SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4307, 9 January 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OF WELLINGTON llioh Water, 5.40 a.m.; G.O r.M. ARRIVED. Jastjary B.—Wellington, s.s., 2C2 tons Carey, from Manukau, New Plymouth, Nelson, and. Picton. Passengers—Saloon : Rev. Mr. Andrew, Rev. Mr and Mrs Tinsley, Rev. Dr. Antllff’, Rev. J. Dumbcll, Mrs. ' AVrigg, Mrs. AVignall. Mrs. Callem, Mrs. Beatty, Miss Raleigh. Miss Nicholls, Miss Brind, Messrs." Booth, Underwood, Wrigg. Robinson. Gale, Levastara, Shaw, Hears, Lewis, Tlssman, Bushel], Ferris, Master Henderson, 10 for the South ; S steerage for Wellington and 17 for the South. R. S. Ledger, agent. Luna, p.s., Government steamer, 190 tons, Fairchild, from Mana and the South. Passengers: Dr. Hector, Captain Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Knowles, Messrs. Seed and Blackett. SAILED, January B.—Dido, cutter, GO tons, Shilling, for Havelock, in ballast. Elizabeth Curio, schooner, 70 tons, Calvert, for Westport. Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Passengers— Saloon ; Mrs. Burden. Mrs. Cook, Mrs. White, Messrs. Chamberlain, Koydhonse, Luxford, Blackett, Morley, Luxford, and Luch ; S steerage. R. S. Ledger, agent. Wellington, s.s., 202 tons, Carey, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Lull* and family, Messrs. Taylor, Cameron, Hunter, and 10 saloon and 17 steerage original passengers from the North, ii. S. Ledger, agent. IMPORTS. Wellington, from Northern ports: 1 case. 1 cask, S plates iron, 17 sacks potatoes, 1 cow and calf, 1 pci, 100 kits oysters, 2 spars, S bales wool, (53 cases fruit, 2 portmanteaux, 6 sacks lime, 50 sacks malt. EXPORTS. Elizabeth Curie, for Westport: CIO bars railway iron, 3 jankers. Taranaki, for Northern ports : SO trunks, S 3 cases, 4 pels, 2 drums, 4 mats sugar, 11 bills, 1 keg, 10S sheets iron, 1 truss, 100 boxes, 2 kegs butter, G casks, 5 halfchcsts tea, 4 casks, 1G bags, 17 cases, 32 pipes. Wellington, for the South : 2 cases, 1 piano, Gbales, 4 trusses. 2 pkgs, 1 pci, 3 hhds, 1 pkg, 4 bales, 2 trusses, 1 pci, 3 pkgs. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.— Avalanche, Hlndostan, Carnatic, Berar, Humboldt, City of Vienna, Ardentinny, Inyerene, and Hudson. GcoanAniE Bay. —Grace Darling. Southern Ports. —Phoebe, s.s., 13th inst. Northern Ports. —Ladybird s.s., 14th inst. Melhoukne, via the West Coast. —Tarania, s.s., 10th inst. Melbourne, via Southern Ports. —Omeo, s.s., 14th inst. Napier and Poverty Bat. —Rangatira. s.s., tomorrow. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., this day. AVanoanct.—Stormbird, s.s., this day ; Manawatu, p. s. to-morrow. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London —Adamant, about 9th Jan.: Jessie Roadman, early; Howrah, in January; Soukar, -about 7th February. Melbourne, via the West Coast. —Omeo, s.s., 15th inst. Melbourne, via the South. Tararua, s.s., 17th inst. Northern Ports. —Phoebe s.s., 13th inst. Napier anx> Poverty Bay. —Rangatira, s.s., Ilth inst. Auckland, via East Coast.—Luna, p.s., thisday. BY TELEGHAPH. LYTTELTON, Friday. . Sailed : Peerless, for Auckland. PORT CHALMERS, Friday. Arrived, 5.30 p,m. : Easby, s.s., from Wellington. The steamer Wellington, Captain Carey, with the English mail via San Francisco on board, arrived at noon yesterday. She left Onehunga at G p.ra. on the sth, but was compelled to anchor inside the bar till next morning. Crossed the bar at 4 a.m., and arrived at Taranaki at 9 the same night. Landed mails and passengers, and left again at 10.30, arriving at Nelson at 5 on the evening of the 7th ; left Nelson at 8 o’clock the same evening, and arrived at Picton at 5 a.m. yesterday. Left again at G. 30, and arrived at the WeiILngton wharf as above. S.W. winds wero experienced to Nelson, from thence to Wellington strong N.W. winds. The Wellington proceeded on her voyage South yesterday afternoon. The steamer Taranaki, Captain Wheeler, left at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Captain Wheeler resigns the command at Nelson, where Captain Lloyd, who was a passenger by the steamer from this port, will take charge. The steamer Stormbird may bo expected to arrive to-day from Wanganui, and the steamer Rangatira from Napier and Poverty Bay, The steamer Manawatu, which left Wellington for Wanganui at 5 o’clock yesterday morning, was compelled to return for shelter. She anchored in Worser’s Bay at 9 o'clock, but would, in all probability, again be able to proceed on her voyage last night. The schooner Florence, Captain-Brown, d,***' _ harbor at noon on Friday,from the The light