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SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTONIlian Water, a.m.; 0.11 p.m, ARRIVED. February 13.—Stormbird, s.s., CS tons, Doile, from Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon; Mrs. McAHey, Miss Miles, Messrs. Carrington, Smith, Montague, and Gillctt; three in the steerage. Turnbull and Co., agents. Manawatu, p.s., IDS' tons, Evans, from Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon; Messrs. Drown, Crew, Schucraft. R. S. Ledger, agent. February 14. —Napier, s.s,, 44 tons. Butt, from Foxton. Passengers Messrs. Rolling, Cooper, Flixnmer, and Johnston. Turnbull and Co., agents. Rangatira, s.s., IGB tons, Griffiths, from Poverty Bay and Napier. Passengers- Saloon: Miss Cummings. Mrs. Irvine, Mrs. Scott, Mr. Pilcher, Mrs. Xorr, Mr. and Mrs. Vickers, Messrs. Garrard, Black, Atkin, Shepley, Irvine, Connor, Mankey, Harding, Biddle, Heslop, Bishop, and Master Williams; 15 in the steerage. R. S. Ledger, agent. Wellington, s.s., 2G3 tons, Carey, from Manukau, Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton. Passengers—Saloon : Messrs. McDonald, Faulkner. Ambler, Hugh George, Connor, Late, Lcdgwick, Spitall, Vivian, Muir, Gilbertson, and Lightbaud, and Volunteer rejjresentatives. R. S. Ledger, agent. SAILED. February 13. Richard and Mary, schooner, 44 tons, Hutchinson, for Greymouth. Mclntyre and Co., agents. „ . _ Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. Passengers : Miss and Master Dempsey, Mr. Hathaway. Turnbull and Co., agents. Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Dalton, for Kaikoura. Bethuno and Hunter, agents. Howrah, ship, 1098 tons, Greeves, for London. Passengers—Saloon : Judge Richmond and family, Hon. Mr. Sewell, Dr. and Mrs. Hector, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn. Johnston and Co., agents. Ringleader, revenue cutter, 27 tons. Gray, for the East Coast. February 14.—Tararua, s.s.. 523 tons, Bawden, for Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, The Bluff, and Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mr.,Mrs., and Master Raymond, Mr., Mrs., and Master Noall, Captain Petherbridge, Messrs. Willcox, Cotterell, Campbell, Ailwin, Rose, Stoto,. Southern, Greenwood (2), and Baker’s Hibornicon Company. William Bishop, agent. ' Charles Edward, p.s., 89 tons, Whitwell, for Kekerangi.&nd Nelson- R. S. Ledger, agent. EXPORTS. Richard and Mary, for Greymouth: 20 cases, 15 pairs *f(wWiirau: 1 cask and 1 case hardware, 4 ovens, 1 roll, 1 keg, 1 bundle tubs. 2 cases, 50 mats sugar, 12 tons coal, 24 cases groceries, 2 kegs nails, 5 cases claret, 60 bags flour, 1 case currants, 6 tins varnish, 1 nest tubs, 6 kegs nails, 1 case biscuits, 1 keg nails, 2 nests tubs, 4 kegs noils, 1 filter, I case drapery, I do. herrings, 2 kegs nails, 1 pkg, 1 bundle, 1 sack, 2 cases biscuits, 1 case drapery, 3 trunks, 3 hhds ale, 12 sheets iron, 62 kegs, 10 drums, 1 bundle, 6 pkgs sashes, 1 door, 1 plough, 1 bundle shears, 1 engine. Ruby, for Kaikoura: 1 case saddlery, 1 dray, 5 casks lemonade, 1 pkg . sashes, 4000 feet timber, 1 box china, 1 parcel drapery, 1 J-tierce tobacco, 6 cases brandy. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Hlndostan, Ardentinny, Hudson, Dalran,and Elvin. Mauritius. —May, three-masted schooner, early. Hongkong.—Medora, barque, early. Melbourne and Southern Ports,—Albion, s.s., 18th Inst. Port Chalmers.—Osseo, American brigantine and Chaudiere, barque, early. Northern Ports. —Phcebe, s.s., 19th inst. Southern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London—Soukar, early ; Carnatic, 30th March; Avalanche, 20th March. Melbourne, via the West Coast. —Albion, s.s., early. Napier and Poverty Bay.—Rangatira, s.s., to night. Southern Ports.—Wellington, s.s., this day. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, s.s., this day. Wanganui,—Stormbird, s.s., and Manawatu, p.s., this day. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., this day.

