SHIPPING.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1005, 5 March 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF PATEA.

TIDE AND PILOT SIGNALS. Ebb tide—One ball at mast head Flood tide—Two balls do. Three quarter flood—Three balls do. Stand on and' take the bar—Four balls horizontal . Wait for tide—One ball at each yard .arm and one, half the length of the yard . . ' below the yard ! Bar dangerous—Two balls at one yard arm and one at the other Bar safe for steamers outwards—One pennant : . Bar-safe for sailing vessels outwards—Red flag, half mast Bar dangerous for steamers outwards—Two pennants . . ARRIVED. . March 4.—-Napier, a,s., 50 tons, Fisk, from Wellington. Passengers—Mrs Ponnyall and child, Miss Pehnyall, Mrs Major and child, Miss Casey. W. Cowern, agent. IMPORTS. Per Napier.—4 cases, Cowmn.; 1 pci, J. H.-C f ayton ; 1, case, T. .Mabcy ; 5 pkgs, McCarthy ; 1 pel, Uiquart ; 3 hhds, Balmforth Bros. ; 60 rails, 152 hdls fish plates, 45 dol bed-plates, storekeeper, P. W,; 1 pel, Barton ; 2 pkgs, Roskrnge ; 11 pkgs, 69. sheets, 6 casks, Gibson ; 1 case, McComisky ; 5 pkgs, McCarty and Hunger ; 1 pel, 42 casks, Taplin ; 2 cases, Gower; 1 case Prichard ; 1 pkg, Niitsford ; 15 poles, 20 pieces, Teleg'rapb ; 2 pkgs, Kirk ; 40 pkgs, McKenna ; 10 pkgs, Davidson ; 10 bags Duff ;27 pkgs, Lott ; 1 pole, Doneghue ; 2 pkgs, Worth.

The voyage from Plymouth of the ship Euterpe to Sydney with 308 immigrants lias been a sad one. .Tno ship reached her destination the other day, and was quarantined. The steward,’ named, Underwood, died of dysentery; a young woman also met her death by asphyxia, caused by a piece of- meat sticking in her throat, and eight children died of scarlet fever. The Duchess, of Argyle, with 425 immigrants, arrived at the same time, reporting twelve deaths from scarlet fever and measles.

Commander Maxwell Heron, R.N., has been arraigned before a court martial sitting at Portsmouth on charges amounting to peculation and misappropriation, seriously affecting his honor as an officer of Her Majesty’s Navy’. A sentence of condemnation has been pronounced, and he is dismissed the service. The origin of the case was as follows Mr Hadden, the ship’s corporal,: having lately found that peculation and 'jobbery prevailed in the financial; management of the ship complained .tovthe' captain; and subsequently to head-quarters. For this, Hadden r was: rewarded with oppressive treatment, ! was told te produce- witnesses, was arrested that he might not do so in time, and was finally- condemned and disrated because he failed to prove his case. Commander Maxwell Heron is no .v found guilty of having sold old stores without rendering an account; of having employed sailors to work at his private house ; painting .the house with ship’s paint, and furnishing it with ship’s furniture, improperly condemned, that he might get it at the price of firewood ; of buying timber at £2 for his own purposes as firewood for the: ship, \vhon the price of firewood was but 25s ; and, finally’, of oppressing the one man who tried to put a stop to these abuses. .Captain Maxwell’s defence was thUt the fault lay with his inferior officer, Mr Fitzgerald, who is now being tried. ' f THE S.S. NAPIER. The 5.8.; Napier, .Captain Fisk, arrived here from Wellington on Saturday afternoon after about 14 hours easy steaming. A large number of persons went down to : the wharf to see her both on Saturday and yesterday’ afternoons. The Napier is a wooden vessel of 50 tons burthen, and has been trading for some time between the East Coast ports, and latterly between Wellington and Blenheim, which trade has now been taken up by the Waihi. Although the Napier.is a long narrow vessel, and might seem at first sight unfitted for this port,’it is said that this is no disadvantage on account of the gi'eat power .of her engines;' She has only small accommodation for passengers at present,' but should-that trade warrant It is proposed to fit up a saloon, s and, as the Napier has the reputation of being,a fast boat, vve have no doubt the passenger trade:will be greatly augmented. r W6 may mention that Captain Fisk : Speaks s highly 1 of - the bar.

HIGH WATER. Morn Even Monday Tuesday ... 5-55 ... 6-34 ... 7-12 ... 7-47 Wednesday ... 8-11 ... 8-41 Thursday . ... 9-4 ... 9-25 Friday 9-45 ... 10-5 Saturday . ... 10-28 ... 10-45 Sunday 11-8 ... 11-30