SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4385, 9 April 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OK WELLINGTON. Hiou Watkr, (i. 29 A.sr.; 0.4 S r.M. AV.tS.IVBn. Ai-iul !».—Albion, s.s., SCO tons, Underwood, from Melbourne, Hokitika. Greymouth, and Nelson. Passengers: Saloon-Mrs. Torre, Mrs. Bird Messrs. Btinn, Donald, Buchanan, lon (2), Howard ; 30 for South. William Bishop, agent. Napier, s.s., 14 tons, Butt, from Foxton. I'assengcrs: Misses Cook (2), Masters Cook (»), Mrs Hillyer, Mrs. Lovegrove, and Mr. Bartlett. Turnbulland Co., agents. ... ~ "Falcon, ketch, 37 tons. Fisk, from Blenheim. Passenger : Master Ball. Turnbull and Co., agents. Marmion, schooner, 92 tons, Bowden, from Ivopum saw-mill, Kaipara. Edwsrd Pearce, agent. Aurora, schooner, 51 tons, George Komeril. from Wangaehu and Castle Point. Edward I'earce, agent I'hiebe, s.s., 410 tons, Henry Worsp, from tort Chalmers, and Lyttelton. Passengers : Saloon—Kcv. Mr. Williams. Mrs. Gray, Miss lindall. Mrs. and Miss Proud, Mr. and Mrs. l'enney and servant, Mrs. Lawson, Messrs. Baxter. Aitken, Andrew Larpente; Graves, Conway. Scott, Neil, 'food, and Hepburn , -4 in tho steerage. K. S. ledger, agent.

SAILED. . Ar-KK. S.-F.gmont, s.s.. 52 tons, Irvine for Wanganui and ltangitikei. Levin and Co., age)iits Manawatu p.s., 103 tons, Evans, for Wanganui. Passengers: Saloon-Mr. and Mrs. Poole, Messrs. Miller ami Oarron. It. S. Ledger, agent. Napier s.s., -14 tons, Butt, for Wanganui. lurnbuUa ndUo..agent ? UUF.F. Doi!T . Aran. S Elibank Castle, schooner, 70 tons, Linklater, for Havelock. Turnbull and Co., agents.

IMPORTS. ( t , ~ \lbion from Melbourne and West l oast ports : 17 nk"S lupVe Mr. Murrah ; 10 cases, 1 truss, Thompson", Shannon, and Co.; 2 bales, Hutchison ; 1 case Hughes ; 1 case, Hunt; 1 case machinery Bowery ; -J cases 1 cask, Fife; I cases, 5 cas.cs, .1. A. Allan ; 4 cases 1 cask, Pritehard: 3 cr.ses 8 kegs treacle, Gandy 2 cases. 1-1 pkgs sugar, J. Gilniore ; 1 case, Watt; 1 pkg, 1 pel, Bowden and Sons; 1 case, t,dmondson, SeUar, and Co.; 21 pkgs, Kirkeald.o and Stains ;40 bags sugar. Fell Brothers.: I bale, furnbullandCo.: 3 cases, Whittem, Nicholson, and Co.; 0 bales hops. Johnston and Co.; 2pkgs, Lipman Levy: 2 cases, 1 truss. Bishop ; 1 pkg. 10 bags coffee. Order ; 8 bags coffee. Order ; 1 case, Asher: 1 pkg, Minoiulson, Sellar, and Co.; 1 case. Turnbull and Co ; tojikgs, Thompson, Shannon, and Co.; tf bales. R. Martin ,3 nr-casks sherry, 2 casks do, 2 casks port, Dntnsßold; 3 bales, Knight; 10 cues bitters, 5 cases salmon, d casks, 10 nr-casks brandy, Crawford : 1 case 1 truss, Turnbull and Co.; 2 cases, Hunt; 2 cases, Kennell; 10 nr-casks brandy, 0 casks currants, 1. and w Young ; 27 boxes tea, Litchfield and Co.; 3 cases, aO boxes tea, 15 half-chests do, Edmomlson. sellars and Co.; lpcl, Lvon and Blair ; 5 cases, E. Lurrett: 3 pkgs boots, Lindsay ; 10 pkgs boots, Lipman Levy ; 1 trunk, Hamill; 1 ease cigars, 5 cases wine, l threequarter boxes tobacco. Bishop ; 1 case, lumbull and Co.: 6 sacks seeds. Captain Kreeft; 111 tubes L. W Mills : 3 cases. Thompson, Shannon, and Co.; 210 pkgs sugar, K. Port; US pkgs sugar. Order: 14 pkgs sugar. Order : 28 pkgs sugar, Order : 14 pkgs sugar, Turnbull and Co.; 42 pkgs sugar, Bannatyne and Co.; 5 nr-casks brandy. Order ; 1 pkg, 2 cases, Sample and Co.; 1 case, George Hall: 2 cases, 2 ovens. 