Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 12, 25 March 1867, Page 69

Shipping Intelligence.

POR T: OF . NAP IE R. , . '’'''..'l . ",... rZSIXAT S 7~ '' :■! ••• MARCH. ; . :•• SI.H-fSnccess, tack) 22.—Esther, .brigantine, from Wellington • 22. —Saucy Lass, schooner from Auckland : u 23. —Ahuriri, s.s. from Wellingtoa ’ 24. —Montmorency, ship, from London ' " T DEPARTtTRES. ■ • . MARCH. '• 24.—Ahuriri, s.s., for Wellington 24. Beautiful Star,. s.s. for. Auckland 25. Tay, cutter, for Wairoa v. ; 25.'—Dolphin, cutter,-for Wairoa VESSELS 'IN HARBOR -.-_*;. (In the Roadstead.) \ Montmorency, ship, frpm .Londoa , (In the Iron Pot) - - Jason/brigantine, from Sydney Esther,-brigantine, from Wellington \,. Success, schooner,, (put back) Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland ' Maliia, cutter, from Waimarama Hero, ketch, from the Coast ENTERED INWARDS. MARCH.

> . 22-r-Ahuriri, s.s, 130.;tons, Flowerday, from "Wellington, wtlti 70 cases, 2 J-casks, F. Sutton ; 16 3-casks, 81 bags sugar, cases, Routledge and Co.2s.cases, John Stuart;: 3,hhds sheepwash to* lmceo, 5 drums tar, 1, cask-soda, 1 iron boiler, Richardson; 21 - sheep. Kinross and Co.; ' 1 case -drapery,. Miss- Maguire; 3.-casks white lead, 20 drums linseed oil, 5 drums boiled oil, 11. Williams; 4 trunks boots, I ease drapery, Newton, Irvine, & , ; Co. ; 3 trunks boots, Icask ginger, Neal & Close; lease jujubes.lciise confectionery, Sutton, ,1 bale - paper,' 2 half chests tea, Kinross and Co.; .1 parcel, ;. Bank of New. Zealand; 2 parcels,'D.-SFLean; 10 tons.flour, 3 sacks, .33 bags, seed,, Kinross and Co,; ' 4'cases drugs, Cowing; 2 cases,.! parcel, I bale . '.leather, Reardon; ! case. S. Winsor; I case, Miss .. Hunro; 2 buggies, .Peters;! package hops,: Neal ‘andClose; I box, Greenfield; .3 packages.tea, 3 A WaSkS 4 bundles raisihs. 2 bags biscuits, Routledge and, Co.; ■I, bag, salt, - and Co.; 2 sacks seed, I cask plants, lOlihds Stuart; 4 nhds,order; luggage, Parker; I case, Manoy; 2 boxes, Killigrew.- - I’assengers—Mr.. & Mrs.. Peters, and “ "2 children, Mrs. Bennet. Mrs. Lord, Mre. Adamson an* child, Mr. & Mrs. Witherow; Mr. Harding and ,- l , Miss- Harding, Mrs: Ty lee,-Messrs. Hewitt, Wil- ■ . liains, Morehouse, Martelli, Craymer, Gordon, 'Guthrie, Withers. —Kinross & Co., agent. , 24.—Montmorency, ship, • 6CB tons, M'Kenzie, from London., Passengers—Saloon,: Miss H. H. Herbert, Miss . J. Ogilvic, Miss R. Starkey, .Miss Cleary. .;'Second Cabin: Mr. & -Mrs;- Orr and ’fa- . ; mily t .Mtes,Spears. Steerage: 49 single.women, 22 - “single men, 63 children, 7 infants, aud 13S adults," being in all equal to 169£ statute adults:—Stuart and Co., agents.. -, . CLEARED OUTWARDS. ’ MARCH. .0 - Mohaka, with halftoa-flour, 5-blids, 3r cases,. 2 cwt. sugar, 4 cases preserves, order; 5 bags grass seed.-Carroll; - 3000 feet sawn timber, M’Namee; I dray, Black. Passenger—Mr. Norcross.—G.E. G. • Richardson, agent. ' " "' 2l.—Beautiful -Star, s.s., 125 tons, Morwick, for Bay of lslarids. with 982 sheep, Kinross and Co.— Kinross and Co., agents.

