Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 915, 12 January 1871, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. latitude, 39 deg. 23 mpa. 44 sec. S.; longitude, 176 deg, 55 min. JO sec. E. and Sunsejt To-morrow —Rise, 4.44; pet, 7.16. Phase of the Moon—Last Quarter, on the 14th January, at 6.27 a.m. High Water Slack To-morrow,.—- Moaning, "" 12.12 j Evening, 12.33. ARRIVALS. Nil. DEPARTURES. Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Heera, s.s., from Auckland Lord Ashley, s.s., from Wellington and Ports Meteor, schooner, from Auckland via the East Coast Napier, s.s., from Poverty Bay Ocean Wave, schooner, from Auckland via £he coast Santiago, barque, from Auckland Taranaki, s.s.,'from Auckland VESSELS IN PORT. Asterope, ship, from London via Auckland Greenwich, cutter (lightering) Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Maggie, brig, from Newcastle Maina, cutter (lightering) Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington Star of the South, s.s. (repairing) Three Brothers, schooner, from Moeangiangi Why Not, ketch (lightering) Zingara, brig, from Dunedjn and Wellington PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Three Brothers, schooner, for Tongoio, tomorrow Lord Ashley, 5.3., for Tauranga and Auckland, on Monday next, 16th ins% Taranaki, s.s., for Wellington and Southern Ports, shortly after arrival Hero, schooner, for Wairoa, early Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, for Wairoa, early Asterope, ship, for London, to-morrow Zingara, brig, for London, early The brig Maggie, for- Newcastle, N.S.W., went outside this morning, and came to an anchor in the roadstead. She will probably Bail to-night. The Asterope is now a full ship, and leaves for London direct to-morrow. We wish her a safe and speedy passage. Her cargo consists entirely of wool, particulars of which (the vessel not having cleared yet) shall appear tomorrow. The s.s. Taranaki is now hourly expected to arrive from Auckland, and will steam southwards shortly after arrival. The §.s. Lord A3hley may be expocted tn arrive from Southern Ports on or about Monday next, I.6th inst., and will have quick despatch for Tauranga and Auckland. It is expected that the Star of the South'B engines will be fixed in about a week, and £hat the vessel will be ready for sea early next month. We learn from our Wellington files that the (General Goverment have appointed Captain Kennedy, of the 9.8. Airedale, coasting pilot fur the Cr.ilifornian steamers which under the new Contract will run down from Auckland to Port (Chalmers. The choice, we believe could not have fallen upon a fitter person, but as the Daiby Advertiser remarks, it "seems singular that this Colony should not only pay the contractors for doing the service, but also pay officers to do the contractors,,.work." The s.s. Waliabi left Wellington for Westport on the 4th inst. with a large shipment o( cattle and sheep—about 60 of the former and 200 of the latter. Intelligence has been received in Liverpool of the total loss, by foundering, of the United States steamer Galatea, Commander Goring, whilst on the passage from Port au-Prince to Boston. Mr James Watson, the chief officer of the steamer, who has arrived at New 3.Tork, States that the Galatea left Port-au-Prince on the 7th September, with a full cargo of logwood for Boston, and that the voyage was prosecute*! without any notable event occurring until tlje 13th of that month, when the steamer sprang a large leak, and, in spite of pyery eifort to keep the water down, the vessel rapidly filled. After twelve hours of incessant labour at the pumps, the steamer hav ing ten feet of water in the hpld, the captain, pincers, and crew determined to abandon the vessel. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th the first and second cutters were launched and a quantity of provisions placed in them, but there was no supply of water in consequence of the sea having got into the fresh water tanks. Perfect order was, however, observed in abandoning the ship, and auer the second cutter had shoved off with the second pffiqer, first assistant engineer, and fourteen seamen, Captain Gordon, with Mr Watson, jthe chief officer, the second assistant engineer, and eleven seamen, took to the first cutter. There was a heavy sea rolling atthe time, but yery Jittle wind, and at about ten minutes past five the steamer went down, stem foremost, and with all sail set. The two boats were jhen steered for Abaco, jn the Bahamas, but, jihe night being dark they became separated and nothing was seen of the second cutter's lights after midnight. At 9 o'clock on the night of the 11-th, the schooner Tampiuo appeared and picked up the captain's cutter, and landed the shipwrecked men at Key West. It was thought that the second boat would liaye made Abaco during the night of the 14th ? but, up to the latest despatches, nothing ijad boen, |iearf( pf it. pr the. remainder of

the crew. The Galatea was a screw steamer of 1200 tons, and was built for the United States Government in 1871, and saw a good deal of service during the blockade oa the southern ports.