BY TELEGRAPH.

PORT CHALMERS, Saturday. Sailed : Taranaki, s.s. The steamer Stormbird arrived from Wanganui at 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon last, having crossed the bar at 1.30 a.m. She leaves for Wanganui again to-day. The steamer Rangatira, Captain Griffiths, from Poverty Bay and Napier, with the Hawke's Bay portion of the outward Suez mail, arrived yesterday morning at 11 o’clock, after a good run of twenty-five hours. Moderate easterly winds were experienced till Palliser was reached, where a strong gale from the N.W. was met with, against which she had to steam till arriving in Wellington harbor. She will sail for Napier at twelve to-night. . The collier William Ackers, Davis, master, cleared at the Customs on Saturday for Newcastle. . The ship Howrah, for London, • with a large and valuable cargo, cleared the harbor in fine style on Saturday afternoon last. The strong N.W. wind which prevailed enabled her to run the land ont of sight before dark. The steamer Manawatu, Captain Evans, from Wanganui, arrived on Saturday afternoon last at 3.30 o'clock. She crossed the Wanganui bar at 1 a.m., with two schooners in tow, and reports the wat§r during the run as being as smooth as a mill-pond. The steamer Napier left Foxton at 1 o'clock on Saturday last,' and arrived yesterday morning at 1 o’clock, the run down being marked by a calm sea and light airs. The schooner Fairlie has been chartered at Auckland to convey to Wellington and Dunedin a cargo of kerosene, ex Edith Rose, from New York. The revenue cutter Ringleader, Captain Gray, was sighted off Cape Palliser by the steamer Rangatira yesterday morning. The brig Robin Hood, from Newcastle, with a cargo of coal for Captain Williams, anchored outside the Heads yesterday morning. She will probably beat up this mornings The steamer Wellington, with the portion of the outward Suez mail on board, arrived at the wharf yesterday morning at 6.30 o’clock, having left Picton at midnight She left Manukau on Thursday afternoon last, and arrived at Taranaki early next morning, where cargo and passengers were landed. Left the same day for Nelson, arriving on Saturday last; took on board a quantity of fruit for Wellington and sailed for Picton, where she arrived late on Saturday evening. Discharged cargo and sailed for Wellington at midnight, arriving as above. The weather throughout was all that could be desired. The Wellington will sail for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers this afternoon. The schooner Julius Vogel is loading sleepers at Foxton for the Waitara and New Plymouth railway, and the schooner Day Dawn is filling up with timber at the same port for Wellington. The steamer Toneariro left the Manawatu River on Saturday last, for Wanganui, with a cargo of totara sleepers. BURNING OF THE U.S. SHIP HORATIO. On December 10, shortly after one o'clock, the fire alarm hells announced the outbreak of fire on board a ship in the river. The scene of the disaster was the American ship Horatio, Captain Hardy, of New Bedford, U. 8., which had arrived from New York on the Ist instant, with 10,500 cases of kerosene oil, 30 tons of coal, and some general cargo; aud was moored a little way below and off the China Merchants’ Company’s wharf. The outbreak was discovered near the galley, on deck, at about 12.40, an hour at which the captain, with Mrs. Hardy, their child and its nurse, who was also stewardess of the vessel, and the first mate, Mr. Crownshields, were at dinner; the second mate, Mr, Randall, having charge of the deck. On the alarm being given, it was at once seen by those on board that the chance of saving the vessel was almost nil, from the fact that a number of cases containing kerosene were then on deck, some empty, others leaky and being repaired. In a few seconds the fire had caught these, the wind rapidly sending it aft. The application of water would have been no use, for the kerosene, when brought into contact with it would only have spread to carry destruction still wider. Captain Hardy’s first thought, therefore, was the safety of his wife and child and the stewardess ; and during the few minutes that elapsed in the happily successful endeavor to lower them into a sampan alongside, the fire, which had now become flame, had made its way right aft to the cabin, and so round to thetaffrail, along the top of which, as well as the adjacent bulwarks, it was seen running and flickering In a way to show experienced eyes that in a few moments the upper works of the ship would burst into flame. Smoke in dense black volumes began to ascend from the cabin and from kerosene oil cases near the waist of the ship, betokening how surely and rapidly the fire was gaining ground. This, however, did not deter Captain Hardy from re-entering the cabin, which, differing from ordinary deckhouses, was built the whole width of the ship, and was in fact a short poop. His object was to recover some cherished articles belonging to his wife, as well as three valuable chronometers. Mr. Crownshields followed him to render aid, and also to try and save the ship’s insurance papers, but the danger had become too imminent, and, they had hastily to escape over the side as a fierce body of flame leaped full at them, burning them severely on face and hands. Rendered thus helpless they were pulled into a sampan by Mr. Randall, who had got down before them, and removed to the U.S. corvette Hartford, one or two of whose boats arrived alongside very soon after the ship took fire. Mrs. Hardy, child, and the stewardess were also taken • on board the Hartford, having been unable to save a single additional article of clothing beyond what they wore. The deck around the mainmast, mizzenmast, cabin, and taffrail was now one mass of fire, which, seizing hold of the lower,