20 tubes, b bdls Mills: 2 cases, Samuel Ladd and Co.; 11 pkgs boot 3 Hunt; 81 bars iron, 12 colonial ovens, 1 pkg saws 1 pkg hardware, 4 vyces, 4 cart boxes, 1 case, AVilliam Gibson ; I pel, Turnbull and Co.; 1 box, K. Budden ; 1 box, Samuel Ladd and Co.; 1 pel, Collis ; 1 pel. Mrs. Pork: 1 case, Poulson ; 1 case, Southern ; 1 sack, 3 cases, Mountain ; 2 cases, Barraud ; 2 cases, 1 truss, Poulson ; 1 case, Bowden ; 2 cases, 1 pel, .1. Dyer 2 bales, Knight; 3 pkgs baskets, Asher ; 4 bags coal dust, Smith Brothers ; 2 pkgs, Order : and a large quantity of cargo landed at Wellington for transhipment to Wanganui, Manukan, Picton, Napier, and Poverty Eav. "From Greymouth—l pel. Miss Trench; 1 pel. Miss Hall. From Nelson—l 9 cases fruit. Duncan ; 2 bales hops. Mace and Arkell; 11 cases fruit, Peter Laing Falcon, from Blenheim: SOO bags oats, 100 bags potatoes, 3 bales wool, Turnbull and Co. Marmion, from Kaipara; 05,000 feet sawn kauri timber, Edward Pearce. Phcebe, from the South: From Lyttelton—s cases tobacco (under bond); 1 pel, Brooke ; 3 sacks grass seed Kussell; 75 sacks wheat, 100 sacks flour, Thomas: 1 pel, Preston ; 7 cases cheese, Dransfield ; 3 pkgs, Pearce. From Port Chalmers—l case, Rankin ; 2 hand-saws, Greenfield and Stewart: 10 hhds ale, Eddie and Jack; 1 case cigars, Willeston ; 60 bags oatmeal, Turnbull ami Co.; 3 crates, 1 cask. Mulling; 1 case coffee, Thomas ; 1 case, 1 truss. Black ; 1 case, Wiggings; 4 crates, 2 cases, 1 cask, Gorton ; 40 boxes soap, Gandv ; 2 crates, 24 demijohns, Cleland; 2 bdls spouting, Hayes; 10 lengths pipe, Alills; 1 cask. Order; 1 cask, 1 tierce. Cleland ; 1 copper pipe, 1 piece brass, Turnbull and Co.: and a quantity of cargo landed in Wellington for transhipment to Napier and Wanganui. Aurora, from Castle Point and Wangaehu : 1 balo skins, 14 bales wool, Edward Pearce; 50 hide", I bale skins. Krull and Co ; 11 bales wool. W._W. lay lor ; 2 empty casks, Crawford ; 3 bales wool, Levin and Co.; 5 bales wool, I guD. Edward Pearce. EXPORTS.

Elibank Castle, for Havelock: 2 qr-casks brandy, 1 qr-tierce tobacco, 23 pkgs and 18 cases groceries, 10 pkgs sundries, 18 boxes groceries, 10 bags salt, 1 halfchest tea, 6 pkgs tubs, 1 filter, 7 casks ale, 1 half-chest tea, 22 cases groceries, 14 boxes soap, 11 boxes candles, 9 kegs white lead, 4 bdls snndries, 1 sack oatmeal, 1 roll matting, 1 case drapery, 1 case groceries, 1 bale blankets, Turnbnll and Co. Egmont, for Wanganui and Itangitikei : For Wanganui—so cases brandy. Levin and Co.; 2 cases, 7 casks, 0 kegs, 1 case (ex Dallam Tower, from London), Johnston and Co.: 43S pkgs bridgework, Levin and Co ; 50 coils wire, Johnston and Co.; 3 cases, 16 pkgs, Turnbnll and Co.; 80 coils wire, Levin and Co.; 5 cases Vennell; 7 pkgs, Gibson; 0 tanks, Johnston and Co.; G tanks, Elliott. For Eangitikci—2 cases, Gandy • 24 boxes, 23 cases, 11 bags, Turnbull and Co.; 2 cases, Thomas ; i pkgs, Turnbull and Co.; 0 bags, 20 sacks seed, 8 cases, 1 pkg, 38 bdls. Taylor; 1 buggy, 1 box tea, Crawford; 12 pkgs iron, 1 case, 20 sashweights, 0 tin 3 paint, 1 bdl, 2 pkgs. Mills. Manawatu, for "Wanganui: 10 cases brandy, Krull and Co.: 11 cases drapery (transhipped ex Dallam Tower, from London), Pilcher ; 3 pkgs, Ledger; 2 cases. 1 bale, Barrett; 7 pkgs, Gibson ; 1 case, 1 pel, Burrett; 5 pkgs, Wliittem, Nicholson, and Co.; 2 pkgs, Stuart; 1 ca3e, Barrand; 1 bale, 7 cases, 1 truss, Thompson, Shannon, and Co.; 1 truss, Turnbnll ; 2 cases, Vennell; 2 pkgs, Mountain ; 2pels, Lyon and Blair; 2 cases, Crease ; 6 cases, Samuel Ladd and Co.; 2 bdls, 1 bag, 30 felloes, Gibson ; 1 case, Edmondson, Sellars, and Co.; 13 pkgs, Nathan; 5 cases geneva, Krull and Co.; 2 trusses, Edmondson, Sellars, and Co.: 3 cases, Thompson, Shannon, and Co. Napier, for Wanganui: 5 qr-casks brandy (transhipped ex Easby, from Sydney), Turnbull and Co.; 5 (jr-casks brandy, 4 kegs, 1 cask, 29 drums, 1 keg nails (transhipped ex Dallam Tower, from London), Turnbull and Co.; 4 cases sulphuric acid (transhipped ex Esk, from London), Turnbull and Co.: 5 qr-casks brandy, 5 octaves whisky, SO cases whisky, 25 cases brandy, 10 cases wine, 10 cases old torn, 10 qr-casks brandy, Turnbull and Co.; 2 cases castor oil, 40 cases colza oil, C colonial ovens, 1 cask, 4 cases, 2 caees boots, 8 half chests tea, 14 pkgs sugar, 1 three-quarter box tea, 10 cases, 6 bales, 30 boxes tea (transhipped ex Albion, from Melbourne), Bishop; 2 cases, Burrett; 3 pkgs, Kebbell; 100 coils wire, O'Shea ; 22 cases groceries, 10 bags do, 3 casks do, 1 keg do, 1 pkg brushes. 38 pkgs groceries, 12 cases do, 2 casks do, 8 cases do, 17 bags do, 1 pkg brooms, G cases groceries, 2 cases galvanised iron, 4 cases groceries, 40 bags groceries, 9 gunnies sngar, 1 bale paper, 1 cask coffee, 1 case drapery, 30 cases groceries, 100 cases kerosene, Tum bull and Co.; 2 cases, Burrett; 3 pkgs, Kebbell; 1 coil rope, 1 coil wire, Mills. EXPECTED APJUVALS.

