SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 216, 24 October 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

TORT OF POVERTY BAY.

ARRIVALS OCTOBER.

21— Pretty Jane, s.s., from Auckland. Passengers —Miss Poulgrain, Mr Mrs and Miss F. Wyllie, Mrs Hogan, the Rev. D. Bruce, Messrs. Caldwell, Hume, Cheshire; Hewitt, Hall, Wellashire, Enoka te Wanake, and others.

23.—Clara, cutter, Park, master, from Auckland, with 10 tons coal.

DEPARTURES OCTOBER.

22— Pretty Jane, s.s., for Napier. Passengers —Mrs Holloway and child, Messrs Sid dons, Whitson, Caldwell, Roe, Chambers, Kerr, and Mrs. Bourke.

The Rangatira, as will be seen from telegraphic intelligence, put back to Napier, on Saturday last, after being five days out, bound for Wellington ; as she could not leave that port until Monday, owing to the southerly gale blowing on Sunday, she will possibly be up to-day, and will steam to Napier and Wellington shortly after arrival. The Pretty Jane will, in all probability, not -steam for Auckland till Monday. She is to call at Whangawehi for pigs, and has a cargo of sheep and cattle awaiting her here. Captain Couch, of the Magellan Cloud, reported to the N. Z. Herald the following vessels lying at Hicks’ Bay, windbound, on the 16th ’ inst. :—Brig Tower Hill, brigantine Helena, schooners Julius Vogel, Atalanta, Columbia, Effie Meikle, and a ketch supposed to be the Clematis, and three others. Napieh, October 12. The Queen Bee arrived last night, from London, with a few passengers and 68 out of 72 sheep. Had very rough weather off the coast. The Rangatira was obliged to put back here short of coal and provisions, after being five days endeavoring to reach Wellington, meeting with a continuance of bad weather. Poet Chalmers, October 17. H.M.S. Blanche leaves for Wellington today. She sails thence to Sydney, where she should have been on the 15th, according to orders received. Westport, October 17. The p.s. Lyttelton brings news from the schooner Alma, now lying in the roadstead. She reports having lost her jibboom, bowsprit, toretopmast and gear, and mizenmast; her decks were swept, her boats are gone, and ha f the crew have been washed overboard. Ihe Kennedy is going out to tow her into the Buller. Dunedin, October 17. Heavy weather is reported throughout the province. At Oamaru, yesterday, a tremendous gnle was blowing, and the Emulous was stranded for the fourth time. At noon, all vessels in the Bay were ordered to sea. Auckland, October 15.

The ship Zealandia from London is now standing up the harbor. There has been no aickness on board. She is 95 days out. Sydney, October 8. The schooner Colonist, from Newcastle for New Zealand, has arrived here dismasted. Dunedin, October 16. The Invercargill, with 400 immigrants, is at the Heads. Dodd, the mate of the American vessel, the Oneca, has been convicted of man-slaughter. Wellington, October 16. The Cartvale has arrived. She will remain at the quarantine station for a few days to be thoroughly cleansed and fumigated. Besides measles, diphtheria, diarrhoea and scurvy occarted on the voyage. There is no case of sickness now. There were ten births on the passage. There were nineteen deaths of children. Total, 331 statute adults.