SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4373, 26 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF WELLINGTON. High Water, C.SS a.m.: 7.14 p.m. ARRIVED. March 25.- e -Elibank Castle, schooner, 70 tons, Southgate, from Sydney via Wanganui. Turnbull and Co., agents. Manawatu, p,s., 103 tons, Evans, from Wanganui. Passengers: Saloon —Messrs. Ledger, Cootes, McVicar, Park, Powell, Wilson, Harper, Williams, Boone, and Austin. E. S. Ledger, agent. Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Bawden. from Melbourne, Hokitika, The Grey, and Nelson. Passengers: Saloon —Mr. and Mrs. J, B. Whyte, Mrs. Lewis, Messrs. Everett, Gower, Walker, Harper, and 5 in the steerage ;54 for other ports. William Bishop, agent. Ladybird, s s., 2SG tons; Andrew, from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers: Saloon—Mr. and Mrs. Case (Grace Egerton) and child, Mrs. and Master Holt, Mrs. McGowan. Mrs. and Miss Message, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett and three children, Messrs. Dalgleish, Pollock, Scott, Shars, Ruff, Dale. Culpan, Craighead, Hayman, Smith, Grant, Henderson, Davidson, and 25 in the steerage. K. S. Ledger, agent. Shepherdess, schooner, 3S tons, Cochrane; from Pelorus Sound. Mclntyre ami Co,, agents. Napier, s.s., 44 tons. Butt, from Wanganui. Passengers : Sir. and Mrs. Dance. Turnbull ami Co., agents. Egraont, s.s., 52 tons, Irvine, from Wanganui. Passengers: Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair, Messrs. Mclntosh and Perkins. Levin and Co., agents. Robin Hood, brig, 290 tons, Paton, from Newcastle, N.S.W. Captain Williams, agent. SAILED. March 25. Colleen Pawn, schooner, 29 tons, Garnes, for Pelorus Sound, in ballast. Master, agent. Dido, cutter, 30 tons. Shilling, for Warigauul. Turnbull and Co., agents. Ladybird, s.s., 2SO tons, Andrew, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Mamikau. Passengers : Saloon — Mrs. Scrimshaw, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Manning and children. Miss Adams, Messrs. Ladd, Goodhouse, and Jones. R. S. Ledger, agent. Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Evans, for Wanganui. Passengers: Saloon—Mrs. Rankin, Messrs. Norman, McDonough, Bailey, Maitland, and 45 in the steerage. Lyttelton, p.s.jTiS tons, Scott, for Blenheim. R. S. Ledger, agent. CLEARED OUT. March 25.—Neptune, brig, 299 tons, Croll, for Newcastle, N.S.W., in ballast. Passenger : Mr. Edwards. Captain Williams, agent. IMPORTS, ■ EHbank Castle, from Wanganui: 20 hides. 1 calf skin. Hirst: 24 sacks potatoes, Mclntosh: 41 bales and 3 bags wool, Turnbull and Co. Manawatu,-from Wanganui: 32 bales wool, Krull and Co; 64 hides, W. L. Hirst; 1 case. Rev. Mr. Mprley: 1 case, Carr; 3 cases drapery, Bannatyne and Co.; 1 case fruit, Hon. Mr. Fitzherbert; G bags potatoes, Downes: 2 bales wool. Levin and Co.; 1 kit. Alien ; 1 pci, Biddell. Shepherdhess, from Pelorus Sound; 23,000 feet sawn timber, Greenfield and Stewart. Ladybird, from the South : From Port Chalmers—--7 casks pork, transhipped ex Oarnaru: 1 case, Jackson; 16S bars and 2 bdls iron, Robertson and Co.; I truss, Johnston; 30 boxes soap, George Thomas; 1 cask, Robertson and Co.; lease, Pyfe; 1 case, Devenpovt. From Lyttelton—s cases biscuits, Jameson ; 40 sacks flour, Vennell: 1 box, Clayton ; 2pkgs, Hon. Richardson ; 1 pkg, Mills ; 77 sacks seed, Dransfield and Co.; and a quantity of goods to be landed at Wellington for transhipment to Wanganui, Napier, and Poverty Bay.

