SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 49, 30 December 1871, Page 8

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. Dbcembee 23, Go-ahead, s.s., 84 tons, Doile, from Wanganui. Passengers : Cabin —Miss Brown, Mr Samuels ; 3 steerage. 24, Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Kennedy, from the South. 26, Alert, cutter, 28 tons, Scott, from Lyttelton. ■ 26, Ruby, schooner, 3o tons, Eraser, from the Coast. 25, Wanganui, s.s., 164 tons, Linklater, from Wanganui. 26, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, from Blenheim. 27, Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Eraser, from Kaikouras. 27, Taranaki, s s'., 299 tons, E. Wheeler, from Nelson. 28, Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Croucher, from Teawaite. 28, Keera, s.s., 158 tons, Carey, from Napier. 29, Albion, s.s., from Melbourne via South. SAILED. 23, Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for the South. Passengers : Cabin —Mrs Brackens and child, Mrs Matheson, Captain Thomas, Messrs E. J. Wakefield, Williams, Isaacs; and 7 steerage. 23, Go-ahead, s.s., 84 tonp, Doile, for Wanganui. 24, Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Kennedy, for the North. 26, City of Newcastle, barque, 800 tons, Matthews, for Newcastle. 26, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrisan, for Blenheim. 27, Wanganui, 8.8., 165 tons, Linklater, for Wanganui. 27, Luna, p.s., 192 tons, Fairchild, for the Manukau. Passengers—Hon Mr Vogel, Hon Colonel Fielding, Mr W. H. Webb, Mr James Brogden, and a number of other gentlemen. 28, Taranaki, s.s., Wheeler, for the South. Passengers : Cabin—Opera Troupe (34),Capt Hutton, Miss Warren, Mrs Warren, Messrs Smith and Cassidy. 28, Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Eraser, for Kaikouras. Mr Patterson, H.M. Customs, Wanganui, brings intelligence that a whaling barque, just arrived at Mongonui, spoke the Auckland Whaling Company's barque Albion, with 600 barrels on board. —"New Zealand Herald," 16th Dec. The application of Messrs N. Edwards and Co for a new trial in the matter of the collision of the steamers Charles Edward and Murray, which took place some time ago on the Buller bar, has been refused by Judge Richmond in the Nelson Supreme Court, with costs. The verdict, therefore, stands intact. SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE SCHOONER PETREL, OE SYDNEY, AT THE NEW HEBRIDES, WITH 48 LIVES. Our informant, Captain Bowden, of the W. S. Fox, arrived here (New Caledonia), en route to Sydney, states that Captain Keece, of the above schooner, arrived at Havanah harbor on the 15th November, in his whaleboat, and reports that he left his vessel at noon on the 10th instant, about half a mile off the northwest point of Apee, to go ashore to bring off four natives engaged as laborers from that island, having with him his native boat's crew. He had got the natives in the boat, when it came on to rain very heavily. He pulled up his boat, and went under a tree for shelter. He had not been there many minutes before a violent squall of wind from the eastward passed over the island, blowing down the trees in all directions. The wind and rain lasted about half-an-hour, when it cleared. His vessel could not. be seen. Ho went with the boat to the place where he left the vessel, but could see nothing of her. He then returned to the island, and went up a high hill, but still no sign of the ship. The natives seeing him in trouble, hunted him off the island, firing showers of poisonous arrows at him, and doing their utmost to get possession of his boat. He then pulled round the island, and searched Cook's Reef, without, success, and arrived at Havanah harbor greatly exhausted on the 15th instant, having been in his boat fire days without provisions. It is his intention to get a vessel in Haranah harbor to go and search the island, and the reef at the east side of Malicolo, where it is possible the vessel, if not foundered, has been blown on to. When he left his vessel it was calm, and all the canvas was set. There were on board his wife, the Government agent, first and second mate, a native crew, and about forty natives, engaged as laborers for Queensland. WRECK OF THE SCHOONER MIDGE AT KAIPARA. News was received in town yesterday from Kaipara of the total wreck of the fine schooner Midge inside Kaipara Heads on the 15th inst. To Messrs L. D. Nathan & Co we are indebted for the following particulars taken from letters just received by them from Captain Stewart. The Midge left Auckland on the morning of the 9th inst with a general cargo of merchandise for Ahipara and Avatapu Saw Mills, where she was to load 70,000 ft of timber for Dunedin. The Midge arrived at Ahipara on Wednesday, the 13th, after a fine weather passage. She landed a portion of her cargo, but night coming on had to stand out to sea, arriving at the Kaipara Heads on the 14th. Took on board the pilot and proceeded over the bar. At 3 p.m. on Thursday last the Midge struck at Poutu, inside the Kaipara Heads, and near the mouth of the Wairoa River. The weather at the time was fine (at all events in the river), though a high sea was running. The crew were all 6afely got on shore, and every means used to save the cargo, but without success. A few hours after the schooner struck it was found that sho had six

feet of water in her hold, and that her back bad been broken. The crew were then set to work to save the spars, sails, &c, the seas all the time making clean breaches over the vessel. At noon on Friday last all hopes of saving the vessel were given up, the sea still running high, and continuing to break over the Midge ; it was seen that she was breaking up fast. Mr Thomas Peacock and Mr Stewart (of Stewart & Anderson), who arrived in Auckland from the scene of the wreck on Saturday night last, report that a great portion of the cargo of the vessel and a quantity of her timbers had been washed ashore before they left on Friday evening. The Midge was insured in the New Zealand office for £I4OO, and a portion of the cargo was insured in the Pacific, but to what amount we have been uuable to learn.