SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 36, 30 September 1871, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

AERIVED | September. 23, Jane Elkin, ketch, 25 tons, Leslie, from Nelson. __ ~ -r>. 23 Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Ticton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Passengers—Cabin : Captain Lanford, Miss Peon, Messrs Gilpin, Owen, Dalgleish, Wilson, Stobo, Berridge, Taylor, Hitchcock, Carruthers, Eoskell, Seymour, eighteen for the South ; six steerage, and seven for the South. 24, Dawn, cutter, 21 tons, Craig, from Manawatu. 25, Luna, p.s., 200 tons, Fairchild, from Nelson. 26, Gothenburg, s.s., Pierce, from Melbourne via the Southern ports. Passengers — Mr, Mrs, and Miss Browning ; E. M'Glashan, M.H.R.; Mr Burse, Miss Brown, Mr and Mrs Grubb and family, Mr Brodie, Mrs Ackland and two children, Messrs Dees, Duncan, Holder, Purnell, Judge Ward, Messrs Campbell, Nicholson, Moodie, Smith, Taylor, Fendall; and ten in the steerage. 26, Wanganui, s.s., 164 tons, Linklater, from Wangauui. Passengers Miss Butterman, Mrs Warrew and family, Messrs Menzies, Edwards, and Curry ; 1 in the steerage. 26, Ahuriri, s.s., M'Kinnon, from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Beeves and family and servant, Mr Morrin, Mr Barnard, and 9 for Napier. 27, Go-Ahead, s.s., 84 tons, Doile, from Wanganui. 27, Wellington, s.s., 261 tons, Kennedy, from Manukau, Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton. Passengers—Mrs Johns, Messrs Johns. Kite, Lucas. Tenant, Boy, Blackett, Burnet, Blundel, Martin, Remnant, Yickerman, MDowell, Barnet, Simons, Oterson, Wade, Kempthorne, Cross, Grace, Kilgour, Patten, Dr Irvine, Adams, Bunny ; 6 in steerage. 28, Ocean Wave, three-masted schooner, 118 tons, Griffith, from Lytteltow. 28, Amateur, -ketch, 25 tons, Norgrove, from Wairoa. 28, Elizabeth, schooner, 33 tons, Short, from Wairoa. SAILED. 23, Camille, barque, 365 tons, Tucker, for Newcastle. 25, Shepherdess, schooner, 38 tons, Gathercole, for Flaxbourne. 25, Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for Lyttelton and Otago. Passengers —Messrs Robinson, Edwards, Quick, Mountfoot, Mrs Robinson, Mrs Peacock, Mrs Brown, Mrs Eincher, Mrs Blake, and nine in the steerage ; twenty-five saloon and ten steerage, original passengers. 26, Jane Elkin, schooner, 24 tons, Leslie, for Picton. 27, H.M.S. Basilisk, Captain Moresby, for Auckland. 27, Gothenburg, s.s., 459 tons, Pearce, for Melbourne via the West Coast. 27, Thames, cutter, 17 tons, Lambert, for Patea. 27, Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, M'Kinnon, for Napier. 28, Wanganui, s.s., 168 tons, Linklater, for Wanganui. Passengers Messrs Meers, Lewis, Broughton, Perham, C. Borlase, Griffiths, Duglers, Carrie, Mrs Currie, Mrs W. Burrett, Mrs Lurrie, Miss Gell.

