SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4139, 26 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

TOUT OF WELLINGTON. II ton WATER.— I.3O A.M. : 2.3 P.M. ARRIVED. June 25. —Hunter, ketch, 22 tons, William Hart, from Blenheim. George Thomas, agent, I’hcebe, s.s., 410 tons, 11. Worsp, from the Northern ports. VoMongera—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Koherts, Misses Potion ami Murch, Master I'iko, Messrs. Hanson, Ibbitson, Smith’s Combination Iroupo, Steerage : 0. K. S. Ledger, agent. Taranaki, s.s., Edward Wheeler, from the Southern ports Passengers Saloon i Mrs. Cornish, Mrs. Coleman. Mrs. Cannon, Messrs. Brodie, Wilson, Boag, Hobday, Blair, Sibhald. It. S. Ledger, agent. SAILED. June 25.—Phtebo, s.s., 410 tons, H. Worsp, for the Southern ports. Passengers—Saloon : Mr and Mrs. Eeole, Misses Armstrong (2), Robinson (2), Messrs. Eulloon, MitcheU, Brower. R. S. Ledger, agent. Stormbird, s.s., 07 tons, P. Doilo, for Wanganui. Passengers Saloon: Miss Clara Stephenson and troupe (S), Messrs. Xixon, Waters, Butt, Davie, and Hooper. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., agents. Cleopatra, brigantine, 92 tons, I’. O Brien, for Hokitika. Plimmer, Reeves, and Co., agents. ENTERED INWARDS. June 25,—Ruby, schooner. 37 tons, T. Eraser from Fluxbournc. Betiiune and Hunter, agents. Kennedy, s,s., 125 tons, Conway, from Aclson r.KI Kekeranga. R. S. Ledger, agent. Stormbird. s.s., 07 tons, P. Dodo, from Aapier W. and G. Turnbull and Co., agents. CLEARED OUT. Junk 25.—Xnverallan, ship, GGO tons, Win, McCann, for Nelson. Johnston and Co., agents. Rose of Eden, ketch, 30 tons, Edward Lake, for Pelorus. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Hunter, from Blenheim: 200 sacks oats, G sacks from Onehunga: 2 boxes, 1 case plants, 7 cases. 4 pels, 1 bale, 30 bars iron. From -Nelson : 1 box, 13 cases, GG hides, 4S bales wool, 7 pkts bops, 8 coops poultry, 10 sacks lime. . . Taranaki, from Dunedin ; 3 bales, 10 cases, lo utils, 5 rases geneva, 2 pkgs, 5 kegs. Prom Oaraaru : 100 sacks flour, 100 1-do, 391 sacks bran, 21 do wheat. From Lyttelton : 2 pels, 1 pile, 4 boxes gold com (£20.000), Bank of New Zealand. Kennedy, from Nelson and Kekeranga : 47 bales Ruby, from Flaxbourne : 15 halos wool, 1 cask tallow. Stormbird, from Napier; 13 bales wool. EXPORTS, Anne and Jane, to Newcastle ; 7 bdls fern trees Inverallan. to Nelson : Original cargo from London. Phoebe, to Lyttelton: 1 pci, 2!) cases, 3 trunks, LL pkgs luggage. To Dunedin : 37 sheep, 1 horse, 1 b °Koseof Eden, to Pelorus; 3 cases brandy, 1 case sundries, 1 piece chain, 1 pkg saivs, 1 bdl handles, 1 case hardware, 1 cask tar, 2 bdls oakum, 1 nest tubs, 1 truss drapery, 1 boiler, 45 furnace bars, 4 pkgs iron. . , ~,, . „ Stormbird, to Wanganui: 3 pkgs, o cases, 11- pkgs groceries, 2 cases do, 1 cask ale, 30 boxes candles, 20 cases stout, 1 bdl shovels, 1 pci, 20 bags coke, 1 keg, 1 pkg trees, 4 pkgs spades, 1 keg soda, 1 pkg paper, 3 sacks oatmeal, 40 kegs white lead, 1 case tobacco, L coils wire, 1 bag alum, 1 case pepper, 1 case clocks 2b gunnies sugar, 7 casks ale, 1 case claret, o pkgs drapers', 1 case do, 1 truss do, 0 tanks. Cleopatra, to Hokitika : 34 iron pipes. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kavdavau, via Auckland and Napier.—A. and A.R.M.S. City- of Adelaide, with Californian mails of May, 2Sth Inst. Melbourne, via Southern Ports.— Otago, s.s., 2Cth Inst. . , , Melbourne.— Asbburton.via Geographe,Bay, W .A., sailed 12th May. .... „ Sydney.— H.M.S. Challenger ; sailed June S. Auckland. —H.M.S. Blanche. Adelaide.— Kangaroo ; sailed 20th May, Newcastle.— Omega; sailed June 6. London. —Weymouth, ship, sailed ith April (from Deal); Waikato, ship ; sailed ISth March—and 24th March from Plymouth, with immigrants; Reichstag, Strathnavar, St. Leonards, Panthoa, ships. Liverpool.— J. A. Thompson, ship. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via West Coast Ports. Otago, S.S., 20th Inst. Sydney. —La Hogue, ship, early. _ London, via Lyttelton.- Wennmgton, ship. Lyttelton and Dunedin.— Star of the South, s.s., this day. Hokitika. - -Seabird, brigantine. Nelson.—Inverallan, ship, this day.