ARRIVAL OF THE MONTMORENCY. This splendid- ship left the East India Docks; at 12.30 p.m., on the 7th Deer., for Gravesend, at which place she lay for two days. Brought up at the Nore on the 9th, blowing a gale, from the W.S.W. On the 11th proeeed to sea under charge of pilot, with fresh breezes from N.W. to N. ( which increased to a gale ou the 12th and continued to the 14th. On the 18th, at 1.30 p.m., the pilot leftjthe ship off Plymouth, had then moderate breezes with fine weather generally. Caught the N.E. trades on the 4th January', in lat. 21 °N. long. 22 *42 min. W. -iCrossed..the Equator at 2.30 a.m., on the 17th January. Got iuto the S.E. .trades, in-lat.il 935 long. 28 *ls min. W. Passed the meridian of the Capa of Good Hope on the 19th Feb. Experienced very fresh to-strong

breezes from tbence to Tasmania, from N.W. to 8. On the 6th March, in lat. 45 * 6 min S. long, flggosa min.. E_.at- daylight—saw 17-icebergs, of •various sizes, some very large, off the coast of Tasmania. On the 7th, saw three very large icebergs, making in all 20: , From the meridian of the Cape till rounding Tasmania, the time occupied was. only 25 days. As,4 p.m. on the 16th sighted Cape Farewell,-New Zealand, at which the passengers seemed very happy. In Cook’s Strata, on Sunday, at one p.m., wind veered from . W. to 8.E., £ud increased *to a furious - gale,- with ■ - terrific squalls, the* gale continuing without intermission, from the eleventh to the tweaty-flrst, when it fell light, and _yfjpd continued from S.E. to S. Entered Cook’s Straits on the sixteenth, and remained there for six days. From Cook's Straits ,tp Hawke’s Bay. had light winds'and moderate weather. The passage, from pilot to pilot, occupied 98 days. ,The Montmorency dropped anchor at about 3.45- p.uu-yesterday. On arriving on hoard we were forcibly struck with the rerrmrirnbifl claanliuess prevailing’ throughout: this ' 1 vessel, reflecting the greatest credit on the Capi r tqin,iSjirgqon, and other officers iq.;,charge, .Her passage out has been, speaking generally, a very line one throughout from her -leavfng Gravesend to/her arrival in: Cook’s- Straits. . There, sho ex-: perlehced some very‘rough‘weather," it blowing a heavy gale accompanied,by .terrific squalls. She has likewise been comparatively free from sickr 7 ness'—t-yvo only of her passengers -in .illhealth while the deaths have been hut four these being allinfants .-ahd entirely from a deficiency of maternal nourishment. , There. has ;>dsQ been-one birth, so that she -arrives but three * short of her original number. . .. The Montmorency, for her age and' tonnage, has

carried more passengers than any other vessel from Great Britain to this colony.. ..JOn the whole the cleanliness and comfort of the vessel, and the 1 healthy state of the passengers, after tho ..long I vbyage of.ef!o4: days,,Bpeakß stronger than we : can do for the care bestowed on the passengers by ‘■-those in .of them. , We heartily welcome -' the hew’comers to the land of their adoption and a prosperous career-is before them. Esther.— The brigantine Esther, Captain Camp,bell, JeftjlVeUiagton: on the. I4th ( instant, iwith ife6ng head winds.!‘At noon on the, Isth .had <'-atrong : southerly gales:- 'Hove to under the Bar lance; beefed mainsail; iand.su continued for forty,,eight .hours., Friday, -the 22nd. bore , up for ’ * Baocv Lass.—The .brigantine Saucy Lass, Cap- : with- ; .a/southerlyi tho following day at Mercury Bay, where she took id 15,000 feet timber,, and 50,000, shingles. „ Sailed , for. Napier on 'tlie i mgHbhf andipassbd the East Cape on the night of Saturday, with a strong S.Wi wind. On Sunday, 17th, encountered a heavy southerly gale, and had to putr into Open Bay. Left oh strpng soptherly ,winds, -beat up to W aipari Bay, and came to anchor along with the Cutter-Agues, - Sailed .again -on and hairmOdOrate weatller with a head ‘wind all', the passed Portland Island on Friday, at 11 jun.fknd arrived-in, a to the Iron Pot ' l' I j

