SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5143, 17 September 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OF WELLINGTON. High Water.— o. 4 a.m.; 0 41 p.m. ARRIVED. A M September l. r ». —Stormbird, s.s., C 9 tons, Doile, from Napier. Passengers—Cabin : Mrs. # Fraser ana family (0), Mrs. Southern and tho Lydia Howarrte Troupe (0) ; 5 steerage. Plimmer, agent. : - Stella, Government s.s., 175 tons, Fairchild, from Napier, via Portland Island and Castlepoint. lassenger— Mr. Blackett. ' September 10.—Rotorua, s.s,,«>/G tons, Macfarianc, from Sydney, via Auckland and Napier. Passengers —Saloon: Mr.- and Mrs. Massey and child, Mrs. Beetham, Miss Coleman, Rev. Father Kcenevclly, Messrs. Mclntosh, lladder, Martin, Harding, Brandon, Chamber, Snoodle, and Hirst: 12 steerage, and 9 for South. Leviu and Co., agents. Kellance. ketch. 05 tons, Swede, from Picton. Greenfield and Stewart, agents. , . Stella. Government s.s., 175 tons, Fairchild, from a cruise in the Strait. , Isabella, brigantine, IG2 tons, Barnard, from Kaipara. Master, agent.- . _ Kiwi, s.s - , 133 tons, Campbell, for Napier. Passengers—Cabin : Mr. and Mrs. Jones and family (5). Messrs. Tuntin, Tickman, Holmes, and Brown. Levin and Co., agents. St. Kild’a, ss., 175 tons, Flowerday, from South. Passengers—Cabin: Mr. and Mrs. Rose and family (7), Mr, Daphon; 2 for North. Krull and Co., agents. , Kennedy, s.s., 130 tons, Palmer, from Nelson and West Coaar.. Passengers—Cabin; Messrs. Deacon, Gallop. Morton, Waterhouse, Cahill, and Brooker ; 4 steerage. Deacon, agent. SAILED. September 15. —Claud Hamilton, s.s., 530 tons, Clark, for Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon : For Melbourne : Mr. Lee Tak. For Hobarton': Dr. Hector. For Coast; Mrs. Lindsay and 3 children, Messrs. Prince, Palmer, Stndholmc, Brown, Thompson, Moorbouse, Richards, and Noale. Bishop, agent. Tul, s.s.. 04 tons. Wills, for Foxton. Passenger —Cabin : Mr. Robinson. Bishop, agent. Murray, s.s. 7S tons, Conway, for Nelson and West Coast. Passengers—Cabin: Messrs. Clayton, Morton, Waterhouse, Deacon, and Gallop. Deacon, agent. Napier, s.s., 4S tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. Passengers—Cahin : Messrs. Edwards, Flowers, Smith, and Scott. Turnbull and Co., agents. September 10.—Taranaki, ship, 1120 tons, Wight, for Astoria. Mills, agent. Aurora, schooner, 50 tons, Romeril, for East Coast. Pearce, agent. Jane Douglas, s.s , 75 tons, Fraser, for Foxton. Plimmer, agent. ’ CLEARED OUT. ■ September 15.—Julius Vogel, schooner, 50 tons, Johnson, for Dunedin, via Pelorus Sound. Compton, agent. IMPORTS. [A svecial charge is made for consignees’ iiames inserted in this column."] Isabella, from Kaipara: 95,000 feet sawn kauri timber. EXPORTS. Aurora, for East Coast: 2 sacks flour, 20 coils wire, 1 keg staples, 3 bags potatoes, 13 pkgs sundries, 74 pkgs groceries, 8 pkgs station stores, 3 bales, 7 pkgs sundries. , . Manawatu, for Wanganui: 1 case cigars, 1- kegs sails, 280 pkgs merchandise, etc., S bales do do, 140 cases do, 1 chest, 10 pels. ~ , Jane Douglas, for Foxton: 10 sacks oats, 4 hlids ale. 54 pkgs merchandise, etc. Tui, for Foxton ; 300 pkgs merchandise, 150 bars iron. 10 sacks outs, 5 do flour, 5 bags produce, 1 piano, 1 box. Napier, for Blenheim : 2 Muls ale. 10 cases oranges, 4 pkgs sashes, 18 do merchandise, etc., 40 do groceries, 10 cases wine, S pieces. Murray, for Nelson : 40 cases fruit, 52 boxes tea, 70 bags rice, 9 cases, 0 pels. For Westport: 0 cases oranges, IS kegs butter, 10 cases sundries, 1 k»'g, 1 cask, 1 truss. For Greymouth : 20 cases fruit, IS do sundries, 1 box, 1 cask, 1 kilderkin. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.— Zealandia, St. Leonards, Schiehallion, and Wairoa. early. New York. —Silas Fish. Herbert Black, early. Northern Ports. —Hawea, ISth. Honukono.— May, early. Melbourne.—Jane, early. Melbourne, via South.— Arawata. 20th. Clarence River. N.S.W.—F. W. Tucker, early. Southern Ports. —Wanaka, 18th, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports. —Wanaka, 19£h. Napier, Poverty Bay. Tauranga, and Auckland. —Hawea, 2Gth. Nelson, Westport, Gbeymouth,and Hokitika. Kennedy, early. Southern Ports Rotorus this day. Melbourne via the South.— Arawata, 23rd. Wanuanut.— Manawatu, 18th. Castlepoint and Napier. —Kiwi, this day Foxton.— Jane Douglas, ISth. Blenheim. —Napier, 18th. BY TELEGRAPH . OAMARU, Saturday. Arrived: Brigantine Roderick Dhu, from. Newcastle. Sunday. Sailed : Barque 'Woodbine for Newcastle. LYTTELTON, Saturday. Arrived : Lizzie Guy, from Hokitika. Sunday. Arrived : Claud Hamilton, from Wellington: Wanaka and Beautiful Star, from Port Chalmers; Cleopatra, from Greymouth. PORT CHALMERS. Saturday. Sailed ; Wanaka. Passengers for WellingtonMr. and Mrs. Eastwood and family, Messrs. McNeil, Anderson, and Wakham. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The Belle Brandon, from Savage Islands, brings cotton, copra, and fungus. The schooner Active, from Samoa, brings the fol- ■ lowing whaling news :—The Alaska was at Vauvau on 14th August, with two humpbacks trying out. The Splendid, of Dunedin, had taken four humpbacks. The James Arnold was at Hepeka Hapai on 22nd August. She had 360 barrels humpback and a large quantity of sperm ; she caught three whales while the Active was there. The Magellan Cloud, of Auckland, was at Tongataboo on the 27th August; had captured 5 fish, and has got 300 barrels. On the 26th August she made fast to a cow and calf, but the second mate in lancing accidentally cut the line, and the fish escaped. The Isabella, of Wellington, has been unfortunate through defective equipment. The boats had fastened to 14 whales, all however escaped but two. At one time the crew ran short of provisions and had not any money to buy more ; but they got a fish, when friends and money were found in plenty. The Union Company’s s.s. Rotorua, Captain Macfarlane, arrived in port with cargo and passengers, from Sydney, via the East Coast, at 10 a.m. yesterday. She left Sydney on the 7th inst. at 4 p.m., and experienced westerly winds with fine weather across, and arrived in Auckland at 5.30 p.m. on the 12th ; discharged cargo and sailed at 8.30 p m. on the 13th, and reached Napier at 3 a.m. on Friday last: sailed same afternoon at 1 o’clock, and arrived here as above slated. Experienced southerly wind from Napier till 2 a.m. yesterday, thence strong N. W. wind. The Rotorua has 100 tons cargo to discharge here. She will sail South this evening. The following steamers sailed on Saturday :—Murray, for Nelson, at 2.30 p.m.: Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne abd Hobarton, via the South, at 4.30p.m.; Tni and Jane Douglas, for Foxton, at 9 p.m. The Napier left for Blenheim at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. The s.s. St. Kilria arrived in port frm South yesterday evening at 0 o’clock. She left Lytelton the previous evening at 5 o’clock, and experienced a heavy N.W. gale up. We thank Mr. Coulter for files, See. She is expected to sail for Wanganui this evening. The s.s. Kennedy, for Nelson and West Coast ports, arrived in harbor at 3.15 p.m. yesterday. She left Nelson at 7 p.m. on Saturday, and experienced strong S.W. wind to Terawiti, thence S.E. The Kennedy will return to Nelson to-morrow evening. The s.s. Kiwi leftNapleron Friday last at 11 a.m., and ran down the Coast as far as Mangakira with a brisk northerly breeze, where she anchored at 3 p.m. same day ; at 9 o’clock next morning started for Wellington, and experienced a strong W N.W. breeze till arrival at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The Kiwi will sail for Castlepoint and Napier to-day. The brigantine Isabella arrived in port from Kaipara yesterday forenoon with 95 000 feet sawn kauri timber on board. She left Kaipara on Friday morning last at 8 o’clock, and made a fine stretch down the coast with a strong breeze from the N.W., which lasted for 24 hours. Afterwards experienced a calm, which was followed by brisk breezes from the westward, which took the brigantine into port. The s.s. Stormbird left Napier at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, and arrived in Wellington at 2 p.m. on Saturday. She will leave for Napier to-morrow morning. The ship Taranaki, bound for Astoria, left the harbor yesterday afternoon. By the arrival of the schooner Island Lily at Kohimarama, from Chatham Islands, on the llth instant, the New Zealand Herald learns that tho ship Ocean Mail has broke n to pieces, and the beach is strewn thickly with wreckage. Upwards of 300 bales of wool have been washed ashore, and also a number of casks of tallow and various articles of merchandise. The purchasers r-f the wreck and cargo at this rate will make a very good thing out of their bargain, j>rovided the underwriters do not step in and question the legality of the sale. The s.s. Stella came into port on Saturday forenoon from Napier, Portland Island, and Castlepoint. At 1 o'clock same afternoon she received instructions to proceed to Cook Strait to search for traces of tho missing boat Blue 8011, and the result of the Stella's cruise shows that no hope may be entertained for the three unfortunate men who manned her. The Stella on quitting the harbor first proceeded to tho locality where the Blue Bell wav supposed to have capsized; cruised mound there, but saw no traces of wreckage. 