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NAPIER. June '2s.—Sailed; Pretty Jane, for Poverty Bay and Auckland. LYTTELTON*. June 25,—Arrived: John Knox, from Sydney: Princess Alice, from Newcastle. The s.s. Otago sails for Wellington at 6.30. AUCKLAND. June 25.—The brigantine Rhyno has cleared for ■Wellington, via Mercury Bay, with 00,000 feet of timber. The steamer Taranaki arrived in harbor yesterday about noon from the Southern ports, having had a fine run up the coast. She left Wellington at 4 p.m. on the 17th and moored at Lyttleton wharf at 10.30 a m on the ISth. Left at 4 p.m. and arrived alongside the Railway Pier, Port Chalmers, at 1 p.m. the next day after a smooth trip. She was taken to the Dolphin at Carey’s Bay while in Port Chalmers, and there swung for the adjustment of her compasses. She left Port Chalmers at 5 p.m. on the 22nd, and arrived at Oamaru at 10.30 p.m. ; loaded a cargo of grain, and left at 7 p.m, on the 23rd, and arrived at Lyttelton at 11.30 a.m. on the 24th; left again at 7 p.m., and made the run up in about eighteen hours. She brings a large quantity of cargo, some 130 tons, and will discharge at the wharf to-morrow. She sails at midnight on Saturday for Picton, Nelson, and the North. The Opera Troupe will be passengers by her after the Saturday night's performance. ~ , . The steamer Phcebe arrived alongside the_ wharf yesterday about an hour before the Taranaki, with cargo from the Northern ports, and a number of passengers. She lett Wellington wharf at 5.45 a.m. on the Kith, the wind being then fresh from the S.E., and arrived at Picton at 11 o’clock the same morning. Lett at noon: was at Nelson at 8.45 p.m. ; left at, 9,45 p.m. and arrived oif New Plymouth at 2.15 leaving again at 0, and arriving at the Manukau at noon next day. After discharging and receiving cargo, she left again for the south at 2 p.m. on the 22nd, reached New Plymouth at 8 o'clock next morning, stayed an hour, and then proceedecf to Nelson, and on to Picton, from which she sailed early in the morning for Wellington. The Phcebe discharged and loaded cargo during the afternoon, and was ready for sea again by evening. She left the wharf at dusk, and passed a hawser to the barque Anne and Jane, bound for Newcastle, which she towed out of the harbor. The steamer Star of the South was taken round to the Patent Slip at Evans Bay yesterday morning to repair the hole in her side which was made by the hulk’s anchor on Wednesday. The damage was mended in a very short time, and the Star of the South was back again in the evening. She sails South to-day. The steamer Stonnbird left for Wanganui with a largo cargo of stores yesterday afternoon. The barque Anne and Jane cleared at the Customs yesterday for Newcastle, and was towed out to sea by the steamer Phcebe. The twin-screw steamer Kennedy took in a fresh supply of coal yesterday, and will leave the harbor some time to-day for Nelson. The brigantine Cleopatra sailed for Hokitika yesterday with a number of iron pipes. The ship Inverallan was cleared at the Customs yesterday for Nelson. The steamer Otago was to leave Lyttelton last night, and will arrive alongside the wharf in the course of the day. The bar at the Ngakawhau is again good, with at least eight feet of water at high tide and a straight channel. w . t It is notified in the Gazette that Henry Kraeft has been appointed Harbor-master for the port of Napier. Masters of ships navigating Foveaux Strait are notified, through the Gazette, that Captain T. Thomson, Harbor-master at the Bluff, reports the existence of two sunken rocks near Dog Island—one lies a quarter of a mile from the west end of the island, with the lighthouse bearing S E., and has only two feet of water on it at low water spring tides ; the other lies a quarter of a mile from the cast end of the island, with the lighthouse bearing W. by.% and is awash at low water spring tides. The bearings given are magnetic. Tho s.h. Southern' Cross at Auckland.— The new steamer Southern Cross, built to the order of the Auckland Steam Packet Company, has arrived in harbor, after a rather protracted passage from Melbourne. The Southern Cross has been already fully described, and it only remains for us to say that she will undoubtedly be an acquisition to the port, and, having a large cany in g capacity as a cattle vessel, will no doubt prove remunerative to her owners. The new steamer is not very attractive in appearance, but is intended to carry a large cargo with a moderate draught of water, combined with fair steaming powers. The Southern Cross is at present lying in the stream, but will replenish her coal bunkers at one of the hulks, and afterwards haul alongside the wharf to take in cargo for Napier.