Alhambra, from Melbourne via West Coast: From Melbourne*-1 case, Griffiths ; 1425 mats sugar, 1 pci, Levin and Co.; 2 bales, McDowell and Co.; 2 cases, Order; 3 bales leather, L. Levy; 10 half-chests tea, Gandy; 1 case, Barrett; 240 bags bark, Krull and Co.; 00 cases jams, Gandy; 1 case, Thompson, Shannon and Co.; 1 case, Alcorn ; 1 case, Rankin : 2 cases, Bowden and Sons ; 7 pkgs sugar, Anderson ; 23 do do, Turnbull and Co.; SI do do. Order ; 145 do do, Order; 11 cases fruit, Laing ; 3 cases, Turnbull and Co.; S cases, Jacob, Joseph and Co.; 15 bdls gas pipes, 2 bdls iron. Mills; 6 bdls gas pipes, 1 pkg, Gibson ; 2 pkgs boots, Levy; 3 pkgs, McDowell and Co.; 3 cases, 1 pkg, Turnbull and Co.: 10 cases. Order ; 1 pci, X truss, 1 case, Turnbull and Co.; 9 trunks, 4 boxes, 1 case, McDowell and Co.; 4 cases, Armstrong; 1 case, Hunt; 4 bdls pipes, 1 case, 1 do acid. Love ; 1 case, Hughes ; 20 casks butter, Jameson Brothers ; 1 case, Burrett: 2 cases, Lyon and Blair: 1 case, James Smith; 1 case, 1 btfl, Hayes ; 6 qr-casks wine, Eddie and Jack : 10 rams, Bethune and Hunter ; 7 sacks seeds, Willis ; 1 case cigars. Order; 1 gas stove, 1 tin boiler, Roxburgh; 2 cases. Manager of the Union Bank of Australia ; 1 box, 1 pci, Henry Jackson ; 1 pci, Thomson, Shannon and Co.; 1 bale, Order; 1 case, Cohen; 1 case, Barraud, 1 case. Lindsay ; 2 pkgs, Hannah and Co.; 2 cases, Lucas ; 1 trnss. Order; 8 trunks, Lindsay ; 2 bales,'Burrett; 1 box. Order; lease. Public Works; 1 case. Order: 1 case, McNab ; 1 case, Order: 1 case, Lyon and Blair; 1 case, Chapman ; 1 pci, Jackson ; 1 pkg, Turnbull and Co.; 1 pci. Bishop ; 1 box. Palmer; 1 cask, Allan. From Nelson—loo boxes tea, Order ; 15 case fruit, 1 case eggs, Duncan ; 10. cases fruit, Spittle ; 10 cases fruit, 4 half-cases do,-I.box eggs, 24 sacks potatoes. Barber; 10 cases fruit, 2 do eggs, Pownceby; and a large quantity of cargo landed at Wellington for transhipment to Napier and Wanganui. : EXPORTS. Dido, for Wanganui: 200 casks cement, Turnbull and C 0.,. Lyttelton, for Blenheim: 1 cask shot, Levin and Co.; 1 case powder. Mills; 1 case, Lowes; 1 case, 2 lengths pipe, 1| bdl forkfs, 1 case, Gibson ; 1 case, Pilcher; 2 springs, 1 bdl iron, 1 pci. Mills; 8 bars Iron, Levin and Co.; 4 kegs-paint, 3 drums oil, 1 box soap, Gibson ; 80 drums oil, 1 ladder, 3 pkgs, Marine office; 5 pkgs, Gibson; 4 pkgs, Marine office. Manawatu, for Wanganui; 24 pkgs, Ledger; 8 cases, Thompson, Shannon and Co,; 1 cask shoes. Mills ; 5 trusses, Hirst; 2 cases, Thompson, Shannon and Co.; 1 case, 1 sack. Ledger; 1 bale, 1 case, Burnett; 4 cases, Thompson, Shannon and Co.; 44 cases kerosene, Bannatyne and Co.; 1 pci, Moss: 5 cases, 32 pkgs,. Stevenson and Stuart; 1 case, H.M. “Customs ; l ease, 1 truss, Whittem, Nicholson and Co.; 1 pci, Quin ; 1 case, Barraud and Co.; 4 cases, 1 keg. Telegraph Department ; 1 case, Pilcher ; 5 ewes, 4 rams, Rhodes and Co.; 1 truss, Edmonson, Sellar and Co.; 1 bdl, Pnrchass; 6 cases. Ah Tong; 4 cases, 1 pci, A. P. Stuart and Co.; 1 pci, Johnston; 9 pkgs, 1 truss, 1 case, Stuart and Co.? 1 bdl, Hirst; 1 case, Allan; 2 pkgs, Lyon and Blair; 7 sacks grass seed, Levin and Co.; 1 pkg spades, Gibson ; 2 cases. Whittem, Nicholson, and Co.; 1 case. Thompson, Shannon and Co. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Himloatan, Hudson, Dalran, Edwin Fox, Kingdom of Italy, and Wennington, Mauritius.—May, three-masted schooner, daily. Auckland and East Coast Pouts.—Luna, p.s., daily.. Wanganui.—Manawatu, p.s., to-morrow. Northern Ponxs. —Wellington, s.s., this day. Svdney and Newcabtle. —Easby, s.s., early.

