Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 132, 4 September 1847, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS — COASTWISE. Sept. 1. H.M.S. Inflexible, from Wellington and Wanganui. Sept. 3. H.MS. Racehorse, from Bay of Islands. Sept. 3. Macquarie, barque, from Bay of Islands, in charge of an officer of H.M.S. Racehorse.

H.M.S. Racehorse, on her way into port picked up part of a boat, off the Hen and Chickens Islands in the frith, which has been identified as a fragment of Mr. Oakes boat, that left this place lately, with Mr. Scott and party for Kawau. It is to be hoped that the boat may have got adrift and been stove, and that Mr. Scott is sheltering in some of the creeks between this and Kawau.

The arrival of the Maid of the Mill, from the Bay of Islands, brought intelligence of the Steamer Juno, having put into that port, in consequence of a severe gale she encountered off the North Cape. We give extrac's from letters received in town, from Mr. Boyd, and Mr. Mead, the Chief Mate, which contain the fullest intelligence we have of the gale.

[Extract from Mr. Boyd's Letter.] " The gale commenced on Monday, and continued increasing until we reached the North Cape, when the sea was so tremendous, that to attempt contending with it, would have been madness; the wind veered from N. E. to N. W., and then S W., blowing a complete hurricane.—Milne, who has been 27 years at sea, never before witnessed such a storm, and Mead corroborates his remark. When I tell you that our ponderous Juno, when we tacked ship, the gale struck us on our broadside, and laid us on her beam ends, from 2 o'clock, until midnight, her rudder, being horizontal with the sea—-the gale taking us off to the Eastward ; we sent down our top-gallant yards, and struck our top gallant masts, which in some measure eased her, and in a lull we got her righted. We had both our jibs carried clean out of the bolt ropes.—We consumed about 60 tons of coals, and 100 tons of wood."

[Extract from Mr. Mead's Letter.] " We have just arrived at this place, after being out since Sunday, in a constant gale of wind, having expended nearly one-half our fuel, in striving to keep the Steamer from being blown off the coast altogether. Soon after getting out on Sunday, the wind increased to a gale, from the Northward and Eastward, and we were making fair way on our course, until Monday, the wind veered to the Northward and Westward, and blew during the nights of Monday and Tuesday with terrific violence; we run the Steamer in, with the intention of getting into the Bay of Islands, but the weather having set in very thick, our Master thought it imprudent to venture, and we hauled offshore, laying too under, very little canvass, and all steam. As for the Steamer, she has proved herself a first rate sea boat, she rode it out like a Juno ; as for myself, I have not experienced a gale equal to it these number of years, and our master says the same." By intelligence received by the Racehorse, she may he expected to have sailed ere this. We are sorry to have to communicate the dan gerous illness of Captain Milne, whom Mr. Boyd writes, he regrets to be obliged to leave, and is much afraid he will not recover.