PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 800, 14 December 1853, Page 2

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. AERIVALS. Dec. 10— Endeavour, 14 tons, Martin, from Waiheki, with 25 tons firewood. Dec. 10—Piako Lasa, 10 tons, Smalley, from Piako River, with 1 ton flax, 50 bushel* wheat, li tons kauri gum. Deo. 12 —Frances, 20 tons, James, from Maburangi. with 1 spar, 2 tons kauri gum, 12 pots, 40 spirits, 20 tons firewood. Dec. 12—Dauntless, 20 tons, Hardtmari, from- Wan* garoa, with 750 bushels whent 15 bushels maize. Dec. 12—Joseph, 14 tons, Ropi, from Taurangi, with 36 pigs, 27 bushels wheat, 50 fouls, 8 ducks, 3 bushels onions, 8301 bs. pork, 1 cask lard. Doc. 12—Victoria, 18 tons, Tope, from Monganui, with 14 tons wool, 2 tons gum, 47 bags maize. Passengers, Mr. Wrathall, Mr. E. Penny. Dec. 12— H. M. Colonial brig Vic oria, Deek, from New Caledonia and Norfolk Island. Passengers,— J lis Excellency Sir George Grey and Suite, and Bishop Selwyn. Dec. 12—Marmora, schooner, 135 tons, Captain Kelly, from Sydney. Passenger*,—Mr. and Mrs. Coleman g£and 5 children, Mr. and Mrs. Pulinanand 5 children, Dr. Da vis, Messrs. T, Brown, I.Castello, Mr. Towett, C. Cunledt, J. Murditt, W. Henderson. Dec. 13—Oddfellow, 20 tons, J. William*, from Waiheki with 22 tons firewood. OEPARTUKKB. Dec. 10—Paiko Lsbs, 10 tons, Smalley, for Piako River. Deo. 10—Endeavour, 14 tons, Martin, for Waiheki. Dee. 10—Naiad, 22 tons, Monro, for Hokianga, witb 1 cask tobacco, 1 do* rum, 1 do. wine, 2 boxes soap, 4-J chects tea, 4> bags sugar, 1 box raisins, 1 do rice, 1 bale slops, 2 chain cables, 1 anchor, 1 hag naile, 8 coils rope, 10 doz, spades, 1 bale print, 1 do calico 3 kegs tobacco, a quantity of iron and sundries. Passengers,— Mrs. Vaile, Mrs. Scolley and 3 children, Mr. Walters, Mr. Griffin, Mr. F. White. Den. 10—Ha-vkhead, 22 tons, Lawrie, for Mahurangi, with 2 gallons ruin, 1 chest tea, S bags flour, 1 cask pork, 2 boxes sundries, GOO bricks, and G bushels lime.

Dec. 12—Dolphin, 41 tons, Campbell, for East Coast, with 3 tons sugar, 3 do. rice, 4 kegs tobacco, 45 packages slops, 4 tons salt. Dec. 12—Bort Accord, 17 tons, Copland, for Thames, with 10 bags rice, 3 bags sugar, 4 bags biscuit, 1 package drapery. Dec. 13-Oddfellow, 20 tons, J. Williams, for Waiheki, in ballast. IMPORTS—FOREIGN. Per Marmora from Sydney:—4. casks cordials, 1 j case blacking, 2 quarter-casks stores, 1 cask oranges, I case drapery, 80 bags rice, 10 I casks cheese, 4 casks soda, 2 bales bags, 60 boxes soap, j 3 cases oilmen's stores, 30 bags sugar, 49 bags coffee, 2 I cases, 7 bales drapery, 6 cases cordials, 5 packages { leather, 20 casks dried apples, 8 packages drapery 261 bags sugar, 129 bags, 1 cask sues-, i u case 3 port wJnflj is na _ 20 tierces beef, 6 tierces mutton 12 boxes rasins, 24 boxes candles. iQ\ lljatg ricej 80 bar . rels bread., t>oV o gunnies, 2 cases, 1 bale fancy goods, 2 cases slops, 5 cases axes, 130 axe handles, 5 casks beef, 2 cases toys, 4 bags walnuts, 8 packages drapery, 1 trunk shoes, 4 cases drapery, 1 case perfumery, 20 boiler plates, 29 packages drapery, 20 cases cheese, 8 packages oil cloth, 20 packages buckets, 15 boxes oilman's stores, 9 bundles rope, 5") baskets cork, 21 cases drapery, 71 boxes cotton, 1 butt, 4bogsbeads, 8 quarter casks wine, 3 cases saddlery, 3 cases drapery, 4 mats sugar 1 case furniture, 1 chest tea, 50 boxes candles, 80 packages oatmeal, 9 packages groceries, 29 packages drapery, 15 cases furniture.

