SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4358, 9 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF WELLINGTON Hicm Water. 5.37 a.m.; 5.52 p.m. ARRIVED. Wahcii B.—Zior, brigantine, 86 tons, from Oatnaru, •with grain. _ . „„„ Napier, 5.8., 44 tons, Butt, from Foxton. !«»■ sengers—Saloon : Messrs. Port, Palmerston, Baker, Marshall. "White, Williams, ami two others. Messrs. W. and G. Turnbul], agents. „„„ March 9.—Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, C. E\ans, from Wanganui. l'assengers i-Messm. «*' b ™"' Muir, Wcllford, Kelly, and Kennedy. K. 8. Ledger, agent. SAILED. ■ • „ ~ March B.—Shepherdess, schooner, 38 tons, rane, for Pelorus Sound, in ballast. . _ _ Otago, s.s., 042 tons, Whitburn, for Nelson Pas-sengers-Saloon ; Mrs. Muncaster Mr. and Mrs Speedy and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and servant, Mrs. Hart, Rev. Mr Henderson Messrs. Mackay, Meldrum, Lunduu, McLean, Mumo, and n*. for Wairau. Tumbull senger-Mr. Kelly. R. S. Ledger, agent. IMPORTS. Easby, from tho South : 160 tons coal, C casks grass seed, 2 cases hams, 30 bales wool. Rangatira, from Napier: 2 boxes, 11 bdls sheepskins, 1 box, 9 bags fat. _ ,',„,.» Aurora, from East Coast; 4 hides, 2 kegs, 59 bales wool. ~ i i Ruby, from Kaikoura and V, aipapa: Da bales wool, 1 case tallow, 3 bdls skins. Clematis, from Lyttelton: 10 pkgs, 0 c*ses, C kegs nails, 6 cases, 37 casks and kegs, 13 pkgs stoves. 41 drams oU, 1 cask, 134 sacks oats, 200 sacks bran, 400 sacks flour. Otago, from Melbourne, via the South : 12 cases fruit, 2 pels, 7 cases, 2SO bags grass seed, 1 trunk. Napier, from Foxton: 10,SS3ft. timber, 2 blocks, 12 baskets, 2 casks tallow, 45 hides, 15 bales 2 half-bales wool, 1 pulley, 3 pkgs, 1 chaff-cutter. EXPORTS. , , Otago, for Melbourne,-via the Coast: 3 pels. 1 case drapery, 02 bales flax, 201 sacks grass seed, 10 tons P °Falcoii, for Wairau : 19 lots wire, 100 bdls standards, 11 tons toal, 1 keg nails, 1 case, 4 cases groceries, 1 truss drapery, 14 gunnies sugar, 200 sacks 1 box tobacco, 5 cases stout. 31 pkgs machinery. 2 sets truck wheels, 8 bearings, 4 cases drapery. Lyttelton, for Wairau: 4 cases, 1 parcel, 1 pkg, 10 sheets mnntz metal, 1 truss. ~ ~ . Rangatira. for Napier; 100 boxes candles, 34 kegs, 1 case merchandise, 134 mats sugar, 1 qr-cask wine, l do brandy, 10 cases geneva, 10 do brandy, 10 no ■whisky, 5 half-chests tea, 10S boxe3 do, 2 half-tierces tobacco, 1 case tobacco, 201 mats sugar, 1 qr-cask wine, 05 case 3 brandy, 1 pel caps, 1 cask ale, 1 pel, 3 doors, 1 bdle, 2 pkgs, 84 cases. 28 gunnies sugar, 20 kegs nails, 3 cases drapery, 5 bdls shovels, 2 pkgs spades, a quantity of timber, 2 pkgs, 1 case mouldings, 2 boxes starch, 3 casks, 2 kogs, 25 drums oil, 13 boxes, 1 cask, 2 kegs, 18 cases, 3 half-chests, 2 boxes tea, 49 mats eugar, 20 boxes candles, 1 cask plaster, 17 kegs, 42 gunnies, 2 pels, D pkgs, 24 cases, 20 casks, 2 pels.