„ So ccess.— The. Success, schooner, Captaln Frost, left Napier on'the 16th' inst.' On the 16th a set in-with heavy ,squalls, which :incrbased till 8 p:m.; when it -spit the jib. Oh the morning of the 17th it split the forbskil arid tilew it h way-; ' The -vessel; had . then, ’to bear up under bare poles,'as •the gale was increasing arid she was on hrir beam ends. -, At noon the! 3 weather mbderated slightiy, hut it continuing too heavy for her .to proceed, and showing ho farther signs of "change 1 , she piitback .onthe.lOth, and’arrived in port on-the 20th:

Stranding .of- the Beautiful Star.— ln attempting to leave the barbour on.the evening of Thursday, the 21st, an-accident occurred, the particulars of which have heen.kindlv fnrn’ished'tb us by Captain- Cellein.' The. vessel w;is being taken out -bf the harbour =at high'water! agaiiiat the tide. The precaution had been taken to get new; warps; whieh'were Used ’for the' first time. on this.occasion. ,As the- steamer’ was, being swung round the point, the'two men holding the 'spring of one of the warps let go; and' the 'whole strain came; upon a part of the, other warp; which altriough new, parted.' It Is usual, in such a case 1 , to run the vessel ahead- and anchor; 'but in this Instance it was prevented by the schooder Success: lying in the -middle of the stream. An an,chor was let go,hut [she dragged it and fifty frithoms chain, swung end on to. the .tide, arid took the ground:' SThe anchors and chains of the brigantine Jason were engaged, and put down on Gough-Island; as weir as wiirps on the Western Spit. On the morning of Saturday; ; at 1 high tide, an attempt was made to get her off, and she was moved about twerity feet: Another Attempt was made at high tide on the'same evening; - which was completply successful, and she proceeded on her voyage to Auckland.

, Missing Vessels. —Fears are entertained regarding the safety of the new schooner Mariner, .from A uckland with-a cargo of timber; and' the Taraipine, ketch; from Wairoa to Poverty Bay, both considerably overdue.

Accident. —ln consequence of a strong gale blowing from N.W., during the greater part of yeste; day and last Dight, -it was thought unadvisahle for the Panama steamer to put to sea, oh her appointed-time—‘five o'clock yesterday afterf l -?i 0 ?il- and deprvtnro was therefore postponed till this morning. Between one and two o'clock yesterday, just as a heavy squall‘came’ bn. the RangitOto; which was then steaming out of bar-Dour,-ran foul of the Rakaia’s chain cable, and the cable being at the time-subject to a heavy stram.fiora the Rakaia, which felt the full fo ae or S( ?^ al1 ’ c . ould stand the shock, aud parted. The Rakaia .then drifted rapidly toward tbe south-east shore of the harbour, dragging with her a coal trig, to which slie was moored but another anchor being let go with commeudable promptitude, she was brought up when about half a milo from the scene of the accident.—lndependent.

The American ship City of Boston, arrived at Wellington from Cardiff, with 1,500 tons of coal for the Panama Company. She* entered the harbour ten the afternoon of the 2nd March, after a passage of four months.

The barque Dunelrn, from London, arrived at "Wellington on the 2nd March, after a passage of 104 days. She is consigned to Mr. Edward Pearce and brings a large general cargo.

