Shipping Intelligence

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1359, 26 June 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence

Port Ahuriri. HIGH WATER SLACK. TO-MORROW. ' Morning, - ... Evening, 0.5 ARRIVALS. JUNE. 25—r Nevada, p.s., from Auckland DEPARTURES. JUNE. 25 —Nevada, p.s., for the South PASSENGER LIST. ,'" INWAEDS. In the Nevada —Archdeacon Williams and family, Messrs, Lascelles, Neal, Cunningham, Wall, and Sim OUTWARDS. In the Nevada —Mr Duncan and child, Messrs. Harker, Worgan, Coates, Hobbs, and Withers; EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Amherst, brigantine, from Newcastle Columbia, schooner, from Lyttelton Coronilla, ship, from London via Auckland Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland VESSELS IN PORT. Saucy Lass, schooner, from Mercury Bay Esther, brigantine, from Wellington Alice, schooner, from Dunedin Napier, s.s., from Poverty Bay Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Three Brothers, schooner (repairing) PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Napier, for Poverty Bay, this evening Esther, for Wellington, to-morrow Saucy Lass, for Auckland via the coast, to-morrow Hero, for Wairoa, when weather permits The U.S., N.Z., and A.R.M. steamship Nevada, Capt. Blethen, arrived in port at about 5.30 p.m. yesterday, with the mails from Europe, America, &c, via San Francisco. The Nevada left Honolulu at 5.30 p.m. on the 3rd June, and arrived at Auckland at 10.20 p.m. on the 21st, having encountered fearful weather on the passage across. She left Auckland again at 7 p.m. on the 23rd (Sunday), and arrived here as above, having experienced heavy head wind and sea, with thick weather, throughout the passage. She steamed for Wellington, &c, about 6.30 last evening. We are glad to learn from the agents of the brig Venus that that vessel has arrived home. The Venus left this port on the 9th January, with a cargo of wool, valued at £19,911, and arrived at London the 24th April, thus making the run home in the same number of days as the barque Ballarat, which vessel left here on the 24th January, and arrived home on the 9th May.

The s.s. Star -of the South left Auckland for Napier at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. The s.s. Napier, for Poverty Bay, will take her departure at 8 o'clock to-night, should the weather permit.

The San Francisco Chronicle, under the heading " Satan's Death Trap," speaks in the following plain style respecting the connecting boat on the TransPacific line, between Honolulu and San Francisco : —" By an especial dispensation of Divine Providence the crazy old Mohongo was again permitted yesterday to wallow into port. She came in at the rate of a knot an hour, and her yards and other spars creaked and groaned most dismally. About a dozen deluded but overjoyed passengers landed from her and wended their way gleefully to the hotels. Last night, if they had a particle of religious sentiment, an atom of gratitude in their souls, they sank on their knees, and fervently thanked God for having preserved their lives in the crazy old tub. By His grace alone were their lives preserved. The passage occupied nearly 13 days, and was a disagreeable and uncomfortable one. There is no room in the ship. She leaks badly, the pumps having to be kept in operation all the time to keep her free. She is slow, steers badly, and is in every way a miserable apology for a ship. Some of the passengers told a Chronicle reporter last night that nearly fifty passengers were left behind in Honolulu who positively refused to trust their lives in such a craft. They would come over with the fc first sailing vessel. The passengers say they had a most uncomfortable passage, and went to bed every night in fear and trembling lest the morrow should bring forth a storm in which the crazy old ship would go to pieces. The Mohongo, as every-

body knows, was formerly one of the Government double-enders. She was built in 1863, of green timber, constructed in four or five months, and of course superficially put together. The Government condemned her several years ago, and sold her for a mere nominal sum to certain parties in this city, who fixed her up for passengers and recently chartered her to the Australian line. For the honor of that company • we cheerfully say they do not own her. The officers and crew of the Mohongo are believed to be thoroughly efficient, and it is probably due to their efforts and the will of Providence that the miserable hulk has so long been kept afloat. The commanding officer is a man of great skill and judgment. His judgment we have particular respect for since he got sick in Honolulu just before the ship was to start, and in consequence did not come on this trip. One .thing is certain, that unless the Australian line put another ship on the route between here and Honolulu their business will suffer, if, indeed, other disasters do not befall them." The schooner Mata, from Rarotonga, arrived at Auckland on the 21st inst., with a full cargo of oranges, &c.