SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5224, 19 December 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. ARRIVED. "December 18. —Easby, s.s., 069 tons. Anderson. JCrom Sydney, via the South. Pa sengers—Saloon: .Misses Jones and McFailyen. Mesdaines Carter, Howard, McFadyen and White, Messrs. Wolfenden, Broderson, Marsh. Hickey, Watson, Wright, and England. Turnbull and Co., agents. Wallace, p.s., 64 tons, Dillon, from Nelson and West Coast ports. Passengers—Cabin : Mrs. Drum* mend and child, Mrs. Allen and six children, Messrs. Harley, Gibbs, Macquarie, Henry, and Hebberley. Deacon, agent. Elizabeth Conway, sc’ ooner, 45 tons, Ware, from "Lyttelton. Master, agent. Arthur Wakefield, schooner, 45 tons, Gibbs, from Timaru. Master, agent. Wellington, s.s., 279 tons, McGee, from Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon; Mesdaraes Gamble (2). Misses JFlabarty and McNamara, Me-srs. AVhitcombe, Jacobson, Thomas, Reid. Thompson, McKennecky, and Bryant, Master C. Jacobson: 5 steerage. Levin and and Co.. agents. Stella, Government s.s., 157 tons, McKersic, from The Brothers.* Napier, s.s., 48 tons. Fisk, from Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin: Messrs. Coramell, Jones, and Gos*. Turnbull and Co., agents. SAILED. December 18.—TIawea. s.s., 4G2 tons, Wheeler, for South. Passengers—Saloon : Mesdames Nation, Cockburn, and Shea, Miss Brandon, Messrs. McGuaine, O’Sullivan, Brandon, Strike, Bose, Williams, Shea, and Edwards Levin and Co., agents. Luna, p.s., 247 tons, Bascand, for Westport and Oreymouth. Williams, agent, Grafton, s.s., 270 tons. Anderson, for Westport and Greymouth. Williams, agent. Eangatira, s.s., 196 tons, Evans, for Napier and Poverty Bay. Passengers—Cabin: Messrs. Jacobs and Austin. Piimmer, agent. Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Harvey, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin: Miss Lester, Mrs. Arthur, Messrs. Ghiloni and Cevistofui. Plimiuer, agent. Tui. s.s., 64 tons, Wills, for Foxton. Passengers— Cabin : Mrs. Letty and 2 children. Bishop, agent. Marmlon, schooner, 92 tons, Bowton. for Kaipara. Pearce, agent. Mary Beverley, schooner. 100 tons, Sullivan, for Clarence River, N.S.W. Dransfleld, agent. Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, Stewart, for Havelock. Master, agent. Clematis, ketch, 65 tons, Bonner, (or Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. Saucy Lass, schooner, 29 tons, Curran, for Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. Anno Melhuish, barque, 344 tons, Johnson, for Newcastle. Williams, agent. Edwin Bassett, barque, 397 tons, Foster, for Newcastle Williams, agent. Stella, Government s.s., 157 tons, McKersie, on a Southern cruise. IMPORTS Kiwi, from Napier: 320 bales wool, order. Wallace, from Nelson: S pkgs produce. Duncan; 50 bags ma t, Pascoe : I box, Krull and Co.; 12 bales wool, Turnbull and Co.; 41 do do, De icon. Easby, from Sydney : 401 gunnies sugar, 150 casks cement, 20 crates, 50 casks beer, 2 tierces. 1 bhd, 2 •asks, Turnbull and Co.; 3 crates, 2 casks, 1 tierce, 2 eases, Mountain, Maiden City, from Pelorus Sound: 18,000 feet sawn timbjr, order. Elizabeth Conway, from Lyttelton; 100 sacks flour, 8® bags lOOlbs do. 40 bags 501bs do, Thomas; 474 sacks wheat, 50 do flour, order. EXPORTS. Grafton, for West Coast: 3CO empty sacks. Williams: 3 pkgs, Thompson, Shannon, and Co. ;10 cases oranges, 1 do lemons, Levin and Co.; 20 casks cement. Turnbull and Co.; 5 cases, 1 drum, 1 bale, Felton. Grimwade. and Co. Rangatira, for Napier: 90 boxes tea, 2 cases sauce, 6 do liraejuice, 1 do port, 2 do sago, 4 boxes pipes, 40 cases and casks spirits, 1 case olives, 1 cask seed. 45 cases claret, 4 pkt* hops, 120 hf-chests te*, 140 pkgs wine, 40 bags rice, 100 pkgs tea, 49 pkgs sundries, Bishop; 2 qr-casks sherry. 2 do do wine, 2 do do port, 3 d® do brandy, Dransfleld; 190 cases, Bannatyne; 47 do, N.Z.S Co.; 80 sacks. Tonks: 200 bolts. Waters; 37 pkgs, Dransfleld; 4 do. Telegraph Department; 21 do. Dawson; 9 do. Griffiths; 1 do, Lyon and Blair; 2 do, Thompson, Shannon, and Co,; 3 do, Felton: 67 do. Mills; 1 bdl, Guilford; 5 pkgs, Lawson; lease, Margetta; 1 case, Johnston. Luna, for West Coast: 1 case, 5 tons irons, 40 pcs timber, Turnbull and Co.; 100 boxes candles. Kitchen; 1 truss. Shannon ; ft pkgs, Feb on, Grimwade, and Co. Hanawatu, for Wanganui: 2 cases. 