SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 55, 10 February 1872, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. 2, Celaeno, ship, 702 tons, C. H. Renaut,, from London. Passengers: Cabin—Rev W. Stewart, Mrs Stewart, Masters William, David, James, and Henry Stewart, Misses Margaret and Bessie Stewart, Miss Fraser, Mr Tribe, Dr Walker. Second Cabin—Mr and Mrs Firmin, Miss Bathan, Messrs Stead and Buckland. Steerage—sß adults. 4, Rangatira, 8.8., 185 tons, Renner, from the South. Passengers : Cabin —Mies Stevens, Miss Ridley, Mrs White and family (10), Capt Thomas, Mrs Worth and family (4), Mrs Mitchell, Messrs Lemon, Wilson, Saul, Devon, Robinson (2), Steel, M'lntyre,Clifton, Stewart, Morrison, Stedman, Hill, Bamford, Whittem, Bath, Stowe, Norman, M'Artney, Catley. 4, Keera, s.s., 158 tons, Carey, from Auckland,Tauranga, Poverty Bay, and Napier. Passengers—Mrs Scully, Messrs Harrison, Maurey, Harding, Cooper, and Robinson. 5, Go-ahead, s.s., 84. tons, Doile, from Manawatu. 5, Dawn, cutter, 21 tons, Craig, from Manawatu. 6, Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Eraser, from Kaikoura. Passenger—Mr Palmer. 6, Huon Belle, schooner, 42 tons, Saunders, from Rangitikei. 7, St. Kilda, s.s., 91 tons, Flowerday, from Wanganui. Passengers—Mrs Davis and child, Mrs Thompson. 8, Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, E. Wheeler, from Lyttelton. Passengers—saloon : Dr Batt, Mr and Mrs Daymond, Mrs and Miss Gascoine, Mrs and Miss Joseph, Mrs Chew, Messrs Spreat, Hay, Grace, Ike, Martin, Holmes, Jones, Fuhrman, Peacock, Stringer, Norris. Four steerage. 8, Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Croucher, from East Coast. 8, Rangatira, 5.5.,-185 tons, Renner, from Napier. Passengers—Messrs Burton, Wishart, Shirley, Maney, Walker, M'Greery, Sommis, Repbrick, Winslow, Studholme, Lambert, Stewart, Taite, Burns, Dunn (2), Hills, M'Farlane, Tattle, Mrs Mitchell, Miss Howell, Mrs Walker, Miss Cook, Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Hobbs, Mrs Tattle. 8, Albion, s.s., 591 tons, M'Lean, from Lyttelton. Passengers—cabin : Mrs Winter, child, and servant, Miss Brighause, Mr Winter, Mr Taylor, Master Taylor, Messrs Staite, Fowler, Willis, Schaw, Reid, Lewis, Bragge, Blackett, Matheson, Cooke, and 7 in the steerage. SAILED. 2, Thames, cutter, 17 tons, Lambert, for Wairau. 2, Luna, p.s., 200 tons, Fairchild, for Westport. 5, Annie Melhuish, barque, 344 tons, Williams, for Newcastle. 5, Rangatira, s.s, 175 tons, Renner, for Napier. Passengers : Cabin—Messrs Caugh, Montgomery, Deßeer, M'Leod, Miss Ling, 24 ex Celseno. 6, Keera, s.s., 158 tons, Carey, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Cabin—Mrs Joynt and family. 6, Go-Ahead, s.s., 84 tons, Doile, for Wanganui. 6, Jane Elkin, ketch, 25 tons, Leslie, for Eaiapoi. 6, Rose of Edin, schooner, 30 tons, Stevenson, for Picton. The Swedish barque Tropic, with a cargo of deals and battens from Skonwik (a port in the north of Sweden), via Adelaide, has arrived at Port Chalmers. The barque left Skonwin on the 26th August, 1871. The ships May Queen and Peter Denny are loading wool fast at Port Chalmers. The E. P. Bouverie has also received a goodly number of bales. The Christain M'Ausland is to load wool at the Bluff. The " South Australian Register" says : The Government have engaged the Tararua steamer, formerly in the New Zealand line, to convey additional stock and stores to the Northern Territory, so as to assist in the completion of the trans-continental telegraph line. The vessel will take the eastern route, making the mouth of the Roper her destination, but will go on to Port Darwin if such a course should be considered advisable. She will take thirteen or fourteen waggons, about seventy head of horses, and several bullock teams. A number of the horses are intended for the express service, and have been selected specially for that purpose. The steamer will also carry a supply of flour, and such other stores as are likely to be required, in addition to telegraphic materials. The officer who will go in charge of the stock has not yet been decided upon ; he will have the assistance of ten teamsters, who will be employed in the Northern Territory. The Tararua will he round here in about a fortnight, and will be despatched shortly afterwards. It is anticipated that by the date she reaches the Roper there will have been time for the Omeo to have arrived and get her cargo cleared out, so that the small steamer (the Young Australian) will be able to perform a similar service for the Tararua. The selection of the men will, we understand, as on former occasions, be left to the officer in command. In regard to the rains reported at the Charlotte Waters, we are happy to state that further advices tend to show that they have been general along the line of telegraph, rain having fallen on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and sth of December, and again on the 3rd and 4th of January. An unusual, though by no means unprecedented, occurrence (says the " Newcastle Chronicle") is reported by Captain Lockyer, of the barque King Oscar. His account of it is much as follows : —The barque sailed from Hobart Town for this port on the 12th December, and on the 15th, when thirty miles to the eastward of Cape Howe, sighted a large sperm whale, distant about 300 yards, and proceeding in the same direction. The monster , fish remained in company some considerable j time—four days, it is said —and, finally, it was |

