SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 44, 25 November 1871, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. November 18, Ahuriri, s.s, 131 tons, Capt Rl'Kinnon, from Napier. Passengers—Miss Tonks, Miss Lovelock, Messrs Martin and Stewart, andl4 in the steerage. Mr, Mrs, Master, and Miss Murray, and the circus company : Messrs Wills, Beeston, Graham, Bishop, Gorman. Gribin, Roberts, Ryan, Morgan, Blackall, and Shepherdess, schooner, Gathercole,from the Coast. . _ . 18, Dunedin, schooner, from the Coast. 19* Wanganui, s.s., 165 tons, Linklater, from Wanganui. Passengers—Mrs Smith, Mrs Dick, Mrs Baker, Mrs Twentyman, Messrs Whiting, Simmonds, Keelor, and Overend ; eight Maoris. 19, Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, from the South. Passengers —Lady Bowen and suite, Rev Mr Bavin, Mrs Border, Messrs Orton, Thompson, Davis, Henockesberg, and seven in the steeragge. 19, Lyttelton, p.s., 56 tons, Scott, from Blenheim. Passengers—Mr Dodson, Mr Bell, and two in the steerage. 19, Heversham, barque, 000 tons, Yule, from Newcastle, N.S.W. 20, Adeline Burke, 281 tons, Blake, from Newcastle. 20, Maori, s.s, Malcolm, from Napier. Passengers —Mr and Mrs Landon, Messrs Menzies, Friberg, Ford, and two in the steerage. 21, Alarm, ketch, 15 tons, Callow, from Rangitikei. 21, Claud Hamilton, s.s., 530 tons, Clarke, from Melbourne via West Coast. Passengers —Mrs Eccles, Miss M'Gregor, Messrs Ivens, Overhend, D. Scott, Akerston, Austin, Rev Mr Dolomore, Mrs Hamilton. 21, H.M.S. Blanche, 4 guns, Challis, from Sydney via the Chatham Islands. .22, Luna, p.s, 200 tons, Fairchild, from Napier. 23, Enterprise, Bchooner, Croucher, from Flaxbourne. SAILED. 19, Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, M'Kinnon, for Southern ports. 19, Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, M'Kinnon, for Lyttelton. 20, Thames, cutter, 17 tons, Lambert, for Picton. 20, Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Fraser, for Kaikoras. 20, Taranaki, s.s, 299 tons, Wheeler, for Picton, Passengers —Mrs Bardadelson, Mrs Hector, servant, and two children, Dr Greenwood, Miss Martin, Mrs Leadow, Mrs Smith, Mr and Mrs Yoxon and five children, Mr Eyes, Mr Allison, Miss Smith, Messrs Thompson, Kelly, E. Pearce, Mitchell, Henderson, Chamberlain, Bell, Williamson, Levin, Miss Ollington, Mrs Irapay, and 4 in the steerage. 20, Wanganui, s.s., 165 tons, Linklater, for Wanganui. Passengers —Miss Minzdy, Miss Birst, and Mr Harcourt. 20, Swordfish, brigantine, Harvey, 185 tons, Harvey, for Hobart Town. 20, Lyttelton, s.s, 86 tons, Scott, for Blenheim. 21, Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton. Passengers Messrs Johnston, Twentyman, T. C. Brown, W. A. Murray, D. H. Mervyn, Captain Cross, Mr and Mrs Green. 21, Shepherdess, schooner, 38 tons, Gathercole, for Palliser Bay. 22, Claud Hamilton, 522 tons, Clark, for Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers— Messrs Nurse, Davis, Brunton, Taylor, Wilkinson, Jackson, Cobb, Jones, Miss Riddiford, Mr M'Kenzie, Rev Mr Bairn. 22, Lady Bird, three-masted schooner, 300 tons, Holm, for Newcastle, N.S.W., in ballast. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Trist, Mrs Page. 22, Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, Stewart, for Havelock, in ballast. 22, Osprey, p.s., 28 tons, Hebberley, for Blenheim. 23, Rangitira, 185 tons, Renner, for Terawiti, 23, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, for Wairau. Passengers —Messrs Dodson and Eccles. We understand that Captain Bishop, with the view to assist local industries, has shipped by his vessel three or four tons of beef, which he intends placing in the hands of Messrs Temple & Co, London, who are large ship provision merchants, and who will report as to the condition in which it is landed, and the chances it has of occupying a place in the English market. This is as it should be, and we trust Captain Bishop will be well remunerate A his enterprise. The ship Halcione has now on board 1940 hales wool, 1034 bales flax, 312’ pkgs tallow, beef, and horns. It is anticipated that she will stow 700 bales more wool, and as that quantity is already engaged, she will probably be a full ship the first week in December. A few of her cabins remain still disengaged, but inquiries have been made for them. We understand that the whole of the Electra’s cargo, some 3600 bales, is already engaged for her. The whole of her inward cargo having been discharged she is now re•aiving her homeward freight. A ship canal in Salem, New Jersey, which was projected 75 years ago, is now approaching completion. It extends from the Delaware River to Salem Creek. The canal for one-half the proposed distance was completed in 1812, but from some reason it was abandoned until last year. Flogging on board ship was understood to he an extinct institution, but it does not appear to be altogether so. At Sydney the other day, Captain Bennett, master of the brig Aurora, waß charged with flogging a seaman on board his ship while at the Solomon Group, when the following evidence was taken Richard Spence Chisholm said—l was an able seaman on board the British vessel Aurora on the 20th of August last. On