89 gunnies sugar, 100 pkgs. Levin and Co.; 14 do. Ghiloni; 54 do, A. P. Stuart; 1 do. Woods; 16 do, K. W. Mills; 6do, Nathan; 7 do, Lindsay; 25 do, Piimmer; 10do, Guilford; 22d0, Williams; 4 do. Griffiths; 1 pci, Sloan; 3 pkgs. Burrett; 0 do, Shannon; 32 do, Turnbull; 1 case, Grimwade; 1 do, Whittem. *- EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Renfrewshire, Hereford, Rialto, Gainsborough, and Araby Maid, early. Noki-hkxn Ports. Taranaki, 21st. Melbourne, via the South.—Ringarooma, 20th, Melbourne.— Young Dick, early. Clarence River. —Mary Grant and Darcy Pratt, early. Auckland, via the East Coast.— Tanpo, 24th. Southern Ports.—Wanako, this day; Ladybird, 27th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London. Zealandia. this month; Wairoa, in January. Picton, Nelson, and West Coast Ports.— Wallace, this day. Napier, Poverty Bay, Tauranoa, and Auckland,—Wanaka, 20th. Southern Ports.—Wakatipn, this day. Northern Ports.—Wellington. 20th. Napier and Poverty Bay.— Rangatira, 2Cth. Wanganui.—Stormbird, early. Melbourne, via the Sotth.— Ringarooma, 22nd. Njclson.—Ringarooma, 20th. Foxton.—Jane Douglas, this day. Lyttelton.— Taranaki, 21st. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON, Tuesday. Arrived: Staignon, barque, from Mauritius. BLENHEIM. Tuesday. Arrived : Steamers Napier and Lyttelton, from Wellington, former at 6 a.m., latter at 0.20 a.m. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Arrived: S. R. Symon, from New York, via Port Chalmers.—Southern Cross, from Napier. Sailed: Pearl, ketch, for Friendly Islands.—Taranaki, at 5 p.m. Passengers for Wellington : Miss O’Halloran, Mrs. Bennett, Messrs. McDonald and Maling. The time-ball may be used to-day for rating chronometcis. A chronometer true on Greenwich lime would show 12h. 30rain. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. The p.s. Wallace reached port from Nelson yesterday at 8.45 a.m., after a rou h trip across the Strait. She left there at 4 p.m. on Monday, and experienced strong N.W. winds with heavy sea throughout. She will sail for Nelson and West Coast ports this afternoon. The barques Edwin Bassett and Anne Melhuish, taking advantage of a favorable change of the weather, called yesterday forenoon for Newcastle. A favorable change in the weather yesterday morning enabled the stormbird to resume her voyage to Wanganui from the Hca-’s, where she had to put back the previous evening through stress of weather. The Tui for Foxton got away at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. The ship Waitara cleared out at the Customs yesterday, bound for the Bluff, and hauled away from the wharf. -Her be r th was taken up by the Huranui. which will commence discharging to-day. The p.s. Luna sailed at 1 p.m. for Westport and ‘ •’reymonth, and the 8.3. Grafton, bound for the same ports, sailed at 4 p.m. The Stella returned from The Brothers yesterday afternoon, and sailed again in the evening bn a lighthouse cruise South. The p.s. Manawatu left at 3 p.m. yesterday for Wanganui, with a fair cargo. The s.s. Wellington arrived in port from Lyttelton shortly before six o'clock last evening. She left Lyttelton at midnight on Monday, and had fine weather throughout the passage. The Wellington will sail for the Manukau via Intermediate ports to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The s.s. Wauaka, from the South, is expected here to-day. She will sail for Auckland, via Napier, Poverty Bay, and Tanranga, at i oen to-morrow. The s.s. Napier left Blenheim at 3 p.m. yesterday, and arrived at midnight. Experienced fresh N.E breeze across. She brings 160 bales wool f r the Wairoa. The Napier will sail to-night, at 7 o'clock, for Blenheim. The s.s. Easby arrived In port yesterday morning from Sydney, via the South, at 0 o’clock; but owing to the crowded state of the wharf she had to anchor off the wharf t II 5 o'clock in the afternoon. She left Sydney on the 6th instant at 8 p.m., and arrived at Port Chalmers at 7 o.m. on the 12th. after a fair passage; discharged 1100 tons coal and 100 tons general cargo, and sailed at 10.30 a.m. on tho 16th, arriving