SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4595, 11 December 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OP WELLINGTON. Hion Water.— 3.C a.m.; 3.31 r.M. ARRIVED. December 10.—Hawea, s.s., 462 tons, Wheeler, Irom Southern ports. Passengers—Saloon: Mesaaiues Burton, Johburns, Manning, Thomas, Allen, Misses Cohen, Gray, Darke, Messrs. Thomson, Barton, Millner, Graham. Gokismidt. McKnee, Irving. .ning, Thomas, Revs. McGregor, 4Vest, McDouvea Do£, Smith, Sidey, Paterson, Elmshe, Strahon, and Ogg. Levin and Co., agents. Kaikoura, schooner, 31 tons,. Anderson, rrom Kaikonra. Passengers—Mrs. Davidson, Miss Smith, and Mr. Action. Bethuno and Hunter, agents. SAILED. - ■ , December 10.—Hawea, s.s., 462 Southern ports. Passengers— Saloon: E.D.Davies and Troupe (9). Mrs. Warren, Mrs. and Miss GiUam, Mrs. Oldfield and child, Mrs. Buelm and son. Mss Lethbridge, Messrs. Garraud, Barrand.Warohi. Keltis, Cameron, Antoni, Bracchii, Austin, and halm. Xevin and Co, agents. , , . ... Lyttelton, p.s., 86 tons, Scott, for Blenheim, with excursionists. R. S. Ledger, agent. IMPORTS a • il Elizabeth, from Pelorus : 20,000 feet timber, Greenfield and Stewart. _ _ . Aurora, from East Coast: 51 bales, Pearce; 1 cask, Krull; 66 bales, Johnston. .a- , r. Shepherdess, from Pelorus; 21,000 feet timber, G. f^mpinn "Wild Wave, from Lyttelton: S pkgs, SOo sacks, 340 SO bales. Order. - _ , . Hawea, from Northern ports: - etises. Johnston and Co.: 1 pci. Wilson: 1 pel. Poulson; 1 pci, Burrett; 3 bos. Colonial Museum; 3 cases, A. P. Stuart;2 cases, Hood; 1 pci. Government House. Lyttelton, from Blenheim: 700 bales, 2 cases, Levin and Co.: S 3 hides. Hirst. . Kaikoura. from Kaikourai'SG bales. Levin; 1- do, 6 tides, 10 bales, 54 sacks. Order; 1 gun, Gibson. EXPORTS. Alhambra, for-Nelson: 3 cases. Bishop; 31 pkgs, Nathan; lease. General Government; 1 case, 2 pkgs, .Shannon; 1 case. Father Chataigner; 7 cases. Shannon and Co.; 1 case. Hirst; 7 cases, Krull and Co. Napier, for Boston: 1 gun. 1 revolver, 4 cases. Pilcher: 1 cases, Krull; I pci. Levy; 1 pci, Kirkcaldie; 3 qr-cask, 17 cases, 1 pci, 7 pkgs, 1 cask, Nathan and Co.; 1 case, Toxward; 11 cases, 5 pkgs. Young; 9 kegs, Gandy; 21 kegs, 1 cask. Stevenson; 1 pkg. Mil s; - Tinney; 1 case. Lucas; 28 cases, 10 kegs, 1 bos. Hargetts; 2 cases, Allan; 46 pkgs. Levin: 1 anchor, 3 bales 19 pkgs, 1 pci, Gibson: 2 cates. Hunt; 5 pkgs, 1 case, JL cask. Mills; 1 case, Piimmer; 2 hhds, Pascoe;2 bags, 5 chairs, Robertson: 32 cases, 22 kegs, 5 pkgs, -Johnston; 1 boiler, 249 pkgs, 10 sacks, 5 boxes, Xcases, 1 qr-cask, 1 bag, "VY. and G. TumbulL EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Pleiades, Commissary, Otaki, Shakspere. Nosthehk Ports —Wellington, s.s., 13th inst. • Napier jnd Auckland.— Cyphrenes, s.s., this day; Hawea, s.s.. this day. Wanganui.—Stormbird, s.s., this day. Napier.—Rangatira, s.s., 12th inst. Southern Ports.—Taranaki, s.s., 14th inst. PROJECTED DEPARTURES IjOndon.—Halcione, ship, early in December; Howrah, ship, January next. Northern Porta. —Taranaki, s.s.,lsth inst. Newcastle. —Jane Spiers, barque, this day. . . Wattajia.—Tui, s s., this day. -Blenheim. —Falcon, ketch, this day. Southern Ports.— Wellington s.s., 14th inst. Castle Point and Napier. —Rangatira, s.s., 13tn inst.; Kiwi, s.s,, 13th. Wanganui.—Stormbird, s.s., 13th inst.; Egmont, s.s., this day. BY TELEGRAPH. PORT CHALMERS, Friday. Arrived : Celestial Queen, from London, 104 days. BLUFF, Friday. Arrived: Roseneath, barque, from Sunderland, with two passengers. All well- She is 120 days out, and bajs a cargo of railway plant for the Western District railways. WEATHER YESTERDAY.—S p.m. Wellington.— 29 63—N.W., gale; cloudy. Hokitika. — 29*65 —S.W., fresh; gloomy. Sea rising; bar rough. Westpop.t.