! OUTWARDS. In the Airedale—Mr and Mrs Eraser, Messrs Taylor, Robertson, Brown, Johnstone, Mills, and Davenport In the Wellington—Colonels Whitmore and Thompson EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Airodate, s.s., from Auckland, on or about the 28th instant. Albion, ship, 566 tons, Erohn, from London via Nebon (66 days out) Bee, schooner, from Lyttelton Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland St. Kilda, s.s., from Wellington Wellington, s.s., from Auckland W}ld Duck, ketch, from Poverty Bay YESSELSIN HARBOR. Comerang, p.s., from Auckland Esther, brigantine, from Wellington Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Kauri, schooner, from Wellington Three Brothers, schooner, from Wairoa and " Nuhaka PROJECTED DEPARTURES. fp.E TVhU'lNgton—Airedale, oh or about Thursday next, 28th instant Auckland— Kauri, schooner, to-morrow; Comerang, p.s., probably to-morrow

fijE C.S.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Airedale, under command flf p.ur old friend Capt. Archibald Kennedy, arrived \x\ Ahuriri roadstead, shortly before 8. o'clock on Friday morning, from the South, bringing a number of packages of cargo and several passengers. !$$ &red#le cleared Otago llcuds at 6 p.m. on

Sunday, 17th inst.; had head winds and sea till arrival at Lyttelton at 3.38 p.m. on the. 18th ; discharged and took on hoard cargo and passengers, and left at 6.30 p.m.; had strong N. winds across Cook's Straits, and arrived at Wellington at 1 p.m. on the 19th. Left for Napier at 12.30 p.m. on the 21st; experienced N.W. winds on. the passage, and dropped anchor in the roadstead at 7-4'o a.m. on the 22nd, making the run in 19 hours and 10 minutes. The Airedale steamed for Auckland at 2.15 p.m., with 15 bales and 1 bag wool, Stuart and Co.; 30 bales flax, Kinross and Co. This favorite steamer may be expected to return to Napier on or about Thursday next, 28th inst, and will have quick despatcli for Wellington. The schooner Kauri, Capt. Shepherd, left Wellington at 4 p.m. on the 18th inst., with light N.W. wind. Was becalmed off Cape Palliser all next day. From thence strong N.N.W. wind till arrival off Cape Turnagain on the morning of the 21st, when she was again becalmed till night; thick southerly weather, with rain, was then experienced till arrival iu port at 1 p.m. on Friday. Cargo: 12 cases corrugated iron, 12 bags flour, Watt; 1 qr-cask and 1 hhd:, oider. Capt. Shepherd reports sighting the schooner Colleen Bawn, standing S.E., off Bare Island, at 2 a.m. on Friday. The Kauri, it will be seen by advertisement, leaves for Auckland to-morrow. The brigantine Esther, Capt. Campbell, left Wellington on the 18th April, passing the light at 5 p.m.; rounded Cape Palliser at 2 a.m. on the 19th ; was off Castle Point at 10 p.m. on the 20th with strong breeze and heavy squalls. At 10 a.m. on the 21st came to an anchor at Blackhead ; discharged 10 tons cargo and took on board wool and hides ; left at 6 p.m., and arrived in port at 5 p.m. on the 22nd inst. She brings 5,000 bricks and sundry other cargo. The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Wellington, Captain F. Holmes, with a large general cargo and several passengers, arrived in port at noon on Saturday last, 23rd inst. She left Port Chalmers at 5.30 p.m. on the 18th inst., having on board a large party of excursionists rcturniug to Canterbury ; arrived at Lyttelton at 3.15 p.m. on the 19th; left again on the following day at 6.30 p.m., and arrived at Wellington at noon on the 21st; left Wellington at 2.15 p.m. on the 22nd, aud arrived as above, having experienced light winds and fine weather throughout; The Wellington steamed for Auckland at a late hour on Saturday night, with 118 bales wool, 48 casks tailow, and two passengers.