EXPECTED AH RIVALS. London.—Hindostan, Hudson, Dalran, Edwin Fox, Dallam Tower, and Kingdom of Italy. Mauritius.—May, three-nia3ted schooner, early. Port Chalmers.—ClmwUere, barque, daily. Northern Poets.—rhcebe, s.s., 12th inst. Southern Ports. Taranaki, s.s., 11th inst. "Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Tararua, s.s., 12th inst. Auckland and East Coast Ports.—Lima, p.s., *»"'• 1 Wanganui.—Manawatu, p.s., btomibird, s.s., and Egmont, s.s., this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London—Soukar, early ; Avalanche, to-morrow; Carnatic, 30th March. Northern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., 11th mst. Newcastle.—Easby, s.s., this day. Sodtuern Ports.—Phoebe, s.s., 12th inst. Foxton.—Napier, s:s., this day. Napier and Poverty Bay.— Rang&tirn, s.s., this day. Meleocene, via the South.—Tararua, s.s., 14th instant. Wanganui.—Manawatu, p.s., this day. BY TELEGRAPH. LVTTELTON, Monday. Arrived : The Prince Alfred, from Auckland, and Augusta, from the Thames, yesterday. Suled: The "Wellington for the South, at lp.m.; Isaac Newton, for Auckland, with 446 sacks wheat, 440 oats, 100 grass seed, 125 sharps, 285 bran, and 5 cases cheese. GREYMOUTH, Monday. 4.KRITED : The Enterprise, from Wellington. Sailed : The Star of the Sea and Eichard and Mary, for Wanganui; Samuel Merritt, barque, for Lyttelton; Isabella Anderson, for Dunedin; St. Hilda, for Melbourne. ' The p.s. Manawatu left Wanganui at 11 a.m. on Monday, and arrived in Wellington harbor at 1 o'clock this morning. She towed out from Wanganui the schooner Florinda, bound for Melbourne. The smart little steamer;Napier returned to port from Foxton about 11 o'clock last night. She left Foxton at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, aud had fine weather on the run down. She towed out the ketch Wild Duck, loaded with timber for Taranaki, on account of Messrs. Brogden and Son. The following vessels were in the river when the Napier left:—The Julius Vogel and Amateur, loading, for AVaitara : the Day Dawn, for Blenheim; and the Spec, for Oamaru. The Good Templar, from Wellington, had arrived at Foxton. '.„„ " , The steamer Rangatira, Captain Griffiths, for Castle Point, Napier, and Poverty Bay, sailed yesterday evening.' ' „ , , iT . The steamers Manawatu and Egmont crossed the Wanganui bar for Wellington shortly before noon yesterday. They may be expected 10 arrive at daylight this morning. ~ ~ ™ ~ • The ketch Falcon, Fisk, master, sailed for Blenheim last evening, with a full general cargo. The steamer Lyttelton, Scott, master, sailed for Blenheim last evening, with a few packages and one passenger. The ship Carnatic was hauled from the wharf yesterday afternoon. She will load for Loudon in the berth now ocenpied by the Avalanche, which will drop down the stream to-day. The fine steamer Otago, Captain Whitburn, discharged a large shipment of grass seed for this port,, took on board a quantity of seed and flax, and sailed for Melbourne punctually at i o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had a great number of passengers and 3500 bags of grain, shipped at Lyttelton, for Melbourne. :.,--' " , _ The steamer Easby, Captain Kennedy, discharged 150 tons of coal into a hulk yesterday. She wilt sail for Sydney and Newcastle to-day, vnVa 0000 sacks of grain shipped at Lyttelton. ': i A Voyaoe to Tasmania.—The report of tbe.barque Comet unfolds a tissue of ill-fortune; for when a vessel of her weatherly qualities is unable to weather | ' the Snares, wind and weather mast be indeed ■ against her. The Comet is a craft that wa should imagine would eat her way into the wind, under almost, any circumstances, but it would appear that in the present instance she was over-matched and had io cry jjecmvl. She was bound from Oa'marn to Hobarton, and left the formor'place on tho 2nd instant.- Experienced strong southerly winds at the outset, then light winds and foggy weather and variables to the 12th, she then being about .sixty miles east of'the Snares. Two notable incidents were recorded that night: firstly, the Aurora Australia (the Southern lights) were exhibited with great brilliancy, and were "regardea' by Captain Cooper as the precursors of bad weather; and secondly, a derelict vessel was passed, or rather a part of one. At 10 p.m., the bows of apparently a large vessel were sighted, and what appeared to be a topgallant forecastle was about half out of water, the knight-heads and stump of bowsprit and cutwater being distinctly visible. The Comet passed clo3e to the wreck, but as the weather was unsettled and threatening, no attempt was made to lower a boat for closer investigation. The premonitory symptoms of bad weather mentioned above were fully verified next day, when it came on to blow from W.N.W., and from that date, the. 13th, to the 20th, the barque encountered a succession of gales from W.N.W. hauling to W.S.W., tapering off at the latter point, and then backing to the former quarter- and freshening up again. Hence the wind was a complete muzzier, and the barque could not weather the Snares on either tack. She would have succeeded in so doing if the wind had favored her a couple of points oa either tack, but it did not, and so after thrashing at it for seven days, a great part of the time hove-to, sue had to bear up for this port to replenish provisions. She bore up on Saturday last, having only one week's provisions on board, and, being humbugged by light variable weather, did not fetch into the Heads until yesterday morning, and, the wind then failing her, had to tow inside. The lowest reading of the barometer during the gale south was 29.50. On Wednesday night, when off Cape Saunders, the barque spoke the barque Springbok, from Hobarton, bound to Lyttelton.— Otago Dally Tliiies, Feb. 20.