Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 800, 30 June 1870, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF AHUEIRI. ARRIVALS. JUNE. 26—Luna, Colonial Government p.s., rairchild, from Wellington 27—Luna, Colonial Government p.s., Fairchild, from Wairoa DEPARTURES. 3VNI£. 27—Luna, Colonial Government p.s., Pairchild, for Wairoa 27—Why Not, ketch, 25 tons, Baxter, for Wairoa and A\'aikari 28— Luna, Colonial Government p.s., Fairchiid, for Wellington 28—Murewai, schooner, 23 tons, W. Harris, for Poverty Day '^9—Esther, hrigautinc, 64 tons, Camphell, for Wellington PASSENGER LIST. INWAItDS. In the Luna—Messrs Carver and Tupper OUTWARDS. In the Luna—J. D. Ormond, Esq., M.H.8., and several others In the Murewai—Mr Monro EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Albion, ship, 56f> tons, Krohn, from London via Nelson (132 days out) Comerang, from Auckland Eagle, ketch, from Auckland via the coast Keera, s.s, (probahly from the southward) Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland via coast Taranaki, s.s., from Wellington and the South Why Not, ketch, from Wairoa VESSELS IN HARBOR. Greenwich, cutter, (lightering) Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Mahia, cutter, (lightering) Threo Brothers, schooner, from Wairoa PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Fob Waieoa—Hero and Three Broibers, early

The Colonial Government p.s. Luna, Capt. Fairchild, left Wellington at G. 30 p m. on Saturday, June 25, and arrived in Ahuriri roadstead at 6.45 p.m. on Snnday. Left for Wairoa at 2 a.m. on Monday, with despatches, &c.; arrived ofF Wairoa at 6 a.m.; and, having delivered despatches, &c, steamed for Napier at 9 a m., and arrived here at 1.30 p.m. lieports having experienced moderate weather throughout. —The Luna steamed for Wellington at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, and arrived there at ■2.50 p.m. yesterday. The ketch Why Not resumed her voyage to Wairoa and Waikari on Monday morning. The schooner Murewai sailed for Poverty Bay on Tuesday night, with 2 iron tanks, 13 bags potatoes, and sundry other cargo ; also, 1 passenger. The bngautiue Esther left for Wellington yesterday morning, with 61 casks and 1 tank tallow, and 21 bales flax.

The p.s. Comerang, Capt. Clirisp, may be daily expected to arrive from Auckland. We understand that the s.s. Keera, Capt. Bain, may be expected to put, in an appearance in a few clays, probably from the southward. This favorite boat will, we are informed, be placed in the trade between Auckland and this port, so long occupied by the s.s. Star of the South. The ketch Eagle and another vessel (probably the schooner Saucy Lass) may be expected here in a few days, from Auckland via the coast, wi'h cargoes of timber. The Eagle left Auckland on the 20th inst. ;

The s.s. Storm Bird, hence, arrived at Wellington at 4.20 p.m. on Tuesday last. The barque Ismay left Auckland for Loudon on the 21st inst., with a cargo of kauri gum, cotton> flax, &c, valued at £28,563. The brigantine Flirt, with a large cargo of breadstuffs from Lyttelton, arrived at Auckland on the 20th hist., after a smart passage of five days. The Timiiru Herald, June S, says :—The late heavj seas liave done a little damage to the breakwater. Yesterday moruiug a small piece of concrete was broken off the seaward side of the breakwater, and deposited on the top, where it remained for some minutes, till a heavy sea came and carried it a good many yards on to the beach. The lower portion of the breakwater remains uninjured. The damage to the top has been caused by the attrition of the shingle. The Evening Post says :—The too probable loss of the Isabella Jackson awakens reflection on what a number of coasting craft have disappeared within the last few years. They are missed and never turn up again, evidently sinking or foundering at sea, for if they came on shore some portion of the wreck would be discovered. Many of these little vessels which trade about our coasts are notoriously uuseaworthy, and, especially when deeploaded, unfit to contend with the severe gales oi wind which prevail in the winter time. Would i" not be well if they are subjected to periodical examination, and forced to be kept in good repair, and to carry good gear ? Steamers are most particularly looked after, and why not sailing vessels, when human life is at stake in both cases ? Attention to this matter would, in all likelihood, obviate many of the disasters which now occur. We (Evening Post, June 14) have learned with great regret of the untimely demise of the learned pig which formed part of the crew of the steamer Airedale. Last night, in coming through the Straits, a sudden lurch of the vessel sent poor Dennis through an open port-hole, in front of which he had incautiously ventured, and in the darkness all efforts to rescue him proved in vain. Though only of tender age, Dennis was a very accomplished animal; he could mount a ladder with the utmost facility, and had a perfect knowledge of all the spots where food was attainable, either on board or on shore. He was well known on all the different wharves on the coast, > where he might often have been seen trotting about with a gaudy collar on, and his placid temper and amiable manners had endeared hini to his, shipmates. Their regrets for* his loss are intensified by the thought that they might have secured him by converting him into bacon, for he was in prime condition.

The s.s. Raagitoto, from Melbourne, arrived a Hokitika at J. 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday last. From the speech delivered by the first Lord of the Admiralty on submitting the naval estimates to the House of Commons on the 28th February la§t, we learn that at the present moment Great Britain has not only the most powerful navy in the world, but more effective home and foreign squadrons, both as to ships and men, than it has ever owned since the days of Nelson. There is as much difference between the British Navy, as it figures in this year's estimates, and as it figured in the estimates of a few years' since, as between puffy corpulence and the finest muscular training and condition of wind and limb. When the new ships now building are completed, England will have 40 broadside ancU turret ships, besides five smaller broadsides and two smaller turrets; while the unarmoured navy includes one frigate, two large corvettes, 14 corvettes and sloops of the Blanche and Druid classes, 13 gunboats of the Lapwing type, 17 composite gunboats of a new type, and upwards of 100 fighting ships of old types. With such a navy, it is believed England is a match for the two greatest maritime powers in the world, next to herself; and we may well be proud of belonging to an empire which can put forth such tremendous resources for the maintenance of her supremacy on the sea, without imposing any strain upon her people, and without contemplating the concurrence of any great emergency to tax her strength.—English paper. The ocean-cruising turret frigate Monarch, Capt. J. Commerell, V.C., C. 8., which anchored at Spithead on March 27, on her return from her voyage with Mr Peabody's remains to Portland and Annapolis, United States, steamed into Portsmouth Harbor on March 29. 'i he vessel is once more alongside the dockyard at Portsmouth in her old berth, and numbers of visitors have been on board of her since her return from America. The officers are most enthusiastic in their expressions regarding the civilities offered to them by the United States officials of every denomination, and also by the civil communities at the places visited by them. The attention of the American naval authorities was especially directed to the arrangements for fighting the guns, more particularly the Cunningham shot lifts and which were fitted in the after turret just before the Monarch left England. It is a most remarkable circumstance that not one man deserted from the Monarch during her stay in the States, and considering the temptations which are invariably held out to British men-of-war's men to desert, this fact speaks well for the attachment which the men must feel | for their captain and officers, and also for the state of discipline on board the ship,