SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4265, 20 November 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF WELLINGTON High Water. 1.5 a.m.; 1.41 p.m. AKKIVED. November l».-Falcon, ketch 37 tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. Passengers: Mrs O'Shea child, and servant, Mrs. O'Neill and two children, MissßaUance, Mta> Coxhcad, and Mr. Stevenson, Turnbull and Co., s.s., 280 tons, Andrew, from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton. Passengers—saloon: Mcsdames Newlyn, T. Corbett, Buckridgo, G. Tripp, Dunn, Swords, Misses Aitken and Duckworth, Messrs. Laston, Batehelar, Hill, Belcher, Yule, Drake, Matthews, Hobbs, Frost, Dank, Bowen, Fleming, Armp, Johnston, Baker, Clark, Campbell, Crosskerry, and Gower. B. S. Ledger, agent. SAILED. ~ , . November 19.—Stormbird, s.s., 68 tons, Doile, for "Wanganui. ' .... . Hunter, ketch, 24 tons. Hart, for Kangitikei. IMPORTS. Falcon, from Blenheim: 10 hides, 1 case, 14 bales tow, SO ditto hemp, 1 jar butter. , . Ladybird, from Southern ports : S bars iron, 2* wheels, 12 ailes, 5 bdls, 1 box, fl hhds, 1 case, 10 kilderkins and 6 barrels ale, 1 saw, 4 cases, 3 pkgs, i trunks, 1 pel. 0 cases, 5 casks, 1 oven, 52 pkgs hardware. 1 pel, and a quantity of cargo to be transhipped to Wanganui, Poverty Bay, and Napier. Stormbird, from Wanganui: 21 bales of wool, 5 cases, 1 tin box, 1 bale hops, 4 boxes. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Howrab, Avalanche, Hindostan, and Soukar. New York.—Sunlight, barque Mauritius.—Zeli, barque. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Tararua, s.s., 21st inst. . Northern Ports.—Phoebe, s.s., 21st inst. Nai'ler.—Rangatira, s.s., this day. Foxton.—Napier, s.s., this day. Port Chalmers. —Cordelia, barque, daily. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London. —Halcioue, November 20; Adamant, in December ; Jessie Readman, early. Southern Ports.— Phcebe, s.s., 22nd inst. Northern Ports.—Ladybird, s.s., this day. Melbourne, via the South, (with Suez mails),— Tararua, s.s., 22nd inst. Wanc-anui.—Manawatu, p.s., this day. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., this day. Napier. —Rangatira, s.s., 23rd inst. BY TELEGRAPH. THE BLUFF, Thursday. • The snip Auckland, from Glasgow to Dunedin, is now passing. She reports all well. NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. Arrived : Phcebe from Manukau, and Wellington from South. Sailed : Phcebe, for the South. The Wellington sails at three o'clock p.m. for Manukau. NELSON, Thursday, 7 p.m. The Tararua has just anchored outside. AUCKLAND, Thursday. Sailed: Falcon and Pakeha for Dun«din, and Pretty Jane for Napier. The brigantine Esther cleared at the Customs yesterday for Westport, with 503 rails. The ketch Falcon arrived from Blenheim yesterday morning. ~ \ ... ~, The Stormbird sailed for Wanganui last night with a large cargo, principally on owner's account. The steamer Ladybird, Captain Andrew, arrived at lpm yesterday from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, after- a passage of twenty-three hours. She will sail . North to-day with tho southern portion of the English mail via San Francisco. The barque Oneco commenced ballasting yesterday. She will leave for Nelson to-morrow, where she will discharge the remainder of her American cargo. The barque Bella Mary, from Auckland, arrived at Hobarton on the 23th of October. Wreckage.—lt is stated in the South Australian Register that a piece of supposed wreck had been found on the beach on the eastern side of Point Brown, about forty miles from Streaky Bay. It is a piece of deal timber, lift, long by ISin. in width, and has carved at each end the word Hampshire" in sin. letters. Part of a hatchway covering was also found, but although a search had been made no other signs of wreckage had been seen. Tire Brioantine Helena.