The Government screw steamer St. Kilda-Cap-tain Fox, arrived in harbour at 2.30 p.m., on Saturday last from- a surveying expedition. The object contemplated was the survey of the mouth of the Waiauau River, about sixty miles to the northward of Lyttelton, with a view to its navigable qualities. Owing to the had weather which has lately prevailed on the coast, it. was deemed necessary to take shelter under the- Kaikoura peninsula, and the survey of that locality was also found to be impracticable from-the-same cause Captain'Fox, therefore, determined upon returning to port. The Marine Surveyor, Mr. Balfour and family, were passengers by the St. Kilda’ We may remark, en passant, that. Captain Fox reports his vessel to have acted well under her new rig; notwithstanding that he lelfthis port with her rigging in a very unfinished state; her sailiug qualities having been amazingly improved. Ho anticipates that a few days’ respite will enable him to place the St Kilda in such a position that she can encounter any sea on the coast.—Advertiser, March IS.

The Storm Bird. Captain Holmes, arrived in harbour at 4.15 p.m. on Friday, she left Hokitika ou the 11th instant, at-12 uoou, with tll't-y passengers, and arrived at Fox's at 7 p.m. the same day. hut had to lie off in consequence of the state of the weather; all the passengers were landed next morning, and she left at 10 a.m. for Nelson, arriving there ou the 13th, at 11 a.m.; left Nelson on the 14th; at 4 p.m., and arrived at Pictou at 4 a.in. on the 15t-h; left Picton at 10 a.m., and arrived here as above. Experienced fine weather until crossing the Straits, when she met with a strong N.W. breeze. Captain Holmes reports haviug spoken thebarque Catherine in the Straits, bound South with a cargo or cattle and sheep.— N.Z. Advertiser.

The Government steamer St. Kilda will leave for tbe Chatham Islands on or about Friday next. We understand that Captain Johnson, who goes in; command, intends to spend a fortnight or three weeks in making a running survey- of the coast. This will be a very useful work, as at present there is no chart whatever of that coast. The St. Kilda will also take provisions, &c„ for the use of the Hauhau prisoners on the island.—N Z Advertiser.

During the heavy gale which was blowing during Sunday and Monday last, the barque Indus, which put in here on Saturday last, diagged her anchor, and- drifted some distance down the harbour, in the direction of Kaiwarra, where she now lies, -the anchor having fortunately taken ground. The advantage of the harbour of Port Nicholson- is -that -although it may blow at times terrifically, yet there is never any sea on, so that tbe strain upon a ship’s cable is not so great as it would be with wind and sea.—lbid. The barque Joyce Phillips arrived at Lyttelton on the 11th instant, from London, with a large general cargo. THE PATENT SLIP DISPUTE. ' [Fropi the New Zealand Advertiser.] We perceive, that Mr. Kennard has been distributing the Blue Book contairig tbe correspondence relative to the above matter through other parts of the Colony. As a specimen of the opinion that is entertained elsewhere on this subject, we give the .following remarks which l appeared -ini' the Southern Cross of llthinsfc. .Making due allowancOifor the-feeling-which exists in Auckland towards this Province, there is much <in> these remarks'worth considering : !‘’iSome ;three years l ago - Mr. J. C. Firth, who happened to he in Tasmania at the time, contradicted a statement made in the Hobart Town newspapers, to the effect that one of the New Zealand provinces had repudiated its public engagements. • Reference -was made' by the author of the letter containing that, statement,to-the attitude assumed by Wellington in reference to the New . Zealand Company’s debt, ; and he ignorantly concluded that- therefore Wellington hail been guilty ctf • repudiation. It was a fortunate thing-for tbe whole.colony, thata New Zealand settler of influence, and 'possessed, of the necessary information, was on the spot to" set the Tasmanian public right, and through-them the capitalists of the world; because there is ho knowing to what extent'a i reokless <statement of-that' nature might have the effect, of impairing the public credit-of the-colony; But there is great danger now that-. Wellington herself will do' tbat very her oharacter, and bring down with her, the thing which, more- than Any other act; must lower other, provinces of the colony. We refer to the disputeteetween- the firm of Kennard Brothers, Great Gporge-street, Westminster; contractors for the erection of a patent slip at Evans’s Bay, and the; Superintendent and Exechtive of the Province of -Wellington.; .This- dispute- has now, assumed snob s'character as to make it a colonial question;; - Itiiauo longer a simple qiiestioh'-as ■‘to'.the extra [expense of altering the; foundations' to suit the‘site. -That matter might very safely be left to the parties directly ;interested’to J come * to-an equitable arrangement upon. ~ It Js this, teowr isOvebitrwhether thal’- Provihclah'-GbyertiAient' ’of j Wellington, finding that the Panama terminus

