Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1433, 20 September 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRS, PHASES OE THE MOON. JL,ast Quarter 25th Sept., 0.5 X a.m. HIGH WATER SLACK. TO-MORROW. Morning, 9.55 ~. ..,. Evening, 10.25 ARRIVALS. SEPTEMBER. J9 —Dawn, cutter, from Poverty Bay and Mahia 20 —Efiie Meifcle, schooner, from Mercury Bay EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Celestia, barque, from Newcastle Esther, brigautine, from Wellington via the coast Oreti, schooner, from Dunedin Bangatira, s.s., from Wellington Saucy Lass, schooner, from Mercury Bay Star of the South, s.s„ from Auckland

VESSELS IN PORT. Ballarat, barque, from London Hovding, ship, from Christiania, Norway Columbia, schooner, from Auckland via Mercury Bay Erne Meikle, schooner, from Mercury Bay Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Greenwich, cutter

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Hovding, ship, for Callao, to-morrow Pawn, cutter> for Poverty Bay, on Mon-

day evening Columbia, schooner, for Mercury Bay to-morrow morning

The cutter Dawn, Capt. Bendall, left Poverty Bay on Wednesday morning, at 6 o'clock, and arrived at Mahia at 7 o'clock the same evening. Landed cargo, and left for Napier at 11 a.m. yesterday, arriving in Ahuriri roads at 8 o'clock last evening. Cargo: 40 pkgs, whalebone and 2 bales wool. One passenger. —It will be seen by advertisement that this line little vessel will receive cargo for Poverty Bay on Monday next, and leave the same evening, weather permitting, The Efiie Meikle —a smart-looking fore-and aft schooner, nearly new —aryived in port at noon to-day, from Mercury Bay, bringing 32,000 feet timber and 25,000 shingles, consigned to Mr. J. JjeQuesne. Capt. Hooper reports having left Mercury Bay at midnight on Saturday, and had light variable winds to the East Cape, which was rounded at midnight on Wednesday. From thence, had a light northerly wind to Gable End foreland; and strong from the same quarter to Portland Island, where she lay becalmed for six hours. A light JJ.N.W. wind sprung up at 6 o'clock this morning, and carried her to port, where ghe arrived as above. The ship Hovding, Capt, Berg, is announced to sail for Callao to-morrow. All claims against this vessel must be rendered in duplicate to Messrs. Kinross and Co., by 10 a.m. to-morrow, otherwise they will not be recognised. We understand that the barque Celestia may be shortly expected to arrive here from Newcastle, N.S.W., with a cargo of coal for Mr Vautier.

The ss. Star of the South left Auck land for Napier at 5.3,0 last evening.

The schooner Columbia will sail for Mercury Bay to-morrow, in ballast. The s.s. Rangatira, hence at 1.15 p.m. yesterday, arrived at Wellington at LIS p.W. to-day, The brigantine Amherst left Newcastle for the Bluff on the 27th ult.

The Melbourne Argus, of the 14th August, has the following:—The iron clipper brig Centaur, with a full cargo of wheat and oats, has arrived from the New Zealand port of Timaru, after a foul weather passage-r-ras tempestuons as it as been tedious. She left for Melbourne on June 26, and shortly after putting to sea, heavy gales from the southward and westward, attended with a high sea and fierce squalls, were enconntered, with but very few intervals of moderate weather, until July 16, and two following days, when the gales increased at times to almost hurricane force, with frightful squalls of wind, rain, and bail. There was a tremendous cross sea on, in which the brig labored heavily, and shipped great bodies of water, and on more than *>ne occasion she had to be hove-to under a gigge-reefed maiutonsail, During this

heavy weather several stanohiOns and a considerable portion of the bulwarks and poop netting were washed away, and several sails were split. Daring the remainder of the passage the weather was nearly as boisterous, and the brig had scarcely 24 hours' fine weather since she left New Zealand. During the passage of the brig, a lad named Albert A. Cook, a native of Sydney, fell over board and was drowned. Cook, was aloft, assisting to reef the mainsail, when he fell over, and almost as soon as he came up to the surface, a life-buoy was thrown close to him, and a boat manned and lowered. The brig was almost immediately hove-t©, and Captain Hilton had every effort made to pick up the unfortunate lad, but after a fruitless search for about three quarters of an hour, the boat* returned to the brig, which put about, and sailed back over the same ground for an hour and a half. Nothing, however, was seen of Cook who was an excellent swimmer; but there was a very heavy sea on at the time. The occurrence took place on July 26, in latitude 38 degrees 20 minutes S., and longitude 149 degrees 43 miri E.