Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 262, 2 December 1848, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Arrivals. Nor. 27. Sisttrs, schooner, 130 tons, Clarke, master, from HobartTown, with sundries. Passengers— L cut -Colonel Hulme, Mrs. Hulme, Miss Hulrae, Master Hnlm#, 2 fenaale servants, Mrs. Clarke, Michael Tekin, Mm. Tekin and child, Mr. and S. Srouner, Mrs. Murphy and son, Mr Ivibblewaite, Garrctfc Veale, Mr. and Mrs. J. Rauoie, James Curson, 5 soldiers, and 4 police constables. D. Nathnn, agewt.

Thb Cornelia, having finished taking in her oil, will sail this afternoon for Wellington, where she will coinpletf her cargo, and proceed to England direct. "We regret ha\ ing to rfport the total loss of the threetrasted schooner Harriet Lmthart, F. Leaihart. mastpr, which left ManukßU for Wanuanui on the /<» October last, wi:h several missionary families and their poods. From what we can gather, the fo lowing appears to be n correct account :— This vessel, after re pelted gales of wind, arrived off Wanganui on the 17th u't., but it being low water, and the bur only earning six feet at that time of tide, she at-od off for the night. On the 18th, at 2p.m , it beiog near hi h water, the master fetched in for the harbour, but finding un unumally heavy sea upon the bar, and the wind coming rJ«hi out, he deemed it most prade»t again to 6 tand off shore. At 7. p. m., the whid chopped round, T)Ut it being low water, the vessel could not take the bB', and Ca-itnin Leithart was obliged ugaiu to st-ind off The gale, at this time, wa- increasing so much, that at 11. p.m., tbe vessel wore, endeavouring t» fetch the harbour. At 12, the canvass went. Foresail tan li-sail, and jib being gone, the mas'er cal'ed the 'passengers on deck, to prepare for »he woht, <.t 21 a m 19th.— A heavy sea struck the vessel and sUe touched ground ; the next sea sweeping the d«cks. At 3, a heavy sea laid her on the beach. AH hands then got below until day-light, when one of the missionary gentlemen went to n>wh and gave notice of the wreck. Prompt ais'utance was given by the townspeople and military, and everything whs got out of the vessel. The vessel filled the next tide and bilged. She af'erwaids went to pieces. Captain Leathart, who was the owner of the schooner, is we believe, the only loser by the wreck of the vessel. Captain Leathsrt, coming up the cast, saw the wreck of the schooner Maid of the Mill, driven on shore about twenty miles to the northward of Taranaki. All hands must have perished. Since learning the above, Mr. Stephen- Spencer has arrived in Town, bringing the melancholy intelligence of the total wreck of the Maid of the Mill, schooner, and of the loss of the lives of all on boird. She had left Kawbia nnd was bound for Port Nicholson, via Tariroaki, when she was unfortunately cau«ht in the late heavy gale, and wrecked off a place about twenty milrs South of the River Mokou, on the West Coast. The number of persons on boaid, and whose lo»swe sincerely I'eplore, •mounted, we uudrrdcrstand, to some seven or eiglu ; confcisting of— The master, Capt. llobevt C uonmins, (late of the schooner bally Ann) and a cruw of four or tive seamen, who-e names we have not been able to ascertain ; together with Mr. John Spt ncer, of Kawhia, —a gentleman well known aud highly esteemed <n this Colony, and brother of our informant, Mr. S. Speucer — aad Mr. Aubrey, passengers. A portion of tue ■* reck, has boen drifted on shore, but none ot the remains of the uufoitunate sufferers have, as yet, been found.