SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4317, 21 January 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON „ Hion Water. 4.26 a.m.: 4.20 r.M. < January 20.--LyttcUon, p.s., SO tons, Scott, from Kaikouras. 11. S. Lodger, agent. T . . Elizabeth, ketch. 23 tons, Short. fmm naTelocli. Herald, schooner, 53 tons, Hamilton, from the East Coast. Gcorgo Thomas, agent. SAILED. ■ _ . January 20.—Cvnthia, schooner, 66 tons, Sweae, 24' tons. Dalton, for Kaikouras. :B Naptel a 3.l H «ron 3 ? ? Butt, for Foxton. Turnbull and Co., agents. IM POUTS. Lyttelton, from Kaikouras: 150 bales wool. Elizabeth, from Havelock : 21.000 feet sawn timber. Herald, from East Coast: 90 bales wool. EXPORTS. , Ruby, from Kaikouras ; 8 cases. 25 drums, 1 qr oask brandy. 5 cases geneva, 1 qr-cask port wine. 1 do brandy, 27 boxes tea, 3 casks sulphur, 1 case glassware. . 2 do drapery, 2 pkgs tinware, 2 cases groceries, 1 trunk boots, 8 boxes and X bundle iron, 2 pieces castings, 1 case hardware, 1 case glassware, 1 drum kerosene, 1 P °Nap!er. for Foxton: 30 kegs .nails, 13 pkgs G cases 6 kegs. 31 colls wire. 20 pkgs groceries, 10 coils wire, 1 bag. 2 hhds ale, C pkgs sundries, 3 cases brandy, 1 box candles. 1 pkg tobacco. 10 coils wire, 9 pkgs groceries, 3i pkgs doors' and sashes, 3 casks ale, 126 rails, 1 case, 1 box tobacco. k . T ~ EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. — Avalanche. Hindustan.Rcrar. Humboldt. City of Vienna, Ardentinny. Hudson, and Eek. . . Southern Ports. Phoebe, s.s., 23nd inst. Northern Pouts. —Ladybird, s.s,, to-day. New York.— Osseo, barque ; Cliaudiere, barque. Mauritius. —Mav, three-masted schooner, early. Hongkong.— Medora, barque, carlv. Wanganui.—Manawatu, p.s., and Stormbird, s.s., this day. PROJECTED DEPARTUUK-v ’ London— Jessie Headman, jarly; Howrah, in January; Soukar, about 7th February. Melbourne, via tub South.— Alhambra, s.s.. ~ Northern Ports.— Phcebe, s.s., 25th Inst. Auckland. —Jung Frau, barque, 23rd inst. _ ■Wanganui.—Stormbird, s.s., on Saturday ; Manawatu, p.s., 25th inst. . Southern Ports.— Ladybird, s.s.. 23rd inst. ■ Blenheim. —Lyttelton, p.s., to-day. BY I'E fjF.dU Am. LYTTELTON, Wednesday. Sailed —Taranaki.-for the South, at 4.30 pm. The Ladybird proceeds North at four o clock tomorrow. ' ■ The schooner Cynthia cleared at the Customs yesterday for Kaipara, where she will load with kauri tim ber for Wellington. . .. ~ The steamer Napier, Captain Butt, got away for Poston yesterday afternoon. , The flne steamer Easbv, Captain Archibald Kennedy, sailed for Newcastle direct at 2.30 o’clock yesterday The paddle steamer LvlteHon, Captain Scott, which left Wellington on Monday night last for Kaikouras, returned yesterday afternoon with a full cargo of W The schooner Herald. Captain Hamilton, arrived late on Tuesday night last from the East Coast, with 90 bales wool. . . . The ketch Elizabeth. Scott, master, arrived from Havelock yesterday morning, with a cargo of sawn timber for Messrs. Greenfield and Stewart. The schooner T, B. Tavlor is for the Wanganui waterworks, from the N.Z.S.S. Company s The barque Jung Frau has commenced taking in ballast preparatory to sailing for Auckland, where she will load produce for London. ■ A brigantine and a schooner were signalled yesterday afternoon, but owing to the light N E. wind which prevailed after noon, thev were unable to reach the harbor last night. The brigantine will probably prove to be the Enterprise from the East Coast, and the schooner the Unity, also from that locality. The Fiona. —On November 10, Messrs. Cunline and Dunlop launched from their engineering and shipbuilding yard. Port Glasgow, a twin-screw steamer named the Fiona, of about 300 tons 8.M., and of the following dimensions, viz.:—2ooft. by 2Sft., by IGJft. \leep. The vessel has been built to the order of Messrs. F. Parbury and Co., of London, as agents for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Sydney. She is intended for passenger and cargo traffic on the Australian coast, and has been designed specially for this •particular service. The engines are supplied by the same firm, and are on the compound principle, fitted with all the modern improvements, including steam starting and reversing gear, the boiler being adapted for the economical consumption of Australian coal. A sealed bottle containing letters has been found on the coast of Maranham. from the British ship, Countess of Kintore, from London for Auckland, dated May 13, and found September 13.