SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4273, 30 November 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF WELLINGTON Hioh Water. 8.20 a.m.; 5.51 r.M. AEEIVED. November 28.—AlliMiibm, s.s., 490 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via West Coast. PassengersSaloon : Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, two children and servant, Mr. and Miss Bridges, Eav. J. Ivirkland, Mrs. Bird and child, Mrs. Cully. Messrs. Lovm, Scoullar, and Hunter. William Bishop, agent. Rangatira, s.s., ISS tons. Lloyd, from >,apier. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Miss Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. Ingle and children. Mrs. Preece, Mrs. Parker. Miss Best, Miss Warcford, Miss Firzgcrald, Mrs. spray, Miss Sunnysoid. Mr. and Mrs. Kellir, Messrs. Margates, Wilson, Nancarrow, Samnels, Herbert, Jettreys, Southern, McKirdy, Paul, Walters, Lloyd, Johnson, Wheeler. Fielding. Stuart, and Rich ; twenty-six in the steerage. R. S. Ledger, agent. November 29.—Elizabeth, ketch. Si tons. Short, from Havelock. Dido, cutter, 32 ton 3, from Blenheim. Enterprise, brigantine, 120 tons, Campbell, from Parere. „ , Manawatu. p.s., 103 tons, Griffiths, from Manawatu. Passengers—Saloon : Messrs. Billings, Drew, Beaver, McVicker, Dodson, Poulson, Borlaso, Broadbent, Tripe, Champ, and Randall. R. S. Ledger, agent SAILED. November 28.—Aurora, schooner, 52 tons, Rouaeril, for Castle Point. Edward Pearce, agent. Amateur, ketch. 25 tons, AUason, for Waitara. Napier, s.s., 4-1 tons, Butt, for Foxton. Passengers: Mr. and Mrs. Dowling. . Unity, schooner, 44 tons, Urvine, for White Bock. Aspasia, schooner, 45 tons, Thompson, for East Coast. Canterbury", schooner, 7G tons, Eussell, for Westport. Helen Denny, ship, 1025 tons, Ruth, for Napier. November 29.—The Douglas, ship, 1425 tons, Wilson, for Newcastle, N.S.W. IMPORTS. Manawatn, from Wanganui: 18 bales wool, IS sacks potatoes, 1 pkg. Rangatira, from Napier and Poverty Bay: 2 empty hhds, 1 pel, 1 box, 1 pkg, 7 bags fat, 19 bdls skins, 1 portmanteau, 1 trunk, 1 box, and sundry cargo for transhipment to Dunedin and Nelson. EXPORTS, Amateur, for Waitara: 35 tons coal, 1 pile-driving machine, 1 steam winch and boiler, 1 crab winch, 20 pile shoes. Aurora, for Castle Point: 300 feet timber, 1 case rum, 20 cases. 71 pkgs, 12 sacks coal, 17 pkgs groceries; 1 bale woolpacks, 43 cases groceries, 4 do drapery, 1 sack lime, 20 bags oats, 7 sacks sugar, 1 case brandy, 12 pkgs groceries, 10 coils wire, 1 keg staples, 20 pkgs groceries, 7G pkgs station stores, 1 cask lead, 47 bags, 2 tanks, 1 pel. Napier, for Foxton : 15 bags flour, 5 pkgs groceries, 3 cases, 3 kegs, 10 pkgs wheels, 2 trunks, SO cases syrup, 1 cask cider, 1 box sundries, 5 bags sugar, 04 pkgs ironmongery, 1 ton coal, 2 casks ale, 1 pkg drapery, 4 do groceries, 8 cases, 1 qr-cask, 21 cases sundries, 124 cases groceries, 44 cases ironmongery. EXPECTED AEEIVALS. London.—Howrah, Avalanche, Hindostan, Soukar, Langstano, Carnatic, Jungfrau, Berar, Humboldt, Avalanche, and City of Vienna. , New York.—Sunlight, barque Port Chalmers.—Jessie Headman, ship, early. Northern Ports.—Ladybird, s.s., Ist prox. Southern Ports. Phcebe, s.s., 2nd prox. Foxton.—Napier, s.s., this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London. —Adamant, in December; Jessie Readman, early; Howrah, in Januory. Melbourne, via the South. —Alhambra, s.s., this day. Wanoanui.—Stormbird, s.s., this day. Northern Ports.—Phcebe, s.s., 2nd prox. Southern Ports. —Ladybird, s.s., Ist prox. NAriEß.—Rangatira, s.s., this day. Flaxbocrne.