The schooner Hero, Campbell, master, arrived in harbor at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday last, from Wairoa, with 4> passengers and the following cargo :—2 tons kumeras, 2 tons fish, and 1 ton preserved meat, Tareha ; 5 hags maize, Kobjohns Bros. ; 5 empty casks, Watt Bros. The Hero left Napier on the forenoon of the Bth inst., and arrived off Wairoa the same evening—too late, however, for the tide. Next morning could not get in owing to the mouth of the river being blocked up. Remained at anchor until the morning of the 10th, when, a souther springing up, ran for Long Point for shelter, arriving there the same night. Left again on the 19th, and (the river being clear) entered Wairoa on the 20th. She left for Napier at uoou on Friday, 22ud inst., and arrived as above. The schooner Three Brothers, Ross, master, left Napier on the 6th March, and arrived at Wai roa on the Bth, having experienced southerly weather. Was bar-bound till the 2lst April, on which day she left for Nuhaka, where she landed 10 tons of cargo on the 22nd ; left Nuhaka at 9 a.m., and was to have called in at Waihui and Mohaka, but found too much sea on to land; accordingly stood for Napier, and arrived here at 9 p.m. on Saturday. Cargo : 15 bales wool, 3 hides, 6 bdls sheepskint, 2 casks tallow, 23 bags grass seed, Watt Bros.; 2 bales wool and 0 hides, Richardson ; 3 cases sundries, Neagle.

The p.s. Comerang, Capt. Chrisp, left Auckland at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 21st inst. ; rounded the East Cape at 10 p.m. ou Friday, and arrived here at 10 p.m. on Saturday, having experienced heavy S.E. swell from the East Cape to port. Sighted the s.s. Star of the South oil' Cuvier Island at 1 a.m. on Friday; aud the s.s. Airedale ahout midnight on Friday. The Comerang is one of the most comfortable and useful steamers hailing from Auckland. Her machinery has lately undergone extensive alterations and repairs, the result showing a wonderful improvement in her steaming power. On her trial trip on Wednesday last she averaged 8;} knots. We have no doubt she will be found in every waj adapted for the trade for which she is intended. Her inward cargo consists of about 15 tons free goods. The Comerang will probably leave for Auckland to-morrow with a cargo of stock. The schooner Colleen Bawn sailed for Cape Turnagain at noon on Thursday last, there to load wool for Wellington. The s.s. Star of the South, from Auckland, may be looked for to-night or to-morrow. The schooner Bee, from Lyttelton, with 428 sacks oats, 35 sacks wheat, and 1 case sundries, may be hourly expected to arrive here. We understand that the s.s. Wellington will be laid up on her return to Wellington, and that the s.s. Taranaki will then take up the East Coast service. Tt is rumoured that either Capt. Renner or Capt. Cellem will be in charge of the latter vessel. The s.s. Rangatira, we believe, may be looked for sometime this week from Wellington and the South. She will probably be the bearer of the Hawke's Bay portion of the English February mail. [ln the latest Wellington papers the Rangatira is advertised to leave that port on the 27th inst. for Picton, Nelson, Wanganui, Taranaki and Manukau.] The s.s. Phoebe, which left Wellington for the South ou the 21st inst., took as passengers the competitors from the Northern Provinces for the Colonial prizes to be fired for at Dunedin on the 29th and 30th inst. In the passenger list, published in the Wellington papers, we observe the names of Messrs. Benouf, Blake, and Williams, the representatives of this Province. The ship Albion, 560 tons, Capt. Krohn, left London for Napier via Nelson on the 17th Feb. Consequently, she is now 66 days out. The s.s. Storm Bird and the s.s. St. Kilda both arrived at Wellington from Wanganui on the 21st inst., after having safely landed Kemp and Topia's natives. The Storm Bird beat the St. Kilda by several hours on each passage. The s.s. Tararua, Capt. Hagley, steamed for Melbourne, from the Bluff, at 3 p.m. Qn the 20th instant. On her last trip down South the Airedale was taken alongside the Jetty at Dunedin without auy accident, being, as we hear, the largest vessel that has ever been up there. The run up from Port Chalmers to Dunedin was accomplished in an hour, and the return in three-quarters of an hour. No time seems to have been lost in putting the p.s. Charles Edward, lately sunk in Martin's Bay, in repair; she was to have left Nelson for West Coast ports on Thursday last,,

