SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4141, 29 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. Hum AVatek.—4.B a.jj: ; 4.31 p.jr. ARRIVED. June 20.—Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, J. Griffiths, from AVanganui. Fassoiucrs—Saloon : Mrs. AVatson, Messrs. J. and K. AVatt, McKlrton, Abaters, Lambert, Moorhousu, Page, and three Natives. R. S. Ledger, agent. June 28.—H.M.S. Challenger, 1400 tons, Nares, from Sydney. Stormbird, s.s., 07 tons. P. Doile, from A\ anganui. AV. and G. Turnbnll and Co., agents. SAILED. June 27.—Otago, s.s., G 42 tons, John McLean, for Molbonrne, via Nelson and tho West Coast. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Seymour, Miss Green, Messrs. Rodger and Rous|Marten. AV. Bishop, agent. Seabird, brigantino, 155 tons, J. Garth, for Hokltika. No passengers. Master, agent. Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Edward AVheeler, for tho Northern ports. Passengers—Saloon : Messrs. Otway and Oldham, Miss Greenwood, and the Circus and Opera companies (41 in ail). It. S. Lodger, agent. Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Conway, for AVestport and Greymouth. K. S. Ledger, agent. EXPORTS. Taranaki, to Picton : 1 trunk, 04 bars, 33 cases, 39 boxes, 0 casks, 0 drums, 8 kegs, 2 churns, 20 bags, 2 sheet 3 iron, 1 chest, 2 pkgs, 1 bale. To Nelson: 5 tons pig iron, 15 pkgs, 22 cases, 20 boxes, 4 kegs, 7 bales, 1 trunk, 5 pels. To Now Plymouth :13 bars iron, 4 cases, 2 pkgs, 1 keg. To Manukau :45 kegs butter, 1 ease, 1 pkg, 10 boxes. Kennedy, to Greymouth : 5 casks butter, 2 pels, 340 cases iron bolts, 000 loose joints, 1 locomotive and fittings. To AVestport: 10 casks butter. Seabird, to Hokitika: 50 iron pipes. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kandavad, via Auckland AMD Napier.—A. and A.R.M.S. City of Adelaide, with Californian mails of May, 30th inst. Melbourne, via Southern Ports.—Omeo, 8.3., Ist proximo. Mki.boukj.-e.—Ashburton,via Geographe Bay,AV.A.; sailed 12th May. Auckland. —H.M.S. Blanche, brigantine Rhyno, p.s. Paterson. Adelaide. —Kangaroo ; sailed 20th May. Newcastle.—Omega, sailed June 0; Frowning Beauty. London.—AVeymouth, ship, sailed 7th April (from Deal); AVaikato, ship ; sailed ISth March—and 2-itu March from Plymouth, with immigrants; Reichstag, Strathnavar, St. Leonards, Panthea, Euterpe, sailed 2Sth April ; Conflict, sailed sth May. LiVEnrooi..—J. A. Thompson, ship. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via the AVest Coast.—Oru«o, s.s., Ist proximo. Sydney.—La Hogue, ship, early. London, vu Lyttelton.—AVennington. ship. AVancianui and New Plymouth, ok W'aitaka.— Stormbird. s.s., this day, at 3 p.m. Foxton.—Mary Ellen, schooner, this day. Auckland. —H.M.S. Challenger, early. East Coast.—Aspasia, schooner, Enterprise, brigantine, thU day. Newcastle.—Malay, barque, early. BY TELEGRAPH. ONEHUNGA.' June 27. —Arrived, 7.20 a.m. : Luna, p.s., from AVellington. AUCKLAND. June 27. —Arrived: Marmion, from Lyttelton. Sailed: AVellington, for the South ; 0 p.m.. City of Adelaide, for Napier. Cleared: Clio, for Dnnedin, with 00,000 feet of timber: Merlin, for AA T ellington, with 240 quarter barrels blasting powder and 27,000 feet of timber. BLUFF. June 27.—The Claud Hamilton arrived at 9.30 a.m. on the 27th, and sailed for Melbourne at 7 a.m. on the 2ath.

The City of Adelaide left Auckland at 0 p.m. on Saturday night, and would reach Napier at an early hour tliis morning, probably leaving shortly afterwards. The steamer Omeo has arrived at the Bluff, after a somewhat lengthy passage. She left Melbourne at 1.30 p.m. on the 20th, and had strong easterly gales all the way across. She reached the Bluff at 10 a.m. yesterday, 'the run having occupied eight days all but three hours. She was not to leave for Dunedin until 4 o'clock this afternoon, having a large quantity—l2o tons in all —of cargo on board. She has also sixteen saloon and four steerage passengers. The steamer Albion has made a remarkably quick rim of four days eleven hours from the AVest Coast. This completely eclipses the run of the Tararua from the Bluff, as reported by the steamer Otago on her last trip. The steamer Manawatu arrived from AVanganui at a late hour on Friday night, after another rough and unpleasant passage. She left the wharf there at 5 p.m. on the 25th, and crossed the bar at 0.30 ; she experienced moderate wind a 3 far a 3 Cape Terawiti, which she neared at 0 a.m. on the 2Gth, but the wind freshened so much, with so heavy a sea, that she was compelled, for the third time in succession, to put back to Ohau Bay for shelter, remaining there until 4 p.m. On the gale moderating she ventured out to sea, and had a rough run to AA r ellington. She brings several passengers. The steamer Otago left the wharf at daylight on Saturday morning for Melbourne, via Nelson and the AVest Coast.

