SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4369, 22 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. High Water, 4.52 a.w.; 5.7 r.M. arrived. March 21.-Phmbe, s.s.. 416 tons, Worsp, from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton. Passengers-Saloon; Captain and Mrs. Mclntyre. Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Minifle, .Miss Hayes, Miss Somerville, Messrs. Rutherford, McDonough, Denmston, Robinson. Garwood. Preston, Tully, Chisholm, De Luce, Bowman; twenty-five for the North ; thirty-two steerage for Wellington, and forty for the North. R. fe. Ledger, schooner, 24 tons, from Havelock. Colleen Pawn, schooner, 27 tons, Games, from Pelorus. ’ t, Falcon, ketch. 37 tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. Passenger—Mr. Beck. Turnbull and Co., agents. Rangatira, s.s., 18C tons, Griffiths, from Poverty Bay and Napier. Passengers—Saloon: Rev. Mr. Russell, Mrs. Lover and four children, Mr. and Master Lyon, Messrs. Norman, Wright, Dransfield, Samuel Goudy, and ten in the steerage. - B. S. Ledger; agent. Wild Wave, brig. 230 tons, from Newcastle (New South Wales). Messrs. Beck and Tonks, agents. IMPORTS. Wild Wave, from Newcastle : 240 tons of coal, consigned to Messrs. Beck and Tonks. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.— llindoßtan, Hudson, Dalran, Edwin Fox, Kingdom of Italy, and Wennington. Mauritius.— May, three-masted schooner, early. Auckland* and East Coast Ports.— Luna, p.s - klbourne, via Soutuer.v Ports. —Alhambra, s.s., 2Cth instant. Wanganui. — Manawatu, p.s., to-morrow. Northern Pouts.—Taranaki, s.s., this day. Sydney and Newcastle. —Easby, s.s., early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. __ London— Carnatic. 30th March : Soukar, early Napier and Poverty Bay.— Rangatira, s.s., this day. Wanganui.—Napier, s.s., to-morrow. ’ Melbourne, via the South.—Alhambra, s.s., 26th inst. Northern Ports.—Phcebe. s.s., this day. Southern Ports.— Taranaki, s.s., this day. BY TELEGRAPH. O AMARU, Saturday. t Arrived. —The Mera, brig, from Newcastle, eleven days out, with 375 tons of coal. NELSON. Saturday. Arrived.— The Taranaki, at 6 o’clock. She experienced a very heavy gale all the night, and ran for shelter under Durville's Island this morning. She sails South, via Picton, at 8 o’clock to-morrow morning. POUT CHALMERS, Sunday. Arrived. —The Queen of the Sea, barque, atf the Heads, from Hobarton, after a six days’ run ; and the French barque Lynx, from Mauritius, after’a fortyfour days’run. , „ Sailed.— The barque Medora, and three-masted schooner Foirlie, for Lyttelton. The steamer Napier will be placed on the patent slip to-day for the purpose of receiving a hew screw. A few slight repairs to her rudder will also bo effected. No news had been received up to last evening concerning the steamer Manawatu, which left this port on Friday last for Wanganui. It is probable she is riding out the gale in safety under the lee of Kapitl. The steamer Taranaki, arrived at Nelson, from Manukau and Taranaki, on Saturday afternoon last, after a very rough voyage from New Plymouth. She left Nelson for Picton at 8 o’clock yesterday morning, and her agents expect' her to arrive. in Wellington at daylight this morning. TheketchFalcon,Fisk,raaster, crossed the Strait from the Wairau bar yesterday in 7 hours. She cleared the Wairan river on Saturday morning last, but anchored till 3 o’clock yesterday morning, when she started for Wellington, arriving at 10 o’clock. An hour and a-half were occupied in beating up the entrance. There was not an arrival at, or departure from, the port of Wellington on Saturday last. The fine steamer Phcebe still maintain 5 * her reputation of being one of the best foulweather boats on the New Zealand coast. She arrived at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon from Port Chalmers , after a splendid run' of eighteen and a-half hours from the latter port, against the strong W.N.W. gale which has prevailed on the coast of New Zealand since Friday night last. The weather was particularly severe off Kaikoura, where it was blowing “ feather white ” and not till Cape Campbell had been passed was the wind at all moderate. The Phoebe brought a large number of passengers for Wellington, besides thirty-five diggers who are proceeding by her to Ohinemuri.

