SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4169, 31 July 1874, Page 7

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

‘ENGLISH AND FOREIGN PORTS. WELLINGTON. ARRIVALS. July 11.—Waikato, ship, Dodder, from London —Plymouth, 24th March, with immigrants, all well. July 14. —Eureka, barque. Chapel, from New York, via Lyttelton. 1 ; July 15. —H.M.S. Blanche, Captain Simpson, from Auckland. July ir.~Wc3 r mouth, ship, Hunt, from London, April 7. July 20.—Cyphrcncs, R.M.S., Wood, from] San Francisco, via Kandavau and Auckland. SAILINGS. July C.— City of Adelaide, s.s., Brown, for Kandavau, via Auckland, with San Francisco Mails. July 0. —H.M.S. Challenger, Captain G, S. Naros, for Auckland. July 11.—La Hogue, ship, Carvosso, for London, via Sydney, in ballast. July 13.—Wennington, ship, McAvoy, for London, via Lyttelton. July 31.—Cyphrenes, R.M.S., Wood, to sail for Kandavau, via Auckland, with San Francisco Mails. CLKARI3D OUT. July 20.—Eureka, American barque, for Endci'bury Island, Passenger—Mr. Darmaudy. AUCKLAND. ARRIVALS. July s.—James Wishart, barque, from London ; Q.uceu of Nr ’lons, ship, from Liverpool, via Belfast, with immigiants. July B.—Herald, ship, from Fiji. July 23.—Miltlades, ship, from London, with immigrants. HAWKE’S P*AY. ARRIVALS. July o.—Halcione, ship, from London, with immigrants. Captain Wright died at sea from apoplexy. July 20.—Winchester, ship, from London, with immigrants. NELSON. ARRIVAL. July 20.—La Paix, barque, from London. PORT CHALMERS (OTAGO.) A URIVAI.S. July 4. —Mariano, barque, (American), from Victoria, V.I, July 10. —Rosslyn Castle, barque, from London. July 13.—Caroline, from Carl; ; Cartsburn, from Glasgow, with immigrants ; Kindostan, from London, with immigrants ; and Davenagh, from London. July 18.—Sussex, ship, Horn London, with immigrants. July 23. —Sam Mcndell, ship, from London, with Immigrants. July 27.—Marla Bhan, from Glasgow, with immigrants : Petor Denny, from London, with immigrants. July 20.—Czarevitch, barque, from Port Espcranco, BA 11.1 N OH. ' , ; July 20.—Cyphrenes, R.M.S., with San Francisco Malls, via Lyttelton and the North. July 29.—Buckinghamshire, ship, for San XYunclsco. -BLUFF HARBOUR. ARRIVAL, July 13.—Carrick Castle, ship, from London, with Immigrants. HAJLTNOH. July 7, —Cit/ of Dunedin, ship, for Oregon, N.S. LYTTELTON. ARRIVALS. Julyß —Hereford, ship, from London, with immigrants. July 22.—Eastern Monarch, from London, with immigrants. July 23.—Peeress, from . Gravesend, with immigrants. There wore six deaths and four births on board during the voyage. INCIDENTS OF THE MONTH. The barque Frowning Beauty, at anchor in the outer harbour, waiting for a fair wind to sail for Newcastle, dragged her anchors in a very heavy south-east gale on the 21st instant. One cable parted, but the other kept the vessel hold; the ship, however, still drifted, the mainmast was cut away, carrying away the mizzon topmast, but doing no further damage. The vessel was then within eighty fathoms’ distance of the rocky shore atNgahuninga. The s.s. WelUngton was sent to her aid, but not a moment too early ; and by skilful management Captain Carey succeeded in towing the Frowning Beauty to the inner harbour, where she is now undergoing repairs. The Hawaiian barque Chcvcrt is in the hands of the carpenters having her masts reduced in size. The p.s. Paterson, belonging to Messrs. Brogden and Sons, has been -wrecked in the entrance of the river Wallara, in Taranaki, by being run on a bank inside the bar during a heavy fresh, apparently through a mistake in. the directions given by the .pilot or the manner in which they were understood on board the' Paterson. She was conveying the last of the railway material required for one of the Government railways in the district, and her cargo, fortunatoty, has been saved. No life was lost. The ship was abandoned to the insurers, and her hull, and all that belongs to her, has been sold by auction in Wellington for .€3OOO to Mr. AV. Johnstone, for Messrs. Levin and Co. The insurances on the ship amounted to about €OOOO.

