SHIPPING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5107, 6 August 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF 'WELLINGTON. Hum Watkk.—l.33 a.m. ; 2.20 P M ARRIVED. , August 4,-Hawoa. s.s , 4G2 lons, IV heeler, from tho South. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Teltonl, Sir Matthew Wood. Count .le Moas» Waln-wri"-ht Barr Browne. Lee, Miller, Herbert, Rose (3), Dougherty, Roberts. Hamlyshlo, Hope, Reeves, 1 urnbull. Lemon, Rhodes, and Dr. Rrous; 10 stoera o e. Levin and Co., agents, Spray, schooner, 30' tons, Euxton, from Hokitika. Eose’oUEclen, schooner, SO tons. Nelson, from Pelorus Sound. Compton, agent. . Stormbird. s.s., 09 tons, Doric, from Napier. Pas-sengers-Cahin: Sergeant Smith, Messrs. Rorabach,Samuel, Wilkin, Mann, and Higgins. Phminer, ag AutiusTS.-Tui, s.s,, C 4 tons, VVHIs, from Foaton.: Passengers—Cabin : Mrs. Datson, Messrs. Hadfleid, Kainshaw, Port, and Parse. . JBisliop,.a7cnt. Thames, ketch, 23 tons, Hunt, from Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. , __ Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Harvey, from Wanganui. Passengers-Cabin : Mr. and Mrs. Webb and 7 chitdren, .Mrs. Bascand and 8 children, Mrs. Bowden, and child, Messrs. Betts, Shield. Barber, Clapham, Bolton. Ilunter, and Stephenson. Pllmmer, agent. Agnes, ketch, 23 tons. Calvert, from Patea. Master, s.s . 174 tons, Flowerday. from South. ■ Passengers—Cabin: Messrs. Palmer, Wilson, Tiernay, and McKenzie. Turnbull and Co., agents. •SAILED. August 4. —Napier, s.s,, 48 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Webb, Fell, and Master Fisk. Turnbull and Co., agents.^ Wakatipu, s.s., 1158 tons, Cameron, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers—Saloon ; Mr. and Mrs. Passmore and family, Mr." and Mrs. Browne and family, Messrs. Coates, Dodd, Jobberns, and Matthews. Levin and Co., agents..., # ; Buby, schooner, 24 tons, Dalton,' for Kaikoura. Bethnne and Hunter, agents. . „ Falcon, ketch, 37 tons. Pope, for Wairau. Turnbull and r O ., agents. , . Julius Vogel, schooner, SGtons, Johnson, for Picton.. Compton, agent. * _ ' Wallace, p.s., 86 tong, Dillon, for Nelson and West Coast. Deacon, agent, • : August 5. —Hawea. s.s., 46*2-tons, Wheeler, for Picton, Nelson, New Plymouth; and Mflnukau. Pas-* sengers—Saloon: Messrs. Ellis (2). Oliver, Morgan. Blundell, Ollivier, and Cuthbertson. Levin and Co., agents. IMPORTS. IA special charge is made for consignees' names intried in this column .l . . Spray, from Hokitika: 38,000 feet sawn timber, 4 cases furniture. . . ■ . Rose of Eden, from Picton: a cargo of sawn timber. Star of the Sea, from Havelock: 24,000 feet sawn timber, 3 bales wool, 6 empty casks, 1 trunk boots. Wellington, from South: 30 sacks flour. 1 horse and buggy. 13 ovens, 400 pkgs merchandise, etc, quantity of iron. 12 cases beer, 143 cases sundries, 3S boxes, 19 pels. 14 pkgs. _ „ . Maiden City, from Pelorus Sound : . 17,000 feet timber. ■ , . * Cynthia, for Pelorus Sound: 36,600 feet sawn timber. EXPORTS. Falcon, for Blenheim: 2 casks, 1 bdls tools, 24 sashxyeights, 3 pkgs gunpowder, 2 gunnies sugar, 34 tons coal. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London*.—Glenlyon (W.S.P.T.), Orari (P.G.8.D.), and Endymion (J.K.T.N.), early. Singapore. —East Lothian (V.K.J.Q ), early. London, via Otago. —Taranaki, early. New York.—Silas Fish, early. SnnTtiruN Pouts. —Taranaki. 10th. Northern Ports.— Taupo, Sth. inst. | Sydney, via Napier and 1 Auckland.— Rotorua, 17tb inst. . : ■- Melbourne and Hobarton via the South.— Tararua, 13th inst. • Melbourne, vta West Coast.—Albion, IGth inst. Melbourne.— Young Dick, early Dunedin.—Estelle, early New York v.ia Port Chalmers.—Elsinore, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London.—Primera, early. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, 10th. SerinKttN Vortm.— I Taupo, Bth inst. Westport and Greymouth.— Luna, Bth inst. Napier. Poverty Bay, Tauranga, and Auckland. —Taupo. 17th instNklson, Wkwtport,Greymouth, and Hokitika. —Murray, early. Oastlepoint and Napier.—Kiwi, Sth inst. Katkodra and Lyttelton.—Tui, this day. Nelson, Westport, Greymouth,and Hokitika. —Tararua. 13th inst. Hobarton and Melbourne, via the South.— Albion, 17th inst. BY TELEGRAPH. , LYTTELTON, Saturday.' Sailed: Malay, for Wellington.' Sunday. Arrived : Wakatipu and Ocean Chief, from Wellington.—Onward, from Hokitika. Sailed : Josephine, for Wellington. PORT CHALMERS, Sunday, Arrived : Ringarooma, from Lyttelton.