Southern Ports,—Taranaki, s.s.. 31st. Napier and Poverty Bay.—Rangatira, 5.8., 27th nst. Melbourne and Southern Ports.— Omeo, s.s., 29th inat. PIIOJ ECTKD DEPARTURES. London —Carnatic, 30th March : Sonkar, early Napier and Poverty Bay.—Rangatira, s.a., 30tli Inst. Wanuanui.—Egmont, s.a., to-morrow. Melbourne, via the South. —Alhambra, s.s., to-morrow. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, s.s., Ist prox. Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., to-morrow. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., to-morrow. THE ELIBANK CASTLE. A handsome addition to the already numerorts coasting fleet of the port of Wellington has been uSle by the arrival, yesterday, of Messrs. Turnbull and Co.'s fine new topsail schooner, the Elibank castle. She is a clipper vessel of the following dimensions Length, 80ft. ; beam, 10ft.: depth of hold, Cft. Gin., with a registered tonnage of 70 tons. She was built by Mr. Peter Sprit, of Cape Hawk (a ship-building locality 150 miles to the north of Sydney), for the New South Wales coasting trade, to run on her builder's account, but a satisfactory sum being offered on behalf of Messrs. Turnbull and Co., * of this city, .she was sold to that firm. The Elibank Castle appears to be a faithfully-built craft, with a fine entrance and a clean run, and, judging by the construction of her bow, she ought to be a comparatively dry vessel. Her build is particularly suited to the New Zealand trade, for, with a cargo of 100 tons, her draught is but 6ft. As she arrived from Wanganui yesterday, with 30 tons dead weight, her figures indicated 4ft. She is not unlike the schooner Magellan Cloud, which was launched some time ago by the same builder, and purchased by a Canterbury firm. Particular attention has been paid to the Eubank Castle's spars and rigging. Her lower masts, jibboom, and bowsprit are of spotted gum, which will probably last as long as the vessel’s hull, while her topmasts, topsail and topgallant yards are of Oregon pine. Nothing but Australian hardwood has been used in her hull, which is coppered with the best metal. It was Intended to fit the vessel with two centreboards, one to be worked in the main hatch and the other in the after hatch—a style of vessel very common on the coast of New South Wales—but the builder altered his mind in this respect. The Elibank Castle left Sydney for Wanganui with 100 tons of cargo on the 4th instant, and arrived in the Wanganui River on the 17th, strong head winds having prevailed for six days after leaving Sydney, but the latter part of the voyage was marked by light and favorable northerly weather. Discharged her cargo and left Wanganui on Wednesday morning, crossing the bar at 11.30 o'clock. Twelve hours after, Pencarrow light was sighted, when the vessel was becalmed for three hours. A light northerly wind springing tip, she beat up the harbor, and anchored at the wharf yesterday morning, after a rapid passage of 2hours. The Elibank Castle was brought from Sydney to Wellington by Captain Southgate, who will resign command to Captain Linklater, of Wanganui.

To-day being Good Friday, there will be no shipping business transacted, and the steamers now in port will therefore be unable to leave on their respective voyages till to-morrow, when the Alhambra will sail for Melbourne via the South; the Napier, for Foxton: and the Egmont, for Wanganui, McMeckan and Blackwood's fine steamship Aiham bra. Captain Bawden, left Hobson’s Bay at 3 on the afternoon of the 17th instant, clearing the Hoads three hours later, Wilson’s Promontory was passed at 5 a in., and the Sisters at 10 p.m, the following day. For the first two days after leaving Melbourne the wind was light from the southward, then it came on to blow fiercely from the same quarter, the sea running very high. The s.s. Albion, bound to Victoria, was sighted at 6on the morning of the 21st. Arrived off Hokitika at 8.30 p.m. on the 22nd, sailing for the Grey the following day at noon. Arrived at Nelson at 11 a.m. on the 24th, and left for Wellington after a stay of eleven hours, arriving, hero at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Bhe will not leave for Melbourne and the South till Saturday next. . , _ , The clipper brig Kobin Hood, Captain Eaton, arrived yesterday afternoon from Newcastle with 500 tons coal for Captain Williams, She left Newcastle on the 17th instant, and has therefore made a rapid run of eight days. Fair winds and fine weather enabled the llobln Hood to make this exceptionally rapid run. The steamer Napier, Butt, master, arrived at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Wanganui, having left that port at 10.80 o'clock the previous night,

The steamer Egmont left Wanganui at 10.50 p.m. on Wednesday, and arrived shortly after - ociock yesterday afternoon. She towed the schooner Onward over the bar. A fair wind was experienced during The steamer Lyttelton, Scott, master, left Wellington for Blenheim, via Cape Campbell, last The steamer Wellington. Captain Carey, left Nelson at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for Picton. wnere sne would arrive about 8 o’clock last night. Captain Carey would probably leave for Wellington about midnight, and arrive here early this morning, in consequence of the Wellington s detention at tt o Manukau, she will leave here on the -7th, instead ox the 25th, as previously advertised. The steamer Manawatu, Captain Evans, left » anganui at 11 o’clock on Wednesday morning, and arrived here shortly after midnight. She shipped a full cargo, and sailed for Wanganui last evening. The N.Z.S.S. Company’s steamer Ladybird, Andrew, master, left Port Chalmers at 4_p.ni. on the 22nd inst., and arrived at Lyttelton the following morning at 10.15 o’clock, after a very smart run of eighteen hours, the wind having been fresh from the southward. She left Lyttelton at 3 p.m. on the 24th, and arrived in Wellington harbor at 10.00 o clock yesterday morning, having made the passage, against strong head winds and heavy sea. in nineteen and a .half hours. She sailed again for the North shortly after midnight.

