SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 620, 24 March 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. March 22 — General Worth, American bug, 200 ions, Joseph A. Rowe, from Honolulu and Tahiti. Piis-f-pngeis—Captain Lscey, i\lrs. Lncey, Mrs. Rowe, Mi. and Mia. Albert, Messrs. IJownrd, Yeomans, Westcott, and Be 1, and Master Rate). — T. Lewis, ag>>nt. March '22 — Naiad, 21 tons, W. Monro, from Ahipara, with 20 tons kaun gum. Passengers — Capt. Eames, one seamen. March 22 — Julia, schooner, S6 tons, Bristow, from Lyttelton and the East Coast, with 100 bushels wheat, 400 bushels muizp, 1 bhd. whiskey, ullage ditto, 2 cases boots and shoes, 2 cases drapery, 1 bale calico, 2 cases ironmongery. Passengers — Mr. Low, Mr. Henderson, Mr. PeniObe. March 22~Dove, 20 tons, R. White, from the Bay of Plenty, with 8 tons potatoes, 14 pigs. March 22 — Mary, 25 tons, W. Davis, fiom. Waihelri, wiih 40 tons firewood. Passengers — Mr. Ilunlley and family. March 22 — Kororareka, 17 tons, Pairoa, from Russell. March 22 — Piovidence, 14 tons, R. VV. Combes, from VVailieln, with 44 pigs, 4 tons potatoes. Passenger — Mr. Parker. March 23— Cannibal, It tons, A. B. White, from the ]3ay of Pleat,, with 3 ton& hay. Paboenger — ileuiy Cainey. March 23— Victoria, 17 tons, S. Mernck, from Waiheki, with 30 tons fiiewood.

March 20 — Mary, 4? tons, J. Parker, for Mahurangi. March 20— Children, 36 tons, A. Jonps, for Russell, with 1 case matches, ditto cunants, 1 dozen chairs, 4 chests drawers, 1 chest tea, I ton sugar, $ ton salt, 3 cases groceiies, 10 boxes candles, 1 case madeira, 4 bales slops, 4 bales blankets, 2 barrels crockery, 1 ditto hdidware, 1 case punts, 1 trunk caps, 4 boxes soap, 6 kegs nails, 3 casks iron pots and sundries. Passengers — Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Miss Baker, four children, and Mr. llargraves. March 23— Victoria, 17 tons, S. Merrick, for Waiheki, in ballast. March 23 — Mary, 25 tons, W. Davis, for Waiheki, in ballast.

IMPORTS — FOREIGN. Per General Worth: — 10 horses, ton t, and lumber, 30 bags oats, 10 tiusses hay, 12 bagb bran.

By tbe overland mail we learn that the William ll} de was off New Plymouth (where she called to land seventeen passengers for that settleraeut) on the 9th inst. ; on her way to Ilokianga to load for London. The Victoiia, Government brig, sailed from Wellington for Nelson on the 21st uliimo, with the Governor-in-Chief, and Lieutenant Governor Wynyard on board, to return again to Wellington, and thence she was to sail for New Plymouth with the Lieutenant-Governor, on his way to Auckland, The ship Agra, ninety-five days from London, with ninety passengeis, had anived at Wellington. She brought news of the Gieat Britain having been fitted up to convey passengers to the Australian Colonies, and that she was laid on for Sydney. 'I he American brig General Worth, which anived on Monday, sailed from Honolulu for these colonies on the 11th December last, touching at Tahiti, where she anived in January, and sailed from thence on the 6th February . She was ovei taken by the gale of the 6th instant, when about 100 miles to the eastward of N oi folk Island, and sustained damage in her sails and spins while it continued. The General Worth was purchased at Honolulu by her present owner Mr. Rowe, manager of a company of equpstrian performers, which have been exhibiting in California, where they arrived from the Atlantic States in 1850. Mr. Roue's Company left San Fiancisco in December, 1850, and have since been pei forming at Honolulu, and, on their way hither, &t Tahiti. She has brought a stud of ten horses, and the necessary fittings for a circus, which is to be erected in the reai of the Greyhound Inn, Queen-street, lor a bhoit timp, after which tbe troupe will le-eiubark and proceed either to Sydney or Melbourne.

Wreck of the Brig " Maukin," of this Port. The schooner Naiad arrived on Monday morning from the northward, with Captain Eames of the Maukin, biinging intelligence of the toial loss of that vessel in Sandy Bay, near the Noith Cape, during the late heavy gales of Saturday, the 6th instanf. It appears theie was nothing saved fioni the wreck, — barely as much provisions washed on shoie as will sustain the ciew until succour readies them. Captain Eames has furnished for publication the following particulars of the circumstances under which the melancholy disaster took place : — " On Saturday, the 28th Fobiuary, the brig Maukin sailed on a whaling voyage from this port, with every pio-pect of success, and I believe with the good wishes of the whole community. I stood, to the northward, along the coast, cruizing off and on. On the Friday following, March sth, at noon, the Maukin, was Bixteen miles N.E. by E. by compass from Knuckle Point, a stiff breeze blowing irotn the S.E., the vessel being hove to under a close reefed main-topsail, and heading about N.E. by E., thus making a North, or N. by W. drift. Took the waist boat in on deck, as the vessel was labouring a good deal, there being a heavy sea lunning. The wind gradually increased towards night ; I therefore got the quaiter boats taken up to the davit heads. About 10 pm. the wind shifted to East. The ship was making little or no headway, owing to the heavy head sea. Saturday, Cth, at 2 a.m., the wind h,mltd two points moie to the Northward, that is E.N.E., the vessel heading N. and N. by W., and making six or seven points lee way ; thus making no better course than VV. by N. Between 4 and 5 a.m., it blew very hard, so much so, as almost to layua on our beam ends, and the \ee quarter boat was swept away. About half past 10 a.m., saw the land on our leu be;im, not more than a milp distant. A few minutes alter, the mist rising a little, saw Noith Cape on our weather bow. I then felt that the time was come; for when the wind shifted in the morning, I Inew that there was no chance for the vessel except a change of wind. Our decision was quickly taken; there was little tune for thought. Having put two hands at the wheel, I set the fore-top-

mast-stay -sail, and woie her. Mr. Robeits and I then m unled the foie rigging, to try and see over the surf. Ihe mist cleaiing away for a moment, we saw a high bluff point, and another beyond, that is to the southward ; but finding that we could not weather the further, or southern point, we determined to run into tins little bay, if it were one. We did so. As we went through the suif, one sea came aboard of us on the starboard quarter, smashing the starbord boat all to pieces, and deluging the decks. All hands but those at the wheel w ere in the rigging, or many of thpin would doubtless have been swept overboard. The vessel then struck, and a Miccession of seaspouied over us. The tide had ebbed about a quarter when we struck ; so that every succeeding sea became less and less. Shoitly after having struck, two hinds in attempting to get ashore, were swept away, one of them disappeared in the surf, and was lost, but the other we got on boiud again, badly bruised, having been thrown against the btern. About two hours aftm »c struck, some hand-, were able to get on shore, as the draw-back receded as far as the vessel. About two, or half past two, Mr. Roberts and 1 left (he vessel, as the tide had made consideiably, and she was breaking up fast. After having saved what I could, on the Thursday following I started, intending to go to Riongnnui, but basing found a vessel at Ahipiira bound for Auckland, I took passage by her, and ai lived lieu 1 on Monday morning with the first news of the disaster."