The schooner Eliza Mary was stranded on a spit of the Waitara, at the same time as the Paterson (referred to above.) The vessel was only five months old and of Sydney build. She was of 150 tons burden, and the hull, rigging, spars, &c., were sold by auction for £BSO. She has since been floated off. Several additions have been made to the shipping of the port during the month. They Include the very fine brig Robin Hood, 500 tons, of Scarborough, bought in Sydney or Newcastle by Captain Williams for £4OOO r the Hannah Bloomfield, a fine scho mer of 180 tons register, bought In Sydney for Messrs. Greenfield and Stewart, and intended for the timber trade ; the schooner Marmion ; and the schooner Star of the Sea, purchased in Tasmania by Mr. J. H. Smith, of Havelock (Province of Marlborough). H.M.S. Challenger steamed from the harbour on Monday, July 6, on her way to Auckland, where she will stop a few clays, proceeding from thence to Polynesia, in which waters she will cruise for two months or more. After leaving those regions she goes to Hong Kong, which is to be one of her provisioning and refitting stations. The A. and A.R.M. s.s. City of Adelaide arrived in harbor at half-past seven o'clock on Sunday morning, July 0. She had the ordinary mails from the South, as well as the outward Californian correspondence of Otago and Canterbury, and 'moreover had transhipped the English mails via Suez from the steamer Alb’on, so that the Suez letters are delivered in Wellington six days before the contract date. The City left the bay with the outward Californian mails at a quarter to twelve o’clock for Kandavau via Napier and'Auckland. The iron clipper ship Wennington, Captain John McAvoy, BS2 tons legister, sailed from the outer anchorage on Monday, Kith July, before the light breeze. She is bound to Lyttelton and thence to London. Her outward cargo shows that she takes a large quantity of wool, skins, preserved meats and tallow, valued at about £27,800. Her filling up cargo at Lvttelton is aheady secured. H.M.S. Blanche arrived in harbor from Auckland on Wednesday, having JeTt that port at 10 a.m. on the Bth inst; thus taking seven days for the trip. Tins, however, is accounted for in the rccurm of the passage, which is as follows :—On leaving Auckland, experienced strong south-west winds, the ship being under sail. Made a good run until ten in the evening of the llth, being at that time within twenty miles of Cape Palliser, whoa a strong gale from the south-west sprang up, which compelled the ship to be laid-to under close-reefed main-topsail and fore-staysail until the night of the 13th, when the wind fell for a short time but again freshened to a strong gale from the noith-east, backing to the south-east, until making Cape Palliser again on the morning of the 15th, the weather at that time being very thick. The ship then proceeded under steam to this port. The Blanche has on board forty kami span for the use of the Naval Depot at Sydney, whither she will proceed on being relieved by H.M.S. Rojaiio on the New Zealand station, which change is likely to occur shortly. The ship Waiha f o, Capt. Chas. Hodder, for some time past anxiously looked for, arrived in harbor on Saturday/ July 11. A good number of people were collected on the wharf as she sailed up the harbor to the anchorage, where she brought up and anchored. Shortly before dark the Health Officer visited her, and all hough we understand that she is passed, her officers had received strict orders from the Immigra tion authorities to allow no one to go on board, conse quently great numbers who went off yesterday with the intention of visiting her had to return disappointed. The Waikato has had a tediously long passage of 100 days from port to port, which, however, had no ill effects on the passengers—a fact which speaks creditably of the management and arrangements on board. Four births and a similar number of deaths occurred on board during the passage. The new arrival is an excellent specimen, presenting a very neat and handsome appearance in the water. The ship Halcione, 105 days from London, arrived in Hawke’s Bay late on Saturday night, July 4, under the command of J. Croker, the chief officer —Captain Wright, the master, having died on the voyage. She brings 337 passengers, all well. Two births occurred on the passage, and three deaths, besides that of the captain. One of these was a child, the other two adults. One seaman, Arthur Davies, fell overboard, and was lost. Thomas IJenden, a printer, one of the immigrants, who died on board on the Stii April, was in failing health when he came on board. The Hal cione leit the East India Docks on the 2Gth March. Rocks at the Entrance to Wellington Harbor. —Pilot Holmes has reported to the Department the existence of two sunken rocks at the entrance to the harbor, as to which the following notice has been gazetted :—“Entrance