SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 21, 17 June 1871, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. June. 9 Wellington, s.s., 261 tons, Kennedy, from Lyttelton. Passengers: Saloon-Right Rev. Bishop of Wellington, Rev. Mr Neyille, Miss Seed Miss Grant, Messrs Hislop, Coote, Loggie, Milner, Eraser, Morey, Mottram, Grant, Dickson and Jones, and four for the North. .. _ 10, Go-Ahead, s s., 84. tons, Dmle, from Wanganui. Passengers—Three Maoris. 10, Amateur, ketch, 25 tons, Morgan, from Patea. L \n/■ 10, Esther,schooner, 46 tons, Campbell, from the East Coast. . 11, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, from Wairau. • . ~ 11, Phcebe, s.s.. 265 tons, Worsp, from the South. Passengers: Saloon—Mr J. Martin, Mr Ben Smith, Mr Jackson, and 9 for North. Steerage—2 for North. 11, Lord Ashley, s.s., 296 tons, Andrew, from' the South. Passengers: Saloon—Mr Healy, 1 for Auckland, 4 California. Steerage —2 for Auckland and 6 for California. 12, Claud Hamilton, s.s., 529 tons, Clark, from Nelson. Passengers: Saloon-Messrs Cbissell, Burrett, Jameson, Reid, Stone, Wheeler, Mrs Reid and child, Misses Mackersey (3), Master MackerseyfMrs Bolstock, Miss Bolstock.4 for Melbourne, 1 for Otago, and 3 for Lyttelton. _ 14, Wanganui, s.s., 168 tons, Linklater, from Wanganui. Passengers: Saloon—Mrs Irvine and 2 children, Mrs Brewster and 1 child, Mr and Mrs M'Leod, Messrs Kelly, Kummcr, Hutchison, and Morgan. 15, Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, from Picton. Passengers : Saloon —Miss Campbell, Mrs Francis, Mrs Stone, Mrs Duncan, Miss Smith, Mrs G. Ebden, Messrs Williams, Stone, Buller, M'Donald, Hill, Harrington, Fee, You, Suisted, Nation, Barnes, Day, 2 for Dunedin, 2 for Lyttelton. SAILED. 11, Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, Carey, for Picton, Nelson, New Plymouth and the Manukau. Passengers—Mrs M'Donald, Mrs Clark and two children, Mr Boile. 11, Glimpse, ketch, 45 tons,' Croucher, for Manawatu. 11, Wellington, s.s., 216 tons, Kennedy, tor the North. 11, Elizabeth, 37 tons, Short, for Picton. 11, Anne Melhuish, barque, 260 tons, for Newcastle. 11, Dawn, cutter, 25 tons, Craig, for Manawatu. 11, Lord Ashley, s.s., 296 tons, Andrew, for Napier and Auckland. 12, Claud Hamilton, s s., 529 tons, Clark, for Melbourne Passengers : Saloon—Messrs Williams. Adair, Haircomb, Downes, Captain and Mrs Crowe. ' 13, Go-Ahead, 84 tons, Doile, for Wanganui. Passengers : Saloon—Mr Lnxford, and Mr. Jasper.

The s.s.Jßingatira is due from the South on Saturday, and will leave here for Napier on Monday next. The s.s. Gothenburg is due from the South either on Sunday or Monday. She will sail again for Melbourne via the West Coast. The s.s. Lord Ashley is due from Auckland and Napier on Tuesday, and will leave for the South the same day. The s.s. Ahuriri arrived at the Mantikau on the 14th inst, and is due here from Northern ports about the 19th. The Al clipper barque Anna, 144 tons register, Captain J. A. Thompson, was advertised to leave Melbourne for this port on or about the Ist June. A great portion of her cargo wa9 engaged ; and it was expected she would leave about her advertised time.