seen to lift its head out of the water, and make a furious dash at the vessel, striking her with tremendous force, and careening her over several streaks. Those who felt the shock compare it to the striking of a vessel on a rock, so violent was it. The pumps were at once sounded, but at first it was supposed that no material damage was done ; subsequent soundings showed, however, that the barque was making water at the rate of six inches an hour, and this she continued doing up to date of arrival, the 26th December. The U.S. sloop-of-wav St. Mary arrived in Auckland harbor on the 25th January, from Sydney, which port she left on the 6th. The St. Mary, which is an old-fashioned sailing sloop, carrying a battery of 14 Bin. Dahlgren guns and two 60-pounder ParroU rifles, sailed from San Francisco on October 18, 1870, for Honolulu, at which port she remained until the sth November following. She sailed thence for Talcahuano on the 20th December, and arrived at Chile on the 10th February. She left Talcahuano on the 6th March for "Valparaiso, where she arrived on the 10th ; thence on the 3rd April for Callao, where she arrived on the 6th May, having touched at Coquimbo, Caldera, and Arica. Hhe left Callao on the lOfch June, and arrived at Neuka-Hiva, Marquesas, on the 30th. Leaving there on the 25th July, she arrived at Apia, Samoa, via Tahiti, on the Bth August, which port she left on the 18th, and arrived at Levuka on September 16, having passed the Phoenix group on the way to locate some islands whose positions were doubtful. While lying off Levuka a detachment of sailors and marines were sent to the island of Taviuni, to enforce some demands which Dr Brower, U.S. consul at Fiji, who accompanied the expedition, had to make on behalf of U.S. citizens residing in that district. The St. Mary sailed from Levuka October 20, and arrived at Sydney on November 3. Sailed again on January 6, 1872, arriving here yesterday after a tedious passage of 18 days. On casting anchor at 4 p m., she saluted the port with 21 guns. His Worship the Mayor and the U.S. consul shortly after her arrival went off to pay their respects to the commander of the sloop. The St. Mary it is expected will remain in this port for about three weeks, and then proceed back to the South American coast. With the exception of the cordial welcome the captain and officers have received at every port in which they have touched, there is nothing to report. — " Southern Cross." The new number of the "Lifeboat" contains an instructive summary of the disasters at sea that occurred on or near the coast of the United Kingdom during last year. It appears that 1865 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 404,000 tons, were wrecked, and that of these 124 were attended with loss of life, 677 Englishmen and 98 foreigners being drowned. It is gratifying to know that these casualties were less than in any of the three previous years, less than half as many as in 1867. Nearly half of this loss resulted from ten wrecks, 180 being drowned in the Cambria, and 200 in nine other vessels. The number of lives saved during the year amounted to 4654, and of these a large proportion were rescued by the life-boats of the National Life-boat Institution. Of the total number of wrecks, " 795 happened when the wind was such that a ship could carry her top-gallant sails ; 141 when a ship ought to be well able to hold her course ; and 492 with the wind at and above a strong gale." "We observe," it is added, " that 427 vessels were lost last year while under the command of masters who held certificates of competency; and that in 180 other cases the masters held certificates of service. But no less than 819 of the wrecked vessels were under the command of perspns not possessing, and not required to possess, certificates of competency, in addition to 165 cases where it is not known whether or not the masters held certificates, and 274 where foreign masters not holding British certificates were employed. It is matters like these that call loudly for legislative interference." The aggregate deaths from shipwreck during the past ten years were 8168, and the lives endangered were about twenty times as many. Surely greater care than it has hitherto shown should be taken by the State in seeing that ships that go to sea are seaworthy, and that the masters to whom they are entrusted are competent to manage them.

The Iris, a smart-looking three-masted schooner, with teas from Foo-Chow-Foo, consigned to her agents, Messrs Turnbull and Co., reached Port Chalmers on the 4th inst., at 8 a.m. The Iris left Foo-Chow-Foo on the 17th November, passed through Formosa Channel on the 18th, had fine N.E winds in the China Sea, passed Matuna on the 25th, and cleared Carimata Straits on the 2nd Dec. Passed through Lombock Straits on the 11th; after that, she had almost a dead beat against W.S.W winds, for seventeen days, until she caught the S.E trades in latitude 20 south. They were well southerly, and carried to 36 south, longitude 42 east. South-west and northerly winds followed, and the best of the opportunity was made to pick up her lost time. The Traps and Snares were passed on the Ist instant, from whence she had indifferent winds. Pavt of her cargo is for the North.—" Otago Daily Times."