THE AUSTRALASIAN PACIFIC MAIL STEAM | COMPANY. [From the "Times" July 16.] The *" rst * ia " f earJ y roeeting of the Australasian Pacific Mail Company took place this afternoon, when the report b.^ u g ht „ forward was unanimously adopted. The prospects or the undertaking are described as encouraging, and the directors state that the communications they have bad with parties engaged in the Australian trade confirm them jn the belief that they have selected the best route. Of Ilia 12,000 shares i,sued the vvhok have been paid upon with the exception of about 300, the various calls made having been punctually liquidated. Some suggestions were offered "* oroprietors respecting the general management, to b> *he directors promised to give attention. The which > " an abstract of the report, from which it followii."* 1B ' *he company's first vessel, the Kanwill be seen i1,2 l H « ready for sea in about two erarroo, is expected tu - . months:— . general meet. The directors have called the first hi...- • " *eed of settleing of proprietors, under the provisions of t- • -'«»j has j nient. Since the meeting in January considerable pro& -'« j been made by the respective contractors. Four 0 f the ve^ 1 - , namley, the Kangaroo. Emu, Menura. and f>inornis, areaapt proaching completion, and the Black Swan is well advanced. The company's superintendent in the Clyde reports that the Kangaroo will be launched on the 22nd instant, and will be ready for sea about the middle of September. From causes over which the directors had no control, the vessels have not been completed so soon as could be desired, hut they hope that before the end of the year the whole of the fleet will have left Eng'.ai.d, to take up their stations on the Pacific. The directors have at present been unsuccerfsul in inducing Her Majesty's Government to subsidize Hie Panama route, but a deputation Australian merchants has been lately informed byjHer Majesty's Postmaster-General that under, the circumstance of the Panama line being projected, no other contract for the Australian mail service would be entered on for a fixed term. In the meantime it is probably known, a temporary arrangement has been made for the conveyance of the mail by sailing ships, via the Cape of Good Hope, alternately with the bi-monthly service by way of Singapore. On the lGth of April Mr. Alexander Currie, a director, left for Australia, to make the preliminary arrangements at Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand. At Panama the company's business will be managed by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, with whom an agreement has been entered into for that purpose. The increasing popularity with which this undertaking is viewed by the Australian public confirms the directors!.; the view they have entertained, that the Panama line must eventually berome the great highway from Europe and America to Australia and New Zealand.

The Vimeira arrived hue yesterday. She touched at Port Phiilip, where she landed the following passengers—Mr. and Mrs G. Leslie, aud two servants, Miss Rl'Arthur and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Hill and child, Messrs.J. arid vV. Hamilton, J. Hume, and S. Snell. She has brought a very large mail, and there wore 106 bags of letters for the neighbouring culonies. She spoke the Epsom, ship, bound for this port, on the Bth instant, off (ape Otway. The Viemeira was 96 days to Melbourne, and has been 103 to this port. A valuable horse and cow died during the passage. The former was shipped for Messrs. Walker, and Co., and the latter for Dr. Dobie, R. N. The horse was a Clydesdale, and the cow of the Durham breed.— Empire Nov. 17. Ships *or London. —The Stratford is nearly full, as is also the Talavera, but the former will also be the first vessel, and tho latter is to sail on the 15th December; the Ellenborough. and Kate, are loading at the Circular Quay; the Maids one hauls alonsido Campbell's Wharf to day, and having but little to discharge, will commence receiving cargo almost immediately ; the Windsor is still discharging; the Royal Stuart is advertised for London ; the Vimiera is to discharge at the Circular Quay; the Blackfnar will sail during next week for Moreton Bay, to load for London. The Consi itution is alongside the Great Britain, into which vessel she has been discharging coal; the latter named ship will sail for Liverpool ria Melbourne at two p.m. to-day.— Sydney Hereld, Isov. 19.

