SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4324, 29 January 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POST OF WELLINGTON High Water, 0.18 a.m.; 0.45 P.M. ARRIVED. January 28.—Stormbird. s.s., 67 tons, Doile, from Wanganui. Passengers —Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Blyth, Miss Cook, Miss Ilooth, Messrs. Richmond, Campbell, Booth, and Miles; and two in the steerage. TurnLull and Co., agents, Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Evans, from Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. McLellan, Messrs. Mclntosh, Swan, Towgood, McNcith. Ball, Thomas, and Peters. R. S. Ledger, agent. Melanie, schooner, 130 tons, Crcagh, from Wanganui. 'Edward Pearce, agent. Taranaki, s.s., 290 tons, Lloyd, from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon: Miss Millar, Mrs. and Miss Smith. Mrs. Atkin and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Topham, Mi*, and Mrs. Wakefield, Mrs. Colcuth, Captain Logan, Rev. Mr. West, Messrs. Ayson, McLeod, Strachan, Bright, Smith, Schaukel, Peppcrill, Fitzgibbon, Woodward. Henderson, I aync, Thompson, Burn©, Jamieson, Fantham, V ilhs, Biddle, and the Rev. Mr. Henderson ; and five in the steerage. R. S. Ledger, agent. , . TT Humboldt, ship, 741 tons, H. D. Busch, from Hamburg. Passengers—3S7 German immigrants. Johnston and Co., agents. . SAILED. , , January 28.—Jessie, schooner, 33 tons, Schinkel, for Wanganui. Mclntyre and Co., agents. Colleen Bawn. schooner, 29 tons, Games, for Pelorns Sound, In ballast. Manawatu. p.s., 103 tons, Evans, for Wanganui. R. S. Ledger, agent. Stormbird, s.s., 07 tons. Doile, for Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Gorton, and Mr. Daly. Turnbull and Co., agents. IMPORTS Stormbird, from Wanganui: 107 bales wool. Australiml, from Newcastle : 740 tons coal. Manawatu, from Wanganui: 113 bales wool, 29 sacks potatoes, 1 cask bottles, D bdls rope. Melanie, from Wanganui: 212 bales wool, 2 bales sheepskins, 24 casks tallow. Taranaki, from Lyttelton : 105 cases kerosene, 2 boxes, 1 bale, 1 stove, .34 cases, So boxes, 3 hhds, 1 bdl, 1 pci, 4 kegs, 1G pkgs, C kegs, 3 plough frames, C casks, 2 bales, 1 truss, 1 trunk, 5 horses, 1 dray, 3 ploughs, 3 bags, 2 pkgs, 100 sbeep, 1 box, 1 case, 07 sacks oats, 17 cases cheese, 70 sacks oats, 2 cases, 1 cask, 1 truss, 45 sacks oats, 4 cases hams, 0 sacks seed, and a quantity of cargo for transhipment to Napier, Poverty Bay, and Wanganui. EXPORTS. Jessie, for Wanganui: 53 bales, 175 cases. Stormbird, for Wanganui: 3 pkgs, 1 case, 2 cases sherry, 2 do groceries, 2 half-chests tea, 1G pkgs sugar, 2 cases chairs, 1 bale blankets, 75 pkgs sugar, 22 boxes tea, 1 truss, 1 stove, 1 case, 4 bars iron, 1 pkg, 2 cases, S pkgs machinery, 1 bale, 5 tanks. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Klndostan, City of Vienna, Ardentmny, Tnverene, Hudson. New York.— Osseo, barque ; Chaudiere, barque. Mauritius.— May, three-masted schooner, early. Hunokono.— Mcdora, barque, early. Northern Porl*.—Wellington, s.s., this day. Wanoanui.— Manawatu, p.s., and Stormbird, s.s., to-morrow. , Melbourne, via the West Coast. —TaraTua, s.s., 14th prox. Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s,, 4th prox. East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatira, s.s., to-morrow. Melbourne and Southern Ports.—Otago, s.s., Ist proximo.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Lon nos—Howrah, in January; Jessie Roadman, Ist February; Sonkar, about 7th February. Meldourne. via tub South.—Alhambra, s.s., this day. Northern Pouts.— Taranaki, s.s., this clay. Xavier and Poverty Ray.—Rangatira, s.s., 2nd pros. Lyttelton.—Langstone, ship, this day. Southern Ports.— Wellington, s.s., this day. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., this day. Auckland and East Coast Ports. —Southern Cross, s.s., to-morrow. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Otago, s.s., Ist proximo. Blenheim.—Lyttelton, p.s., this day..