The White Star line is known to us here only through its sailing packets, the old Red Jacket, the White Star, &c. It runs between Liverpool and New York, a magnificent line of full-powered steamers. A pamphlet narrative of the voyage of one of these, the Atlantic, 5000 tons, 3000 horse-power, has been forwarded to us by the local agents, Messrs Lorimer and Co. The editor describes the Atlantic as an " iron ship of 437 ft in length, and 3000 horse-power, carrying four masts of graceful proportions. She is the latest and best result of modern naval architecture, and is in every respect a magnificent vessel. It is hardly possible to realise the great advance she is over the past, without takiag a voyage in her\ She is divided into five watertight com-

partments by iron bulkheads, and in case of fire could be flooded in any of these divisions, and pumped out again. Her decks are secured by patent iron bolts of great strength and cost, and her houses and upper work are so completely welded to the hull, that separation is impossible ; the whole weight of the ship might be lifted by them. Her sails are hoisted by steam, and she is steered by the same power, and therefore is as easily handled as a pleasure yacht, although of such great size." —" Melbourne Daily Telegraph." ARRIVAL OF THE CEL J2NO. The Celaeno, Captain Renaut, arrived at the Heads yesterday morning at an early hour. At half-past nine o'clock her number was run up at Mount Victoria, and, the wind being favorable, the ship rounded Point Halswell about half-past ten, Mr Holmes, the pilot, bringing her up to a position abreast of the Governor's residence. The ship left Gravesend at 4 p.m. on November 2, so that the passage in v eality has occupied just ninety days, or, including the days of departure and arrival, 92 days. Captain Renaut speaks of the weather experienced as wonderfully fine throughout the voyage, the winds being light, but wholly favorable. Similar weather seems to have accompanied all the vessels which left about the time the Celamo did, the Warrior Queen to Otago, and the Charlotte Gladstone to Lyttelton, having both made fine passages out, the latter being spoken off Obago Heads on the 86fch day out. The passengers number 74, all of whom have enjoyed excellent health throughout the voyage, the only sickness experienced being in one case, which resulted in death, the cause being apoplexy and sunstroke. Though there are outward appearances of wear and weather, internally the ship is remarkably clean throughout, a remark which applies also to the passengers as a whole. Mr J. Knowles, the emigration officer, was on board, and inspected the passengers and ship, an examination which proved to be completely satisfactory. Captain Renaut has kindly furnished us with the following memoranda from the ship's log :—On leaving Gravesend proceeded down Channel with moderate easterly winds and fine weather. Landed the pilot off Portland on the 4th, and up to the 14th had moderate and variable winds, on which dale sighted the island of Madeira, and caught the N.E. Trade winds, which were carried into 8 ° N. latitude. November 26th caught the S.E. Trades in latitude 3 ° N., and longitude. 26 ° W., and crossed the equator November 27th, in longitude 27 ° 18' W. On November 29th put letters on board the ship Octavia, bound to Rio Janeiro. The S.E. Trades were very light, and were lost in latitude 15 ° S., longitude 30° W. December 7th sighted the Martin Vass Rocks and island of Trinadad. December 21st crossed the meridian of Greenwich in latitude 42 ° S. and the Cape of Good Hope, December 25th, in latitude 44° S. Easting run down between 47 ° and 48 ° S. Passed the meridian of Tasmania on January 23rd, 1872, in latitude 48° S. From the time of losing the S.E. Trades up to latter date the winds were moderate from between north and west, and weather very fine. Off Tasmania the barometer fell to 29 05. Had a freshfgale for a few hours from S.W., with high sea. From Tasmania the winds were from the westward, and the weather very fine. January 27th, 7 a.m., passed in sight of the Snares, with heavy N.W. gale and thick weather. January 28th, 8 a.m., made Saddle Hill, off Otago, when it fell calm. Passed Bank's Peninsula at midday of the 30th. Wind light and variable on the coast, with cloudy weather. Made Pencarrow Head at 6 a.m. of February 2nd, 1872. All on board in good health. On November 2fi, Phoebe Corke, a steerage passenger, aged 52, died. The following testimonials were presented on the arrival of the ship : —" To Captain C. H. Renaut.' —We, the undersigned passengers of the Celceno, take this opportunity of tendering to you our sincere gratitude for your uniform courtesy and kindness to all, and for your great skill and untiring assiduity in the performance of your duties, to which, under the guidance of Providence, we owe our safe arrival. We shall ever cherish kindly remembrances of you and our pleasant voyage, and spontaneously take this opportunity of testifying our esteem and respect." Signed by fiftyseven passengers.—" To Dr Walker.—Dear Sir, —We, as passengers of the Celaeno, desire to offer you our sincere thanks for your kind and courteous attention to us. It is unnecessary that we should add any comment on your skill further than cordially to endorse your previous high testimonials."—Signed by thirtyfour passengers.