— Southern Crons. Theh.h. Atkato at Lvxtultok.— This fine vessel arrived in harbor on Saturday at twenty minutes past twelve, and was boarded by the Health Officers. No disease having occurred on the passage from Dunedin to Lyttelton she was, after a short delay, declared free. An inspection of the ship was then made. As regards the married couples’ compartments, it was evident that no attempt had been made to fit up the vessel so as to secure anything like decency, the emigrants being huddled together : and, even without the Dunedin contingent, the accommodation could not have been sufficient for the number of passengers on board. There was also noticeable a want of cleanliness on the part of the immigrants, which may perhaps to some degree be accounted for by the length of time, about four months, they have been on board. In making these remarks we do not blame the captain, surgeon superintendent, and officers, who deserve the greatest credit for their attention to the sanitary state of the vessel.— Press. Insurance. —A rather important action, as bearing upon insurance law, was tried at Sydney recently, sajs the Sydney Morning Herald, before Sir James Martin and a jury of four. It was Jackson v. the Australian Insurance Company. The plaintiff was the insurer of a vessel named the Crishna, and her cargo and outfit. Bhe had been engaged In the beche-de-mcr trade, at Torres Strait, but on the 10th of January, 1873, was seized by H.M.B. Basilisk, for a breach of the Kidapplng Act of 1872, in carrying native laborers

not part of the crew. A libel was filed against her in the Vice-Admiralty Court at Brisbane, and, upon the suit being heard, she was condemned. The owners now sought to recover the amount named, upon the ground that the master had been guilty of_ barratry, in wilfully committing a breach of the Kidnapping Act, and thereby rendering his vessel liable to forfeiture, the owners not having given him any instructions to carry native laborers. The jvury found for the plaintiff, damages £3720. Tub Cutteii Aokks.— We learn from an eyewitness that this vessel, at the time when she was off the Waikato Heads, had a deck load on board, and was in a condition unfitted to encounter a gale like that which prevailed at the time, and which has resulted in the loss of human lives. Some supervision ought to be made by the harbor authorities at this port, and also at Onehunga, in regard to the sailing of these small coasters, timber laden. Deck cargoes are always dangerous, and, although long immunity may make both crews and owners callous of the risk of life and property, a time comes when both are sacrificed, as in the case of this vessel.— Southern Cross . Collision* in Pauling Hauuou.— A very serious collision occurred last evening about 0.30, between the A S.N. Company’s steamers Balclutha and Lady Young, by which both vessels were prevented from prosecuting their relative voyages. The following arc the particulars;—The Balclutha, bound to Rockhampton, having her stern outwards, backed into the stream, and when well clear of the wharf, the Lady Young, bound to Brisbane, being bow out, let go her moorings and went ahead, with .every prospect of obtaining a fair lead down the harbor ; but the Lalclutha finding she was close aboard a barque lying at anchor, went full speed ahead, and tho result was that she ran into the Lady Young, striking her on the port quarter and cutting her down within two feet of the water lino. The stem of the Balclutha has passed through the covering board of the Lady Young, and cut into the deck about four feet, crushing in the vessel’s side for a space of six feet, and of course completely smashing up one of the saloon cabins. The clamago to the Balclutha consists of a large hole having been made in one of the plates in the port bow. Both vessels were at once anchored, and Captain Trouton, the manager, and Captain Monro, the Company’s marine superintendent, were speedily on board, and on consultation it was decided that the damage to the Balclutha should be at once repaired, so as to enable her to take on the Brisbane passengers on Monday nest. —Sydney jVfonuaf; Herald, June 0. Accipent at Sea.— A sad affair is reported by Captain Ghrisp, the master of the schooner Pacific, which arrived in this port yesterday morning. Ho states that when off Tologa Bay on Tuesday, the vessel going at the time at the rate of nine knots, a young man named A. W. Creighton, one of the crew, from some unexplained cause fell overboard. Ho was seen swimming after the vessel; but at the rate at which she was going it was considered impossible to save him. — Hawke’s Bay Times.