SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 13, 22 April 1871, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. APRIL. 14, Canterbury, schooner,.7s tons, Buxton, from Lyttelton. , ' 15, Ranaatira, 165 tpns.Renner, from Wanganui. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Meek and three children, Mrs Archibald, Mrs Kebbel, Mr Bull, Mr M'Farlaue, Mr Smith, and 3 in the steerage. 15, Anne Melhuish, 363 tons, Williams, from Newcastle. 1(3, Venture, 25 tons, from Nelson. 16, Taranaki, 299 tons, Wheeler, from the South. Passengers: Br and Mrs Ebbs ; Mr and Mrs Lansdowne, Mrs Watt, Rev. Mr and Mrs Oliver, Rev. Mr Dewsbury, Ke/. Mr McNicol, Colenel Q-orton, Messrs Gillon, Cumber, Grant, Clarke, Wilson, Trigg, Shaw, Hunt, Buller, Whitten, Nancarrow, Ooring, Garrett; 21 for Northern ports. 16, Venture, cutter, 20 tons, Brown from, Kaaiapoi. 17, Lyttelton, p.s, 78 tons, Scott, from Nelson. Passengers:—Mrs Hooper and Mr Nicholson. 18, Lady Don, schooner, 68 tons, Toomey, from Lyttelton. 18, Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and .Manukau. Passengers—Cabin : Mr and Mrs Km 11,'Mr and Mrs Izard and servant, Mrs Laird, Mr" and Mrs Grimstoue, Miss Travers, Mr and Mrs Evans* Mrs Hector, Mrs Lewis, Messrs St. John Branigan, Kaye, Andrews Hardy, Eyes, Elveman, Withers, and two in the steerage. 20, Gothenburg, s.s., 4<59 tons, Pearce, from Lyttelton. Passengers : Cabin—Mesers Griffiths, Engel, Isaac, Walters, Comber, Studholme, Mrs Studholme, Mr Commons, Miss Bishop, Mr M'Pherson, 5 steerage and 12 for North. SAILED, 14, Enterprise, 84 tons, Sedcole, for Dunedin. 15, Ealcon, 37 tons, Morrison, for the Wairau. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Hilton, Mr and Mrs Edmead, Mrs Bulliff and two children, Messrs Tummee, Mackey, Greig. 17, Rangatira, s.s., 175 tons, Renner, for Napiei\ Passengers : Cabin —Mr and Mrs Sutherland, Messrs Boyd, Slobo, Dean, London, Elliott, Edmeads, Wilkins, Coult, Catchpool, Mrs Spray. 17, Lady Den if on, brig, 129 tons, Earnie, for Wangamii. 18, Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, for Pioton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Passengers : Cabin—Miss Holloway, Messrs Bold, Browne, Knowles, Davison, Curtis, Jackson, and Cooper. 18, Esther, brigantine, 56 tons, Campbell, for Napier. 20, Lady Denison, brig, 129 tons, Eernie, for Wanganui. 20, Esther, schooner, 46 tons, Campbell, for Napier. 20, Phcebe, s.s., 413 tons, Worsp, for lyttelton. Passengers : Cabin —Mr O'Shea, Mrs Linder, Mr Eyes, Mr Beaucbamp, Mr and Mrs Vonderhyde, Mr Sharpe. We learn from the " Lyttelton Times" of the 19th that a violent gale -which increased into a hurricane, blew there on the night of the 18th, and placed several vessels in great jeopardy. The schooner Volunteer bad been lying alongside the brig Windhover, taking in a cargo of coals, and had not quite completed her loading. Coming into collision -with the brig, a portion of her butts started, causing her to leak. The pumps were set going, but it was found that to keep her afloat some o'f the cargo must be thrown overboard, as neither buckets nor pumps could keep her free. Eoftunately assistance from the brig and the pilot service was ready, and the vessel was secured, or she would have shared the same fate as the Golden Isle schooner. Several other craft were in great danger. The brig Hindu and cargo were lately sold by auction, of which a Sounthland paper furnishes the following particulars : —The hull, with foremast and standing gear, brought £315. The sails and other gear connected with the vessel, realised, in the aggregate, about £327. The tea brought also the sum of £346, the highest price being (duty paid), 18-£d per lb ; very much damaged bringing as low as two guineas for about 700 packages, to 2d per package, and the lot of about 7000 packages on board, realised £36. The following description of the Nevada, the pioneer vessel of Mr Webb's line, is furnished by a correspondent of the " Argus" : During the last week I paid a visit to the Nevada, which, should the line commence soon to run, will probably be the pioneer vessel. 