Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1362, 29 June 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Aburiri. HIGH WATER SLACK. TO-MORROW. Morning, 2.10 ... Evening, 2,35 MONDAY. Morning, 3.0 .., Evening, 3.25 ARRIVALS. JUNE. J28 —Mary Ann Hudson, ketob, from Wairoa DEPARTURES. JUNE. £9 —Star of the South, for the Thames and Auckland 29—Esther, brigantine, for Wellington schooner, for Wairoa PASSENGER LIST. QUTWAEDS. In the Hero—Mrs Davis and child EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Amherst, brigantine, from Newcastle Columbia, schooner, from Lyttelton Coronilla, ship, from London via Auckland JiSetitia, schooner, from Auckland via Mercury Bay Hapier, s s., from Poverty Bay Jiangatira, s.s., from Auckland via Tauranga and Poverty Bay VESSELS IN PORT. Alice, schooner, from Dunedin Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Three Brothers, schooner (repairing) PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alice, for Porangahau, on Tuesday next Mary Ann Hudson, for Wairoa, early The; ketch Mary Ann Hudson, W. E. Baxter, left this port at midnight on the Jlth inst,, and arrived at Wairoa at 10 a.m. on the J2th. Discharged and took in cargo, and was ready for sea on the 14th, but, owing to heavy southerly wind and sea, was unable to leave until the 26th. Had southerly weather, and arrived here last night. Cargo; 2 bales wool, 21 sheepskins, 1 ox-hide, % tons potatoes, and 4 empty jars. The s.s. Star of the South, Captain i Holmes, steamed hence for the Thames ! and Auckland at 11.30 a.m. to-day, with 56 head of cattle and 340 sheep. The brigantine Esther, for Wellington, and the schooner Hero, for Wairoa, both sailed hence this afternoon. The schooner Alice leaves for PorangaJiau on Tuesday next, having been chartered, we learn, by Messrs. Stuart & Co. There are few indeed of our readers, we may suppose, who 1 ave not either heard or read of the celebrated clipper ship Thermopylae and the unprecedentedly rapid passages made by that vessel. Some particulars regarding one of the fastest ghips that ever floated may not, therefore, be without interest:—>The Thermopylae (we quote from the Sydney Morning Herald J was built at the well-known establishment of Walter Hood and Co., especially for the China trade, and her performances have been something extraordinary, The first round voyage has never been surpassed for speed. She made the passage from London to Melbourne in 59 days; after discharging cargo and taking in ballast, she sailed for Newcastle, and, with strong N.E. winds, worked her passage to the latter port in 6 days. From thence she made the passage to Shanghai in 28 days, and made the run home with a cargo, of teas in 88 days. The Thermopylae has made her four outward trips to Melbourne in 59, §,9, 60, and 64 days from pilot to pilot. In tracing through her logs it appears that her greatest speed when off the wind has been seventeen knots, and on a bowline (as passing through the trades) fourteen knots, She is a composite ship, with teak pi an king, has very fine ends a beautifully rounded side, the curve being preserved throughout. Her admirable'proportions enable the carrying of immense spars, and the builders have not been niggardly in this particular, for ber masts and yards are more t'ian Kary. Yet still she sails with only 500 tons ballast, and will cmy v r 1,000 ~ tons coal. Capt. ICimbail,' her present commander, took charge of this vessel on . her being launched, and has bad 1 the satisfaction off carrying off the palm \a the |>een contests that existed a few years ago in the trade between China and England, The sew York Herald says that the Recent gales have caused a number of UiWl *BQ«IWU afeng the aad

much suffering has been experienced by seamen. A case in point is furnished by the sad catastrophe which befel the schooner Harry Conrad. The sufferings of her shipwrecked crew are harrowing in the extreme, and had it not been for the humane and manly action of Captain G, M. Walker, commander of the steamship Albemarle, of the old Djminion line, they must have been lost. The Albemarle left Norfolk on Monday evening at 4 p.m. Four hours later it commenced to blow a gale from the N.W., and continued in violence until the following evening. About 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Captain Walker, when off Cape May, sighted a three-masted schooner sunk. The captain at once ran down towards the schooner, and to his surprise, found a small boat made fast to one of the masts, containing six men and one woman, all of whom were stark and stiff, while the little boat was constantly shipping water and tossing about at the mercy of the waves. The occupants of the boat were rapidly sinking into a state of unconsciousness, and it was evident that, if not already gone to their last home, their hours were numbered. It was perceived that every person in the boat had a coating of ice on over half a foot thick, and benumbed and frost-bitten, they were for a time deaf to all interrogatories, At length Captain Walker came up quite close to the sunken schoouer, and with stentorian voice, hailed them to cut adrift. As if roused from deep slumber, a simultaneous elf >tt was made to obey the kind command. But their powers were gone, and in the effort to relieve themselves, they fell back in the boat in a senseless condition. One man, however, roused to a last desperate attempt, seized an axe with his frostbitten hands, aad by one vigorous stroke, cut the rope that had so long enchained them to death. Thus freed, the little boat, with its perishing oecupauts, dropped alongside the Albemarle, and were taken throu 40 the port ou the lee side. They presented a helpless ami forlorn spectacle, and it was thought thttt very few of them would survive the terrible ordeal through which they had passed. Bat the usual remedies were quickly applied, and with the great and unremitting attention bestowed upon them by Captain Walker and the purser of the Albemarle, the poor patients gradually returned to consciousness,