—[Pernambuco, October 26.] t , . The steamer Ladybird may bo expected to arrive tills evening from Lvttelton and Port Chalmers. She will be engaged on Friday in conveying excursionists round the harbor, and leave for the North the followdate of sailing of the steamer Phcebe has been altered from the 23rd to the 25tb, when she will sail for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. , The steamers Stormbird and Manawatu-will arrive from Wanganui daring to-day. The former will sail again for Wanganui on Saturday, and the Manawatu ori Monday. , , _ , Captain Parsons, of the barque Nevada, of London, just arrived at Greenock from Batavia, reports that while the vessel was on a voyage to that port from Australia, the cook, a half-caste West Indian, attempted to poison all the cabin by mixing poison with were' Parson’s case the illness terminated fatally in two days. The cook was handed over to the authorities on the arrival at the first (Java) port, but as the evidence against him was insufficient, he was discharged. —Home Nexcs, November 27. - # , The Ship Carnatic.—The arrival of the good ship Carnatic, 871 tons, in the waters of Queen Charlotte Sound, with 297 passengers, op Sunday last, is an event which we may justly fconaider, at this early period of the year, as marking the commencement of a new era in the history of Marlborough. We believe there has only been one other ship direct from England to Picton since the formation of the settlement: the Carnatic being the first with immigrants. In addition to those intended for this province were 100 immigrants, who came out under the auspices of the Colonists’ Aid Corporation, and bound for a special settlement in the province of Wellington. Information of their arrival was telegraphed to their agent at Manawatu, and the coasting steamer of that name was despatched for them, and arrived in Picton yesterday to convey them to their future —and we trust prosperous—home. The Carnatic left London on September 29, and beat about the Channel till October 4, on the 9th was off the Start, and on the 13th, the Wolf Rock, crossed the line on November 8, and passed the Cape December 4, made Cape Farewell January 8, cast anchor off Jackson’s Head on same day, and arrived utMabcllsland, Picton Harbor, on the 10th. As soon as possible after her arrival, the Immigration Commissioners, Messrs. Coultier. Dalton, and Tripe, went on board, and found the ship clean, and in excellent order. Enquiries were made among all classes of the passengers, and no complaints of any kind were made : on the contrary, they all expressed, themselves . perfectly satisfied with the treatment they had received. They were all in good health with only two exceptions, one of which was a recent accouchraent, and the other a person who had for some years been subject to hysteria. There had been little sickness of any kind during the voyage, snly two deaths had occurred, both infants, and two births, which had brought up the number to its original standard. Ihe depot at Picton was filled by those persons who wished either to remain in Picton or to proceed to Havelock, and the remainder have been brought on to the barracks in this town. As a proof of the estimation in which Captain E. M. Moon was held by them, we may state that he was loudly cheered by the immigrants as in company with Mr. Ooultier he passed them on the Picton road. Several persons at Tua Marina turned out to welcome the new arrivals and presented them with fruit and milk, an act of graceful welcome which does credit to our suburban friends, and which we trust will be an augury of future union and good feeling between our old and new chums. Upon making inquiry at the depot this afternoon, we learned that 98 adults and 43 children had been received there, of whom all the servant girls had been engaged except two, and those would probably find employment before the day ,i» oat; five married couples have found engagements, besides three of the single men ; two being carpenters, and the other a blacksmith. —Marlborough Express, January 13. The s. Eomont. —This steamer arrived yesterday about 1.39. She left Port Chalmers on • Saturday last at 3 p.m., but on Monday was compelled ‘,lo take shelter at Akaroa In consequence of the . stormy state of the weather ; next day (Tuesday) left again, with a very strong head wind, and high sea, ’ which accompanied her all the way to this port. The figment is rather a handsome model, but a little .xougldy finished : her engines are built on the very 'best principle (all things considered), and she averaged ive knots against a regular “ sneezer," having only consumed nine tons of coal. The carrying capacity, is its main feature about this structure, as with ' a draft of 6ft. Gin. she will contain 60 tons cargo, in a .hold about 33ft. long and 7ft. deep. The Egmont has -been rather unfortunate on this her first trip—not 'only had she contrary weather, but whilst coming up the river by .some means a rope which was hanging *iver the-sideibecamo entangled with the propeller, detaining her about two hours, and then again on coming toJhe. wharf, in the darkness of the night she jan foul of the Manawatu, lying at the Corporation wharf, doing somelew pounds' damage to the stern of that vessel, and casrying away her own cathead and dicing a little damage to her.raU, The Egmont will j>e under- the .command of Captain Irvine, and we wish him and the ’shareholders every success with the Egmont, hoping that she will be always supported to the full extent of her capabilities.