Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 816, 25 August 1870, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

POET OP AHURIRI. ARRIVALS. AUGUST. 22—Muriwai, schooner, 22 tons, Harris, from Poverty Bay DEPARTURES. [None since our last issue. | EXPECTED- ARRIVALS. Albion, ship, 56a tons, Krolm, from London via Nelson (now at latter port) Challenger, ship, 698 tons, from London via Nelson Comeraug, n.s., from Auckland Esther, brigantino, from Wellington via Castle Point and Blackhead Keera, s.s , from Auckland Lord Ashley, s.s., from Wellington and Southern Ports E,angatira, s.s., from Wellington VESSELS IN HARBOR. Greenwich, cutter, (lightering) Hero, schooner, from Wairoa and Mohaka Mania, cutter, (lightering) Muriwai, schooner, from Poverty Bay Three Brothers, schooner, from Wairoa Why Not, ketch, from Wairoa PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foe Auckland—Lord Ashley, s.s., on or about Saturday next, 27th inst. Poverty Bay—Muriwai, schooner, to-morrow Wairoa—Hero, schooner, this evening; Why Not, ketch, oarly The schooner Muriwai, Harris, master, from Poverty Day, arrived in port at noon on Monday last. She left Turanganui at 1 p.m. ou Saturday, and had strong N.W. wind to Portland Island; from thence, light variable winds till arrival here as above.—Tin Muriwai will leave for Poverty Bay to-morrow, with a general cargo. The schooner Hero, with a miscellaneous cargo for Wairoa, will probably sail to-night. The s.s. Keera, from Auckland, may be hourly expected to arrive here. The p.s. Comerang, from Auckland, may be looked for about Saturday. The ketch Why Not, we understand, is again on the berth for Wairoa.

The s.s. Lord Ashley, due here from the South on Saturday next, will steam for Auckland shortly after arrival, conveying the outward mails for Europe, America, &c, via San Francisco. The schooner Three Brothers—which vessel has been undergoing a thorough overhaul at this port for some time past—will, we believe, be ready for sea in about a week. The schooner Tawera was loading for Auckland at Poverty Bay on Saturday last. The s.s. Tararua left the Bluff for Melbourne at 4.15 p.m. on the 22nd inst. / ENGLISH AND EOUEIGN NOTES. We extract the following paragraphs from the European Mail, J uue 17 : The number of wrecks reported for the present year up to June 11 is 839. The tonnage loading on the berth at London for Australia and New Zealand amounted on June 10 to 57,291't0n5. The Firth of Clyde (a handsome iron vessel of 700 tons register) left Glasgow for Auckland on June 6. This vessel is on her first .voyage, having been launched on May 18 from the yards of Messrs M'Culloch, Patterson & Co., Port Glasgow. The Great Eastern steamship was off Penzance on June 5, having made the voyage from Aden to England in 54< steaming days. She proceeded, with the. sanction of the Admiralty, to her former moorings, off Sheerness "Dockyard.

On June 13 it was announced that the President of the United States had ordered the release of the Cuban privateer Hornet, that was seized last year at Wilmington. The owner gave bonds to the amount of 50,000 dollars that he would not sail against Spain. The United States House of Representatives has appropriated 100,000 dollars in aid of the Arctic expedition. 1 The Dacia, with a portion of the West India telegraph cable on board, was reported as wrecked, with the loss of all hands save three. The first telegram announcing the disaster came from New York; but a message was subsequently received from that city statins: that nothing was known there of the matter. The report ultimately turned out to be incorrect. The affair is being inquired into by the committee of Lloyd's, who, we are glad to say, are taking the most energetic measures to trace out the author of the report, and it is probable that a large reward will be offered by them for that object. At present we cannot discover the object of such a mischievous hoax, if such it is. If for stock-jobbing purposes in the Telegraph stock it utterly failed. There were soma speculative transactions at Lloyd's on June 9, to effect re-assurances on the ship, but these were of a most insignificant character, and less in the aggregate of "doubtful losses."

Mr Edmund Yates, writing in a recent issue of the Western Mail, says :—" It is understood that Mr Seely, the terror of the Admiralty, who has been singularly quiet this session, has been occupied in preparing a thunderbolt which he will shortly launch at the devoted head of the Eirst Lord. Of the nature of the charges to be brought against the department nothing specific is known, but the member for Lincoln is said to have prer pared his case with great care, and to be tolerably certain of proving it."