—Manawatu, p.s., this day, BY TELKGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The Ladybird has sailed for the South. PORT CHALMERS, Saturday. Arrived: Wellington, s.s., from Lyttelton, at 3 p.m. Sailed; Jessie Readman, ship, for Wellington; ; Haddon Hall, for Sydney. Sunday, Arrived, early: Wanganui, s.s., from the Bluff. FOXTON, Sunday. Arrived, 8.30 p.m.: Napier, from Wellington. BLUFF, Sunday. Arrived .- Ship Ocean Mail, from Nelson. * The p.s. Manawatu sails for Flaxbourne this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The ship Helen Denny, Captain Ruth, took advantage of the light N.W. wind which prevailed early on Saturday morning last, and proceeded on her voyage to Napier. The ihip The Douglas, eaptaiu Wilson, was towed into the fairway by the steamer Napier on Saturday morning. She sailed yesterday morning for Newcastle, with a light N.W. -wind, but the wind shifting soon after, sbe returned to the harbor. The Napier sailed on Saturday evening last for Foxton. The ketch Amateur. sailed on Saturday last for Waitara. She wa3 loaded with pile-driving machinery. The • schooner Canterbury got away on Saturday morning last for Westport, with 205 rails. The brigantine Enterprise, Captain Campbell, berthed alongside the wharf at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Parere and other East Coast stations. Her voyage has been rather protracted in consequence of baffling winds. She is full of wool consigned to Messrs. Levin and Co. The fine steamer Alhambra, Captain Sinclair, arrived in harbor at 11 o'clock on Saturday night last. She made a good run of 4 days 22 hours from Melbourne to Hokitika. and from thence to Wellington the passage was of the ordinary duration. The trip from Nelson was performed under 12 hours. She ha 3 a large quantity of cargo for Wellington. The Alhambra will leave for Melbourne, via Southern ports, this afternoon.

The cutter Dido, from Blenheim, with a cargo of wool, and the ketch Elizabeth, from Havelock, with timber, arrived on Saturday evening last. The schooners Unity, Aspasla, and Aurora sailed on Saturday last for the East Coast. The steamer Eangatira, Captain Lloyd, arrived at noon on Saturday from Napier, after a passage of 24 hour.j. Fine weather was experienced on both the upward and downward trips. She will sail this afternoon for Napier. The p.s. Manawatu, Captain Griffiths, left "Wanganui at midnight on Saturday, towing the ketch Alert to sea. Crossed the bar at 1 a.m. on the 29th, and arrived after al2 hours' passage. Fine weather was experienced. The harbor of Poverty Bay is now provided with a set of signals, of which, before, it was destitute. The barque Pasithea has sailed from Nelson for Valparaiso. We were pleased to welcome on Saturday an addition to the steam coasting lleet of the province in the shape of the Express, a handy steamer of 40-horse power, being intimately known oa the Melbourne side of the water, where she has for years past been running in the Melbourne, Warrnambool, and Geelong trade. The Express has been purchased by Messrs. 11. Houghton and Co. for the Southern trade, and will, we presume/run in conjunction with their two handy steamers, the Wanganui and "Wallabi. CaptainNicoll, so long in Mes3r3. McMeckan and Blackwood's employ, and latterly In command of various vessels out of Melbourne, brought the Express across, and reports favorably of her. She behaved well in a sea way, and made a fair passage of seven and a-half days to the Heads, of which time she lost half a day in a gale of wind off the S.W. Cape. She brings about CO tons of general cargo. The Express is brigantine rigged, and 6 noted for her great carrying capacity. She is to undergo a thorough refit before she commences running in the Southern trade.— Otago Daily Times, November 23.

