SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 69, 11 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OP OAMARU". ♦ cywAßoy. Jctr tt. Samurai „p. 9.„ 121 torn, Edie. from Ikmadta. H. Aitkin, Btf«nC. VESSEL IN' PORT. Jt;t»Y tl. Steamer—Siuiwon. Brtsc —Wave. The Union Corapivny's Samson. Captain Erik, toft Port Chalmers this morning at 3.«0v and arrived alongside the Breakwater at four p.m. Owirwr to the li»t«nour ftt which she arrived. we are un»bl« to publish the manifest and list of passengers. A BAP jt The Wanlock, which iwriveit »t Anuklanri the other day. experienced aa exceptionally bad pussajju oat. Shu wtu« lowtwt chiefly with iron pipes ior the Auckland Water Works. The following report of the trip we take turn the "Star": Left, fteitow tfith February, ami want to ttarotoefc ami adjusted compasses : tow ml frouv there to fcamlosh. unit fay there tilt the 3)th. Thence mtuie » start witih an easterly wind, which hauled itoutherly towards night, and there was nothing tor It but hrjfo out by the Northern Channel, f'efore morning it was blowing a gale from the &'W..anii fcwtt that tima for the n«w« sixteen (toys experienced nothing but tierce gftles from St. W. to W., the ship makinjf no headway. but rolling and labouring "very hadly„ and the crew were constantly at work in the hotif Mwurtnir the pipes, which were continually breaking adrift. The time occupied in reaching the eivuitof was forty-four day*. tittle or no Jf.E. or S.E. trades WW* met with. Slow progress was thus made ti> the meridian of ehu Cape. which wa» crossed on the t»th May. eighty days out. l>uring the whole of the remmiutar ot the passage a succession o( levies from Sf.W. totS.W. were encountered, which tried the ship to the Utmost, and if she hart not been ot' exceptionally strong bnihl mid gear she must have sustained very severe damage to hot!)hull and rigging. t)n tho SiSth Stay a hurricane of wind was met through which the shy> ran under two lower topsails and reefed upper toenail. BW decks were at this time constantly Hoodtji. and there was imminent danger of the vessel foundering, 'the southern point of Tasmania was passed on tile U)fh Junti. The heavy weather accompanied the** vessel nuK>B» the urn of the Pacific between Australia and New Zealand, the Three Kings being made on th« 'ilJth * inet. From thence a 8.1?. breeze was experienced to yesterday, when- it worked round to the 2».K, and brought the vessel to port. Captain Tilly, who. ha.* mods over a dozen passages to the Southern ports of thu Colony., ruports that Ho has never had such a tern* pentuuus paßSOge, and was never so thankfulto reach port, 'the Wanlock is a new iron barque of "fa tons MjflsteF. She whs built at Glasgow, by the (Londonand dhuwow tron Shipbuilding and F.ngincering Company , and belongs to R. Bramwell. Esq.. of London.