London.— Hindostan, Hudson, Dalran, Edwin Fox, Kingdom of Italy, and Wennington. Mauritius, via Adelaide.—May, three-masted schooner, daily. Auckland and East Coast Ports.—Luna, p.s., daily. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, s.s., to-monow. Povertv Bay and Napier.—Rangatira, s.s., 11th. Auckland and East Coast.—Southern Cross, s.s., this day. • ' „ . Wanoanui.—Manawatu, p.s.,Napier, s s., Egmont, s.s., to-morrow. Melbourne, via the South.—Tararua, s.s., 13th inst.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Lonuon —Carnatic, Bth April. Southern Ports. -Taranaki, s.s., to-morrow; Star of the South, s.s., to-morrow. Northern Ports.—Phcebo, s.s., this day. Melbourne via Southern Ports. Albion, s.s., this day. Nai'ler and Poveiot Bay.—Rangatira, s.s., 13th instant. Newcastle.—Neptune, barque, to-morrow. Blenheim.—Falcon, ketch, this day. BY TELEGRAM. AUCKLAND, Thursday. The schooner Peerless left Kaipara yesterday for Lyttelton, with 05,000 feet of timber. LYTTELTON, Thursday. Arrived ; The Omaha, from Kaipara, and the Hopeful, from Newcastle. The steamer Bruce sailed South at 1.30 p.m. PORT CHALMERS, Thursday. Arrived : Barque Southern Cross, from Hobarton. After discharging cargo at this port the Cross will proceed to LytteltOD, for which port she has 200 tons of cargo. Passed to northward: Tho brig Princess Ahco. McMeckan and Blackwood's fine steamer Albion, Captain Underwood, left Port Phillip Heads at 6 on the evening of the 31st ultimo, and cleared Bass's Strait at 3 p.m. on tho following day, arriving off Hokitika early on the morning of the Cth instant. For four days after leaving Hobson's Bay. strong easterly winds and a heavy head sea were experienced; after that, and till reaching the New Zealand Coast, northerly winds and thick dirty weather. Called at Creymouth on the 6th, and left for Nelson after a short stay arriving there on the morning of the 7th. Discharged cargo, and left for Wellington at 10 pm. on Wednesday night, arriving in Wellington harbor at 9 yesterday morning. Owing to tho thickness of the weather Captain Underwood brought tho vessel round D'Urville's Island. From Nelson to Wellington strong head windß and heavy sea prevailed ihe Albion brought a large cargo for this port She will be despatched thin day for Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff, and Melbourne, carrying the outward English mail via Suez. We have to thank Mr. I'urser Hart for files and favors. ,„ , ... Notwithstanding the stiff sou'-castcr wh ch prevailed the whole of yesterday the steamore Egmont, Manawatu, and Napier left last evening for Wanganui Notice of their arrival at that port will bo looked for with interest this morning, as it was understood a race would result. . The steamer Phcebe, Captain Henry Worsp, arrived at '2 yesterday afternoon from the South. Sho left Port Chalmers at 2.15 on Tuesday last, and arrived at Lyttelton the following morning at 11 o clock, shipped a quantity of grain and merchandise for this port, and left at 7 p.m., arriving here as statod above. A light southerly wind favored the vessel from Lyttelton to Wellington. She will leave for I'icton, Nelson Taranaki, and Manukau. this afternoon.