—The Helena, a handsome brigantine, not inaptly named, her appearance being decidedly prepossessing, came in from Wangapoa yesterday afternoon, with a cargo of kauri timber consigned to order. She is an Auckland built vessel, hails from that port, and carries a great spread of canvas. That she is anything but a sluggard whilst under way has received sufficient demonstration by her time —seven days from Wangapoa, of which she lost twenty-four hours in a heavy N.W. gale in the neck of Cook Strait. She left the above port on the 4th instant, experienced variable winds until well up with Cape Palliser, when the wind went into N.W. and settled down to a hard blow. As she opened the Strait it increased to a furious gale, obliging her to come to the wind and lay there under storm canvas for twenty-four hours. As the gale moderated she squared away, passed Cape Campbell on Tuesday last, and from there to Banks Peninsula was hindered by light variable weather Off Banks she fell in with a light nor'-easter, which brought her into port yesterday afternoon, and wind and tide being with her she "The i S'iK«.v ! l27'—W'o «*•■"" that the E. and A. Uo.'s K M.S. Jeddah, -which sailed from Moreton Bay for Singapore on September 19, experienced a heavy north-westerly gale for several days after leaving Cape Moreton, against which she was at times only enabled to steam about six knots an hour during the passage to Cleveland Bay, and made the run from TownsvMe to Somerset in sixtyBine hours, averaging over ten knots through the navigation of Torres Strait. It was, therefore, fully anticipated that the Jeddah would arrive at Singapore in due time to connect with the homeward mail steamer, which may be chiefly attributed to the speedy passage of the strait, and affords another instance of the advantages which the E. and A. Co. possess in having a staff of pilots thoroughly conversant with the navigation and intricacies of the ..Several channels. Captain Peake, on this occasion, was the pilot in charge, and he, on his return trip, has brought the Somerset down; but unfortunately the continued heavy weather experienced militated against a fast run through the strait being made.— The Qwemlander. Arrival of the May Queen.—This handsome little clipper ship put in her fifth appearance in these waters yesterday morning, after a fair passage of eightyfour day.s from London, W)d eighty-two days from land to lai}d. This, good time was iflaae under adverse circumstances, so far as winds iyere ooiK9rH? d , exceedingly light weallier" being experienced from the Downs to the Line, whilst a spell of easterly weather was met with to the eastward of the Cape, and mate rially helped to retard the ship's progress. In other respects the passage was favorably ordered, no bail weather worth mentioning having been met with. The May Queen Is still commanded by Ca'pt. Tachell, . and as she brought seventy-two passengers, a medical man, in the person of Dr. Wilkins, was appointed to guard them in a sanitary sense. They arrived in good health. The ship Is freighted on her own account by Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Co., and is loaded to the combings with general merchandise. The May Queen left Gravesend at 4 p.m. on the 19th August, passed the Downs next morning, and ran down Channel with light easterly winds, clearing the land on the 22nd. The meridian of the Cape was crossed on the 14th, in latitude 42. From the 26th to the 4th inst., the May Queen was humbugged by singularly variable weather. The wind went round and round the compass, and a very nasty cro3a sea ran. Indeed, the sea had been more or less cross from the time she passed the Cape, • and kept so until she gained the lee ol the New Zealand coast. On the 4th inst. she crossed the meridian Of the LeuwiD, and then fell in with a steady current of westerly winds which, blowing strongly, fetched her to within sight of Stewart's Island by 7 a.m. on Thursday. The wind still holding good, she ran the coast down that day, and shortly after darkness set in, hoveto for the night off Cape Saunders. On the 21st September, the May Queen then being under the line, a large four-masted ship standing to the southward, was sighted. Her name was not ascertained. Death appeared on board on the 28th, when one of the 'saloon passengers, named Henry Chase Edmunds, 'aged thirty-four, died of acute mania and debility. A few days' ilness only led up to his death.— Otago Daily Times, Sept. 14.