Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 960, 7 March 1871, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. 176 deg. 55 min. 10 sec. E. Sunrise and Sunset To-morrow—Rise, 5.44; set, 6.16 Phase of the Moon—Last Quarter on the 14th March, at 9.49 a.m. Jligh Water Slack To-morrow,—Morning, 7.40 j Evening, 8 5 ARRIVALS. Nil. DEPARTURES. Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Lord Ashley, s.s., from Tauranga and Auckland Mary Ann, brigantine, from NewoasDle Meteor, schooner, from Auckland via the Coast Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland • Wild Wave, schooner, from Auckland VESSELS IN PORT. Excelsior, ketch, from Dutiedin Greenwich, cutter (lightering) Glimpse, keteh, from Wellington Hero, schooner, from Wairoa, Waikokopu, pnd Mahia Mahia, cutter (lightering) Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Napier, s.s., from Poverty Bay Santiago, barque, from Auckland Saucy Lass, schooner, from Lyttelton Three Brothers, schooner, from Tongoio Why Not, ketch PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Hero, schooner, for Wairoa, Waikokopu, and Mabia, early Santiago, barque, for London, on or about Thursday next The steamer Napier took out a cargo of wool to the barque Santiago this morning. We observe from our Wellington files that, unless a private oiler by previously accepted, the W.R. Co.'s s.s. Taraaaki will be sold by public auction at Wellington on the 18th of April next, after the sale of the steamers Wellington and Ahuriri.

The barque Anne Melhui9h, Captain Scott, from Newcastle, N.S.W., with a cargo of coal, arrived at Wellington on the 3rd March, after a protracted passage of 30 days, during eight of which she was in the neighborhood of Cook's Straits. From the report in the Evening Post we learn that she experienced E. and S.E. gales of wind throughout the passage—the barometer as low as 29.9, and for ten consecutive daya never above 29.40. The up passage was accomplished in nine days, the vessel being loaded and at sea the sixteenth day from Wellington. Captain Scott reports that during twenty years' sea-faring life lie never experienced such weather. The Anne Melhuish, in her passage from Newcastle to Wellington, he reckons traversed 2,300 miles pi" water.