Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 839, 12 October 1870, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. 176 deg. 55 min. 10 sec. E. jßuprise and Sunset To-morrow—Else, 5.23; set, 610 Phase of the Moon—Last Quarter, on the 18th October, at 5.52 a.m. High Water Slack To-morrow,—Morning, I 10.40; Evening, 11.5 ARRIVALS. Nil. DEPASTURES. OCTOBER. |1 —Why Hot, ketch, for Wairoa PASSENGER LIST. OUTWARDS. In the Why Not—Mrs Anderson EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Asterope, ship, from London via Auckland £B4 days out) Challenger, ship, from London via Nelson (now at latter port) Comerang, p.s., from Auckland Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Keera, s.s., from Auckland Lord Ashley, s.s., from Tauranga and Auckland Maggie, brig, from Dunedin via Lyttelton IMary'Ann, brigantine, from Newcastle Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington, abput 19th October Three Brothers, schooner, from Wairoa Why Not, ketch, from Wairoa VESSELS IN PORT. Eagle, ketch, from Poverty Bay Esther, brigantine, from Wellington via the coast Greenwich, cutter (lightering) Mahia, cutter (repairing) Muriwai, schooner, from Poverty Bay Onehunga, schooner, from Auckland PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Poverty Bay —Muriwai, tonight; Eagle, to-morrow Fob Wellington via Blackhead—Esther, brigantine, early CLEARED OUTWARDS. OCTOBER. 11—Eagle, ketch, 46 tons, W. Harris, for poverty Bay, with 1 qrcask whiskey, 2 qrcasks rum, 1 crr-cask brandy, 6 hbds and 8 qrcasks Napier ale, 1 pkg tobacco, 3 bolts scrim, 4 tons flour, 7 tons potatoes, 1 cask pitch, 2 pkgs sundries, 2 kegs butter, G. E. Read. — Watt Brothers, agents. 11—Why Not, ketch, 55 tons, W. Baxter, for Wairoa, with 2 boats anchors, 1 package whaling spades, 2 casks lemonade, 1 bag corks, Watt Brothers; 2 cases sundries, 1 qr-ca*k, 2 kegs nails, 1 box and 2 kegs soap, 1 bundle sacks, 4 jars, 1 truss drapery, 1 truss chairs, 1 truss calico, 1 keg rum, Stuart and Co; 1 slop pail,,Boylan; 1 box oil, 2 cases drapery, 1 case soap, 1 box pipes, 1 bdl rope, 1 half chest tea, Neal and Close; 1 box, 1 case drapery, Newton, Irvine and Co.; 1 half-ton flour, Weber; 1,155 pieces timber, LeQuesne. — Routledge, Kennedy and Co., agents. 12—Muriwai, schooner, 23 tons, W. Jone?, for Poverty Bar, with 2£- tons flour, Watt Brothers ; 8 sacks oats, 2 portmanteaus, Routledge, Kennedy & Co.; 4 tons potatoes, 27 packages, Jones.—Master, agent.

The ketch Why Not took her departure for Wairoa last night. The 8.8. Eangatira may be expected to arrive here from Wellington this day week. The schooner Muriwai leaves for Poverty .Bay to-night, with cargo as per exoorts. The ketch Eagle will leave for Poverty Bay parly to-morrow morning. The ship Electra left London for Welling ton on the 16th July. A Sydney telegram of a late date says that the barque Fruiterer, from Newcastle to New Caledonia, struck on a reef off the coast, and has been completely wrecked; twenty four persons were drowned. We find the following in the Evening Post, of the sth inst.:—Captain Yule, of the Heversham, reports that on his last voyage to Newcastle in the Annie Melhuish, while he was about 240 miles from Newcastle, during a heavy thunderstorm, a ball of electric fluid exploded pn the quarter-deck, passed over the ship's side, partiy stripped off a sheet of copper, slightly splintering; the plank and scorciiing the bulwarks. The fire ball left a strong sulphureous smell behind it.