Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 38, 16 September 1867, Page 229

Shipping Intelligence.

P ORT OF NA PI ER. ■ ’ ' -- - "• ; ARRIVALS. SEPTEMBER. ©—Maid, cutter, bpntWsDgaveU 13— Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland- - M—Muriwai, schoner, from Turauga ' 16—Lord Ashley, lrom Taur&ngaA Auckland DEPARTURES. . • SEPTEMBER. 15—Lprd Ashley, ba, for Southern Porta VESSELS EXPECTED. - Annie, schooner, from Wairoa Bittern, cutter, from Auckland Dolphin, cutter, from Wairoa Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Bingdove, cutter, from Wangapoa ' Star of the South, 5.8., from Auckland St. Kilda, 8.5., from Wellington Success, schooner, from Auckland : PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mahia, outter, for Wairoa, early ■'' • Saucy - Lass, schooner, for Auckland to-morrow VESSELS IN HARBOR. Grayling, cutter, from Wairoa (rep&riug) Mahia, cutter, from Mangakuri Maid, cutter, from Wangawehi Muriwai, schooner, from Turanga - Saucy'Lass, schooner, from Auckland ENTERED INWARDS. SEPTEMBER. - - 9—Maid, cutter, 14 tons, Snipey, l from Wangawehi, with 200 bushels maize, Snipey. Passengeis ' —Mr smith, and twelve natives.—Watt Brothers, agents. 14— Saucy Lass, schooner, 38 tons, M'Kenzie, from Auckland via Mercury Bay, with 39,431 feet savra timber, 5 pkgs. window-sashes, 16 doors, 600 feet architraves, SOOfeet mouldings,4o,ooo shingles, J. Lequesne,—Master, agent.

Thu Loud Ashley.— The ss. Lord Ashley, Capt. ITorap, left Auckland wharf on Thursday, the lath, at 4-15 p.m., a strong wind blowing, with heavy squalls; ats*3o p.m., anchored inside the North Head. Left Auckland at 2 a.m. on Friday, with a strong breeze and heavy head sea. At 7 p.m. anchored off Tauranga, and left at 8-40 p.m. During the following day met with strong easterly winds, and arrived at Napier on Sunday, at 10 am she reports that the steamer Tauranga, which left -Auckland for Tauranga on Wednesday the Uth at noon, had not arrived at the latter port when she left. The Lord Ashley left for Southern Ports at 2'15 p.m. yesterday. The Mobiwai. —The schooner Muriwai, Captain Harris, arrived in the Iron Pot on Saturday last, at 6T5 p.m., from Turanga, but has not yet entered at the Customs.

The Saucy Lass.— The schooner Baucy Lass, Captain D. H. 11‘Kenzie, arrived in the lion Pot at 1-30 p.m. on Friday last. She left Aiir-i-innH i'he 31st ult., and arrived at Mercury Bay, on the 2nd instant. Left Mercury Bay at 8 p.m on the 6th, and arrived at the Bay of Plenty on the Bth. Having discharged some cargo she proceeded on her voyage, with light winds from the westward. Arrived off Tologa Bay on Monday last, and the wind changing, put in for shelter. Left on the 12th with moderate N.E. wdnds to Napier, where she arrived as above fche bangs a cargo of 26,000 ft. sawn timber, 40,000 shingles, 6 pkgs. window-sashes, and 400 ft. architraves. The Saucy Lass brings no later dates from Auckland. We hear that the Saucy Lass will sail again for Auckland on Tuesday next, 17th instant.