—29*7o —S.W., fresh; gloomy. Ear rough, TiaiAßU.—29*so S.E , light; gloomy. Sea slight Oaacaru.—29.6o S.S.E., light; gloomy. Sea smooth. Bluff. —29 64 —E., light; gloomy. Barometer rising. The time ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time wonld show 12h. 30m. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus of the chronometer. The p.s. Lyttelton, Captain Scott, left the wharf at 9 p.m. yesterday, for Blenheim. The as. Egmont, Captain Irvine, came off the slip yesterday afternoon after getting her bottom cleaned, and will leave for Wanganui to-day at 5 p.m. The s.s. Alhambra, Captain Bawden, left the wharf at 2,30 p.m yesterday for Melbourne, via West Coast ports. The schooner Aurora, from Castlepomt and Akateo, arrived in harbor on Thursday evening with a cargo of wool The s.s. Cyphrenes left Napier at 4 a.m. yesterday for this port, and should arrive at an early hour this morning, and is advertised to leave again at 10 a.m. for South. _ The s.s. Napier, Captain Butt, left for Foxton at noon yesterday, taking the boiler for the Manawatu sawmill ei Go-Ahead. The ship Halcione hauled from the wharf yesterday zooming, and in consequence of a sudden shift of wind fouled the hulk European, doing little or no damage. ____ . The s s Hawea, Captain \V heeler, left the wharf at 2.20 p.m. yesterday, for Pic ton. Nelson, Taranaki, andManakan. The schooner Julius Vogel on arrival will be sold by public auction. She is expected from Dunedin daily. THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC. Our telegrams anticipatory of the arrival of the San Francisco T-nail, gave some account of the wreck of this ill-fated vessel From files to hand we take the - following statement by the sole ascertained survivor of the wreck up to the time of the mail steamer leaving San Francisco: —“ My name is Henry Frederick Jelley, I am a native of Ireland, but have lived for the last nine years in the Dominion of ' Canada, and am of the age of 22 years. I took cabin passage on board the steamship Pacific, of which J. D Howell was master, on the morning of Thursday, the 4th instant, for a voyage to San Francisco, California and on the same morning, at about 9.15, the steamer left the harbor of Victoria, B.C. There were about 200 people on board, more or less, and we steamed all that day against a head wind blowing from the south-east fresh. During the day the crew were constantly pumping water into the boats to keep the steamship on an even keel, first on one side and then on the other, and she would list to either side alternately. As I noticed, the boats abaft the paddleboxes had no oars in them on either side, but the forward boats had oars in them. Between eight and nine o’clock that evening, and while I was in the cabin in bed, I heard a crash, and felt a shock as if we had struck a rock or something of the kind, and heard something fall as if a lot of rocks had broken into us, and had fallen in by her starboard bow; and immediately I heard the bell strike to stop her, and then to back her, and then strike to go ahead. I went on deck and there I heard voices say, * It is all right; we have struck a vessel;* and looking round I saw several lights some distance off, on our starboard beam I think there were three lights. Ido not think they were colored lights, but did not pay much attention to them. I went back into the cabin, and was about to turn in, when I noticed her taking a heavy list to port, and then thought she was going down, and went on deck. I heard someone say, ‘She is making water very fast forward!