1 had heard so much about what this American line was to do, and had suffered so much at the hands of a person greatly interested in the matter in the way of' general blowing, that I confess I was disposed to view the whole project unfavorably. But my visit to the Nevada at once convinced me, after my experience of the Moses Taylor, a far inferior vessel in every way, that no vessel now trading to Australia offers accommodation for passengers at all comparable to her's. Certainly all of the P. and O. vessels that I have seen are altogether inferior. Her engines are of the beam description, and she is a paddle-wheel steamer It will be quite possible to give to all the passengers —unless, indeed, they flock to her jn numbers —a cabin to themselves, as there are a large number of cabins on the upper deck as well as round the saloon, which is extremely spacious and airy. The Nevada is 2100 tons register, but owing to her enormous height out of the water she has far more room tor passengers than an English ship of the same size. I saw the ship under very unfavorable circumstances, as she had been laid up for the last two years, and is not yet refitted. It would take about three weeks from the present time ready for sea; and then, I am assured, with forty tons of coal a day,

she eould esaily compress an average of eleven knots an hour, and if the logs of her trips betweeu Panama and San Francisco, which I saw were correct, I think she could. Whatever may be its fate in "other respects, I feel assured that if the boats o'"o run to Australia this line cannot fail to attract passengers. Better arrangements, however, will have to be made for through passengers by rail ; as at present managed, they arc very faulty, and there is no fair guide to the various railways, which branch off from Omaha and Chicago. An " Argus" telegram frooi Portland, Victoria, on the 3rd says :—The Barwon steamer, bound from Adelaide to Sydney with a cargo of breadstuffs, struck on a rock off Cape Bridgewater, at four o'clock this morning, not far from where the Admella was wrecked. There was a good deal of consternation among the passengers, but the captain, with great presence of mind, bended her in to the sandy beach between Bridgewater and Cape Nelson, and ran her ashore. The passengers were then landed safely. There was a thick fog at the time of the accident. The English papers report the loss of the ship Mayia, belonging to Guthrie and Asher, of Dunedin. . The intelligence is confirmed by a letter from her captain, which states that she sailed from Prosgrund Norway, on Jan. 4th, with a cargo of Baltic deals consigned to her owners.* On the 6th encountered heavy gales of wind which drove the ship in sight of Sunderland under close-reefed topsails. After the gale abated thick weather set in, and on the morning of the 22nd, at 2 o'clock, the ship went ashore at Bacton on the east coast of England. On the 23rd, the crew were taken off by the Bacton life boat. On the 20th, a survey was held on the vessel by Llyod's Agent and Captain Francis, the result of which was, the condemnation of the ship as a wreck, her back being broken, and most of her poop and bulwarks being washed off. The whole of the ship's furniture including spars, sails, ropes, anchors, and chains, with the whole cargo of timber were expected to be saved, a portion of both having been landed before Captain Richie closed his despatch. The hull of the vessel was then buried ten feet in the sand. Both the hull and cargo -were covered by insurance.—" Otago Daily Times." A-noteworthy point in the statistics of the shipping at British ports during the year JS7O, is a very marked increase in American tonnage, the first turn of the tide since the war between the Northern and Southern States so crippled the mercantile marine of America. In 1869, 350 American ships, registering 341,620 tons, entered our ports, whereas last year the number was 454, measuring 450,559 tons. This improvement still leaves" the United States very far in arrear of the position they occupied in our trade in 1861; scarcely, in fact, one-fourth of the tonnage then visiting our ports. Nor is it likely that any rapid increase will be made until the protective policy of the United States is abandoned, and American shipbuilders are enabled to import materials on term 3 that will enable them to construct iron