SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5167, 13 October 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. AERIVED. r"OcTOBER 12. —Anno Mclhuish, barque, 311 tons, Johnson, from Newcastle. Williams, agent. ' . Excelsior, schooner, 92 tons, Hunt, from Lyttelton. Master, agent. Ruby, schooner, 81 tons. Chapman, from AVhiterock. Bethune and Hunter, agents. Herbert Black, barque, 573 tons. Treat, from Now York via Port Chalmers Levin and Co., agents. Spray, schooner, 50 tons, Ituxton, from Lyttelton. Master, agent. SAILED. October 12.—Albion, s.s., 591 tons, Tozer, for Melbourne and Hobarton via the South, Passengers for Melbourne—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. Allen ana family (3J), Mrs. Baker, Miss O'Neil, Captain Williams, Messrs. Coleman, Clark, and Sutton. For South : Sirs. Wason and servant, Messrs. Hawes and Anderson. Bishop, agent. IMPORTS. {A svecial charge is made for consignees' names inserted in this column.'] Albion, from Melbourne: 0 qr-casks wine, leases tobacco, 5 three-quarter do, 1 case cigars, 4 do merchandise, 1 bales skins, 1 do leather, 11 cases drapery, 9 do plants, 10 hf chests tea, 2 hhds claret, i pkss ranges, 1 basket bottles, 5 boxes tapioca, GO bags rice, 25 cases glucose, 23 casks, 205 boxes candles, 1 pkg, 30 bars iron, 11 pkgs tea, 5 boxes do, 5 cases marble, ISO hf-chests tea, 500 sacks flour, 1 lathebed. 0 pieces stone, 1 boxes tea, 100 cases merchandise, 9S pkgs do, 10 pels, 4 bales. ... ,„- Tui, from Foxton: 17,251 ft. sawn timbers, 18a sleepers, 5 bales wool, 1 cask tallow, 4 bales skins, 17 aides, 4 pels. Kangatira, from Napier : 1 pel, 159 sacks maize. Excelsior, from Lyttelton : 460 sacks oats. Anne Melhuish, from. Newcastle: 550 tons coal. Spray, from Xyttelton : 31S sacks wheat, 90 do oats, 100 do flour, IS bales chaff, 1 reaping machine. EXPORTS. Enterprise, for Kaipara: 152 sacks flour, 40 bags do, 10 cases cheese. Albion, for Melbourne : 4 bales skins, 2 casks hides, 4 cases do. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Zealaudia, Wairoa, and St. Leonards, ear, y- „ i Honokokci AND Foocnov.-.—May, early. Melbourne and Houauton, via the South.— Claud Hamilton, 11th. Soothers Ports —Taranaki, 14th. Auckland, via the East Coast.—Wanaka, 19th. Sydney, vxa Auckland.—Rotorua, this cliy. Northern Ports. —Taupo, this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. NonTnititN Ports.—Taranaki, 15th ; Hawca, 20th. Picton, Nelson and AVest, Coast Ports.- Murray, 18th. „, . Soothers-Ports.— Taupo, this day. Sydney, via Napier and Auckland.—Rotorua, 20th. Foxton.— Jane Douglas, this day. , Napier and Poverty Bay.—Rangatira, this day. Melbourne, via AVest Coast.—Claud Hamilton, 15th. Katkoura and Lyttelton.—Tui. this day. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON. Friday. Arrived : Messrs. Shaw, Saville. and Co.'s ship Crusader, Captain Davis, from London, S 3 days from Gravesend and 74 days from land to land. She passed Deal on the morning of July 22, was off tlie Lizards on 27th, and made the Snares on September oth. The passage was a fine weather one throughout. She 37 passengers, all well. One of the seamen fell overboard and was drowned coming down the Channel. PORT CHALMERS. Friday. Sailed : Taranaki. Passengers for AVellington from Nelson: Mrs. McAllister, Messrs. Nash and Mowatt.

