SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 987, 18 June 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Port C'fr.u.atEßS. Jane 17. Arrived Otago, shipv from Glasgow, after a passage of 102 days. She had fine weather throughout, excepting a storm at the Straits, which compelled ner to carry the pilot to Madeira, where he was landed. Three deaths occurred on the passage. RMackaydied on the Sunday after the ship left the port, of acute inflammation of the j brain; and a seaman, named Donald Kennedy, fell from the foreroyalmast-head into the sea, and all efforts to save him were without avail. The other death was Joseph WeTshy a steerage passenger, of hemorrhage of the lungs. Jane IS. Arrived—Albion, from Lyttelton: Tarawa.. from the Blntf ; Waitaki, from. Gamaro. Saiktt—Friendship, on a sealing cmise. VVatttsoTOjr. The steamer Htiia, when endeavoring to .cross the Fcaton bar on Friday morning, took the ground, and still remains fast, although in a better position. She has sustained no damages, anil is expected to be floated oif on to-morrow morning's tide. Jane 19. The steamer Haia has been got off the Foxton fear uninjured, and without discharging her cargo. Arrrcr..\sp. June 17. Tha Wanakai put to> sea in * strong westerly gale. The Pretty Jane and Southern Cross have postponed their date of , , ,» LirnrEtTOtf, June ii. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered ship Red Gauntlet, Capt. Bowie, arrived this morning from London, 13*2 days out. Iter passage has been retarded considerably owing to her having lost her maintopmast on May 31, during a heavy gale, in lln leg. 40B<ac. sooth, and t63deg. 50mm east. With the topmast went the royal and topgallant masts, and the main topsail, topgallant, and royal yard. AH were tost, it being necessary for the safety of the ship to cuts away the wreck. No damage was sustained by the hull, anil none of the crew received any injury. The casualty was cftnsed through the heel of the topmast giving way above the fid. causing the mast to slip down about t8 inches, slackening up' all the back stays, &c. The vessel was rolling very heavily at the time the mast was carried away. The ship pnt into- Porthind on February It to tand the chief «Jli«er and some of the crew, whi vere sick, and, having shipped others, left there on 'February 18, but did not get away from the land until February fhe met with unfavorable wwathor during the latter part of the voyage, after passing Cape Leuwin on May t-i. She sighted the Snares on June 4. but did not get past them until June 3. The tied Gauntlet brings two saloon, two second cabin, and nine steerage passengers, all of wliom are well.