that day the vessel was at Honoonoo, islands off St Christoval, which is under the native government. I was taken on board at 6 o’clock in the morning. Defendant put the handcuffs on one of my hands, passed my hands round a spar lashed up and down the main mast, and then put the iron on the other hand. He told the mate to bring a bit of ratlin line. I was dressed in my shirt and pants. The defendant then brought out the articles and read them. He called all hands aft to witness the punishment. He put my shirt over my head and gave me several lashes on my back, each with the ratlin line. After giving me several lashes he told a man, named Collins, to make my feet fast, which was done with running gear. Defendant threatened if I made a noise he would gag me. He then gave me more lashes, making in all two dozen. Between the lashes he repeatedly dipped the line in dirty bilge-water. After defendant flogged me he gave the line to the mate. Defendant afterwards called for salt and water, and rubbed it in my back. I was then taken down, and defendant gave the mate orders to take me down below. I was then ironed in such a way that I was in a sitting posture upon the ’tween deck beam, and left there for eight hours. The mate then came down and released me. Defendant, a few days ago, offered me my clothes, £5, and pay my solicitor £1 Is, to let the case drop. My back was sore for about eight weeks after the assault. The scars are on my back now.” The captain has since been committed for trial.

Some idea of the extraordinary power of the current in Cook’s Strait may be given by the following fact:—The barque Heversham sailed from Wellington harbor on the 10th ult., and was during the fourteen subsequent days endeavoring to beat under short canvas through Cook’s Straits, but owing to the strong set of the current, the captain found himself at the expiration of that period some sixty miles to the leeward of his point of departure. Captain Montgomerie, of the Blanche, has been succeeded by Captain Simpson, who arrived in Sydney from England by the R.M.S. Geelong. The following is the full report of the Sydney Steam Navigation Board, who were requested by the Colonial Treasurer to investigate the circumstances attending the collision between the American mail steamship Nevada and the A. H. Badger : —“ The board directed the secretary to write to the master of the A, H. Badger to attend at this office with such witnesses as he might be disposed to examine in reference to the collision. They likewise caused letters to be written to the master of the steamer Nevada and the American consul, inviting their attendance at the inquiry, with such witnesses as they might wish to bring; and they further caused a notice to be inserted in the daily papers requesting the attendance of any persons who had any evidence to offer in reference to the subject of the inquiry. On Thursday, Oct. 26, the board assembled to hold the inquiry, when there were present the master of the A. H. Badger, with his witnesses. Captain Blethen, of the steamer Nevada; and Mr Hall, the American Consul, also attended, but declined to take any part in the proceedings, intimating through their legal representative their determination to defer what they had to say until the case should be brought under judicial investigation. The legal representatives of the insurance company also attended, but declined to take any part in the proceed' ings. On the purely ex parte view of the case presented to the board, they do not feel that they would be warranted in pronouncing an authoritative opinion as to which vessel was in default; but that they feel constrained to record their opinion that great blame is to be attached \o the person in charge of the steamer Nevada in proceeding on their course without stopping to inquire into the facts of the collision, and also whether any assistance was required by the other vessel.” —“ Sydney Morning Herald,” Nov. 3. THE WAIHOPAI. This schooner, which was stranded in Palliser Bay during the late S.E. gale, arrived in harbor on Sunday evening. Captain Evans reports having been fortunate enough to get the vessel off with the loss only of an anchor and chains and the main boom. Although the vessel has been ashore the hull