Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1540, 9 January 1874, Page 74

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHUEIRI. ARRIVALS. JANUAEY. 7—Rangatira, s.s., 185 tons, Lloyd, from Poverty Bay DEPARTURES. .TANUABY. s—LteHtia, schooner, 45 tons, Murray, for Auckland 6—Dunedin, schooner, C 6 tons, Stewart, for Havelock 7—Fairy, s.s., 33 tous, Campbell, for Wairoa 7—Rangatira, s.s., 185 tons, Lloyd, for Wellington 7—Start, cutter, 27 tons, Doughty, for Auckland PASSENGER LIST. INWAKDS. In the Rangatira—Mrs Douough, and child, Messrs College, Cooper, Helyar, Hague, Liuvvood, Mitchell, Rearden, and two boys OUTWARDS. In the Rangatira—Mrs Faulkner and family (4). Mrs Luff and family (3), Miss M'Lean, Miss Bonnefnnd, Messrs Alexander, Beda, Begg, Carter, Chapman, Elmes, Garni, Hill, Paleriot, Windsor, and Zclmar EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Atalauta, schooner, from Mercury Bay Columbia, schooner, from Mercury Bay Clematis,'ketch, from the coast Fairy, s.s., from Wairoa Forest Queen, ketch, from Wangapoa Governor Blackall, s.s., from Auckland Inverary, ship, from London Mercury, cutter, from Mercury Bay Queen of the North, ship, from Loudon Rangatira, s.s,, from Wellington Saucy Lass, schooner, from Mercury Bay VESSELS IN HARBOR. Bella, s.s., from Arapawanui Erne Meiklc. schooner, from Auckland Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Opotiki, schooner, from Poverty Bay Queen Bee, ship, from London via Wellington Success, schooner, from Auckland Three Brothers, ketch (lightering) Una, s,s. (lightering) Hero, schooner (laid up) Greenwich, cutter PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Opotiki, schooner, for Poverty Bay, this morning Success, schooner, for Auckland, this day Eilie Meikle, schooner, for Auckland, to-day Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, for Wairoa, to-night Rangatira, s.s., for Poverty Bay. on Monday next Queen Bee, ship, for Loudon, early . <g>~' . ■■ The s.s. Rangatira, Captain C. Lloyd, arrived from Poverty Bay on Weduesday morning, and steamed for Wellington at 6 p.m. same day. The schooner Dunedin sailed for Havelock, iu ballast, on Tuesday hist. The schooner Success will .•-ail for Auckland direct at nuuu to-day. Nelson Harbor Accommodation.— The Nelson Examiner, 22nd December,

writes: — ,; It's an ill wind that blows nobody good." It was a very "Hi wind" on Satur-

day, for a northerly gale blew so strongly into the bay that the first of the new Califor. nian mails could uot be despatched promptly to time ; a sea rolled in the outer harbor and over the lower parts of the Boulder Bank such as has not been seen for many years ; and the almost entire absence of accommodation, in. the harbor of Nelson was made most throughly manifest. It is true that the inner harbor was calm and quiet enough. The Tarauald, as if impatient to start, did a little iu the iidgetting line, as she swayed to and fro at the principal wharf. The Kennedy, lying inside, ready to start on a trip across the Straits, also felt the influence of the swell. The Murray helped to take up the harbour accommodation, and the Wallace, and one or two sailing vessels, found a quiet anchorage close under the bank. The safety of the harbor, when a vessel is once in it, was proved clearly enough. The whitecrested swell which broke upon the bank ypent its force there. A boat at its moorings was safe enough. The harbor without doubt, was perfectly safe ; but looking on the scene it was impossible to resist the conviction that a great deal has to be done, and has to be set about at once, before the citizens of Nelson can entertain the hope that the waters of their harbor will oversee " a navy " of merchant vessels in it. Wanted, a Pilot.—Auckland appears to neglect its harbors sadly. A week or two we had a growl from Gisbornc, and here is a complaint from Tauranga. " The Wellington Evening Post," says the Tauranga coiTCßpon-

clout of the New Zealand Herald, "lately made capital of the fact that the telegraphic agent of the Anglo-Australian Telegraph Company had omitted to mention the groundlug of H.M.S. Basilisk within Tauranga harbor. To this charge I have only to say, not being the telegraphic agent, that 1 withheld the infomation to you for two reasons; Ist because the grounding of a man-of-war always involves a court of inquiry ; and 2nd, because a report of her having grounded might injure the reputation of the harbor, one of the finest in the world. But the moral to be drawn is this, that if there had been a pilot stationed here such an accident could

not have happened, and that there has not been one is a crying shame and disgrace to t province. We require now a complete resurvey of the harbor, with the channels properly laid down and buoyed off, for, as can easily be understood, banks are constantly formiug and channels shifting, so much so as to render the continual presence of a marine surveyor absolutely necessary. The old beacons arc washed away, now sandspits have formed, and arc daily extending, so that an entirely new survey of the harbor has become imperative. The grounding of

the Basili;-'.'. as an accident, without serious for it took place upon a sandy teach, where she could not sustain injury, ■as indeed she, or any other vessel, might, do within Tauranga harbor. Nevertheless a pilot is required here, because vessels covered by iusurauce dare not enter the harbor without vitiating their policies. This ought to be one of the first considerations of the Superintendent and new member for the district,"

INLAND MAILS. Mails at the Chief Post Office Napier, as follows : -< For Clive, Havelock, Te Aute, Kaikora Waipawa, and Wuipukurau, at 7 a.m daily. For Karainu, at 7 a.m. on Tuesdays, Th urs days, and Saturdays. For Wallingford and Porangahau, at 7 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. For Maraekakaho, at 7 a.m. on Tuesday and Fridays. For Waiuui, Castle Point, and Wellington, at 7 a.m. on Mondays. For Pourerere, Kereru. Gwavas, Hampden, Patangata, and Ruataniwha, at 7 a.m, on Fridays.