The schooner Aurora, Itomeril, master, returned to harbor yesterday from Wangaehu and Castle Point with tho last shipment of this season's wool from the East Coast stations. She had been absent from Wellington'ten days, and, excepting yesterday morning,, when the wind was strong from the southward,' 6ne weather and smooth water prevailed the whole of the time. The vessel, on discharging her inwurd' cargo, will be taken up on the Patent Slip for an overhaul She will then probably be placed in the timber.trade. The subsidised Fiji trader, the Star of the South, left Napier for Wellington at noon yesterday. Owing to tho strong southerly wind which prevailed on the East Coast yesterday, it is not likely the Star will arrive here before this evening. She will proceed to Lvttolton and Port Chalmers to-morrow. "The Elibank Castle, which, sinco her arrival from Sydney, has been converted into a double-topsail schooner, cleared at the Customs yesterday for. Havelock with a full cargo on her owner's (Turnbull and Co.'s) account. She is under the command of Captain Linklater, well known in this port as having formerly commanded the steamer Wanganui and tho barque Malay. Mr. Edward Pearcc's fine schooner the Marmion, Bowden, master, arrived from the Tekopuru mills, Kaipara, at 5.30 yesterday morning, after a comparatively rapid run of less than four days. The schooner dropped from the Mills to the Egg Shoals on Saturday lust, and on the following morning crossed the Kaipara bar at 11.30. Light winds from the northward brought tho vessel to the Heads, where she picked up a southerly breeze which carried her into port. She has a full cargo of sawn kauri timber, consigned to her owner. Perilous Voyage of tub Steamship Blackbird. —The Cooktovm Herald contains an account of the last voyage of the Blackbird from Sydney to Townsville, from which we extract the following. After describing tho voyage as far as Sandy Cape, the account says :—" On Tuesday, the 23rd February, the seas were running literally mountains high. So bad was the weather that Captain Torrance deemed it prudent for the safety of his ship to batten all hatches down. At 3 a.m. he eased engines to dead slow, and at daylight stood up for the land to find out where he was, as it was impossible to see a foot ahead ; weather still awfullv thick, and raising tremendously hard. Sighted Facing Island, off Gladstone, one mile ahead; bouteil, and stood for Cape Capricorn, Captain Torrance having decided to run in for shelter atlveppel Bay—wind increasing every hour, glass registering 20-40. At 9 a.m.. just managed to weather the Cape, and bore up for the anchorage. Just before anchoring at noon, it blew a complete hurricane of immense force and breadth, the heavy seas continually raking the decks fore and aft, as if determined to wrestle the steamer from the scientific grip and control of man. The wrestling with the angry billows is said, by a beholder, to have been something marvellous—that the escape from a watery grave was next to a direct miracle. On the 24th it still blew a heavy gale, and on the 25th the wind gradually veered round to the north, and giving every signs of blowing from all points of the compass, thus showing to the captain that he was in the outer circle of a most destructive cyclone. On the 25th the steamer veered to sixty fathoms cable. A sea watch was set, and full head of steam kept up, the glass showing 29'20: raining heavily all the time with the fog still as thick as a hedge. The cyclone was gradually working its way N.E., and on the 2Gth veered to the H.W., showing that Captain Torrance was in the S. iV. quadrant of the hurricane. It then passed away. Towards the approach of noon the wind decreased and the glass rose slightly. At noon it was still blowing hard from the N.W.,"with the glass at IV4O, with signs of moderation in the weather. At 10 p.m. turned up the hands, weighed, and proceeded. On leaving the bay had W.N.W. winds and clear weather to Townsville, where she arrived on Monday. On entering this port, in view of the manly qualities and scientific care and watchfulness of,the man, the passengers of the Blackbird, some 100 in number, took occasion to display their gratitude to Captain Torrance by a written testimonial.