OrHKLLo.-The Sydney Morning -Herald, 14th August, says:—By the arrival of the , mail we are in possession of full particulars respect- ' a |^ and ?nment of the above-named) ship. , The Othello went ashore on Success Beef on 21st 1 May, while on-her passage from Manilla to < port. Captain Sullivan, her commander re- 1 mamed by her for three days endeavoring to get , her off, hut without success, when he left for ' Singapore,-where he arrived in safety with his crew. , i^t-Z. 68861 ® ul)S ®S u ®nt;ly got off the reef, and was up ba Nlue Zoe, and brought Into , Singapore. The following is a copy of the Court or inquiry held at Singapore:—“ We the under-signed,-have inquired into t he cause of the straudabandonment of the British barque Othello, or Sydney, official number 49,281, of 342 tons register, bound from Manilla to Sydney, Mr William Sullivan, master, holding no certificate of cornpeterny or service, and after a careful examination Y® That Othello left on the 30th of April, 1867. with a full cargo of hemp and sugar, bound to Sydney, N.S.W. That on the 21st of May, 1867, at about 12 30 p.m„ she struck on the Buccess Beef, to the N.W. or Great Natuna Islands, China Sea. That with reference to tne ship s position at noon on the day she struck the evidence is rather .contradictory, for had she been only » or 10 miles E.S.E. of Semione Island, as stated in the log hook, she would have been well clear of Success Beef; but in the chart of a small scale which the master said he navigated her by, it is probable that the reef may not have been marked m its exact position, and this may account for the master having misjudged his distance. We are of opinion that no blame attaches to Mr William Sullivan, master of the Othello, for stranding his vessel, and that he used every possible effort to get the vessel off the reef, hut consider that he was rather too much intimidated by the appearance of Malay prahus. From the evidence we find that the Othello was picked up on the 27th May, at 7 P.m., about 23 miles to the north-east of Success Beer, by Mr Von Bergen, master of the British barque Zoe, part of whose crew navigated her safely w t fT« saporoilarbor *— (Signed) H.Burn, Lieut. attendant and marine magistrate (signed) J. G. O’Connrix, K.N. master of the H.M.S. batehte.—Singapore, 24th June, 1867.” Hkbsoms Poisoned on Board the Ship AsBa “Sl«>k Monitor gives the following account of an attempt to poison a number of peraons oh board the ship Ascendant, which in oP rov ®d fatal:—We lay before our readers , oatim account, received from the then chief ' Officer of the ship Ascendant. He says that oh b unday, the 2sth of April; at 7.3° aan., the chief ?.“ c ‘; r of the British ship Amaranth, came on hoard un< linvited CaptainSaaby and himSrfJj? breakfaston board the Amaranth. Captain baaby refused the invitation; so both the mates leit the Ascendant in company and remained on ?,° Amaranth for breakfast and for tiffin. Mr hitrogg, chief officer of the Ascendant, says, ho intended to return on hoard his own ship at 5 p.m., their .usual dinner hour. But this was providentially prevented by a strong sea breeze springing up with an accompanying sea, and Mr Whitrogg was enabled to reach his ship at 6 p.m. On a booby; hatch in front of the cabin -door he found, the second officer (also an Englishman), purging and vomiting in a frightlnl manner. In the cabin he found the captain and his wife, and an agreed in telling him during the intervals of their torture that theu soup must have been poisoned. There was other viands for dinner, and also some light wine, but none of these except the soup had been tasted by the cook, who of all the persons poisoned exhibited the worst symptoihs. At 1 a.m. on Monday the captain died, but the other persons poisoned had natural force enough to resist its effects. The remains of captain Saaby were immediately taken to the British Consulate by his chief officer, and a post mortem examination was immediately held by Dr Cambell, who gave it as his opinion that the deceased met his death by a-vegetable poison. The flnding of the murderer is we are sorry to say, almost an impossibility. :A Lascar named Daut, who has since, deserted from the ship, had been seen moving suspiciously round the galley on the day of-this horrible catastrophe, and as no tidings of him have been heard we might be permitted to wonder for. what purpose so large a police force is maintained at Bangkok if not to apprehend all- persons accused of crime whether Siamese,, Malays, Chinamen or Europeans. The following Is a list dr persons on board the ship Ascendaut—Capt. Lodovic Saaby, died; Mrs Saaby, W. Pierce, second officer, Capt. Shields, passenger,' ~ Chinese carpenter,- Chinese cock, recovered.