SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 46, 9 December 1871, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. November 1, Esther, brigantine, 46 tons, Campbell, from Pahau. 1, Go-Ahead, s.s., 84 tons, Doile, from Manawatu. 1, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, from Wairou. 1, Annie Melhuisb, barque, 400 tons, Williams, from Newcastle, N.B.YV. 1, Napier s.s,, Bendall, from Napier, Passengers —Messrs Ormond, M'Farlane, Green, Thomas, and Mrs M'Farlane. 3, Wanganui, s.s, 164 tons, Linklater, from Wanganui. Passengers—Eighty excursionists. 3, Taranaki, s s., 299 tons, E. Wheeler, from Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Passengers —Messrs Stephenson, Brogdon, R. and W. Hall, Mrs Hull and family (4), Messrs Bayli3, Davis, Bell, Menzies, Eye3,Dr Parker, Powell., O’Brien, Tully, Smith, Curtis (Superintendent of Nelson), Walters, Suisted, Captain Halliday and son, Mr Taylor, Miss Hughes, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, and fourteen in the steerage. 6, Luna, p.s, Fairchild, from Wanganui. 5, Rangitoto, s.s., 44£t tons, Mackie, from Melbourne via Hokitika and Nelson. Passengers — saloon : Messrs F. Waterhouse, Greeley, Dillon, Edwards, Thorpe, F. Weston, Mrs Fowler, Rev. J. Laurie, Miss Willmot, Mr and Mrs Wilson, Dr Laking, Mrs Shallicross, Mrs and Miss Moffatt, and eleven in the steerage. 7, Falcon, schooner, 37 tons, Morrison, from Wairau. Passengers—Miss and Master Guilford. 7, Amateur, schooner, 25 tons, Norgrove, from Lyttelton. 7, Rangatira, 185 tons, Renner, from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers—Mrs Mason and 2 children, Messrs Border, Henderson, Williamson, Levi, North, Petrie, Wyatt, O’Brien (2), Frances, and nine in the steerage ; 2 for North. SAILED. 1, Alhambra, ss, 497 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne via Nelson and Hokitika. Passengers Mr and Master Rochford, Mrs Holmes and three children. 1, H.M. Basilisk, 6 guns, Capt. Moresby, for Sydney. 2, Go-a-Heael, s.s., Doile, for Wanganui. 3, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, for Wairau. Passengers —Messrs James, Firth, Robinson, White, Guildford, Sinclair, Bowler, Jackson, Ellis, Currie. 4, Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, for Lyttelton. Passengers —Miss Rhodes, Miss Hoomau, Mr and Mrs M'Farlane, Messrs Lindsay, W. B. Rhodes, Stedman, H. Clayton, Nancarrow, and three in the steerage, 4>, Napier, s.s., 44 tons, Bendall, for Napier. 4, Dawn, cutter, 21 tons, Craig, for Manawatu. 5, Luna, p.s., 192 tons, Fairchild, for the several lighthouses on the coast. 5, Janet Ramsay, schooner, Falconer, for Havelock. 5, Wanganui, s.s., 165 tons, Linklater, for Picton. Passengers —Mr and Mrs'Duncan, Mrs Capper, Mrs Parkes, Miss Ward, Messrs Metcalf, Shannon, Dutton, Drew, Campbell. 6, Elizabeth, schooner, 33 tons, Short, for Oollingwood. 6, Rangitoto, s.s., 448 tons, Mackie, for Melbourne via the South. Passengers Messrs Davis, Purvis, Drake, Mr and Mrs Smith, Major Campbell, Miss Campbell, and Miss Young. Considerable anxiety is felt in commercial circles for the safety of the schooner Rifleman, as she has not been heard of since the 10th November last. A telegram has been received here from the master of the schooner Jupiter, stating that a Maori had informed him on the 20th November, in Ship Cove, that the Rifleman had been there a few days previously. The Luna left here on Tuesday last, and will visit Cape Campbell, Mana, and Farewell Spit. She will also search along the coast for the missing vessel, and we trust she will bring news of her safety. . The schooner Enterprise, Captain Croucher, hence, arrived at Castle Point on Saturday Inst, but could not got in. She then went to Mataikuna and shipped 45 bales wool. She returned to Castle Point on the 4th instant, discharged fourteen tons of cargo the same night, and shipped twenty-one bales wool the following morning. Captain Croucher, fearing that the wind from the north-east would spring up, got his vessel under weigh, and getting into difficulties, signalled to the Napier, which wa9 passing at the time, for assistance. The steamer bore up at once, and in attempting to render assistance a collision took place. The steamer sustained considerable damage, but the schooner escaped with a trifling loss. Both vessels got away yesterday morning. The Bungaree, tug, has just returned (says a Newcastle correspondent) from her morning cruise in search of any towage, and brings a seaman named Berthes Welop, who was picked up off Bird Island flouting on a booby hatch, after being on the same for eight hours. It appears the Tim Whifller left Sydney on Thursday morning, in ballast, for Lake Macquarie ; when off Bird Island, a sudden squall caught the vessel and she capsized. The master, W. Johnson, and a seaman named W. White, took to the boat, and the survivor caught the booby hatch. The cook, who went under the name of Tom, was below asleep, and must have been drowned at once. The boat swamped, but the master and seaman managed to keep up for a half hour. They then hailed the man on the hatch, and asked him to take one of them, but he replied the hatch would not support more than one. As it was, the hatch turned over three times in the night. Welop cooeyed several times, but got no reply, aud the men in the boat, he thinks, perished within an hour of the graft capsizing.

When daylight dawned, he made out a steamer, and hailed her j it proved to bo the Bungaree tug. Captain Woodringham at once took him on board, and brought him safely to Newcastle. THE SCHOONER, ENTERPRISE. Wo have been favored with the following telegrams by Messrs Levin and Co. : Castle Point, Tuesday, 5.17 p.m. I am afraid the Enterprise will become a total wreck. Wind shifted about four points whilst she was in stays. I let go anchors, and did all that I could. When the steamer Napier came in sight, I hoisted a signal of distress ; and in trying to assist me he got athwart hawse, and had to cut awav his foremast to save the vessel. She is riding ahead of me, but has no boat, it being smashed. I have saved my boat, and the crew have landed. We dragged the boat along the beach with horses, so that if the gale abated we will then be first on board again. It is dangerous to stay on board at present. The vessel’s anchors are holding ao yet, but her stern is only twelve feet from the rock. Nothing can assist the vessel, but a shift of wind to the southward, or that it dies away. As yet she has not struck. The north-west gale is tremendous. Should any steamer be corning, get them to look in. Ceouciier. Wednesday, 9 a.m. Wo got the Enterprise off about two a.m. She has sustained no damage worth speaking of. The steamer is considerably damaged. Myself and crew got the Enterprise off. I shall get my head gear fitted again to-day, and continuo to fulfil my voyage. The vessel never struck the rocks here. Her anchors held her, but her bits have been torn out. Steamer left for Napier at 3.30 p.m. CIIOTTCIIER.