THE CAUSES OF THE GOTHENBURG WRECK. (From the Brisbane Courier, March S.) The mournful circumstance that not one of the executive officers of the ill-fated Gothemburg has escaped, renders the consideration of the accidents to which her loss lias been duo a matter of mere speculation. That her captain was competent and watchful of her safety is sufficiently established, we conceive, bv the terms of the address presented to him by the passengers who made the upward voyage under his care.

It is impossible to conceive that on such a night as that which witnessed the destruction of the steamer—a night of fierce gales, thunder, and lightning—the constant watchfulness so strongly testified to can have been remitted for a moment. The vessel was, according to the accounts of the narrators, speeding along at the time of the catastrophe under a full head of steam and a wide spread of sail. This free and dasliing course speaks, in a case where recklessness is put out of the question by the previous knowledge of the captain's carefulness, of complete confidence in the security of the course being run. "Wo are forced to the conclusion that from some unusual cause the security felt by careful officers was made delusive, and a littleconsideration and study points with some distinctness to a probable explanation, which fulfils all the required conditions. The wreck occurred about G o'clock in the evening, and the spot where it took place is the innermost patch of the reefs which form the Great Barrier line on the south side of the opening through that line known as Flinders Passage. Some twenty miles back, in the direction from which the Gothenburg had come, a prominent headland, known as Cape Bowling Green, projects into the ocean and forms a landmark which, with threatening weather and with night approaching, it is almost certain that a competent shipmaster would have made it his business to sight, in order to be able to take a departure which would carry him with confidence through the night. Yet within two hours of the time when, in all human probability, poor Captain Pearce had shaped his course after sighting tins familiar milestone on the ocean road, Ids vessel is dashing at her fullest speed headlong on to an obstacle somewhere over three miles to the eastward of the proper fairway. In a run of twenty miles, therefore, in broad daylight, but out of sight of land, we find a vessel commanded by competent and cautious officers driven, by some cause plainly unsuspected, three miles out of her intended position. The question therefore lies in a nutshell. What influence can have been acting on the vesssl as she traversed that stretch of water from Cape Bowling Green southwards for twenty miles ? It appean to us that only one explanation is possible, and that the one which has every appearance offprobability. To the west of the ship lay the land, indented by the numerous mouths of the Burdekin and Wickham rivers, then, like most of the other rivers along that coa3t, in high flood. Every schoolboy will remember, as one of the items of his learning in physical geography, that the current resulting from the freshes on the Amazon River at certain seasons makes itself felt seventy-eight leagues at sea. The Burdekin and the Wickham are but infantile rivulets as compared with the mighty stream which drains half the surface of South America, but it can readily be conceived that at a distance, not of seventy leagues, but of little more than one-tenth that number of miles, a current capable of considerably deflecting the course of a vessel struck by it broadside on must have been created. This, we take it, has been the unforeseen and unreckoned force which deceived the navigators of the Gothenburg. On one side these rivers poured their swelled currents into the ocean; on the other, as they ran that fatal track of twenty miles of sea, gaped in the Barrier Kcef a channel to which the current was naturally directed. In fact there appears some face of probability on the supposition that the absence at this point of the wall of coral which elsewhere runs parallel with the coast is due to the periodical freshening of the waters, resulting from the lavish tribute of the flooded rivers discharging opposite it. We have here then, it may be, not the actual cause, but at any rate a probable one, sufficient to explain at the same time the position of the vessel and the evident confidence of her officers. An intermittent current, of a nature to escape previous notice on a route so little travelled till very recently, is precisely tho sort of thing which answers and fits the difficulties which the case presents, and we adopt it the more readily that its acceptation enables the memory of the commander and his colleagues to be recalled, in time to come, without a thought of inefficiency or of recklessness • I the lives entrusted to their charge being associated with their names.