to Port Nicholson, Cook Strait. Customs Department (Marine Branch), WelPngton, 15th July, 1874. Notice has been received by the Harboimaster, Wellington, that Pilot Holmes reports the existence of two sunken rocks off Barrett's Reef, one lying about 100 feet to the eastward, and the other about the same distance to the westward, of the Outer Rock—the three lying nearly in a line east and west. There is twelve feet of water on these rocks at low water, with deep water all round.” The R.M.S. Cyphrencs arrived in Wellington harbor on Sunday, July 26, and anchored in the stream, having her mails and passengers conveyed ashore by boats. She brought a. large number of passengers from the North—amongst them several members of the Legislative Council, and of the House of Representatives. Captain Wood reports of the passage as follows; —Left San Francisco 21st June, at 1 p.m. ; arrived at Honolulu 5 a.m. on the 30th ult., sailing from thence at Gp.m. same day: passed Wallace Island lat. 13.22 deg. S., long. 170.4 W. On the 10th duly at dusk observed what appeared to be a French or American man-o’-war, brkrged-rigged steamer aground on a reef at the North end of the island, listed over, and apparently abandoned. No signals visible. Reached Kandavau at 3 a.m. on the 14th July. City of Adelaide arrived two hours later. The Macgregor arrived on the 13th, and left at midday on the 14th; The City of Adelaide for Sydney and Cyphrenes for .Auckland both left at C a.m. on the 15th inst. From San Francisco to Kandavau the weather was unexceptional!}* fine and calm, accompanied by cool and refreshing trade winds, entirely counterbalancing the excessive heat experienced in passing through the tropics. Arrived at Auckland 22nd duly. From Kandavau to Auckland met with severe S.W. winds, accompanied by storms of thick hail and rain, with heavy head seas,' which necessitated the slowing of the engines, and impeded the progress of the steamer very considerably. Coaled at Auckland, and left at 4 p.m. on Thursday, the 23rd ; arrived at Napier at 12 noon on Saturday, leaving agahi an hour later, and arrived in Wellington in twenty-four hours from Napier, The Cyphrenes remained only about two hours and a-half in the channel, when she tailed for the South. Messrs. McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s. Otago,. Captain John McLean, arrived alongside the wharf at noon on July 26, from Melbourne via the South. That she is a little behind Ixer time is satisfactorily accounted for by the tremendous weather she experienced between Melbourne and the Bluff, which not only hove her to, but compelled her to run for shelter to ore of the inlets of the S.W. coast. It is* not often that we hear of Captain McLean turning tail to it, but on this occasion he had to give the weather best for the sake of - the fine steamer under his command and the safety of those on board of her. But for the time lost through the gale, the Otago would have made a'clipping run from Melbourne. She left that port on the 15th inst., passed Port Phillip Heads at 5.30 p.m,, and Swan Island at 2 p.m. on the 10th. The wind was then fresh from about west, and hung there for twenty-fourhours,butwith an evident inclination to take southing. On the 17th it went into S.W., and by next day had increased to a'downright hurricane, and raised a terrific sea. Fierce squalls of sleet and hail accompanied the gale. For full thirty hours the Otago was kept on her course, and under such canvas as could be shown, and steam, raced along at a great rate of speed, and really made good weather of it. The sea, however, increased, and early on the 10th she shipped a comber, which smashed the skylight, and flooded the saloon. Still the steamer‘was kept at it until 4 p.m., when she was deemed to be getting up with the land, 'whilst the sea was becoming worse, she was hovo-to for the night. At daylight next morning land was sighted about Dusky Sound, aud as there was no sign of improvement in the weather, she was run into the Sound for shelter at 4 x».m. She was anchored in a snug little cove, so completely land-locked that despite the force of the gale blowing scarcely a breath of wind could be felt in it. The Otago kept these good quarters until C a.m. on the 21st; then made another start, found it still blowing hard outside, and knocked about considerably until she gained the lee of Stewart’s Island late in the afternoon. Heavc-to for the night, was the order, and on the following morning she ran , for the Bluff, and reached it by daylight. Discharged passengers, mails, and cargo, and left at 5 p.m. on the same day, arriving at Port Chalmers at daylight on the 23rd. Left again on the 24th, and reached Lyttelton on the 25th, leaving the same night, and arriving here as above, having experienced fine weather along the coast. The Otago left again for Melbourne via the West Coast on Monday, July 27.