— Wanganui ChrvMe, January 10. . As Auckland Ship nr Court.--bir Redmond Barry as Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, has iriveo his decision In the wilt relating to the barque Lady Franklyn. The vessel had belonged to Mr Thome, of Auckland, and was despatched on a voyage from Auckland to Melbourne, thence to Newcastle, N.S.W., there to await orders. After the vwml arrived in Melbourne, it was found necessary to expend largo sums for necessaries, repairs, &c. Mewrs. Lord and Bon, the agents of the ship advanced. in the first instance, £395. receiving a draft on the owner for the amount, which was subsequently uafd Afterwards they advanced further stuns, making altogether £IO9O, and for this the captain gave them a bottomry bond. Messrs Lord and Son sought lo enforce the bond, an become lumlvent. The validity of the bond was disputed by the -Bank of Now South Wales, who were mortgagees of the veeael on the ground that the advances were ically JSSSf'oS the jjSsonal credit of Thorne, and that the bond was an afterthought, to secure Messrs. Lord and Skin, when it was fonnd that the owner was becoming embarrassed. The Judge decided in favor of the fcaaJr., but without costs.- Melbourne dryus.

A Sydney Liner in Danger,—By Natal paper* to hand we learn that the Eastern Star, which had arrived at Natal, reported as follows On the 4th of October, at 7 a.m., in latitude 25 deg. 30 min. south, and longitude 27 deg. 30, min. west, saw a Jarge ship dismasted, flying British colors ; bore down upon her, and found her to be the Windsor Castle. Captain Harrison. Captain Harrison reports : He left Sydney on the 2nd of August, 1874, laden with a general cargo and forty-five passengers, bound to London, and all went well until the 17th September, when in latitude 27 deg. 60 rain, south, and longitude 33 dog. 67 mm west, at G a ra., he had hard squalls from the westward: took in the mizzen topsail; ship under two close reefed topsails; suddenly a heavy squall struck the ship, and carried away her mainmast, fore and mizzen topmast, yards, &c., lee bulwarks, and some of the stanchions. Captain Warren, of the Eastern Star, states that the Windsor Castle strained and labored heavily, but did not make much water until the day before the Eastern Star fell in with her, when she sprang a leak all of a sudden, which caused them to bo alarmed. Captain Harrison said that ne_ would try to fetch Bahia if possible. —Sydney Empire. Picked up at Sea.—A correspondmt writes to Trt Times under date November 14 :—"On September IS I received a letter from my daughter, who sailed in the Countess of Kintore for Nelson, New Zealand, cm March 28. Therein she wrote :—* In the tropics the captain (Braddick) ordered the carpenter to make a model ship with sails and a hole hi* enough for a soda water bottle to be lashed on to its deck. The steward made on© last year, which was picked up by_hei Majesty’s ship Challenger, so the captain told mm to make another, but it was on an entirely different principle—a flat piece of wood with two bars for feet. Rose (a fellow-passenger) and I drew lots wh.ch of us should have the captain’s, and Rose drew the steward’s. She made a flag of rose-colored riband, with her name in white worked on it, and it was‘ ®® one day and mine the next. I made a flag of dark blue riband and worked “ Constance on it. pearly every one in the saloon wrote ft letter for each bottle, and they were put in and corked up tight. In s morning by the first post I received the letter sent in the Constance, dated May 12. 1374. tat. 9.59 S., long. 07 s w There are two London postmarks on the envelope and a couple of circles with a cross, and the postage was Is. It would be interesting to know wh n and where the little ship Constance was found, ana _if the Rose has met with a similar adventure or is still cruising about.” Another Ship Burned at Sea. —The Sydney Empire has received the following information from Calcutta, 25th October.—The County of Berth, bound from the Clyde, has been burnt at sea. The captain and twenty men have arrived. The County of Berth, Captain Craig, sailed from the Clyde on or about the 9th of July last for Calcutta. She was an iron vessel of IG3G tons net, built in Glasgow this year, and owned by Messrs, R. and J. Craig. This was her first and last voyage.