Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1556, 6 March 1874, Page 138

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PORT AHURIRI. ARRIVALS. MARCH. 4—Eangatira, s.s., 18a. tons, Hepburn, from Poverty Bay DEPARTURES. MABCH. 4—Opotiki, schooner, 33 tons, Harris, for Poverty Bay 4—Pretty Jane, s.s., 101 tons, Palmer, for Poverty Bay and Auckland 4—Rangatira, s.s., 185 tons, Hepburn, for Wellington s—Crest of the Wave, schooner, 58 tons, Dick, for Havelock PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. In the Rangatira—Mr and Mrs Dalziell and child. Mr and Mrs Rathbone. Messrs Briggs, Douglas, Dunlop. Fuller, Harrison, Helyar. Hills. Hunter, M'Kenzie, Margoliouth, Nasmith, Parker, Wakehn. and Wilson OUTWARDS. In the Pretty Jane—Captain Petherbridge, Miss Shields, and T. Wells In the Rangatira—Mr and Miss Broadbent, Mr and Miss Brandon. Miss Hughes, Messrs F. S. Abbott, Carter (2), Johnson, Robertson, and 5 others EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Augusta, brigantine, from Auckland Bh-inche, schooner, from Wellington Dunediu, schooner, from Dtiuedin Forest Queen, ketch, from Mangatiti Invererne, ship, from London Lietitia, schooner, from Tairoa Murray, s.s., from Nelson via Port Underwood Pacific, schooner, from Auckland Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland St. Fillans, ship, from London—to sail January 20 Taranaki, s.s., from Wellington—about Bth instant VESSELS IN HARBOR. Bella, s.s., from Arapawanui Clematis, ketch, from Auckland Fairy, s.s., from Wairoa Helen, brigantine, from Newcastle Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Queen of the North, barque, from London Swordfish, brigantine, from Hobart Town Shepherdess, schooner, from Wellington Three Brothers, ketch, from Moeangiangi Una, s.s., from Mohaka Hero, schooner (laid up) Greenwich, cutter PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mnrray, s.s., for Poverty Bay, Tauranga, and Auckland, to-day Fairy, s.s., for Wairoa, to-night Clematis, ketch, for Waugapoa, to-morrow Shepherdess, schooner, for Wellington, tomorrow Queen of the North, barque, for London, early in March The s.s. Rangatira, Capt. F. Hepburn, arrived from Poverty Bay early on Wednesday morning, and steamed for Wellington at •1 p.m. same day with 37 bales wool and 15 passengers. The s.s. Mnrray is expected to arrive from Nelson and Port Underwood to-day, and will steam for Poverty Bay, Tauranga ) and Auckland, shortly after arrival. The A.S.P. Co's s.s. Pretty Jane, for Poverty Bay and Auckland, took her departure at 3.30 p.m. The late cutter Flora Macdonald. •—A vessel, supposed to be the Flora Macdonald was seen to capsize and sink while attempting to cross the Manukau bar during the gale of the 2nd ultimo. Discoveries of portions of this vessel on the coast near Manukau, have placed the fact of her identity beyond a doubt. She was bound for Onehunga to Raglan, with a cargo valued at £6OO. Besides the master and a crew of two. she had on board five passengers. All hands were lost, and the melancholy tidings cast a gloom over the little town of Raglan The Cross correspondent gives the following list, of the passengers :—" Josenh Graham, of the Royal Hotel, Ragian, who had visited Auckland for the purpose of placing his children at school. He was an old resident at Raglan, an effectionate husband and a goo' father ; he leaves a wife and three children to deplore their loss. Piakou, a half-caste, not married, was brother-in-law to Mr H. H. Brabant, R.M., of Opotiki, and was returning from that plac? to his friends at KaglanMr W. Robertson was a new arrival from Scotland, who had come out to joiu his uncle, the owner of a large estate at Waitetuna> near Raglan. Timothy Golvan, a boy 12 years old, was the son of Mr Golvan, blacksmith, of Raglan, returning home from school—a steady youth, and very promising. Mary Philips, a half-caste child, daughter of Mr Philips, Mata. returning home from a ■visit to some friends in Auckland. Captain Kenny was a native of Scotland, but had passed the early part of his life in America. He was a careful seaman, and well acquainted with the West Coast of New Zealand, where he had been trading for the last five or six years. A few years ago he married Miss Martha Allen, daughter of Mr John Allen, cattle-dealer, of Kaglan, who by this catastrophe is left a widow with two children (twins)." Commenting on the Wreck, the Southern Cross says :—The little vessel, after leaving Manukau Harbor, had been met by the approaching storm which had been coming up the coast, while fair weather was witnessed in the Manukau. After getting into the gale, and finding herself unfit to cope with it—probably suffering from some injury which destroyed her steering powers—the vessel driven by adverse winds, attempted to re-enter the Manukau. But she arrived at a time when the bar was unfit to cross, as the signals at the Head clearly showed. There was the iaging wind behind and the dangerous bar before, with an unmanageable vessel between. To face the wind was impossible, to ride out the storm equally so, and to attempt the bar in the condition it then showed was almost certain death. The hopedfor chance of safety which evidently induced the master of the vessel to try to cross the bar was doomed never to be realized ; a vast wave was seen to strike her and overwhelm her at once By some of these curious accidents—trifling delays—those little things which so often alter the complexion of men's lives, and yet are so small as to create wonder to the individual why such" great

events from little causes spring,"—some sixteen or eighteen additional persons anxious to get to Kaglan by the Flpra Macdonald were prevented from getting on board, some by their being only about an hour too late in reaching Onehunga. Had these been passen--1 gers, instead of lamenting the loss of nine lives, nearly thirty persons would have met their death, most of them newly arrived immigrants but a few days in the colony. The disaster, sad though it be, has been less than it might have, and would have been, had the intending passengers been able to get on board the vessel prior to her sailing.