Ifc is understood that a demand for damage ■will be made on Messrs N. Edwards and Co, the owners of the Charles Edward, by the owners of the Murray, for about £SOO, and failing settlement an action will arise. The claim is for injuries done to the Murray by collision on the Buller bar. The Fiji shipping returns for the month of August show twenty arrivals —tonnage, 3531 tons. The value of exports for the seven months, ending July blst, was £53,035. Capt M'Kenzie, of the schooner Flirt, states that on his last trip from Auckland to the Fiji, he found that Harvey Island and Curtis Island (if existing at all) are not in the positions laid down in the chart of the South Pacific of date 1868. The three-masted schooner Eifleman has arrived at Auckland, she having been sucessfully raised by Messrs Henderson and Spraggon. There is to be a grand gala day and a great display of the naval defence forces during the time that the representatives of the other colonies are in Melbourne to attend the intercolonial conference. The Treasurer informed the Legislative Assembly that on Friday steam would be got up on board both the Cerberus and the Nelson, and that the vessels would proceed on a trip down the bay. Hon members of both Houses, the Governor and his suite, the delegates from the neighboring colonies, and some others, would be invited to be present. The Blanch is already in the bay, the Clio is expected before the day fixed, and if these vessels take part in the display a very interesting comparison can be instituted between the colonial defence force and the vessels of war belonging to the Imperial navy. The wrecked brig Hindu, so successfully floated off, and so unfortunately driven ashore again by stress of weather, is now, there is every reason to fear, past all hope of recovery. She lies very near where first stranded, but in deeper water, and broadside on to the sea, which breaks over her more or less at all times of tide. The position of the vessel is rendered worse by the fact that her list is to seaward, and great difficulty is consequently experienced in working on or about the decks. Her bulwarks are partly knocked away —the deck-houses are gone, and the hull is deeply imbedded in the sand. It must have been immensely strong to have so long withstood the adverse influences to which it has been so long exposed. So far as outward appearance is concerned, there is no sign of its breaking up, but, as we have said, the position of the vessel is such that it would be dificult, if not impossible, to renew the work of pumping her

out. Probably the best mode of recovering the materials of which she is built would b 9 by the use of torpedoes, three or four of which exploded below might so far break up the hull as to allow its parts to wash up on the beach. —"Southland News." THE SOUTH SEA ISLAND TRADE. FURTHER ATTACKS ON LABOR VESSELS. By recent arrivals at Auckland from Fiji, news has been received of a series of murderous attacks upon the crews of vessels trading among the South Sea Islands." The following are some of the particulars : MURDER OE THE MASTER OF THE MAEIA DOUGLASS. The report of another outrage in connection with the labor traffic of Fiji, has been brought by the Marion Benny, which has just returned from a labor cruise. It is an account of the murder of Mr James Welch, master of the Maria Douglass, by the natives of the island of Uruparapara, one of the Banks' group. It occurred on the 9th July, when Mr Welch was struck with eleven arrows, principally about the legs, but one wound in the back. The wounds progressed favorably, but fearing lest he should lose the use of one of his limbs, he proceeded in the vessel to Sandwich, where the brig Carl was found, and her doctor (Dr Murray) attended the wounded man. The Daphne was also here, and Mr Welch feeling unable to proceed in the vessel, secured the services of the mate of the Daphne to take charge of the Maria Douglass. The wound in his back now got worse, and ultimately mortification set in, and the poor man died on or about July 26. ATTACK ON THE MARION RENNT. The Marion Benny, schooner, under the command of Mr J. D. Harry, returned to Fiji from a labor cruise. She left Levuka on the 10th May, under command of Mr Robinson. Whilst cruising among the islands her boat's crew was fired upon several times, but only in one attack made upon it was there any damage done. This attack was made on July 8, at the island of Santa, when the captain was speared in the fleshy part of the left arm above the elbow. The spear had several prongs, but was taken out and the wound sucked, so as to draw out any poison in case the weapon had been a poisoned one. The wound progressed favorably, however. But Captain Bobinson was afterwards taken ill, and being unable to accompany the vessel was landed on the 28th July, together with a passenger, Mr Roach, who remained behind to attend on him. The vessel then started for Fiji. The Captain has since died. MURDER OE THE MASTER OE THE SWALLOW. The " Fiji Times," of September 2, says : The schooner Kate Grant arrived from a labor cruise on Thursday morning last. She reports the following vessels spoken by her -.