The brigantine Seabird sailed for Hokitika on Saturday with a cargo of iron pipes. She has been quickly loaded while lying alongside the Anne Melhuish, and has almost emptied the barque of her large number of pipes; there being only a few left when the brigantine's hold was filled. AVhen those now lying on the breastwork are taken away by the coasters, the removal of the whole shipment to Hokitika will be completed. The steamer Stormbird has returned from AVanganui after a somewhat rough passage. She proceeds to AVanganui again to-day. Should the wind be fair, the Mary Ellen, schooner, will probably leave for the Manawatu this afternoon. She 13 under engagement with Messrs. Brogden and Sons, and will load sleepers for their public works. The barques Frowning Beauty and Omega, from Newcastle, are now due, and may be expected in harbor at any moment. The Kangaroo, from Adelaide, has now been 33 days out, and unless the original telegram in which her departure was recorded be wrong, should arrive before long. The schooner Aspasia, and brigantine Enterprise, both hound for the East Coast, calling at Napier and Castlepoint, have been unable to proceed to sea owing to contrary winds. They will leave with the first slant.

The barque Condor is still lying at the outer anchorage*. She has been receiving provisions, but some doubts are expressed as to her ultimate destination, and the time of her leaving the port has not yet been settled. The steamer Kennedy left on Saturday for Westport and Greymouth. Since her arrK'al she has been taking in railway fittings which the La Hogue lias lately been putting out in large quantities on the wharf ; she takes a full cargo 01 these for the public works on the West Coast, and also a locomotive. The Kennedy is a very handy little boat, and a capital model for a coasting steamer, and will be well patronised if she continues to trade to this port. The steamer Luna, which left the Wellington wharf at 11 o'clock on "Wednesday morning, arrived in the Manukau harbor at 7.20 a m. on Saturday.

The "William Gifford at Pout Chalmers.—The sometime expected barque William Gifford comes full of cargo, consigned to this port and Auckland, and she may moreover make a permanent stay in the Colony—for she is even now in the market for sale, and being a likely vessel of her class, and an old and a successful whaler, the chances are in favor of a purchaser coining forward to secure her. The Gifford has a great deal of whaling gear on board, but lacks boats and try-works. These, however, could very soon be procured. Her master, Captain Gibb 3, gives her an excellent character as a sea-boat, and particularly alluded to her good weatherly qualities. The William Gifford comes consigned to Messrs. Arthur Briscoe and Co. Hence she proceeds to Auckland as soon as her Dunedin cargo is discharged.— Otayo Dally Times. LOSS OF THE SCHOONER TWINS. A very strange-looking sail hove in sight on Friday afternoon, 13th March, and for a long time the people of Port Darwin did not know what to make of the new comer. She wa3 a two-masted vessel, but it was difficult to make out anything as to her build and rig. At last, however, she came to an anchor off Peel's Well, and then it was seen that she was a Malay proa, though her sails were of canvas, and there were also other indications that she was manned by Europeans. The strange craft wa3 commanded by Mr. Boyd, who left Port Darwin six or seven weeks ago with the Twins schooner, on a trading voyage to the Serawatty Islands. Ho had gone away in the schooner, and had now returned in the outlandish-looking proa. On inquiry it was ascertained that the schooner had been wrecked, and that the proa had been purchased of the Malays, as the only means of returning to Port Darwin. The proa is about the roughest kind of vessel we ever saw. Pieces of wood and bamboo tied together may be said to be the character of her construction. Even the anchors are made in this way, and the tillers (for she ha 3 two rudders) are fastened in the same manner. As to the spars, one mast is an oar lashed to a piece of timber, and the other is the topmast of the Twins, whose canvas, also, is used for sails in preference to the matting sails generally used by the Chinamen and Malays. There is no deck, properly speaking, but there is a kind of open-work roof made of bamboos, which cover 3 the groater part of the space, botween and over which the sailors scramble about like a lot of cats on the top of a house. From stem to stern the proa is about forty feet in length, and she is sharp at both ends. Of course she is quito innocent of paint, and pitch and tar are but little known to her. In this crazy vessel Mr. Boyd, with his mate and a, supercargo (Mr. Margett's), arrived after a fortnight's run from the islands, where they left their two or three other hands, who were Malays, and who did not wish to return after the wreck of the Twins. The wreck aroso from an accident which took place on the 11th February. Whilst the vessel was on the reef the natives came all around in hundreds, armed with knives. They stole everything they could lay their hands on ; and therefore some shots were fired over their heads. At last one of them was so daring that a French sailor on board the schooner fired at him and wounded him in the arm, which occasioned some trouble, as the Malays wanted compensation for the injury thUB inflicted. The Twins was insured, and at the time of her wreck she had no cargo on board, as the captain had not rnado any purchases at Lobleiy. Her owner is in Hobart Town, where she was engaged for a term to trade between I'ort Darwin and the Islands. Her wreck is therefore a great loss to this place until some other vessel can bo engaged or the same trade.— Northern Territory Times.