MARINE DISASTERS. The ship Tennyson arrived in Greenock on the 31st of December, with a cargo of sugar from Java, and reports that at St. Helena she shipped as part of her crew, a number of seamen who had been on board, of the ship Calcutta, Captain Patchin, of London, a vessel that had been burned at sea. The Calcutta left Newcastle on the Ist of July, having on board a cargo of coal, bound for Aden. When the vessel was two months and about a week out on her voyage, light smoke was observed issuing from one of the holds. The captain gave orders to raise the mam hatches. This was done, and all hands were called to throw the cargo overboard. When fully 100 tons of the coal had been got out, the smoke became denser, and as it was found to be impossible to work any longer at the lightening of the ship, the hatches were battened tight down in the hope that the fire would get smothered. A hole was cut in the deck at the mainmast, and the crew continued pumping water down among the coals, with the view of putting out the flames. About five feet of water was in this way pumped down, but the heat in the hold still increased, and the steam ultimately forced its way through the pumps, and put them out of working order. The smoke penetrated to the ship’s forecastle, causing the crew a great deal of inconvenience, and the position of affairs was gradually getting more and more alarming. On Sept. 10 the case was seen to be utterly hopeless, and the captain and crew got the ship's boats ready, and made preparations for leaving the vessel to her fate. A plentiful supply of water and provisions was put on board the boats, three in number. That evening the captain and crew finally abandoned the vessel. Captain Patehin, his son, ten seamen, and the first mate going into the first boat, the second mate and seven seamen going into the third boat. The boats hung about in the vicinity of the vessel till the following morning, when the flames wcrcL&een to burst high into the air from the main aim after hatches, and from cabin ports on the starboard side. The vessel thereafter speedily blew up. The boats were at this time about 1100 miles from the Cape of Good Hope, and they were sailed eastward to make the nearest land. The second mate’s boat, after it had been sailing for five days, was picked up by the British ship Plantagenet, and the men were landed at St. Helena, not a great deal the worse for what they had undergone. With the boatswain's matters did not go so well. She was altogether eight days at sea, and in the course of that time she experienced severe weather and shipped a heavy sea. The men had to throw overboard part of the provisions, to save their lives, and they were on reduced rations some days till they were picked up by a German vessel and landed at St. Helena. The fate of the third boat, containing the captain and others mentioned, is not known, nothing having as yet been heard of her. Part of the rescued men shipped in the Tennyson, which called at St. Helena, and left for the Clyde on the 13th October. About a week before Christmas, and when the Tennyson was off the Scilly Islands, she was caught in a severe gale and was strained so badly that she made largo quantities of water. The crew were kept constantly at the pumps, at one time being seventy-two hours working at a stretch, but as the cargo of sugar melted by the water, the pumps got choked. The Tennyson was at last abandoned by the crew, who went on board a vessel called the Manillas. The crew of this vessel boarded the Tennyson, and shifted the cargo, so that the vessel was again manageable. The crew returned to her, and by great exertions reached Greenock, as stated above. The crew are greatly exhausted by their exertions, and most of them are painfully affected in their hands and arms. A rather melancholy circumstance in connection with the assistance rendered by the Manillas to the Tennyson is that the Manillas herself foundered a day or two after performing the service to the distressed Tennyson.