at Lyttelton at 9.30 a.m on the 17th; left again at Ip.m. same day. and arrived bee as above. The Kasby will sail for Newcastle and Sydney at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The Rangatira sailed for Napierand Poverty Bav at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, with a very large cargo. The favorite steamer Luna has undergone considerable alteration and improvement during her recent stay in port. Men have been at work night and day, so that no unnecessary delay should take place before h-r trips to and from the West Coast. The hull of the vessel has been greatly strengthened by having extra stringer plates rivetted to the deck beams. The boiler and engines have undergone » thorough overhaul, and are now in far better condition than they have been for some time past, and it maybe said, without fear of contradiction, that the Lnna. both as regards her hull and machinery, will now compare favorably with any vessel of her class. That she.will continue to be, as she ha hitherto been, a most popular trader on the coast there can be no doubt. The recent alterations to which we have referred have been carried out with.the utmost dispatch and in the most workmanlike manner by the employes of Messrs. K. W. Mills and Co.'s iron foundry, under the supervision of Mr. Seager. THE WRECK OF THE BENCLEUCH. Captain Boyers, of the late schooner Bencleuch, who returned to Port Chalmers on Monday by the schooner Friendship from the Macquarie Islands, has furnished the following account of the loss of his vessel:—“ Wc left Port Chalmers on July 10th bound to the Macquaries to procure sea elephant oil. Cleared Stewart Island on July 20th, and sighted the Macquarie Group on the 27th, but meeting a heavy westerly gale were driven over 100 miles to the eastward. The islands were again sighted on August 3rd, and the vessel came to anchor on the morning of the 4th At 2 a.m. on the Cth a heavy squall struck tho schooner, which dragged across the roadstead, but wa J brought up again in 29 fathoms and the second anchor let go. Tho weather moderated at daybreak on flic 7th, »nd at noon the anchors w-re weighed, and she beat up to her former anchorage, and at ft p.m. was brought up in 13 fathoms of water, with 75 fathoms of ch ain and three-parts of a coir hawser fora s]fr ; ng At 0,"0 p.m. a heavy snow storm *o f in, and at 7.30, without any previous warning, a heavy

gale was encountered, attended by blinding snow, intense darkness, and a rising sea. At 10 p.m. the schooner dragged a little, and the second anchor was let go ; a heavy sea struck her at 11 p.m. and the spring parted and went away with everything. She struck aft on an off-lying rock, which carried away the rudder, and about ten minutes later she was in among tho rocks. A heavy sea again struck her, carried away the whaleboats, and damaged the dingy. The crew then took to the rigging for safety, with the exception of throe men, who were seriously injured, and who were placed below for shelter; after remaining in the rigging for some time the other poor fellows were forced to seek the shelter of tho cabin ; but the vessel having bilged, tho cabin was soon half full of water. Th • schooner continued surging and rolling in a dreadful manner, and daylicht was anxiously looked for by all hands. When morning broke a life saving apparatus was rigged, and the injured men being first sent on shore, the rest followed. At 8 p.m. that day H. Whailey, the boatswain, died from the effects of the exposure and injuries ho had sustained. During the time the vessel was driving on shore, one man had his leg broken in two places, a second was injured internally, and a third was washed overboard, but managed to regain tho ship. At daylight on the Sth August she lay with her bows under water, the sea making a clean breach over her. She was completely shrouded in ice and snow, and lying nearly on her beam ends, starboard side down. After saving a few articles tho men took to the huts left on the island by Captain Soule, and remained there, occupying themselves in catching sea elephants, until the arrival of the schooner Friendship, which took them off the island on the 2nd of December, and reached Port Chalmers on tho 10th inst."