has nob sustained a break or crack, and is quite sound and tight. The vessel was making for the port on Friday last and reached Fitzroy Bay, where she anchored with the kedge ancboi*, and this not being sufficient to hold her she wa9 blown away to sea, bub was enabled to make the harbor with the change of the wind to the south east on Sunday. The escape is a very fortunate one for the owners, as the vessel, which is the property of Capt Cross, of Nelson, is not insured. ACCIDENT TO THE SCHOONER COLLING WOOD. We are indebted to Mr Holmes, the pilot, for the following particulars of the striking of the schooner Collingwood on Barrett’s Reef, yesterday morning : —About eight o’clock yesterday morning, when coming through the north end of Chaffer’s Passage the schooner Collingwood struck on Barrett’s Reef. Immediately on striking the anchor was let go, and the ensign, Union down, run up. Mr Holmes, the pilot, went off, and after boarding the vessel immediately got the pumps to work, and the crew commenced bailing with buckets which were passed through the companion. A messenger was immediately sent to town for a steamer. A blanket was got under the vessel’s forefoot, and by that means the water was kept under and the vessel kept afloat until the arrival of the Luna, when Capt Fairchild took the Collingwood in tow and brought her up to the wharf, where she was discharged. The Collingwood is from Nelson, with a cargo of malt. There is little doubt

whatever that the safety of the vessel and cargo is due to the timely and willing assistance of Mr Holmes aud his crew. ARRIVAL OP THE BLANCHE. H.M.S.S. Blanche, Captain Challis, arrived in harbor on Tuesday evening, from Sydney, via the Chatham Islands. The Blanche left Sydney on October 21st, calling in at the Auckland Isles on the 28th. Examined the depots and searched the islands for wrecked seamen. Left there for Campbell Island on on Sept. 4, where she arrived on the sth j as it was blowing a gale the Blanche did not call in, but proceeded to the Antipodes < and Bounty Islands, which were closely examined. Thence sailed for the Chatham Islands, which she reached on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Left there for Wellington direct on Nov. 16, arriving in harbor at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The Blanche is almost entirely manned by the survivors of the Megsera, which our readers well remember was wrecked at St Paul's. Altogether there is a total of 150 of all ranks from the Megfera's crew on board, the commander of that vessel, together with other officers and the chief engineer, having gone home to attend the court martial. The following is a list of the officers of the Blanche :—Captain Henry J. Challis, (acting, Rosaria). Lieutenants—F. W. B. Prsed, Thos. T. A. Smith, John H. Lee (Clio). Sub-Lieu-enants—Lewis T. Jones, Henry F. Hazard, Henry M. C. Feating. Naval-Lieutenant— John Edwards (Blanche). Paymaster—Jas. B, M'Avoy. Surgeon W. Hi Adams: Assistant Surgeon Wm. F. Sweetman. Chief Engineer—John Snell (Blanche). Engineer—Thomas Clark. Third EngineerGeorge Elliot. Clerk—Charles E. Bynon (Clio). Midshipmen—H. J. Davison, E. K. Bruce, J. C. Faire, H. Evans, H. Walpole. THE WRECK OF THE AHURIBL Our telegrams announce the wreck of this favorite steamer, all hope of saving her or any portion of her cargo being banished by her total disappearance. We understand she was insured for £2OOO in the New Zealand Insurance Company, part of which had been transferred to an Australian office. There seems to be little doubt that her striking was caused by the shore being hugged too closely. It would be strange indeed if it were possible that a rock had only recently been discovered in so unfortunate a manner on a course that has been sailed over for the last twenty years. The loss is to be regretted as Mr Houghton, as our readers are aware had just purchased the vessel from Mr John Mai tin of this city, THE BRITISH FLEET. Our thought last week, says the " Saturday Review," was that it was impossible for the G-overnment to get deeper into the mud ; but the Malebolge has thickened, and a denser darkness has settled on the setting of the Parliamentary sun. It is as though an adverse and cruel fate were engaged in hurling confusion from every quarter of the political heaven, if not destruction, on the House of Gladstone, Una JSwusque Notusque, &c. Although troubles and misfortunes generally come in troops, yet there remains another characteristic of a sea of sorrow, that the last wave is usually the most destructive. If there is one British boast which we especially prize, it is our navy. The Battle of Dorking was not fought till the British fleet was found wanting, or scattered, or