SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5160, 5 October 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POKT OF WELLINGTON. ARRIVED. October 4.—Taranaki, s.s., 327 tons, Malcolm, from Picton, Nelson, New I'lymouth, and Manukau. Passengers—Saloon: Judge and Mrs. Ward, Mesdaraes llayk-y, and rfoloman, Captain Moore, Messrs. Schot, C'affin, Cumming, Mill, Yankrodgen, Mackay, Young, Jay, Guinness, Mason, Wright, and Gibson ; 4 steerage. Levin and Co., ag- nts. Stormbird, s.s., 89 tons, Doile, from Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin : -Mrs. Thurston, Miss Native, Messrs. Booth, Campbell, Matthews, Kemp, Pollock, Broadbent, White, Brown, Hurley, lloni Mete, Douglas, Gunne, Llyons, RyaD, Murphy, and Inlan. Pliramer, agent. U.JI. corvette Sappho, 7 guns, Digby, from Nelson. Napier, s.s., -is tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin: Miss Pike and Mr. Sutherland. Turnbull and Co., agents. SAILED. Octobkk 4.—Reliance, ketch, 65 tons, Swede, for Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. Cynthia, schooner, 66 tons, Welsh, for Pelorus Sound. Greenfield and Stewart, agents. Alert, schooner, 44 tons. Hays, for Picton. Master, agent. Taranaki, s.s., 327 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Acland and Tripp, Messrs. Ilet, and Hodge. Levin and Co., agents.

IMPORTS. [A svecial charge is made for consignees' names %7i3erted in this coluMn.) Stormkird, from Wanganui: 100 sheep, 12 pigs, 1 ease, 20 bdls skins, 35 hides. Taranaki, from Onehunga: 70 pkgs hardware, merchandise, &c, 1 bale fungus. From Taranaki: 1 box drapery, 2 cases eggs, 12 sacks grass seed. From Nelson and Picton : 19 cases fruit, 4 pkgs. EXPORTS. Taranaki, for Lyttelton : 9 sacks seed, 2 trusses, 17 eases, 2 bales, 1 box, 4 pkgs. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Zealandia, Schiehallion, Wairoa, and St. Leonard.*, early. New Vokk, via Duxedin.—Silas Fish and Herbert Black, early. Melbouhnk asd Hoiiauto.n', via the South.— Albion, 13th. Southern Ports.—Wanaka, 7th; Wakatipu, 7th. Auckhnp, via xnE East Coast.—Hawea, 7th. Melbourne, via West Coast.—Claud Hamilton, 11 th - Hongkong and Fooohow.—May, early. Sydney, via Auckland.—Rotorua, 12th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. NbiiTiiKiiM I'oiiTH.—Taranaki, 15th. Auckland, via the East Coast. -Wanaka. Bth. Nelson and West Coast Ports.—Murray, 9th. Southern Ports.— Hawoa. Bth. Melbourne and Hobarton, via ioi South.— Claud Hamilton, 11th. Foxton.—Tui, Sth. Xapier.—Rangatira, 6th. Sydnev.— Wakatipu. 9th. East Coast. —Kiwi, 6th. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON. Wednesday. Arrived : The New Zealand Shipping Company's shio Waitangi, from London, with saloon passengert and26S immigrants, all well, after a passage of 79 days from land to land, and S 3 days from Plymouth to anchorage. She left Plymouth on the 12th July, and took her departure from the Lizards on the 14th July; mades the Snares on the 30th September. Experienced fine weather throughout the passage. There were no deaths.

The time bull may be used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time would show lib.. 30min. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. H.M.S. Sappho anchored in port from Nelson at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. She left there on "Wednesday at i. 30 p.m. Tenders are invited for repairs to the p.s. Manawatu. which will be laid up on her return from Wanganui. Tne s.s. Stormbird arrived in port from AVanganui at 7 a-ni. yesterday. She left there at 6.30 p.m. the previous day, and experienced fine weather down. She will sail'again for V/anganui to-day. The Kangatira, from Napier, is expected here today. She will ail again for Napier to-morrow. The bri-antine F. W. Tucker went up on the Slip on Wednesday afternoon. After being cleaned and repainted, she will sail direct from Jivans Bay for Clarence Kiver. The steamer Kiwi was launched off the Patent Slip on "Wednesday afternoon, and came round to the wharf io the evening. She was busily engaged all vesterday taking in careo for East '.'oast stamen;. On her trip up to Napier she will call in at Blackhead, Castlepoint, and Pourere, and it is expected she will in the meantine ship cargo for this port, which will consist of a portion of the first of the wool clip, for transhipment ta vessels loading here for London. The Kiwi will leave here to-morrow.

The Union Company's s.s. Taranaki arrived from the North at 920 jesterday morning. She left the Jlannkati at 2.30 p.m. on the Ist; arrived at Taranaki at 6 a.m. on the 2nd; left at 10 a.m., and arrived at Nelson it 3 so. on the 3rd ; left at 3 p.m., and reached Picton at midnight; left there at 5.30 a.m. on the 4th, and arrived as above. She experienced fine weather from Manukau to Taranaki, from Taranaki to Nelson had a 3tror,g westerly wind and heavy sea, and thick weather from thence to Wellington. The Taranaki left for the South at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The ketch Reliance left for Pelorus Sound yesterday, anil the Alert, bound for the same place, sailed in the morning. The Cynthia, also bound for the Sound, got away the previous night. The ketch Falcon was loading at Auckland on the 29th ultimo for Blenheim, with timber for the new Government buildings about to be erected there. The Auckland Star of the 27th ultimo says:—Captain Jones, of the Queen, reports that just before he left Hokianga, some Maoris had arrived therewith a story of a lot of wreckage being washed ashore on the beach, some miles south of Hokianga Heads. Spars, deck planks, candles, and some sides of bacon are mentioned :is among the debris. Until further particulars come to hand, it is useless speculating what vessel has come to grief, although if the story is true it is pretty certain some mishap has occurred. There is just a p'os3ibiiity that the wreckage may be part of the s.s. Lionel. On the same subject the Herald remarks:—The wreckage found by Maoris on the beach to the south side of Hokianga Heads, and reported by Captain Jones, of the schooner Queen, is generally believed to belong to the ill fated steamer Lionel, which was wrecked while crossing the Hokianga bar on the 19th August. Among her cargo were hams and bacon, etc., and as the hull of the vessel drifted towards the Sonth Heads, the probabilities are that the wreckage belonged to the steamer. And again the Star of the 28th ultimo says:—Captain Jones, of the schooner Queen, informs us that the wreckage found by the Maoris on the coast below Hokianga could not possibly have been part of the Lionel if the description of it given to him was correct. A square yard with portion of a sail attached ■was found, in addition to portions of a deck, some boxes of candks, bacon, etc. The Lionel had no yards. There is a possibility that the yard may have belonged to the three-masted schooner Mera, which was wrecked at Hokianga a month or so before the Lionel.