—July 21, Isabella, three months out from Queensland, with 21 foreign laborers on board. This vessel reported six of her crew wounded Tsjith arrows, four having been shot one day, and two the next. The schooner Swallow returned from a labor emise on Wednesday last, bringing 31 laborers engaged for a term of three years. She brings the sad intelligence of the death of her master, Bradly, who was well known as master of the Nova Scotia, trading between Rewa and Levuka. When at Leopold Island, one of the Banks Group, the vessel was almost becalmed close in to shore, and large numbers of canoes came about. The labourers on board gave the alarm that the islanders 'wantee make fight,' and armed themselves with bows and arrows, some of which were on board. They had hardly done so when a shower of arrows from the canoes came, one arrow entering poor Bradley's thigh. The wound was immediately attended to, and a native sucked it, but the poison was too insinuating to be drawn by such simple means; and after about thirty hours of suffering death relieved him from his pains. This is the third master of Fijian vessels lost within the last few weeks. CAPTURE OP THE PANNT, AND MURDER OP CREW. A gentleman who accompanied the Strathv naver on a labor cruise amongst the Islands gives the " Fiji Times" an account of the discovery of a dreadful occurrence having taken place at Vate, or Sandwich Island, New Hebrides group. On visiting Gunu Island with the boat, they found a small vessel on a reef, hauled over inshore. On making inquiry of some native teachers (Rarotongans) he got the following particulars:— The Fanny, schooner, had anchored at the little island of Ekpeli ten nights back, and had landed some return labor from Kaduvu. Her crew consisted of Mr Bartlet, master; Alick (surname unknown), mate; Jem, a seaman ; Levi and Sinaquali, Fijians; and Tommy, either a half-caste or an ocean islander, and a Mau man. Upon the morning after the Fanny's arrival, the master, Mau man, and one Fijian went ashore, and met a body of Niuta people (tribe of the hill land of Gunu), who told them that seven men wanted to go to Fiji as laborers. They were accordingly taken ©n board, the master being asked to come ashore farther down the coast, where were more men who wanted to go to Fiji. Each of the seven men took long-handled tomahawks with him when he went on board. Jem was the only one who noticed this circumstance, and he told the Mau man to tell them to put them away. They said in reply that " they had killed a chief of Ekpeli, and were afraid to stay near the beach of that island." The master, instead of returning to the town they had indicated, sent Jem into the boat with two natives who had accompanied him (the master), and went and lay down in his berth, as he had a bad headache, and fell into a doze, Alick and two of the native crew remaining on deck. About noon, the captain was aroused by cries on deck, and at the same time the mate rushed into the cabin, crying, "oh! oh!" and holding his hands to his jaw, which was nearly severed from his head. Seizing two loaded revolvers,

the master tried to rush on deck, but Alick pulled him back, and the Niuta men having killed Tommy, and severely wounded Lezi, who fled into the hold, rushed back and sliding the top of the cabin over, stood upon and around it, waiting to tomahawk the master if he should succeed in getting out. Others, with a heavy American axe, cut the cable, and the vessel drifted towards the shore of Gunu. The master tried to force the hatch back, to cut through it with an axe, and then twice attempted to blow it up, but without avail. As a last desperate effort, he emptied several pounds of powder upon the cabin table, in hopes to raise the whole deck, laid Alick upon the cabin fbor out of the way, stopped with a pistol in hand to fire it, when the vessel suddenly heeled over to Btarboard on the reef. A yell of triumph arose from the savage friends who thronged the beach, as they now thought the prey was in their hands. She could be fired into from the shore at a distance of thirty yards, with security to the natives. The master now bound Alick's jaw, the Niuta men keeping up a brisk fire upon the vessel until night brought a respite. On the following night the two men determined to quit the vessel, in hopes of getting to the mission station, where they expected to get some assistance for Alick's wounds. There they procured water and food, and hid in the bush. Eventually the master returned to the teacher's house, and was there found by the people of the Strathnaver. Alick was murdered by the natives, who found him the day before walking in the bush. His body, lashed to a pole, was found on the beach, and buried. Most of the gear of the Fanny was recovered, and she was floated off. The boat's crew wore murdered by the Niuta natives, a little way down the coast. The alleged reason of the murders was that some women had been stolen and never returned. As tar as can bo gathered from the statements made by the natives, this is one of those attacks which has arisen from bad conduct on the part of former labor vessels.