THE GALE OF YESTERDAY. [From the "Sidney Empire," November 15.] During the morning of yesterday tbe sun sbone oppressively hot; there was such a great change from the la<e damp, dank, dirty, and wet weather, that a sense of weariness and lassitude seemed to oppress everybody. Men, well skilled in tha changes of our climate, whilst wiping their bedewed brows, predicted a brickfielder; others, more sanguine and glorying in tne sunshine, said the bad weather was broken, and summer was come again. However, between twelve and one o'clock, the Bky gave indications of a change—heavy black clouds were mustering up to the northward, and every now and then a dull rumbling of dist int thunder gave note of an approaching storm. About one o'clock a lew drops of pattering rain fell sullenly, tiie wind eddied and died away in fitful gusts, and dark overhanging masses of ch.uds to the southward bHokoned the tempest that was brewing in that quarter. There was a lull for a short time, till at about four o'clock the elemental strife began. A heavy tornadolike blast from the southward swept across the face of the waters, and in a few minutes it blew a perfect gale, or, as the colonials graphically term it, " a regular burster." Heavy ships lying in the cove reeled beneath the blasts, and tightened out their cables like harp string—then were hurry, hustle, and confusion to make things snug to ride out the gale. Aboard the Great Britain, which (moored in Lavender Bay) was peculiarly exposed to the full force of the wind, the awning had been all furled, the yards braced sharp up, and everything done to neutrelize the violence of the tempest. During a lull, she took a slight sheer to starboard, and exposed her port bow to the wind. At that moment a fresh blast swept by und caught her full on the bow. She yielded, drove astern, her immense mooring chains tautened out, cracked, and before any more could be paid out to ease the strain, her port cable parted like packthread. The ship drove a little distance towards the Adelaida steamer, till her starboard chain brought her up. A litile after this, the rain fell in torrents and the wind fell also. Lightning was dashing aud darting, beautifully dazzling, in all directions, and tremendous peals of thunder, with loudly reverberating pchoes died away, and seemed to be leaping and faintly resounding into some other sphere. Several other accidents occurred during the gale. The iron schooner Titan was yesterday removed from off Moore's Wharf, and taken round to the patent slip for the purpose of being overhauled. She was anchored nearly opposite the slip when the gale commenced, and received the whole force of the wind on her broadside; she immediately heeled over and fell on her beam ends. The accident is to be attributed to the circumstance of all tbe ballast having been taken out of her previous to her being hauled up. Having capBized in shallow water, she remained on her beam ends. Under} the able direction of the Assistant Harbour Master, Captain Barnett, the .Robert Syers, barque, was hauled up alongside the Titan, and at six p.m., men were busily engaged in getting tackle to the topmast heads of the barque, in order to get a purchase upon the schooner, and right her. We lava only one man was aboard when the schooner capsized, and be was saved. At the Flour Company's wharf, the barque Mousam, not being properly secured and moored, got adrift and foul of the Sea Serpent, schooner, and the brig Christina alongside) of her. Tbe schooner lost her main-topmast* and the brig her jib-boom. Alter the Mousam chared herself, she brought up som« short distance from the wharf. The Tasmania, steamer, lying oppot-ite the Flour Company's wharf, dragged her anchor and drifted towards Miller's Point. t As she ' ueared Cockle Bay, she let go her second 'anchor, which getting foul of the Nelson's (un old whaler) anchor, brought up the Tasmania all standing, anil without any damage having been done. In various parts of the Bay «nd Harbour several boats were capsized from carrying on a Dress of canvas. Two bsats were upset between the Pflcenix wharf and Miller's Point. Two persons were picked up by the boats which put off to their assistance, hut great fears are entertained that two others have perished. Jt is now some tune since *>« sharp and short a gale has occurred in our harbour, and we are glad the first unwelcome visitant of the season has not occasioned greater damage. _^

TOTAL LOSS OF THE BRIG FANNY. [From a Correspondent of the "Empire."[ This fine vessel went on shore on the Oyster Bank, while endeavouring to work out on Saturday last, with the wind north-east, and an ebb tide. She we«t on shore stem foremost. Captain Livingstone, the pilot on boarcl, with the aid of Mr. Beachy, soon g. t her anchors out, but the wind increasing fi „d the heavy swell setting in with the flood ti !e, she brought the anchors home, and turned her head towards the beach. In tins position she 'ay until Sunday eight, v. hen she broke up. She was loaded with coal for Sydney and was the property of Messrs. James and Alexander Brown, of this city. She was recently purchased for the sum of £ilpo, add bad not made one trip. I»«.rn sorry io soy that two toeil Were drowned in attempting to get the crew on shore, on Saturday night. One of them, James M'Leod, belonging to the pilotboat, leaves a widow and eight children to deplore their loss. On Sunday afternoon the body of James M'Leod was picked up near the scene of the wreck. An inque»t was held on it on Monday, when the jury returned a verdict of " Acciden ally drownel." James M'Clune, roaster of the schooner Perseverance, was one of the crew of the pilot bom on Saturday night, and in giving his evidence before the jury he observed, —" VVe should have taken the life-boat in preference to the pilot-boat, but there was neither oars nor gunnels belonging to her.-' The Jury idled a rider io their verdict requesting the Coroner would call the atiention of her Majesty's Government to the very inefficient state of the life-boat at Newcastle. Newcastle, Nov. 15,1853.