SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4983, 13 March 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OK "WELLINGTON. Hjob Water.—3.B6 a.m. : 3.53 r m ARRIVED. March 12.—Saucy Lass, schooner, 29 tons. Callow, turn Pic’ca. Master, agent. Day Dawn, schooner, 24 tons, McLachlan, from Pelorns Sound. Master, agent. SAILED. March 12 —Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, flarvey, for "Wanganui Passengers -Cabin ; Mr. and Mrs Sampson, Mr. and Miss Simpson, Mrs. Steele - children arid servant, Mesdames Hill and woodward, Miss Grant, Messrs. Roberts, Cameron, Eddie, Fletcher, Biddle, Earp, Smith, Dixon, and Pollock, and 7 Steerage. Plinimer, agent. Tui, 8.5., 64 tons. Bonner, for Foxton. Passengers —Cabin: Mr. and Miss Prance, Mr. Jones. Bishop, 'agent! - Napier, s.s., 48 tons, Holmes, for Foxton. Passengers—Cabin: Mesdames Watson, Stewart, Richardson, and Booth, Miss Trlcklebank. Turnbull and Co.» Agents. March 13.—Hlnemoa, s.s., 282 tons, Fairchild, for The Brothers. ■ : IMPORTS. . [A special charge is made for consignees' names inserted in this column.] Day Dawn, from Pelorns Sound: 18,000 feet sawn timber. .Saucy Lass, from Pelorns Sound: 62,000 feet sawn timber. Napier, from Foxton : 99 bales wool, 7 cases samples, 3 boxes, 1 baloaklns. Manawatn, from .Wanganui: 72 bales wool, 79 casks tallow, 1 sack, 1 bdl, 150 sheep, 1 case. Rotorua, from Lyttelton: 40 sacks malt, 285 do grass seed. EXPORTS. Manawatu, for Wanganui: 26 casks, 72 cases, 0 hhds, £0 kegs, 8 drums, 25 cases whisky, 3 qr casks, 9 rams, 7 pieces timber, 20 pkgs. Tul, for Foxton: 18 cases, 3 hhds ale, 10 sacks oats, 10 do flour, 6, bags, do, 2 rolls floorcloth, 6 bags oats, 2 boxes soap, 2 <jr-cashs ale. Napier,; for Foxton: 1 bag seed, I saddle, 80 pkgs groceries, 1 oct vinegar, 20 coils wire, 1 keg staples, 5 casks seed, 5 cases brandy, 5 do stout, 10 bags flour, 7 gunnies sugar, 1 cask whiting, 2 do buckets, 1 crate earthenware, 6 kegs nails, 5 half-chests ten. Kaikonra, for White Rock : 1 bullock-dray, 4 cases lrohmongery,looo feet sawn timber. - , „ EXPECTED arrivals. London. —Plelonej early; Northampton, early. ' SouruxKN Ports.— Taupo, Utk Inst.; Wellington, 19th .nst. Melbourne.— Anthons, early. Northern Forts.—Hnwea, this day; Taranaki, 19th Inst. Melbourne,.via the Sooth.—Rmgarooma, 14th -Sydney.—Waiatipn, this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London.- Ocean Mail, this day; Avalanche, this day.' ■ ■ ■ Northbun Ports.— Taupo, 14th Inst.; Wellington, 19th Inst." „ Southern Ports.—Hawea, this day; Taranaki, 19th Inst. , ■ ‘Wanganui.— StormMfd, this day; Manawatu, 14tb Snst. . Melbourne. —Ringarooiaa, 16th inst. .Lyttelton and Port Chalmers.—Wakatipn, 14 th inst, * Blenheim. —Lyttelton. 14th inst. Nelson, Westport, Grexmouxh, and Hokitika. —Murray, 14tb Inat.

BY TELEGRAPH. PORT CHALMERS, Monday. Ap.eived : Hurunui, from Wellington. Sailed: Ringarooma. Passenger for Wellington —Mr. Logan. AUCKLAND, Monday. Arrived : Taranaki and Rotorua; H.I.M. Augusta. - • . 11. M. S, Sapphire was at the Chathams last Wednesday fortnight. ' ' LYTTELTON, Monday. Abeivzd : Seabird, brigantine, from the Chatham Islands; Acacia, barque, from Hobarton. Sailed: Elizabeth, schooner, for Auckland.—Wellington, for A karpa and Pott Chalmers, at 3.40 p.m.— Arawata, for the South, at 3.bU p.m. Passengers for Dunedin —Messrs. Riche, Pryde, and Warnock— Southern Cross, lor Napier. NELSON, Monday. Sailed, at 5 p.m.: Hawea, for Picton, Wellington, and the South. Passengers from Nelson —Mrs. Allen, Mtfand Mrs. Kennedy and child. Dr. Kenwick, Mr. and Mrs Jordan, Miss Askew, Mrs. Tosward and child. Master Hiller, Mrs. Coutts, Mrs. Comiakey, MissD ryson, Mrs. Wastney, Messrs. Green, Tregea, Hart, Wigram, Lamb, Chamberlain (2), Gully, Wymond, Hailstone, Smith, Comlskey, Moses, and Mrs. Colville.

