Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 911, 7 January 1871, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. Latitude, 89 deg. 28 min. 44 sec. S. j longitude, 176 deg. 55 min. J.O sec. E. jSmirise and Sunset Tomorrow —Rise, 4.40; set, 7.20. Monday—Rise, 4.40; set, 7.20. Phase of the Moon—Last Quarter, on the 14th January, at 6.27 a.m. JJigh Water Slack To-morrow.—Morning, 8.12; Evening, 8.36. Monday—Morning, 10.0; Evening, 10.24. ARRIVALS. JANUARY. 6—Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa and Mohaka DEPARTURES. JANUAEY. 6—Colonist, schooner, for Tauranga EXPEOfED ARRIVALS. Keera, s.s., from Auckland Meteor, schooner, from Auckland via the "East Coast Ocean Wave, schooner, from Auckland via the coast Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington Taranaki, s.s., from Auckland Zingara, brig, from Dunedin and Wellington VESSELS IN POET. Asterope, ship, from London via Auckland Greenwich, cutter (lightering) Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Maggie, brig, from Newcastle Mahia, cutter (lightering) Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Napier, s.s., from Blackhead Three Brothers, schooner, from Moeangiangi Why Not, ketch (lightering) PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Napier, s.s., for Poverty and Tologa Bays, #ii« evening Three Brothers, schoorer, for Tongoio, tomorrow Rangatira, s.s., for Wellington, on or about Monday next Hero, schooner, for Wairoa, early Maggie, brig, for Newcastle, on Tuesday Asterope, ship, for London, on the 15th jnstant ENTERED INWARDS. JANUAEY. 6 —Napier, s.s., 41 tons, W. Bendall, from Blackhead, with 3 cases live pigs, Richardson ; 114 bales wool, Watt Brothers, (agents). 7 —Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, 14 tons, J. Sim, from Wairoa and Mohaki, with (from Wairoa) 6 empty Watt Bros.; (from Mohaka) 15 bales wool, Richardson ; 4 bales wool, Watt £|ros.; 30 bags wool, Routledge, iKennedy and Co.—Stuart & Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. JAKUAEY. Brothers, schooner, 23 tons, H. Boss, for Toogoio, with 1200 totara posts, prder.—Q-. E. U-. Richardspn, ageut. The ketch Mary Ann Hudson, Sim, master, from Wairoa and Mohaka, returned to port at 6 o'clock last evening. She left the forme* place on the 24th ult., and arrived at Mohaka the same day. Discharged and took in cargo, but could not get out of the river, owing to ptrong B.N.E. wind, until yesterday morning. Had light and variable wi.ds along the coast, and arrived here as above, Aioports the Mohaka as being very bad. The schooner Colonist took her departure for Tauranga last night, with a cargo of cattle and sheep. The schooner Three Brothers leaves for Tongoio to-morrow (weather permitting.) The Eangatira, from Wellington, had not arrived up to the time we went to pi*esa. The European Mail, November 4 says: The "Annual Wreck Register" which has made its appearance shows that 2,114 shipwrecks, with the lamentable loss of 933 human Jives, took place amidst the gales of last pn our coasts. Admiral James Thorne, the officer who escorted the first Napoleon to St. Helena, has recently died in Paris in his 78th year, Tho European Mail says:—The Prussian vessel Heinrich, of Holstein, put into Lowestoft Roaos for provisions on the 26th October, manned by a French pri?e crew. She had been captured in the Baltic on the 15th Oct. Being in neutral waters, the vessel is detained by the Custom House authorities. Jn the English navy there are now fortyeight ironclad ships, exclusive of the five in course of construction, via., the Devastation at Portsmouth, the G-latton a id Thunder at Chatham, the Thunderer at Pembx'oke, and the Triumph at Jarrow. All classes of ironclads, from the Warrior to the Monarch, are represented, the aggregate tonnage being 192,344. The cost of 33 of the largest was £8,176,479. The London Da'ly News, October 29, says ; —An alarming occurrence took place on board the Hercules, 14 guns, iron urmorplated, Captain Lord GHlford, in the steam basin at Portsmouth Dockyard, on Wednesday evening- Shortly after 6 o'clock, a party of men were lowering a cask containing Hay's patent anti fouling composition down the forebolu into the carpenter's store-room, when falling from the slings the cask burst, and its contents ran over the deck. Some men were pent into the store-room to clean the deck, and two lamps with hqles in the upper portion were being used, when, it is supposed, the which is used in the composition, coming in contact with,the lights, exploded, followed just afterwards by a second explosion, a sheet of flame ascending on each occasion ujp through the hatchway to the upper deck, The fire bell was rung, and the ship's pumps got into readiness On descending jnto the store room, the effluvium, being alfiWSt overpowering, it was discQve?sd. tfeftt BJX

men bad received injuries by burning, &c, and that 3 others were slightly injured. The six, who were afterwards removed to tlie Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, were the following:— Kichard Hatton, A. 8.; David Adams, ordinarv seaman ; E. Miller, ordinary seaman; Charles Oiray, ordinary seaman ; W. H. Peek, boy, first class:—M'Caffrey, private Eoyal Marines. A quantity of the liquid had also reached the " double bottom," under the store, each forming a separate compartment. It was decided to flood both, to prevent the possibi lity of a fire occurring. The men worked with a will, and the filling of the compartments was not completed until about midnight. Ou the first alarm being given, an engine and hose reel under the charge of the metropolitan police, were speedily brought to the spot, but were not required. On examination on Thursday it was found that little damage had been clone in either compartment, but a piece of mahogany which had been charred by fire was discovered in the double bottom. The men who were removed to Haslar Hospital are reported to be progressing favorably.