NELSON. Friday. Sailed : At 11.50 a.m., Taupo, for Picton and Wellington. Passengers - Miss Stranchan, Mesdames ColvUle, Paul, Jeffreys, and McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. Turk, Mrs. Cleary and family, Mr. and Mr 3. Fleming, Master Kowlings, Messrs. Deilson, Johnston, Sharp, Pollock, McEwen, Ball, Leviston. Murray, Smith, Holland, Paling, Thompson, Muntfort, Brooks, Brunetti, Sutherland, and Matheson. The barque Anne Melhuish, Captain John3on, arrived in port from Newcastle yesterday forenoon. She left there on the 25th ultimo, and experienced light winds varying from S.S.W. to N.E. throughout. Sho made Cape Farewell on the 10th instant, and arrived off the Heads next afternoon and laid outside becalmed til yesterday morning, when she got a breeze from the northward, and with it worked inside Barrett.s Reef, where the wind died away, and she had to come to an anchorage at 8 a.m. Two hours afterwards got a breeze from the S.E. which fetched her to anchorage in port as above stated. Reports being in company with the brig Emperor, bound to Lyttelton from Newcastle. The s.s. Eotorua. from Sydney via Auckland and the East Coast, will be in port this forenoon. She will not go South this trip, as she remains here till the 20th in3tant, when she will return to Sydney via the East Coast. Her passengers and cargo for the South will be transhipped into tne Taupo. which leaves this afternoon. During her stay in port the Rotorua will receive a general overhaul. The schooner Excelsior, Captain Hunt, arrived in port yesterday from Lyttelton with a cargo of oats on board. She left there on AVednesday morning, and h*d light southerly weatherup. The principle object of the schooner coming to this port is to step a new mainmast. The s.s. Taupo, from the North, will be in port this morning. She will sail for the South at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The s.s. Albion discharged 200 tons general cargo yesterday, and sailed for Melbourne and Hobarton via the South at 6.50 p.m. A telegram received by the N.Z. Shipping Company from London, dated August 6th, announces the arrival there of the Carnatio from "Wellington and Piako from Lyttelton. The s.s. Taranaki, from the South, will probably arrive here to-morrow. The schooner Ruby, from Whiterock, came into port yesterday afternoon. She had a very rough and disagreeable t:ip, and only succeeded in landing a few boatloads of cargo on account of the very heavy surf. In her last attempt to land cargo at the Rock the wind shifted so suddenly that Captain Chapman was obliged to put to sea with one of the station hands on board and convey him to Wellington. The schooner Spray, Captain Ruxton, from Lyttelton, with a cnrgo of produce, arrived in port at S o'clock last evening. She left Lyttelton at 7 p.m on the 10th with a light westerly wind, and at 5.30 p.m. on the 11th was off the Huronni River with the wind north. At 6 o'clock next morning the wind veered into the S.E. and blew fresh, and at 3 p.m. she passed Cape Campbell; at 7 p.m. entered the Heads, and arrived here as above. Reports sighting the Maude Graham, bound from Picton to Lyttelton ; also the brig Neptnne, from Lyttelton to Nelson. Captain Ruxton reports that when off the Hurunui River on the 11th instant the water assumed a mo3t peculiar color, that of blood red. Captain Ruxton is of opinion that the earthquake which was experienced over the colony on that day was the cause of the circumstance.

ARRIVAL OF THE: HERBERT BLACK. The barque Herbert lilack, with a of Yankee notions from New York via Port Chalmers, came off the Heads yesterday afternoon with the south-easter, and was boarded promptly by Pilot Holmes when she ■was abreast of Barrett's Reef, who brought her to an anchorage in the bay at C pm. The Herbert Black has 206 tons cargo from New York for this port. She left New York in company with the barque Silas Fish on the 29th May, and experienced light baffling winds right across the North Atlantic; had very light northeast trades, and picked up the south-east trades in latitude 20 N.: crossed" the Equator on July 15, 47 days out; had fresh north-east trades, and lost them on July 24; and thence fell in with the steady westerlies. Had fresh breezes for the next eight or ten days, and crossed the meridian of Greenwich on August 4; thence the winds fell light, and held so till August the Bth, in longitude 10 east, when the breeze freshened again, and held right across the Southern Ocean. She ran down her easting in the 44th parallel of south latitude, and encountered a very heavy south-west gale in longitude 63 east, which Jastt d for four days, the ship running through it Tinder low canvas. Crossed the meridian of Cape leuwin on September 4, and passed the island of Tasmania on the 10th ; encountered a heavy galo from the north-west to south on the 13th ult., and passed the Snares without Sighting them en the 10th, Thence she encountered a heavy south-west galo, with snow and hail squalls, and made her first landfall off the south end of Stewart Island on the 16th. After rounding the Island the galo increased to a perfect hurricane, and the vessel was hove-to, and was kei>t by the wind for the ensuing forty-eight hours, being driven past Taiaroa Heads forty miles to the northward. The gale moderated on the 19th, and she worked back to Port Chalmers, arriving there on the 20th September, after a passage of 112 days. Discharged 812 tons cargo in good order, and left there on Wednesday afternoon last at 2 o'clock. Had fine weather along the coast, with wind varying from north-west to south, lill noon yesterday, wh n she experienced a strong south-east breeze, which brought her into port as aliovc stated. .The Herbert Black comes cousigned tp Messrs. Levin and Co.