standing, and running rigging, leaped from ropo to rope with great speed ana intensity, until the main and mizzen-tops were in flames, and burning furiously. presenting a scene that in the darkness of night would have been one of much grandeur, and was even lurid and awe-inspiring in face of the noonday sun. The fire still raged aft, and there being now even less possibility of extinguishing it, it was resolved to riddle the hull with cannon shot, and the Hartford's launch was within a few yards of her side and fired charge alter charge, till nine holes were made, none of them, however, being near enough the water’s edge to be of service unless the ship could be taken into deeper water, and this was now deemed impossible. The flames were raging with momentarily increasing fury fore and aft. and the foremast rigging was soon burnt through in its turn, as the others had been before it, tho fire also extending to the bowsprit and the foretop, again leaping and running from clew-line to bunt-lino, from stay to lanyard, in manner marvellous for Its swiftness, and painfully suggestive of tho horrors of such a catastrophe at sea. About three o'clock the flames had nearly done their destructive work on deck, and extending downwards to tho lower parts of the ill-fated craft, reached the magazine, l which blew up with a flash brilliant in the extreme as seen against the comparative dull red of the conflagration around it. The burst of smoke which followed the explosion was of a sickly green, while that from the blazing wood, hemp, pitch, and oil presented varied hues, from dead black to

light grey, the volumes being of great bulk and sailing away grandly against the half-clouded sky. At 3.46 the foremast went by the board, falling over towards the Pootung shore, and throwing up the most sparkling coruscations, wbile , from the forecastle there snot up for some distance flames and blazing fragments so large and fierce as to causea shudder at the thought of what was going on below deck. At half-past 8 p.m. the fire had spent itself in the after part of the vessel, but the coals in the forepart were still burning fiercely. The Kinleyuen floating steam-engine was pouring volumes of water upon them, but it was thought the Arc would not be extinguished for several hours longer.— Overland China Mail.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4339, 15 February 1875, Page 2

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SHIPPING. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4339, 15 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4339, 15 February 1875, Page 2

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