The time-ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time would show 12b. 30min. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. The s.s. Hinemoa left here' early this morning lor The Brother* The,schooner Dfty Dawn, from Pelorus Sound, with k cargo of timber, arrived In harbor yesterday morning-, She bad-dne .weather, with light variable winds, throughout. ‘ 'ji‘ “The’prs.'ManAwaiu, with a large general cargo and •full complement of passengers, sailed for Wanganui at 4.15 p.m. yesterday. The schooner Saucy Lass, from Picton, arrived here yesterdiy. .Had One weather across. The steamers' Tui and Napier sailed for Poston yesterday, the former ai 4.30 p.m.; and the latter at J p.m. The barque Marie has cleared at the Customs for Newcastle, N.S.W., where she will load with ooalsfor Dunedin,- •- • :; ’ •’ 1

The Americas vessel William Cobb having finished the discharge of -hyr cargo of Yankee notions, hauled to the outer anchorage yesterday. She will sail daring the week for Lyttelton.' . ; The s.s. Hawea;:from the North, will arrive here thin-morning, an deal I South this afternoon. 'TEe~s!s. Taupo will not leave for Northern ports until Thursday.' the ,15th Inst., at 7 a.m , instead of Wednesday, the letlf, at 2p.ra.i as previously advertised. * : ■ -; j The ships Ocean Mail. Avalanche, and Himalaya are still at anchftr inpcrt. They are ready for sea, and have been waiting for a favorable breeze to sail for the pastVeek; but during lhat time the weather has been most-- unfavorable—either light airs or a HE, wind p trailing.' > Yesterday' morning a light wind sprang np-from’theTf; W.'.’bnt gradually died away, and in the afternoon had changed round to the S.E. a; ain. A petW'sChooneiV.named the Mazeppa, was launched at’Auckland on .the Cth instant from the yards -of: Mefirra. NlcCol-ariff'Son; And the local-papers state that she quite ecEp4e« 'everything that the builders have ever turned out. She has been designed by Mr. Thomas Niccol, fa rigged;* fore-and-aft! schooner, and Is of the following diDic’usiocs;—Length of keel, t2ft.; overall, dSitt beam, 21 it.; and depth of hold, JWt.'-Ber*register fa!Ill tens, but the carrying Capacity will be about 190 tons. She is fitted out in a very superior manner, having a very large cabin aft, capable of . accommodating 16 passengers, which is'oinamented with hblfshed kauri and cedar. The srdiooner has bein bullt to - the order of Mr. Malcolm Niccol, who intends putting her in the' Island trade; but the Auckland jpg/pid .says that it is not improbable ihe will change hands ere long, as negotiations are pending for the rale .of her. Captain Lombard," who brought tbVyacht Secret round on her late trip, has taken,charge of the schooner. Jtxarely. happens tsoys the ‘Melbourne Argus) that aihtp in running fbuJdr.ah iceberg, escapes without total loss, or at all evinte 'Sustaining serious injury, and-the .Grandee, an-American-bottonr, which has arrived in port from New. York, has been unusually fortunate in coming put.,of her encounter with an Jce-floe without suffering!-Very considerable damage. On January 21 the shlA jwWle'in lat. 49deg. 25min. 8., and lon. 2deg. E., amtgeUng along with a moderate breeze, cahae into .violent contact during the-night with a large body 1 of ice, which was not easily discernible until tbp crash came. - The iceberg In height did not_re>aVcruCl»sthpve the.topsail'yards, and ita length!could not ha very well determined, in consequence Of' ice and. Sea'Shu 1 sky, being nearly of the same color. ' The jthhoom, cutwater, false stem, and » portion of the flgurerhead were carried aWay by the shock,' and other damage was done above water, but the damage done beneath will be better ascertained when the ship oris slipped or docked.' A large quantity of biOksm Ice'(ell inboard, the decks bcing nearly covered, apd pot.less than five or six tons were cleared off JtejatJw. topgallant forecastle.. A portion of the‘ice wukept, and it dissolved into very loir drinking water. The ship has been strained to some extent by the and the decks and cabins have been leaking more or less since the accident occurred. The ship was hove to shortly after the collision, and oa repairs being effected a course Won shaped to the northward, "and the Southern Ocean was crossed subsequently In the parallel of tfidmr. ... r,