Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1530, 2 December 1873, Page 35

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRI. AEEIV A L S. NOVEMBKR. >, .>.->:'■ 28—Opotiki, schooner, from Poverty Bay 28—Clematis, ketch, from the coast 29—Fairy, s.s., from Wairoa and Waihua 30—Atalanta, schooner, from. Mercury Bay DECEMBER, I—Rangatira, s.s., from "Wellington I—Clematis, ketch, from Te Apiti and Waimarama I—Hovding, ship, from Christiania DEPARTURES. NOVEMBER. 28—Fairy, s.s., for Wairoa 28—Clematis, ketch, for the coast 29—Forest Queen, ketch, for Auckland 29—Luna, p.s,, for Poverty Bay and Tanranga DECEMBER. I—Eangatira, s.s., for Poverty Bay I—Columbia, schooner, for Aucklaud PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. In the Opotiki—Judge Eogan, and two or three others In the Fairy—Mrs and Miss- Gray and child, Mrs Atward, Messrs Cork, Irvine, Eolfe, and several others In the Rangatira—Hon. H. R. and Mrs Russell, Mr Guy and family (4), Captain and Mrs Walmsley, Messrs Axup, Collie, Dinwiddic, Holmes, Lyon, M'Ncill, Moloney, and Tuxford In the Hovding—2So Norwegian immigrants OUTWARDS. In the Fairy—Mr Irvine and another In the Luna—The Hon. the Defence Minister, Col. and Mrs St. John, Mr and Mrs Locke, Messrs Kinross, Swanbrooke, and several others In the Rangatira—Mrs M'Kawl, Messrs East, Chatfield, Howe, Lyon, M'Sweeney, and another EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Bella, steam launch, from Auckland Lsetitia, schooner, from Mercury Bay Luna, p.s., from the North Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Mercury, cutter, from Mercury Bay Queen Bee, ship, from London via Wellington Queen of the North, ship, from London Eangatira, s.s., from Poverty Bay Saucy Lass, schooner, from Mercury Bay Start, cutter, from Auckland Sunbeam, schooner, from Auckland via the coast Wave Queen, ship, from London via Wellington <; VESSELS IN HARBOR. Atalanta, schooner, from Mercury Bay Bencleuch, schooner, from Duncdin Clematis, ketch, from the coast Excelsior, ship, from Wellington Fairy, s.s., from Wairoa and Waihua Hovding, ship, from Christiania Jessie, schooner, from Oamaru Opotiki, schooner, from Poverty Bay Rachel Cohen, brigantine, from Newcastle Three Brothers, ketch (lightering) Una, s.s. (lightering) Hero, schooner (laid up) Greenwich, cutter

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Jessie, schooner, for Wellington, to-day Bencleuch, schooner, for Wellington, to-day Opotiki, schooner, for Poverty Bay, this evening Atalanta, schooner, for Auckland, tomorrow Eangatira, s.s., for Wellington, to-morrow Clematis, ketch, for the coast, early Excelsior, ship, for London, early The schooner Opotiki, Capt. W. Harris, arrived in port on Friday morning, from Poverty Bay. She leaves again for the same port this evening. The s.s. Fairy, Captain J. Campbell, arrived from Wairoa and Waihua on Saturday night. Throughout yesterday she was engaged in landing the passengers and luggage from the immigrant ship Hovding. The schooner Atalanta, Captain G, W. Conway, arrived in port at 4 p.m. on Sunday. She left Mercury Bay on Thursday night with strong westerly winds to the East Cape, which she rounded the next afternoon ; from thence till her arrival in port as above, light winds from the same quarter. The Atalanta brings 25,000 feet sawn timber. The ketch Clematis, from Te Apiti and Waimarama, brings 160 bales wool. The s.s. Rangatira, Capt. Chas. Lloyd, arrived from Wellington early yesterday morning, and steamed for Poverty Bay at 4 p.m. The Norwegian ship Hovding, Capt Nordbye, 110 days from Christiania, arrived in the roadstead at 10 a.m. yesterday. She brings 280 Scandinavian immigrants. She had a moderately fine passage; between Tasmania and New Zealand experienced calms. There were six births and eleven deaths on the passage. The sohooner Columbia, Captain R. M'Leod, took her departure for Auckland yesterday afternoon, in ballast. A Strange Story.—Writing from on board the yacht Violet, Mr. J. R. Kirby says: «-.'• I left Lowestoft in my yacht early one morning, and about 9 a.m. we were running before a pleasant N.E. breeze and moderate sea abreast of Aldborough. The crew had ijust finished the morning toilet of our little craft, and I was lazily watching the movements of several craft in company, when, to : my utter astonishment, a large brigantine 3ust deliberately took a header and went dbwn there and then and (apparently) without rhyme or (reason. Could I believe my Was it (possible that on that blank iapace on the'Ocean,a. fine -ship was a few Imomerits bef we sailing -before the .pleasant •breeze ? But, happily, it was' not quite a tylank space. In place of the sunken ship, containing the.erew, _ ,}pi course there wai? nothing }

left for its to do but pick the poor fellows up, give them a good breakfast, and land them all at Harwich—no, not all—l retained a cat and a dog which had jumped into the boat at the critical moment as mementos of such a strange event. I learnt that ibe" vessel was the William, of Exeter, 200 tons, coal laden, from Shields, had sprung a leak, and, when the crew were exhausted with pumping. had gone down as I describe. Moral. —Is this a case for Mr Plimsoll 1 "