The steamer Bangatira, Captain Griffiths, arrived from Poverty Bay and Napier at eight o’clock last night, after a long and boisterous passage of thirtythree hours from the latter port. Sha left Napier on Saturday morning at eleven o'clock, the wind at the time blowing very bard from the N.E. The vessel made fair progress till eight o’clock yesterday morning, when Cape Palliser was rounded. The gale then proved dead ahead, hut Captain Griffiths kept ins vessel at it, and after twelve- hours’ hard thrashing arrived in port. A very heavy -sea.was rolling in the Strait. The steamer Southern Cross was passed at three o’clock yesterday morning. The Kangatlra wUI laKv-w Wgv uugo on booed to doy, arid ta.il for Napier this afternoon, ; 1

The brig Wild Wave, from Newcastle, beat cleverly into port about half-past six o'clock yesterday evening in charge of Mr. Pilot Holmes. Captain Kavanagh reports having left Newcastle on the 10th instant at eight o'clock, a.m., arriving off the entrance to Port Nicholson at noon yesterday. Met with a light northerly wind until the 18tb, when he experienced a hurricane from-the north-east, which shifted to the west, with heavy squalls and rain. The barques Camille and Australind sailed on the same day as the Wild Wave, also for this port. Since her last visit, the Wild Wave (originally built for a tea-clipper) has been over-hauled and re-coppered. We notice by the San Francisco mail circular of last month that the ship Mairi Bhan has sailed for Britain with a cargo of grain, the rate of freight she secured being £2 lit*. 3d. per ton. .

The Sydney Morning Herald informs us that the barque Chevert, well known here, had been sold to Mr. Macieay for the sum of £3OOO, and was to be placed in the Southern Islands trade, under the command of Captain Edwards. She was to proceed first to New Guinea. • ■ -

The steamer Phcebe will take her departure for the North this afternoon. She is at present running with the double-bladed screw that wa.s shipped for. temporary use after her three-bladed screw burst at the unshipping. Excepting in smooth water, the->two blades are not nearly so effective as the three, besides being heavier on the gear of the engine. It will not continue long in use, an order for the casting of a four-blad«d screw having been entrusted to Messrs. Kincaid and McQueen, and will be executed by the time the Phcebe arrives on her next trip.— Otago Daily Times, March 18. Foundering of a Steamer and Loss of T went vfive Lives. —The schooner Leader, from Palermo, arrived at Cardiff on the 11th of January, bringing with her four of the survivors of the. Cortes, of London, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on the 16th of December. The Cortes was a screw-steamer of 1000 tons register, and carried a crew of twentynine hands. She was commanded by Captain Edward King, London, a young but excellent olficer. She was loaded with 1600 tons of steam coal, by Messrs. Cory Brothers, of Cardiff, and bound for Aden. According to the statement of Frederick Cross, the steamer left Cardiff on the 14th of December. Everything was fair and well until the next evening, when they were running into the Bay of Biscay. The wind began to rise as the sun went down, and by midnight a terrific gale was blowing. The sea rose to an immense height, and broke over the deck, sweeping away all loose tackling. An effort was made to keep her on her course ; but the chains of the wheel broke, and she was then blown about by the wind. The water soon swept down the engine-room; tiie fires were extinguished owing to the pumps being rendered useless, and the firemen then came on deck. The captain ordered the four survivors into one of the boats, which was let down, and allowed to follow the steamer by a tow-rope. The four men were ordered on'no account to leave the vessel, but to remain at hand ready for any emergency. The steamer was quite unmanageable, being rolled and tossed about by the fury of the gale for hours. The men kept in the boat and followed the vessel, the captain hoping that some ship would come near to render him assistance. About 10 o'clock- on the 16th of December, the tow-rope broke, and the boat went in one direction, and the steamer was blown off in another. They watched the steamer at times, when they were on the tops of the waves, and In about half-an-hour after they left her, she turned over and went down. No one left the vessel after they did, as the sea^ swept away boats and everything else, and the captain and twenty-four men went down with her. For some hours they were thrown about the Bay of Biscay expecting every moment to bo capsized ; but the Osco, a barque belonging to Prince Edward’s Island, espied them, and bore down to the boat and took them on board. The Osco was bound fop the East Indies ; but in the Mediterranean she hailed a French steamer bound for Marseilles, and transferred the survivors to that vessel. The French ship overhauled the leader, when near Gibraltar, and she took on board the survivors, and by her they wore landed at Cardiff. The survivors are quite certain they saw the 111-fated steamer go down. She was a splendid vessel, fitted up with everything to ensure the safely of those on board. The men attribute her loss to the water getting Into the engine-room and rendering her engines useless, and not entirely to the breaking of the chains of the wheel.