southerly winds till off Cape Egmont. About 11.30 p.ro, on the 27th, when off Taranaki, a fresh breeze blowing from the S.W., the mate, James Greeves, who was standing alongside the water-cask, having a drink, staggered and fell overboard with the dipper in his hand. A life-buoy was immediately thrown overboard, and the vessel put about and a boat lowered. The night was thick and cloudy, though there was a moon. The boat was kept in the water for three-quarters of an hour, when the sea was so rough that she was taken on board, or she would have been swamped. The schooner was kept in the neighborhood till 2 a.m. on Monday, when it blew a gale, and the schooner had to stand in shore. Nothing was heard or seen of the unfortunate man again. He was well known here, having been on the coast twelve years, and possessing a master's certificate, and sailed the Rose of Eden out of Wellington and Wanganui for a long time. He brought the Eliza Mary here on her last trip from Havelock. He was much liked and respected by those who knew him. The gale lasted till Tuesday morning, when the wind suddenly .changed to the N,E. On Wednesday came through the Strait with a strong N.W. gale, and was off AVaipajia Point at G p.m. Had light variable winds from thence till the Heads were sighted at 10 a.m. on Friday morning, when she ran up the harbor and anchored.—The Press (Christchurch), January 4. The Albion Company's new ship Nelson has commenced her career as a sea-goer under favorable auspices, her maiden trip having been made in ninety-one days from port to port, and eighty-three days from land to land. This, although only gootj average time, is noticeable, inasmuch as that the vessels which immediately preceded her, the Araby Maid and Florence, were considerably over one hundred days on the way. It was not all fair weather with the Nelson. She was detained seven days about the coast of Britain by heavy westerly gales, and also lost time between soundings and the trades through light variable weather. It is not often that vessels arc becalmed in the Bay of Biscay, and one of the exceptions to this rule befel the Nelson, which lay for three days almost in a clock calm in the bay. She was also six days crossing the Equatorial doldrum belt, head winds having muzzled her there. Hence these drawbacks lengthened the run to the Cape to sixty-four days, whilst the balance of the passage was rattled off* In splendid time —twenty-seven days. On the whole, she did very well Indeed, and with the south passage winds behind her proved herself to be a fast goer, and worthy sister to those grand ships the Dunedin, Invercargill, and Auckland, also belonging to the same company, 337 knots on the 21st December was her best day's work, and 1900 knots her best week's work. Captain Anderson, late of the Agnes Muir, is in command of the Nelson, and the surgeon-superin-tendent is Dr. Macaffer. Both gave a good account of the immigrants oa board. They numbered 3G5 all told, two fewer than the number which at Glasgow. The Nelson is a brand new ship, built upon precisely the same lines and according to the same dimensions, apportionments, &c., as the Dunedin, Invercargill, and Auckland. Otago Daily Times, January 1. Discovery op a Rock in the Atlantic. —Cap-. tain Antonio Picasso, of the Italian barque Teresa, which arrived at Queenstown on October 2 from New York, reports as follows:—On the 9th of September, at 1 p.m., wind northerly, very light, and clear weather, with sea perfectly smooth, observed on the horizon a large rock, in the shape of a trapezium, about four miles to windward, in lat, 40N., long. 02.18 AY. Tried to beat up to it, but owing to the lightness of wind could not do so. The rock lay north and south, and was of a reddish brown color. Discerned the seaweed on it plainly with glass. The dimensions arp as follows;—Length, 100 metres (3ft. 3£in. per metre) on south part, 10. metres broad and about 6 metres out of the water, which was low. About 2,45 p.m., the rock boro N./and wo made by chronometer calculation that the rock was in the exact position of lat. 40 N., long. G2TB AV. Captain Picasso states that he has a chart of 1848, by Noneys, on board, with this rock marked on it; but there are two degrees difference of'longitude. This, he says, is accounted for by the incorrectness of the old chronometers. The captain was surprised at not finding this rock on an English chart, by AVilson, dated'lß72, and also by a French chart of same date which he has on board. The captain also states ho tried for soundings, but could get none in the vicinity of the rock. —New York Herald.