—Barque Bobycito, from Newcastle. BLENHEIM, Saturday., Arrived; Napier, a.s., at the wharf, at 3 p.m. She crossed the bar easily. Her arrival was regarded as a sensational event;'the Napier being the first locally-owned trading steamer that has come to Blenheim, and she was welcomed by numerous visitors. Th« p.s. Manawath, Captain Harvey, arrived here from Wanganuiat4.3o a.m. yesterday. She left there at 4.80 p.m. the previous day, and experienced fine weather down. The Manawatu will sail again for Wancanui this afternoon. The schooner Spray, Captain Euxton, arrived in harbor from Hokitika, timber laden, on Saturday. She left there ou the 27th ultimo, and experienced fresh S. E. and easterly winds throughout the trip. The s.s. Wakatipu sailed for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Wallace sailed for Nelson and West Coast ports at 2 p.m. same day. A telegram received from the Press Agency on Saturday stated that the p.s. Luna, bound from Greytn this port with a cargo of coal, had put into Westport in a leaky condition. She went on the Hard there and was repaired, and left again for this port on Saturday evening. It is supposed that she sustained the damage which caused the leak by grounding in the Grey River on Friday last. The s s. Tui left Foxton at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday; crossed the bar at 5 p.m.,and arrived in harbor at 2.30 a.m. vesterday. The schooner Rose of Eden from Picton, and the ketch Thames from Pelorus Sound, timber laden, arrived here, the former on Saturday, the latter yesterday. The ketch Falcon sailed for . Blenheim on Saturday evening in charge of Mr. Pope, late mate of the s.s, Napier. The Union Company's s.s. Hawea, Capt. Wheeler, arrived in port from tho South at 10 a.m. on Saturday. She sailed from Port Chalmers at 1 p.m. on the 2nd inst.; arrived in Lyttelton at 8.30 a.m. on the 3rd: sailed again at 5.30 p.m. same day, and arrived here as above stated. The Hawea left for the North at 1 o'clock yesterday. The s.s. Stormbird, Captain Doile, arrived in port frnni Napier at 2.45 p.m. on Saturday morning, having experienced head winds all the way. She left Napier at 11.30 Friday morning: rounded the Kidnappers at 1.30 p.m., with the windS.E., and Cape Turnagain at 9.30 p.m.; passed Castlepoint 1 a.m., and rounded Cape Palliser at 10.30 on Saturday, arriving as above. The Stormbird brings 57 casks tallow. 49 bales wool/ and 58 pockets wool, for transhipment into the Primera. consigned to Murray; Common, and Co. Captain Doile reports the s.s. Kiwi in the roadstead at Napier, where she has been sinew s'unday, 29th ultimo.-befogunable to" gefinside owing to the state of the bar. The Stormbird will sail for Foxton this afternoon.

The * s. St. Hilda arrived from the South yesterday evening, full up to the hatchways,with cargo, 50 tons of which U ior thi* port, and the remainder for Wanganui. Tho St. ICilda left Dunedin on the Ist inst.: ailed in at Titnaru, Oatnaru. and Lyttelton, and left the latter port at 4 p.m.. on Saturday last, and arrived in port at 8.30 p.m. yesterday. Had strong head wind with heavy head sea throughout. fapUin Wheeler, of the llawea, ! being in ill-health, ha* obtained a month's leave of absence, and will on his arrival at Nelson give up command of his boat to C-iDMir, A. Kennedy. ' ; Thu City of Madras will sail during the present week r-r Astoria. Th** s.s. Akaroa left Lyttelton late on Saturday for tlxls port, but up to the time of our going to press this morning she had not arrived. *The Akaroa comes here to convey Dr. Rous to Lyttelton, who has m f with a sad bereavement—the loss of his wife. Thy Greymouth Star reports that the schooner Mary Oi;i l vie has 1 een successfully floated into the lagoon, ami t'-wt*d as far as Mr. Fairhall’s dairy. All that now 'emuiiift to be done is to cut away a space in Sefton bridge and the railway bridge of sufficient width to allow of her entry into the river. marine danger lately befel the steamship Knight T‘"»n I »r. 1550 tons gross register, from Cardiff to Bombay, with coal. .When off the Island of Galita, n.-.ir the Gulf of Tunis/and, according to the Admiralty chart, being in a thousand fathoms of water, she suddenly received a violent shock, and was immediately surrounded by a. seething mass of foam. Being run ashore, and ultimately examined, it' was fvmiid that at a distance of 15ft. from the stem of the vessel some 10ft. of her keel had been tom out in a peculiar manner, while the after part of the ship's Pot trim had also been seriously injured. Altogether the character of the damage done to the ship leads a Jp>.ird of Trade survvyor to the conclusion that the ship's hull had been struck by a volcanic eruption, a theory much strengthened by the well-known 'cha r;u ‘er of the locality. The suggestion that the nei^lw

Whom!, which lies right in the track to the'Mcditerr.tncari. the highway to the East, be re-surveyed, may lx* ent< rfjiinud in time to prevent a catastrophe. lAvii Adm.ralty chart* require revision, and probably tbu unlooked-for fate of many a good ship may be traced to such natural phenomena as that above-mcn-