* "Went forward to the pilot-house, and there heard the purser- • ask the captain what boat he would take charge ofDid not hear the answer. I asked the captain if there were no blue-lights or a gun. He told me I would find blue-lights in the pilot-house. The captain was at that time coming out of bis own room ; I did not see him after that. I then, with another man whom T did not know, went into the pilot-house, found six blue-lights, and set five of them off and lost the other one. I then noticed that the engines were still working but no one was at the wheel. X then went on deck to the starboard side, forward of the paddle-box, where a number of men were trying to get the longboat out, but they could not do it. I then went to see about the port boat forward, and helped five or “ix ladies into it, and tried to get the boat off, but we could not budge the boat. There were about twenty ladies In the boat. I then heard it said that the two boats abaft the wheels had gotten off but did not see them. The boat I was neir was partly full of water, and we could not get her off at all. I think It was about an hour from the time the steamer stnick up to the time she listed to port so much that the port boat was let into the water and cut loose from the davits X was in the boat which, when it touched the water 'began to fill and turned over. I crawled upon the bottom of the boat, and helped several others up with me. Immediately after, the steamer seemed to break in two, fore and aft, and one half of the smoke stack fell to port, and the stack struck our boat and pushed it away, and the steamship Pacific sank. I think about all the ladies were in our boat and when she upset they all fell into the water and I fear they were drowned. This was about 10 o clockin the evening. The night was not dark, nor was the sea very rough, but there was a fresh breeze I afterwards left the bottom of our boat, and with another man climbed on the top of the pilot-house which was . floating near, and we held on to the upper wire that came out of the top. Next morning Igot some hfepreservers floating near the and with their ropes lashed myself and my companion to the house. I saw three rafts. The first had one man on, the next had three men and a woman, and the other I could not make out owing to the distance, except that there were human beings upon it. I think we were thirty or forty miles south of the Cape when the vessel sunk. We passed the light on Tattoosh Island between 4 and 5 o’clock on the evening of the 4th. I and my comrade were on the top of the pilot-house all of the sth, until 4 o'clock, when he died. 1 then cut him loose. The sea was running very higlx all day, and I think ray comrade was drowned by the waves washing over him, he not being strong enough to hold his head up, ami the waves constantly washing over as. Soon after lie died I sighted a vessel, and called, and also heard the people on the other rafts calling. X did not sec the other rafts after that, and that vessel did not come near me. I spent Friday night on my raft. There was little wind until morning, when it came on to blow again, and the sea became very rough. I was then within a mile from the Vancouver shore. I sighted two vessels on the Washington shore, that parsed on, and about 10 o'clock a.m. on the Gth (Saturday), I saw a vessel bearing down upon me. 1 was very weak by that time, but waved my hat, and the vessel sent a boat and jxickcd mo up. The vessel’s name, I learn, ia the Messenger, and the captain, whoso name is J. F. Gilkey, gave mo every attention and kindness posle, and did everything in hia power to relieve my wants. (Signed) Henry F. Jelley,”

The Pacific was an old vessel, but considered staunch. _ She was built at New York, in 1851, by W. H. Brown, for service ou this coast, and until a year ago was owned by the Pacific Mail Company.