SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 244, 3 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF POVERTY BAY. ' ARRIVALS. JANUARY. DEPARTURES. JANUARY. 30—Pretty Jane, t.s., Captain Femanflez, for Napier with 500 bags graas seed, and the following passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Dalziell and family, Messrs. Glen, Giblin, J. Chambers, W. k. Chambers, A. Brown, Poynter, Bell, Parker, Bennett, Dempsey, and Cupt. Wright. We are requested to state that the Pretty Jane has not been taken off the berth for Auckland, but is expected to steam for that port early in the day. r lhe Opotiki, schooner, arrived in the Bay last evening from Napier. Tiie Auckland Star, referring to the Cospat rick case, says: —“We are told it is quite customary for vessels leaving with some immigrants, for new boats to be procured from the builders, and placed aboard to pass the inspection of the emigration officers. These boats are afterwards returned to the owners, with a small payment for use.” The Schooner DauntlksS. —The topsail schooner Dauntless has been seized by lI.M. Customs. It appears that the reason for this action is that the master of the schooner (Captain Harrison) was charged at the Police Court, and convicted for smuggling 1} cwt. tobacco on shore. The Dauntless is owned by Mr. Conroy, for whom much sympathy is felt. It does seem hard that the owner of the schooner has to suffer for the action of the master. We understand Mr. Conroy intends to try and recover the vessel.— Daily Southern Cross. THE SHIP COSPATRICK. FURTHER PARTICULARS. From our Australian exchanges, received by the 5.6. Wonga Wonga, we have further particulars of tlie loss of the ill-fated ship Cospatrick. From the Sydney Morning Herald, of the 6th January, wc clip the following: —“ A ship’s boat, bottom up (says the Argus) was passed at sea on the 3th h November by the Dutch barque Regina Maris, which has just arrived in Hobson’s Bay from the Baltic. The boat was seen in latitude 41 25 south, and longitude 33.47 east, and is described as being varnished, not painted. A quantity of planking belonging to a ship was slso seen in the same locality.” Little doubt remains but that the boat passed by the Regina Maris belonged to the Cospatrick. The posit ion in which it was found, and in company with a quantity of planking clearly proves this. Again the latitude and longitude where the boat was found, is almost directly in the course usually taken by ships coming to the Australian and New Zealand Colonies. The report stated that the boat passed was varnished, not a painted one. The voyage prior to her being laid on for Auckland the Cospatrick made a trip with coolies from Calcutta to Demerara. No master of the vessel on taking these cuohes would have to provide extra boats, and tha ones obtainable in Calcutta are usually of teak build, and seldom painted but varnished. On the arrival of the ship at London the extra boat or boats would- be kept, seeing that she was abont to carry immigrants. Again, the fact of the boat being passed so ■oon after the fire on board the Cospatrick, and so directly in the track of Australian bound vessels, would lead to the belief that the supjsosition is not an unreasonable one. It will be remembered that two boats left the Cospatrick on the day of the lire, November 19. One was picked up, and the other was. never seen afterwards, The one passe* bottom up on the 30th of the same month will probably prove to be the one missing. It is not at all probable that any of the other boats on the ship escaped burning. Hopes had been held out of the second boat being picked up by some passing vessel and the occupants saved, but we fear that the information contained in the paragraph quoted above only too clearly proves that the three men rescued by tlic ship British Sceptre on November 30 are the sole survivors of those on board the Cospatrick.— Daily Southern Cross.