BY TELEGRAPH. THE BLUFF, Thursday. Arrived. —The "Wanganui, from Dunedin. Sailed. —The Craig Ellachie brig, for Lyttelton. ■ LYTTELTON, Thursday. Arrived. —The Emperor, from Newcastle. The Xew Zealand Shipping Company chartered the ship Metope, which sailed for London this morning at 5 o’clock. She has taken 505 G bales of wool, and 101 packages, the whole valued at £93,000; and thirtythree passengers, all told. The barque Tasso, from Adelaide, with a cargo of bark for Mr. Hirst, has been berthed in the £erth vacated by the brig Wild Wave, which has hauled into the stream. The barque Auslralind commenced discharging her coals yesterday into a hulk. The N.Z.S.S. Company’s steamer Taranaki, Captain Lloyd, arrived at 2 o’clock yesterday, from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, after a run of twenty-one hours from the latter port. Strong N.W. winds were experienced. She leaves this afternoon for Picton, Kelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. The steamer Wellington, from Manukau, Taranaki, Kelson, and Picton, will arrive in port this morning, and leave for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers in the evening. , ’ The ship Carnatic, which had dragged her anchors on Wednesday last, was taken in tow by the steamer Kapler yesterday morning, and berthed in the inner berth of the northern outer T. The steamers Stormbird and Mauawatu arrived from Wanganui early yesterday morning. A heavy beam sea was experienced by both vessels, with a strong breeze from the X.W. They both sailed again for Wanganui last evening. The three-masted schooner Melanie, with a cargo of wool, consigned to Messrs. Krull and Co., arrived from Wanganui early yesterday, morning. She was towed over the bar by the steamer Mauawatu on Wednesday last, and arrived in port a couple of hours after the steamer. Favorable N.W. winds brought the vessel down. The Melanie will be put upon the patent slip to-day. The Napier will leave for Foxton to-day. The ship Waikato is fairly rushed by wool. Her decks are piled with bales; and-several tiers of the latter are lying on the wharf waiting-shipment. Excepting a couple of hundred bales the ship has all her cargo on board and alongside. Extraordinary efforts are being made to stow it away. Double gangs of men are at work, and the dumping machine goes night and day. • Below, the ship is stowed chock-a-block from forward to as far aft as the main hatch, and consequently sits by the head considerably, but she will recover trim as tilling in aft proceeds. That she will be the next wool ship for home is now absolutely demonstrated. —OUtgo Daily Times, January 23. Kever since the Port was a port were so many and such fine vessels crowded in so confined a space as are now in the area represented by the Pier berths. ■Viewing the busy corner—for it is no more than one —from George-street, it displays a veritable grove of spars, with their brandling yards and thick net-work of gear. 'Tls a cheering sight, affording as it does the truest assurance of a substantial and increasing trade. Eight large ships, two barques, a brig, and four steamers, nestle together snug ami comfortable at the excellent safe pier accommodation, whilst in the stream are to be seen at anchor six large ships, one barque, two brigantines, lour schooners, and sundry smaller craft. Thus there are in the Lower Harbor at present fourteen ships—the smaller 700 the larger 1273 tons, three barques, one brig, two brigantines—one of them 451 tons—four schooners, with smaller craft, including three steamers and the steamer Samson in dock. —Otago Daily Times, January 23. Accident to a Mate.— lt is with much regret that we have to record a severe accident which befel Mr. Fitzer, the chief officer of the ship Auckland, yesterday morning. Dumping wool was. in.full fling.-and influenced by the zeal and energy characteristic of the man, Mr. Fitzer was pushing on the work by superintending the operations at the wool-press. Two bales were in process of being converted into a “double dump,” without, for expedition's sake, the door of tho press being closed. y It is not unusual to dump wool that fashion, to save time, and providing the bales are fairly placed, they dump easily enough. In this case, however, the bales failed to take the pressure tmly, and just as Mr. Fitzer was in the act of instructing one of his subordinates how to arrange the iron hoop bands for rivetting, the bales flew out of the press, knocked him down, and broke his left leg above and close to the ancle. Dr. Allen, the ship’s doctor, was in immediate attendance, and, although the break was compound, he set the broken limb with a deftness that, to the uninitiated, seemed surprising. At i his own earnest request, Mr. Fitzer was removed to ; the Dunedin Hospital. This is the third time Mr. Fitzer has met with a similar accident, the same .leg : having been broken twice before. —Otago Daily Times, January 22. Arrival of tjie Osseo.