Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 289, 10 March 1849, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Arrival. March 6. Louisa, baique, 370 tons, Wycherly, master, from Sydney with horses and general cargo. Pjnn^ngpri — Ens'fjn John^tone, 58th Kegiment, Mt. McFarlane, Mi. Rdton, Mr. and Mrs, Ilendeisun, and child, Air. and Mis. Thoinm, and child, Mis. Clnndon, and !l in steeiagc, and one sergeant nnd 20 Hunk and File 58th Regiment. John Salmon & Co.. Agenti. Marc I) 7. John Wesley, l>rig, Ruck, master, from Wellington. Passenger — Rev. Walter Lnvrry.

Dni'AUTURLS. Match 6. Colonist, barque, 261 tons. Marshall, master, for Hobait Town, via flnkiantra, theie to load vnh timber. I'.meneers-— Mt b. Mai sliall and Miss Lee. R. A. FitzGer.ild, Agent. March 7. Franklin, American whaler, 391 tons, Cooper, master, for Whaling Ground*, with 2\ turn sperm oil and 38 tuns black oil. R. A. FilzUerald, Agent.

H. M. Ship Fly, 18 £u»s Commander Oliver, sailed on n ciuise for tlie Barner and the Bay of Islands on Thuisday forenoon The John Wesley has heen absent «omewhafc lcsi lhan sixteen days. She sailed on the 19th February, touched at Tarmaki, and arrived at Welling'on on Sunday the 25th. She sailed again on Wednesday the 28th and arrived in Auckland on Tuesday night, the 6th instant. She made both panagea North about.

We regret to have to rec ml ihr loss of the schooner Kate, ihe propeity of Mr. Salmon, of this port. The Ivate arrivrd at (he Cascades on the 18th Jur.UHry, and Ihe following night was taking in oil in Jackson's Bay. She shipped 18 lun«. The wind whs light, with a heavy pea, wnich \va* forging the schoouei iiushore, and in the attempt to claw off she unfortuua'ely misled stays. Thi- anchor was then let £», but she drove, took the ground, and b"Ht heavi.y, and before daybiet k went to pieces. One poor lellow met u watery giave, but ( aptain Bowdm and the remain' er of the crew lurkily escjped on the masts and other portion* of the wreck. Fortunately n vessel touched in the vicinity, and earned the suflfereis to Siewart's Isldiul, from whence they reached Olago, and ihence obtained a ptssage to Willmßlon. The Kale hei self was insured ; but indepoiulcinly of !»er destruction at such a season, Mr. Salmon has lost fifteen butts of oil, which were totally unimuied.

Tnrc schooner Sis'ers, on her ncent passage from Port Nicholson to Hobart Town, encountered u frightful gale, from which she narrowly escaped. The following details ure copied from the Hobait Town Guardian :— The wind had incremed so much, and the sea got so high, that the captain, who came on dock, took in every sail of the vessel except the fore-topsail, close reefei), and the fore-topmast staysail, under which we hote to, and the helm was I allied a Ice The gale increased as the mom ing advanced, and the sea rose veiy high, but the weather was beautifully clear ; Hie sun shone, and the schooner was bnug and stron§,«nd she breasted every succeeding mountain wave gallantly, and roi-e and rode over them almost without wetting her decks. The barometer was stationary at 29 5-10 inches ; the wind steady at W.S W. : and "the sohoontr heading S. on starboard tack. At 3 o'clock p.m. a sea * like a wall,' as the hands on deck called it, ' without a break in it,' came broadside on the ship, heeled her ovt r, and broke upon h<»r. With the exception of the second mate, one man and a boy, and the cook in his galley, all hands were fottunately below. The second mote took shelter in the companion, the boy under its lee, and the man under the lee of the round-houie. The fiist got severely bruised »nd crushed in the wreck of the coin panion, the second was ' heard no more,' the co k was bruised in the crash of his galley, and the man at the round-house alone escaped injury. A« soon as Ihe deluge of water m the cabin permitted, the op'ain and other hands went on deck. The vessel was lound to be on her beam ends, with every hatchway and skylight open, the water within r span of Ihe combings of the main hatch, and liable at every sutge to rush in ; ihe ballatt Wat shifted, and the vessel could but settle wore and more on her side at every sea. Captain Clarke was equal to the emergency— with a cheerful voice he encouraged, and with resolution and calmness he commanded. The laniards of the fore, mast shiouds were cut, the mast went overboard, an s the vessel righted so far as to leave her lee scupper, cut of the water, and lor the moment she wai saved Within an hour the wreck of the fore ma«t was cut away, and all hands then turned to right the ballast, and by sun down the ship was in tolerable trim, the hatches were battened or covered m well as means would allow, the peak of the mainsail wai hoisted a few feet to help to keep the ship's head to the tea, the helm again lashed a lee. The wind, the sea, and the weather, continued unchanged till 4 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, 17 h, when the gale first began to moderate ; it was nevertheless, very boisteroui the whole day; the barometer lose and fell about 2 lOths, remaining at 29 7-10. We had now time to examine the extent of our damage. The bowsprit wai clean gone, with all attached to it. the starboard bulwarks were all gone, stanchions and all, broken off flush with the di-ck ail the way fiom foiward of the fore chains to after part of the quarter deck. The larboard bulwarks were saved because they were under water when the weight of the sea fell upon her. The cook house was demolished, and vanished. The long boat and the %\g t which were laihed over the main hatch were mrried overboard, and finally carried away wiUi the wreck of the foremast. The enn-winch under the mainmast was bent almost down to the deck and broken. The skylight of the main cabin was cut off flush with the det'k, four s'ancheons only being left. Of the companion hatch not a wreck remained. The after skylight was demolished. Two litile roundhouses near the taffrail were uninjured ; one barneis cask, laihed to one of these houses, remained, while the other went. The tool chest and a lanre water cask, laihed under the mainmati was gone. 'Ihe main-topmast was brokea in the middie. In spite of the sea, which continued almost as high at ever, the energy of the captain, assisted by the good will of officers and men, succeeded in erecting a jurymast in place of the lost foreraaxt before night, aod having it well secured with chain shrouds and stays. Thursday. 18th. — Nothing remained of the late ttortn but an uneasy -en—the weather and glass were changeible and threa erring. A jury bowsprit was riggpd out this day, and a jib fitted, and the first maie cut a way a h^ary square spar for the yard of our new foresail. The second mate was able to lend a hand today, but the cook was still hid up. Friday, l!)th.— At three o'clock, exactly three days nfter the catastrophe, we get fore-imil jib, main-stay-sjiil, and close reeled mam-sail, and Wire ship, and were running fi«e knots an h vur N.W., atld hoping for

a slant which would enable ut to steer west. The tiimininir of the ballast was completed this afternoon. Since Thuriday all handi have bpcn put on allowance of one quart of warer and a half-a-pound of bilct«it daily, with as much meat as they liked ; but huving been without fire we eat no meat to day. The Sifters tpoUe the barque Auriga, and the captain promised to lend assistance, but fortunately n fair wind f-prung up and she was enabled to make this har« hour on Saturday evening — Hobart Town Guardian