The brig Lady Denison, Captain Fernie, was fro leave Hobson's Bay for Wanganui during the first week in June. A valuable and most elaborate return has been published by the Government, showing the number and description of vessels wrecked on the eastern coast of New South Wales, together wWr all particulars respecting the locality and cause of wreck, &c, and number of lives lost, from Ist January, 1864, to 31st December, 1870. The following is an abstract :—Lost by fire, 1; driven on shore,J3o; lost by collision, 6; foundered, 26; never heard of, 20 ; abandoned, 1. Number of lives lost, 390. "Value of ships and cargoes, as far as ascertained, £190,245.— <: Sydney Morning Herald," 22nd inst. The Newcastle correspondent of the " Sydney Morning Herald" writes :—" It is a long time since our harbor looked so empty of shipping —not a vessel at the cranes, and only two schooners at the A. A. Company's, and eight vessels in the stream ; should there be no arrivals to-day, our port will be almost completely bare of shipping. There is a brig, the Maggie, and one of the dredges on the slip, and some seventeen lighters, all lying idle at anchor near the sandbank. Of course, all the coal trimmers are walking about —nothing for them to do ; and the poor miners are as badly off, many only receiving two* or three days' pay during the last fortnight. Our storekeepers are all complaining of the general dulness of ,the times, and unless a reaction soon takes place, and our accustomed trade at this season of the year returns, much distress must inevitably prevail. Such a circumstanpe as the whole of the cranes being idle at one time, and all the coal berths empty, I do not think has happened since their construction. I am given to understand very large orders for coal have been received, but it is impossible to execute them for want of shipping j scarcely any tonnage is to be had in any of the colonies. This is a contrast to a few years since, when we had 19 full-rigged ships in port, besides some 70 or 80 barques, brigs, and schooners, It is to be hoped we shall soon have a better state of tningi,"

With unfeigned legret all shipmasters trading round the New Zealand coast, and even the Australian coasts will regret, says the " West Coast Times," the loss of the ketch Jane Anne, commanded and owned by Captain Richard Smith. He was a worthy and energetic, as well as successful, coasting master, and was ever kind to persons in indigent circumstances in the early days of the West Coast trade. In fact, he was the first to start from Otago with his then craft, the lona, for the "VYest Coast Goldfields. Many can remember his kindness whilst trading between this port and Okarito in that vessel, to which place he was the pioneer, and was subsequently followed by the steamer Bruce, which steamer took up the trade, calling into requisition numerous small craft, including Capt. Smith s, where he realised a very handsome sum, if not a competency. The lona was subsequently lost at Charleston, and whilst on a trip to Okarito he bought the ketch Jane Anne, from Captain Tucker, and the writer, knows from actual facts he cleared his purchase in one voyage. He has suVsequently been trading throughout, and to the different coast ports, tolerably successfully until the present voyage. He left Greymouth about two months ago, with about thirty-two tons of coal, bound for Lyttelton, and has not been since heard of. However, Messrs Kennedy Brothers, of the Grey, have received a telegram, we are informed, that a portion of the Jane Ann, ketch, has been washed up at the Amuri Bluff, on the East Coast. It cannot be doubted, if such are the facts, that Captain Smith, with his son and all hands, have perished. He was a thorough seaman, as well as navigator, and it will now probably remain a mystery for ever, the circumstances of the shipwreck. The collision (says the «• Argus" of the 27t,h ult.,) between the s.s. Dandenong and steamtug Hercules in the Yarra on Thursday night was the subject of an inquiry before the Steam Navigation * Board yesterday. Only two witnesses, the mate of the Hercules and the man who was at the wheel at the time of the accident, were examined; but they were a long while giving their evidence. According to their version of the occurrence,.the collision was caused by the Dandenong taking too wide a sweep of the bend, whioh brought her right over to the north side of the river, the side that belonged to the Hercules. The statements made on the Dandenong side of the question were to the effect that the Dandenong was on her own side of the river, and that the collision was solely owing to the sudden sheer of the Hercules, which they attributed to the starboarding of her helm ; whereas if she had kept straight on, there was plenty of room for her to pass on her proper side. The inquiry stands adjourned. Alfred jasper, chief officer of the barque Tndia was fined £lO and costs at the Hobart Town Police Court, on the 16th inst, for keeping or concealing six bottles of geneva and 18 lbs of tobacco, on which duty had not been paid. The ketch Foam, Captain Ashburn, left Lyttelton on May 5, with a cago of oats for Hokitika. On the 13th when eight miles from Greymouth she met with a heavy gale, and on the 14th a sea struck her carrying away the mizenmast; port ca'head, bulwarks, and smashed the boat. On the 24th. sprung her bowsprit, and kept away for Nelson for repairs, when off the Spit lost the jibsail in a squall and having then no command she run on the Spit where she now lies a wreck. Captain Walker, of the Lady Barkly, having seen the Foam on the Spit, kindly brought over her crew to Nelson this morning.—" Nelson Mail," 2nd inst. The Victorian iron'clad Cerberus, was moved over to the railway pier from the breakwater on the 2nd to the shears, to have the masts taken out of her. The work of dismantling her is being prosecuted vigorously. By the schooner Jessie Kelly, which arrived from New Caledonia yesterday, we have received news of the wreck of the schooner Emma Paterson, Captain Edgar, hence to that port. She left Sydney on the 2nd April, and was lost on a coral reef 30 miles from Noumea, on the 25th, through her missing stuys. Five of the crew left the wreck on the 27th in a whaleboat, and are supposed to have perished, as the boat was picked up near Noumea on the Bth May, full of water, with several fish, a human hand, and two feet in her. Captain Edgar was taken off the wreck by the schooner Bronzewing, which arrived in Noumea on the 9th instant.—" Sydney Morning Herald," May 25. Admiral Rous has sentaletter to the "Times about the loss of the Captain and other naval matters, which discloses the curious fact that in 1834 a ship which he commanded was paid off, and the crew dispersed, because ho refused to make a false report of the qualities of the ship. He made one report, and was advised in a friendly way to make another. He refused, and the result mentioned followed. With regard to the inquiry into the loss of the Captain,° the admiral says the finding should have been—" Lost by the officer of the watch not knowing how to shorten sail o,r keep his men on deck." He adds :—" The truth is, the boiler has emasculated seamanship. No man can serve two masters—he will hold to the lea kettle and despise the canvas. You can no more rear a seaman on a steamer than on the Bridgewater canal, and in ten years time the British seaman will be a rare bird among the sailors in the Royal Navy." He tells us that his experience in naval matters " harks back" to 1808. We understand that during the forced cruise of the Flying Squirrel, which was blown out from Kakanui Roads last week, the crew ran so short of provisions as to be compelled to devour their cat and dog. We believe it is a general practice for the small coasting craft to leave port with only a few loaves of bread and a little fresh meat on board, and of course wholly unprepared to remain long at sea, Experience should teach the wisdom of making preparation against the vessel being kept out of port fcr a long time,