— The American brigantine Osseo, a very heavy vessel of her class, her tonnage registered being no less than 454 tons, arrived in Port yesterday morning from Kew York. She has come direct, and has made a very fine passage of IXO days. TheOsseois almost a new vessel, having been built at Korth Port, Long Island, in 1871, and is classed A 1 13 years, at French Lloyds. She is owned at, and hails from, Kew York, and is commanded by Captain Lowry, both master and Vessel being on their first visit to this port. The Osseo brings a full cargo, of which more than two-thirds are for this port, and tho balance for Wellington. With regard to her passage out, we report that she left Xew York on October Ist. The meridian of the Leu win was crossed on the4th inst., and on the 12th tho south coast of Tasmania was sighted, and the wind, holding good, she was within sight of Stewart's Island off the Trapps on tho 17th. Variable winds, easterly, then set in, so that she did not fetch the Heads until the 10th, and, as We reported yesterday, sailed In and anchored for the night off the Kaik. Yesterday morning she sailed up and anchored at the Port, Captain Lowry reports that, on November 29th, he boarded tho ship Lucy S. 'Wills in lat. 37° 31' S., long - , 17° 40' "W. She was from New York, bound to Batavia, all well on board. The Osseo is consigned to Messrs. Neill and Co, —Otago Daily Times, January 21. Ship Waimatb, from London.— This fine iron clipper ship, tho fourth vessel built expressly for the New Zealand Shipping Company, and tho ninth vessel of the fleet, was signalled yesterday at 0.30 a.m. As tho ship How Jho Commodore's .flag (the New Zealand flag with a swallow tail) it was known that it was the Waimate. .Shortly before 10 a.m. a largo party left in Messrs. Cameron’s s.s. Mullogh for the ship, to give those on board a welcome, and on returning, tho Health Officer ami Commissioner with tho party embarked and proceeded to the vessel, which was lying off Rhodes' Bay. Passing the ship Waitangi a comparison of tho two vessels could be made from a short distance off both vessels. Tho hulls appeared very similar, but tho masts of tho Waimato were tauntcr than those of her sister, Waitangi, On arriving alongside it was found that eight deaths had occurred, seven being infants, and one an adult named George Green, aged fifteen, from drowning. No infectious disease had occurred during-tho passage. Tho ship was at o&co cleared and tho party was welcomed on board by

Captain Henry Rose, Commodore of the fleet. The ship is certainly as beautiful a model as ever entered Lyttelton. She has a splendid spring and good sheer, a fine poop, and her main dock is remarkably well laid. She was built by the same builders as the Waitangi, Messrs. J. Blumer and Co., Sunderland. She was launched in September last, and from fore to aft throughout the ship no expense has been spared to make her a first-class passenger and immigrant vessel. Her length is 219 ft.; beam, 35ft.; hold, 20ft.; 'tween decks, 7ft. 3in. She has six splendid boats on board in case of accident, two large life-boats, properly fitted up, and hanging on davits; two large pinnaceboats ready to launch at a minute’s notice ; one largo cutter with all appliances; and a large gig, with oars and life-buoys complete. During the passage a sad accident occurred at C a.m. on Dec. 20. A lad, an 0.5., named George Green, fell overboard, the ship at the time running before a heavy sea. A life buoy was thrown to him, and the vessel, which was running thirteen knots in a heavy sea, was brought to. A man was sent up to the mizzon cross-trees, but could see no signs of the unfortunate youth. As the sea was very rough, the captain was obliged to continue on his voyage, feeling sure that no human being could live in the sea that was running. —Lyttelton Times , Jan. 20.

ARPJVAL.OF THE HUMBOLDT. The Clyde-built KSip Humboldt, of 741 tons British register. Captain Jl.. D. Busch, from Hamburg, dropped anchor in Wellington harbor at four yesterday afternoon, after a passage of 105 days. The voyage lias been a comparatively good one, there being no sickness other than that usual to children on a long sea voyage, and the ship lias been brought into port in a very creditable state. The Humboldt brings 357 passengers, all of whom are Germans. There were eleven deaths during the voyage-eight children from marasmus—a complaint peculiar to children on shipboard—and three caused by accidents. One lad fell overboard, the vessel running fast at the time, and although every effort was made to save him, the poor little fellow was not picked up. The second was a little girl, who fell down the hatchway, and died very shortly afterwards from the effects of the fall; the third was a •woman. The Board of Health boarded the ship at four o'clock, and found everything satisfactory, after a careful inspection. The vessel comes to the agents of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Messrs. Johnston and Co., who, with commendable promptitude, despatched by half-past five o’clock a boat-load of fresh provisions, which wore doubtless very acceptable to the passengers.