Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1094, 14 August 1871, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. Latitude, 39 deg. 28 min. 44 sec. S.; longitude, 176 deg. 55 min. 10 sec. E. Phase of the Moon—New Moon on the 16th August, at 6.32 p.m. THE TIDES APPROXIMATE TIME OP HIGH WATER SLACK. To-morrow... Mopning, 6.40; Evening, 7. 5 IVednesday... Morning, 7.30 j Evening, 7.55 ARRIVALS. Nil. DEPARTURES. Nil. PROJECTED D EPAR HIRES. Hero, schooner, for Wairoa, early EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Aspasia, schooner, from Lyttelton Star of the South, s.s , from Auckland Mary Ann Hudson, "ketch, from. Wairpa Luna, p s., from Wellington VESSELS IN PORT. Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Three Brothers, schooner, from Arapawanui Greenwich, cutter (lightering) Mahia, cutter (lightering) Why Not, ketch, from Porangahau Una, steam launch The prize schooner Challenger (says the Newcastle Chronicle, July 18) arrived in port on Sunday morning in tow of the Paterson, which had picked her up, dismasted, some die tance to seaward. * The history of her capture is as follows: —The Challenger had been some time engaged in the Island trade, when her crew, falling out with the master, informed the British Consul that the vessel had been concerned in slaving. The Consul seized her at Ovaluau, and held possession until the arrival of H M.'s ship Blanche, when she was handed over, and a prize crew, consisting of Lieut. Maunsell, a navigating lieutenant, bix seamen, and a marine, were put on board with orders to take the Bchooner to Sydney for adjudication. She left on the 10th June, and on the 4:h July, when 250 miles to the eastward of Sydney, was dismasted ; in this condition Bhe was picked up and tow< d for several days by the schooner Prince of Wales, but on Saturday last, during a heavy northwesterly gale, the tow rope parted ; shortly afterwards, as we have previously stated, she was found by the Paterson and towed into this port, where she now lies wailing for orders. The Committee of Lloyd's have ported three vessels, perhaps three of the finest in the book, whoso disappearance in the waste of waters has been no little mystery to" owners and tinderwriters. They were the Madras, the Kenilworth Castle, and the Earl Russell. The Madras, the well-known splendid iron shin, built by Clover, and owned by Mr Clint, of Liverpool, left Calcutta on the 7lh September

lust for Liverpool, under (he command of Oapt. Fairlem, one of the first masters in the trade, but was nevtr heard of after. What has become of her no one knows. fche is "posted at Lloyd's.'?—The JXenilworth Castle was a Cljde-built iron ship, equally fine as the Madras, and was the property of Messrs. D. .purrfe and Co., "of Liverpool. She,"too, was from Calcutta, and was bound to London. Sue was spoken off the Cape de Verde by a barque arrived at .Rotterdam, and has not been heard of since. She was 1100 tons, and was built by Aitkcns, of Glasgow.—The Earl Russell, which was from Java for Rotterdam, was the property of Mr George Lidgett, of London.