Reefs is the South Skas.—Captain Jacobs, of the mission vessel, has supplied us with the following bearings and description generally of the Pearl Reef: —Ortego Island, S. by E., live miles Mount Guillard, B.W. by S. Two white patches on cliffs, under houses in tree tops, W. by S. 13.; Cape Astrolabe, E. by N. J N., latitude 8 deg. 21 rain., longitude 159 (leg. &2 min. east. These bearings are magnetic. On the reef there is a sand-bank in the centre about fourteen feet above the level of the sea. It is the shape of a horseshoe. There are two dangerous patches between it and the shore with no more than three fathoms of water on them. There are very Bhoal patches about Ortego Island 1J miles from it. Masters of vessels should give Ortego a berth of three miles, as there is a strong current setting on to the south end.—Auckland Evening Star. The VorxaK or the Rosalia.—We were glad to see the ship Kosalia yesterday, the reports about her condition having been anything but reassuring. She sailed In before a heavy north-east gale. Captain Crabbe acting as pilot, and brought up on the lower side of Deborah Bay. She is a large full-rigged ship of Yankee build, and looks as if she had been severely strained, her lines being somewhat wavy. Her appearance on deck was certainly peculiar. Midway between the main and misccn masts stood the framework and wings of a windmill that had been rigged to work the pumps, but broke down when the ship was some distance from tne New Zealand coast. Close to the main mast was a donkey engine attached to the pumps, and in full work with both pumps going, and the water discharged by them was as pure as that in which the vessel floated. We are informed that the ship was making at the rate of fifteen inches per hour, and we very readily believed the statement, and congratulated Captain Crabbe, who was In chargeCaptain Vcale having gone on shore to see the Harbor Master—upon his safe arrival in port Not that the iihip would have been likely to founder In the event of the engine breaking down, for being timber-laden, she would only have waterlogged at tne worst, that, however, being a very unpleasant centingoncy to contemplate without a beaching place under her lee. As our readers aro aware, the Kosalia is originally from Puget Sound, and put Into Napier on account of her leaky condition, and also because that course was Insisted on by the crew. Captain Vealo Informs us that she loaded at Port Blakely Mill with 500,000 ft. of timber tinder hatches and 60,000 ft. on deck, and left on the 81st of July, She was thon making water at the rate of about one inch per hour, and before she got clear of the Sound, the pilot being still on board, the crew refused to go on with her, and insisted on roturnlng. The ship was accordingly run back, and the captain had her surveyed, the result being in favor of the vessel. Part of tho crew then relented, but Bve of them still hold out, and were taken to sea in irons, and when the ship was clear of the land, returned to their duty. All went well until tho ship was abreast of Honolulu, when tho leak began to increase and gradually gained, until the Kosalia wa» 30 degrees south of tho Equator. There «)ie fell In with heavy westerly weather, which told upon the leak. Previous to this a windmill luvi been rigged to work tho pumps, and answered well enough until it broko down. The regular watches of tho crew were not interfered with until thon. The Rosalia struggled against the bad weather, and reached to within 350 milo of the New Zealand coast, and then the crow came aft and represented that they were wernout by pumping and reefing, andlnslsted that

he ship should be kept away for the nearest land, which they assumed was Tahiti. She was accordingly kept before it (wind W.N.W.) for thirty-six hours, when the wind veered to the eastward, and then the captain persuaded them to keep the vessel on her proper course for Port Chalmers A change of wind to south, however, drove tho Rosalia north, and she eventually fetched into the north side of Poverty Bay. There the captain offered the men ten dollars a-piece extra if they would try and take the ship to her destination, but they stubbornly refusing, she was run into Napier on tho 22nd October. We have already reported what took place there. The ship was supplied with a steam-engine to work the pumps, and after a stay of twenty days, put to sea for Port Chalmers on the 15th instant, with Captain Crabbe.who had joined tho ship as mate and coasting pilot, on board. All the hands, mates included, having refused to proceed in her, a fresh crew was shipped, and at the last moment, four of the original crew consented to go with her She was favored .with light weather by the way, and arrived yesterday. We may observe that a quantity of the deck load she shipped at the Sound was jettysoned during tho bad weather above mentioned, so that she is now considerably short of 60,000 feet of timber on deck. Her original crew are now working out sentences inflicted upon them at Napier for refusing duty.—OtnffO Daily Times, November 23.