nowhere at the crisis of fate. The ingenious but exceedingly stupid author of the " Second Armada" founded his pleasant fiction on our great line of defence on the German Ocean. This illusion has received a very rude shock. In one brief twelvemonth no less than four great naval casualties of the very first importance have overtaken the pride of England. The Psyche has been lost, though the savans and their instruments have been saved, and this on a coast which, since history has been written, has been noted as especially dangerous, and therefore especially well known. One of our best ironclads —an ironclad ship built to illustrate the greatest novelty, and, as we are told, the greatest success in war ships—has gone down in a most inconsiderable gale in a notorious, sea, where danger is always looked for, and, therefore, as we simply thought, always provided against. Another of our great glories has escaped destruction by the weather and broad daylight in the well-known waters of Gibraltar Bay ; and, to crown all, a troopship has been obliged to be run ashore on a barren rock in the Indian Ocean in a sinking state. The Psyche, the Captain, the Agincourt, and the Megsera—these sad names almost recall the successive buffets which, culminating at Sedan, have just destroyed the power and almost the existence of France. THE COMBINED FLEETS. The Admiralty has sent to the London papers the statement annexed: — The following is a correct list of vessels be'onging to the Mediterranean and Channel fleets, which, united with the detached squaIron and the reserve ships, are now (lately) cruising. They form a total force of 25 vessels, of which 19 are ironclads. Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton, K.C.8., commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean station, takes command of the combined fleet, and will, during the cruise, use every opportunity of exercising it in manoeuvres under sail and steam. The nine ironclad vessels of the reserve squadron were to join the Vice-Admiral and the rest of the fleet on the 9th instant, twenty-two miles west of Ushant. A few days afterwards, Rear-Ad-miral Beauchamp Seymour, with the detached squadron, will be directed to proceed to Portland, and thence will sail on a cruise to the Baltic. The rest of the fleet will continue united on a more protracted cruise. M KT>TTRR.T? 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WRECK or the BARQUE CORYPHEUS IN MARSHALL’S ARCHIPELAGO. [From the Rockhampton Bulletin, Oct. 9.] The barque Corypheus, of London, 296 tons register. Captain Rae, left Foo-chow (China) on the 14-th July last, bound for Melbourne. Her owners were Messrs Dalgety, Blackwood and Co, of Melbourne and London, who were also the owners of her.cargo, consisting of 400 tons of tea. Her officers and crew consisted of Mr Davey, chief officer, Mr Thomson, second officer, and 11 seamen, named George Begg (carpenter), Richard Cole, Owen Hughes, Peter Lewis, David Bowden, Otto Eisnerb, Thomas Dawson, Peter Lang, John Wiekeroi (an Austrian), and two Chinamen—--14 all. Captain Rae took his vessel on the Pacific route for Melbourne, and all went well until the 23rd August, when, the vessel having been steered her course from noon of the previous day, the second mato reported breakers on the lee bow, at half-past 4 a.m. The helm was immediately put down, in order to get the ship on the other tack, but, it having fallen calm in the meantime, she refused stays. A boat was launched, with a line from forward, to try to bring the ship round, but this proved of no avail. A second boat was then got out, but the vessel drifted helplessly on to the reef which surrounds the island of Ailu, in Marshall’s Archipelago. Captain Rae states that although he had made due allowance for the supposed current in that latitude, the ship had drifted thirty miles out of her course within the space of sixteen hours. She got on the reef on the eastern side of the island, in latitude 10 deg 26 min N., and long 170 deg 18 miti E. Ou testing his recent observations, Captain Rae found them strictly correct, and the loss of his vessel is therefore due to the previously unknown force of the current in that part of the Pacific. After the ship struck the reef, Bhe rolled fearfully for a few minutes, the captain being afraid she would cant to the seaward ; but the sail being set, and the breeze freshening, she ultimately canted inshore. The mainmast was then cut away, and the captain and part of the crew got on to the reef, the first and second officers having previously started with the two boat 3 to try and find a passage through the reef on the lee side of the island. The chief officer returned to the wreck with his boat, after