TU» •/ --’t f-u ” •*'* ) will be Sydney„and not PortrNkJbolson; be now permitted to tAke 1 advantage or a 'legdl. quibble; made mailable through fheii ? own neglect', toirepu-f diate the. contract- altogether* iafjtqrr forcing* the. cohtrtctors to provide And ship twosthirds 'pfihe material-within six.montMfrpih signing the’,contract; Under a*penaltjcof!£s,oofi—r bond for which was duly executed—'and*-als'() by .a thre&ti, on the Ist. of. August last, to seize, allrmaterla) on the ground, under the terms of the'contract, and-pre-ceed, to: erectf e>; sUp-at.the ’expense of Kennard Brbthera, unless they went pn with,the work, lb fact; lt‘comes-*to' ! this—whether the-Wellington Government be permitted,.tp, take) advantage of its own omission to cheat the.cpntractors. .This is a question, it will he seen at a,glance, whirfi at a-glance,-which affects the publici.credit of the because it ianot the. ast of an individual, hut of the Government of a province, and that province for the time being the seat of Government of the colony. ; • ; . 1 ; •., . , - We propose adverting to this subject with the view of bringing public opinion to bear upon toe Wellington Government. )In order to.do iso, however, it will'be necessary to give a history of the case.We have the entire correspondence before us. and from this, and other publications in the Wellington'newspapers, we are fortunately able to compile a narrative, - ■; ; ; ; j.

[Our contemporary here gives a history of the case from the beginning up to the publication of the pamphlet.] .

. Mr Kennard appears to have looked upon. t.hu as a simple piece of “ bounce,” for which the Superintendent of Wellington .and toe.gentlemen, who' compose his executive are somewhat proverbial. Accordingly he >wrote to- the Superintendent, inquiring whether the Government really contemplated repudiating the contract and adopting the. technical! defence which Mr Borlace, the Provincial Solicitor, said he would set up. The reply was an absurd rigmarole, evading the main question, hut leaving Mr Kennard to his legal remedy. ‘ Accordingly Mr Kennard went to Christchurch; and took counsel's opinion. The opinion was, that in law the Provincial Government might put in the defence stated, but the probability was, that toe judgea of the Supreme Court, exercising an equity jurisdiction would order the contract to he completed. Mr Kennard has not yet resorted to his legal remedy. He has printed the contract, specification, and correspondence, and sent it with a letter to ievery member of the Provincial Council. We cannot do better than conclude our article by publishing that letter, as it is of consequence to every contractor to know the state of the law. However, we sincerely hope that the Proviucial Council of Wellington will act on a different-principle from that pursued by the Government. They, may vindicate the character of their province!, and save the public.credit of the Colony. Looking at, tho contract as it stands, including the demand for £7,509 cash, and an extra guarantee* of £10,300 on account of the faulty foundation, we think the Wellington Province made an excellent, bargain, and for that reason, if. for no other ought to carry it out. Iu any event, we protest against the' public credit' of New 'Zealand being imperilled. by the dishonest quibbles of any pettyfoggiiig attorney who may chance to find himself elevated to a seat iu a Provincial or Colonial Executive..,

[The. letter which accompanied the pamphlet is here inserted.]