The s.s. Omeo, Capt. Calder, with the English Mail via Suez, arrived at the Bluff at 6.30 a.m. cm the 22nd inst. Her Majesty's ship Challenger, Commodore Lambert, arrived at Wellington on the 18th inst., from Lyttelton, having made a smart passage, performed under sail, of 25 hours. The following is from the Evening Post, 20th inst.;—" The propeller, was successfully fitted on to the s' aft of the Taranaki this afternoon, and she will be hauled off again with this evening's tide. The funnel will be shipped to-morrow, and it is expected that by Tuesday her spirited owners will be able to make a trial trip in the Bay." Captain Deare, of the tug-steamer Despatch, was fined £lO and costs in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Greymouth, on the sth inst., for neglecting to put mails on board the s.s. Gothenburg on her last trip. The Daily Southern Cross, 14th inst., contains the following : —" The repairing of the broken cylinder of the Colonial Government p.s. Luna will be thoroughly completed by Saturday (16th.) The new bottom of the cylinder, made at the establishment of Messrs. Eraser and Tinne, is very substantial, and is (if the phrase may be allowed) handsomely finished and fitted. No doubt the Lima will be tried with both engines running before she leaves Auckland with his Excellency the Governor for the Bay of Islands, which she is to do early next week." [The Luna left for the Bay on Tuesday last.] We take the following from the Evening Post, 13th inst.:—"By telegram received this morning we learn that the Circular Saw Company's mail steamer Airedale arrived at Lyttelton fifty minutes before the N.Z.S.N. Company's s.s. Wellington, so that the Airedale beat her opponent by one hour and fifty minutes, she having left the Queen's Wharf at 4 p.m. yesterday, and the Wellington at 3 p.m. We note by advertisement that the Airedale takes the East Coast route, so that we shall be able to report from time to time of the qualities of these two favorite steamers, running as they will side by side.'

The Evening Post remarks that " while so much is being said about the port of call and the entrance to Wellington harbor, it may not be out of place to allude to the light on Mana Island, which is notoriously ill-placed. Its principal object is to enable vessels to clear Cook's Rock, about 14 miles distant. The island is low, and the hills on either side the Straits high, and consequently a fog often settles down which renders the light invisible. The Brothers is the natural place for the light, and when the Government have again money enough at their disposal, it is to be hoped that they will erect a lighthouse there, and do away with Mana light." We regret to notice that the paddle steamer Eavorite has been totally wrecked. The following account of her loss appears in the Auckland Morning Aclvertiser, 12th April:—" The Eavorite left Aucklaud on Government survey service for the Manukau on Sunday week last, 27th ult., at seven o'clock in the evening. Experienced fine weather until the Ist April, when light winds and passing squalls of rain from S.S.W. intervened. At 1 a.m. passed iieef Point, Ahipara Bay, with fresh breeze from S.S.W.; at 2 the sea and wind rapidly increased, with thick, dirty weather ; at 2.4-0 a heavy sea came on, which caused the vessel to labor considerably, and largo quantities of water were shipped. The engines were eased, and the ship's head kept to sea, —the vessel still making a deal of water, and it being found necessary to keep all the pumps going, and bilge injection. At 3 o'clock the steamer was observed to be getting out of shape and settling down amidships, with great diiliculty in steering on account of her not answering her helm. At 3.30 water began to gain on the pumps, and Capt. Adams accordingly bore up for Ahipara Bay, and came to anchor abreast of the native settlement in three and a half fathoms of water ; at G. 15 veered to 20 fathoms of chain cable. All hands at the pumps, found the water still gaining and the vessel completely out of shape, apparently back broken. The captain held a consultation with the mate and engineer, and came to the conclusion that the only thing remaining to save the stenmcr from going down in deep water would be to beach her, the water being nearly level with the furnace bars and the ship fast settling down. At 11 o'clock all possible steam was got up, and the Favorite was run on a sandy beach. The crew and a number of Maoris were employed heaving coals overboard, landing Government gear and ship's furniture, the vessel parting at the splice where she had been recently lengthened. The sea increased on the beacli and she had to be abandoned. At midnight next day a fearful sea was rolling into the bay, and the ship was totally submerged, the sea making a clean breach over her. On the 2nd inst. a survey was held on the vessel, when she was condemned to be sold for the benefit of whom it might concern."