sailing vessels and steamers to compete with those built on the Mersey, and on the Clyde. There has been an increase in.the shipping of Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Daly, Greece, while there has been a decrease in that of Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Austria. During last year no fewer than 36 Norwe-gian-owned vessels and three Swedish-owned ships arrived at the port of Greenock with foreign cargoes. Thirty-one were sugar laden. In 1869 the number of vessels belonging to both the above nationalities was twenty-six, while in 1861 the number was twenty-two. Ike fastest- vessel afloat is said to be the Cutty Sark. The Cutty Sark passed Deal on the 20th November, and on the 23rd she was spoken 240 miles north of the equator. The distance from Deal by the chart to latitude 4 N. 23 W. (where she was spoken) is 3400 nautical miles, making an average speed of 254 nautical miles per day, at the rate of 124 statute miles per hour. This certainly is a most wonderful speed for a sailing vessel, and, we believe, has never been surpassed or equalled. The Cutty Sark is a composite ship, 1316 tons 8.M., classed at Lloyd's 16 years A 1, is in the China trade, and owned by Messrs John Willis & Son, London. She was designed and modelled by Mr Hercules Linton, and built by Messrs Scott & Linton, Dumbarton, last year. It is a troublesome matter sometimes to find out where a ship leaks. A Mr Buzolich, who claims to have an invention for that purpose, sued Messrs Holmes, White and Co, at the County Court yesterday, for his professional charges in discovering two leaks in the barque Briton. Captain Dyson, the commander of the vessel, had authorised, or allowed, Buzolich to go down and examine the hold with his instruments, but the owners, docked her next day and declined to avail themselves of the discoverer's services, having no faith in his mystery. When docked water was pumped into the ship, and of course it oozed out at the leaks. Buzolich'splan, however, was intended to treat the ship in the water and save the expense of docking. He tried hard in court yesterday to prove his engagement as leak-doctor, but Judge Pohlman nonsuited him.—-" Age." The "Liverpool Courier" publishes the particulars of a collision that occurred in the Mersey at dusk on the evening of the 13th of February, which resulted in the sinking of a fine steamer belonging to the Mediterranean fleet of the Cunard Company. The s.s. Morocco, Captain Leitch, 1212 tons burden, was proceeding to sea, bound for Constantinople with a cargo of fine goods valupd at £150,000. The Guion steamer Wyoming, 2505 tons buiden, Captain Whineary, had shortly before come out of the Sandon dock, preparatory to sailing for New York next day, and had cast anchor off Egremont Ferry. The Morocco ap-

proached in such a position that she was compelled to pass round the stern of the Wyoming, and the pilot was obliged to avoid giving her much of the starboard helm for fear of running into a. vessel that was under tow. The result was, that as the Morocco passed, she caught the quarter of the Wyoming, which is a comparatively high vessel of considerable overhang at the stern. The effect of the collision was that the stern of the Wyoming swept the Morocco's deck fore and aft on the starboard side as the latter steamed past her. It is supposed also that one blade of the Wyoming's screw propeller struck the Morocco on her side under water, and tore her plates open for some distance along her length. The Morocco began to fill rapidly with water, and it was evident that she must very soon sink. In five minutes, so rapidly, had the water come into her, the furnaces were extinguished and the machinery was of no use. Eventually she sank in four fathoms of water. She was not wholly submerged, but the water was level with her deck. The Wyoming sustained very little damage, and proceeds to sea in her usual course. On Sunday the 4th, at Hobart Town, a boat from Beeherche Bay laden with produce was capsized at the passage mouth. The boatman's wife and a man were drowned ; but the boatman himself succeeded ,in getting on the keel of the craft, from which he was rescued by a pilot boat, after being 14 hours in this perilous position.