and unless it we shall one day have to read a tale of starvation, with all its attendant horrors. —" Oamaru Times."

Captain Kennedy received a tangible recognition of the appreciation in which he is held by the merchants of Dunedin and others in the various Northern Ports, from the hands of Captain Wheeler, of the s.s. Taranaki, amounting to upwards of 100 sovereigns, with a view of liquidating any expense incurred by Captain Kennedy while out of harness, after losing his late vessel the favorite old Airedale. This of itself speaks highly of the confidence placed in Captain Kennedy as a coastal steamship master. —"Otago Times" Bfch June," Of the loss of the s.s. Auckland, the " Sydney Morning Herald" of the 29th May says : —Mr Stewart reports that the Auckland left Melbourne at 2.35 p.m., and cleared Port Philip Heads at 710 p.m. on the 25th inst., with an easterly breeze; passed Wilson's Promontory at 8.30 a.m. on the 26th ; wind N.E. fresh, and weather cloudy. From this point the usual north-easterly course was kept for Cape Howe. As night advanced the weather became still mfje overcast and threatening, with an increasing' breeze and heavy rain. Captain Walker and his chief officer kept the bridge, never leaving the look-out for a moment, when at 1 a.m. breakers were seen ahead. The engines were promptly stopped, and reversed to full speed astern, which was only the work of a moment —the machinery being in such admirable o^der—but all too late, the steamer*struck the reef with a crash which must have stove in several plates. The engines were kept going astern, and soundings taken round the ship, and cargo shifted from forward to aft to bring her by the stern. The boats were also got ready. Finding that she would not come off, Captain Walker, knowing that the Macedon (s.) was astern, fired rockets and bluelights, which were fortunately seen by the Macedon, which at once boro down. The boats were then lowered, and the passengers safely transferred to the latter vessel, where they were most kindly received by Captain Pain. The boats then returned to the wreck, and got out the passengers' luggage, as also the mails, with the exception of'two bags —all being placed safely on board the Macedon.' A third trip was then made, but by this time the wind and sea had increased to such an extent that the Auckland could not be boarded, and it was with considerable difficulty that the boats reached the Macedon again. By this time day had broken, and Captain Pain having had his boats taken on board, those belonging to the Auckland were hoisted to the davits, and the steamer kept on her course for Twofold Bay. Here Captain Walker, the chief engineer, boatswain, and four hands went on shore with one of the boats, and the Macedon continued her passage to Sydney. The Auckland was going nine knots when the order was given to stop and go astern. The site of the occurrence is stated to be on a reef between Cape Conran and Cape Everard, two miles and a-half from the main land.