an absence of 24 hours. The second mate was absent 36 hours. Both were at length successful in finding an entrance into a lagoon which lies between the reef and the shore. In the meantime the vessel had become a total wreck, and it became impossible to save even the stores, except such as sufficed to provision the two boats. When she first went ashore it was calm, but ten minutes afterwards it came away a strong N.E. trade wind, which continued to blow with force for nine successive days, the sea at length breaking clean over the ship. The provisions were got out with much difficulty, the crew being able to work only about an hour on each day, at dead low water, on account of the heavy sea. On leaving the wreck, the captain and all hands went ashore on the island (Ailu). Here they were most hospitably received by the islanders, who at once brought them to a supply of cocoanuts, and fresh water. During the succeeding nine days the crew were employed in getting provisions from the ship, and in raising the boats a .plank round, to fit them for sea. On the 3rd Septembei*, everything being ready for starting, five of the crew: —Lewis, Eishert, Wiekeroi, and the two Chinamen—elected to remain on the island rather than face the dangers of a long trip across the ocean. Of the remainder, the captain, second officer, and two seamen —Cole and Lang—took the ship’s gig, the chief officer and the remaining four seamen taking the jolly boat. The captain gave the mate the best of his charts, and started himself with a compass, chart, chronometer, a small supply of biscuits, a small quantity of Australian tinned mutton, and two kegs each containing 18 gallons of fresh water. The mate’s boat was similarly provisioned. They started in company, arranging that in the event of their parting, each should endeavor to make Pleasant Island (lat 30 min S.) and there await the other’s arrival; failing to make the island, Rockhampton wa3 to be the destination of both, it being wholly impossible to make the New Hebrides, on account of the S.E. trade winds, and the Solomon Group to the westward being by repute inhabited by cannibals. The boats kept in company four days, when they parted. On account of a gale of wind which lasted two days, when near Pleasant Island, the captain’s boat was driven 80

miles to leeward, and lie determined to steer I at once for Australia. j For 45 long days the little boat pursued h v way without seeing a single vessel or touching land. The only islands sighted were Stewart’s and St Christoval Islands—the latter one of the Solomon Group. Knowing the lengthened voyage before them—2,6so miles—the captain and cre w eked out theirwater and provisions by subsisting on three small ship biscuits, about half pound of Australian tinned mutton, and bottle of water each per man per diem. Their stock of water was several times replenished by rain, the sails being made use of to catch a supply. The men suffered very much from exposure, alternately to the soaking rain and the burning sun, and also from occasionally shipping saltwater, which not only made them uncomfortably wet, but also damaged their biscuits. The heat was overpowering, and while for many weeks cooped up in the little boat their sufferings are described at times as almost intolerable. However, they persevered and on the 44th day landed on one of the islands near Keppel Bay. Having remained ashore a few hours, they again set sail, and were so fortunate as to arrive safely in the bay on Tuesday last, their provisions and strength all but exhausted. They boarded the Keppel Bay lightship the same morning, and there wei'e supplied with a good breakfast, and otherwise kindly treated. As soon as the sea breeze sprang up they proceeded up the Fitzroy, and reached the Upper Flats lightship at 1 a.m. next day. Here they remained a short time, and, having been refreshed with food, Btarted for Rockhampton, reaching the wharf at half-past 10 on the miming of Wednesday, October 18.

illiii Horse-power. Tons. Lord Warden 1,000 4,080 Caledonia 1,000 4,125 Defence 800 3,720

Prince Consort • • • 1,000 4,045 CHANNEL SQUADRON. Northumberland • • • 1,350 6,621 Warrior 1,250 6,109 Hercules • > a 1,200 5,234 Monarch 1,100 5,102 Agincourt . .a 1,350 6,621 Detained by court-martial. Minotaur • • a 1,350 6,216 Detained by court-martial. FIRST RESERVE SniPS. Achilles 1.250 6,121 Black Prince ... 1,250 6,109 Hector 800 4,089 Yaliant 800 4,083 Yanguard 800 3,774 Invincible . ... 800 3,774 Hepuls9 800 3,749 Resistance 600 3,710 Penelope 600 3,096 DETACHED SQUADRON. Narcissus 400 2,665 Inconstant 1,000 4,066 Topazo - 600 2,659 Immoratalite 600 3,059 Yolage 600 2,322 Cadmus ... 400 1,466 Total 22,700 107,000 Despatch vessel —Helicon.