'The ship Endyrnion, bound from this port to Newcastle, was seen near the spot becalmed, and having been communicated with it was ascertained that those on board her had seen tho two fishing boats trying to get across the Strait on Thursday last. It was blowing very hard at the time. Captain Richardson of the Endyrnion, wished to bo reported; he had been blown down almost as far as the Kaikouras, and was for t vo days at anchor in Cloudy Bay. After leaving this ship the Stella headed for Port Underwood, in the hope that the Blue 8011, finding the weather too heavy for her, hart run back; but on arriving there it was ascertained that nothing had been soon of tlio boat The captain of the ketch Edith, which was lying in the port, stated that before the fishing boats left for Wellington they were advised not to do so on account of the stormy nature of the weather. At 4 a m yesterday tho Stella headed for Cape Campbell, keeping a close look-out as she went along, and on arriving there the lighthouae-k«epcr was asked If he hart seen anything of the boat, and he replied that he had not. The Stella then headed for this port after her fruitless search, and arrived in port at 13.30 p.m. yesterday. The ketch Reliance, from Picton with a full cargo of limber, arrived in port yesterday morning. She left there on Thursday last, and with a strong NAV. breeze stretched across the Strait,and anchored off the

Heads at 7 o’clock same night* The wind then commenced to increase, and shortly blew a fierce gale. She had both anchors down, bnt was dragging them fast, and tho sea in the meantime was coming clean over her bows and washing the deck When she had been drawn out as far as Baring Head both cables parted, and'nothing was then left for those on board the ketch but to put her to sea, which was accordingly done; but unfortunately, when trying to hove-tO} the mizzensail carried away. She then scudded away before the gale under double-reefed staysail as the only resource left —and scud tne Reliance did, for 'at 9 o’clock same night she had run down abreast of Kaikoura, where a welcome shift or wind to the southward was met with, which took her to tho Heads, where she was again besot with head winds, against which she beat into port, arriving as before stated. • _ . e With reference to the voyage of the Rotorua from Auckland to Sydney, in competition with the s.allero, wo find from the reports in the Sydney Morning Herald, that the Rotorua was crippled ihe day after passing the North Cape by the loss of one of the blades of her propeller, the breakage of a second, ana the third being quite loose, which facts were ascertained while the vessel was in Messrs. Mort and Cos docks at Sydney. Notwithstanding this heavy handicapping the steamer was only ten minutes behind tne Hero in entering Sydney Heads on the 3rd instant. when she anchored at Garden Island, not knowing which wharf she was to moor at, hence she did not go up the harbor until the following morning, and hence the impression of «ne groat difference in time between the Hero and Rotorua s arrival at Sydney. According to the same authority from which we have already quoted, the Hero entered Sydney Heads at 10.50 p.m. of the 3rd inst.. and tbe Rotorua at 11—a difference of ten minutes. Inc Rotorua, after leaving Auckland harbor on the 2Sth ult, passed tho North Cape on the 29th at 10.50 a.m., and the Hero at 2 p.m., according to the log-books of the two steamers, a difference of 3 hours and 10 minutes, and allowing the 10 minutes for the difference between the start from Auckland, tho Union Company’s vessel was fully thirty miles ahead of her opponent. The mishap to the vessel occurred the day after passing the Cape, and on tho second day the Hero was sighted astern. The re s ult of the race between the two steamers appears to have excited as much interest in Sydney as here. NOTICES TO MARINERS. Discontinuance of Mana Island Light and Exhibition of Flashing White Light on the Brothers, Cook Strait.— Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, 31st August, 1877. Notice is hereby given, that on and after the evening of Monday, the 24th September. 1877, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse which has been erected on Tho Brothers (Northern Islet). Cook Strait, the characteristics of which are as follow : —The tower is 2Sft. in height, built of wood and painted white. Tiie light will be a second order flashing white light, visible all round, showing a flash every ten seconds. The light will be elevated about 258 ft. above the sea, and allowing 15ft. for the height of the eye. will be seen at a distance of 22 nauti al miles in clear weather, and at lessor distances ac-ording to tho state of tho atmosphere. From the lower part of the tower a fixed red light, having an arc of sdeg., will bo shown in the direction of Cook Rock. On the same night on which The Brothers light is exhibited, the fixed white light on Mana Island will be discontinued. — Geo. McLean.