SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 246, 10 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF POVERTY BAY. ARRIVALS. FEBRUARY. B—Sou'hrm Cross, s s , Capt. Holmes, from Auckland, with mwcellanetHis and the following passengers —Miss Nicholas, Rev. Mr. Townsend, Mrs. Townsend, Mr. Lodder. Mr. and Mrs. Adair and family, Mr. Braith* waite, Mr. Woolley, Mr. T. Whitson, Mr. Buchanan, Mrs. Duglety and 2 children, and 4 in the steerage. DEPARTURES. FEBRUARY. B—Southern Cross, a s., Captain Holmes, for Napier. Passengers—Rev. Mr. Townsend Mrs. Townsend, Mr. Braithwaite, and ot hers. Tub schooner Gem cleared out from Auckland for Gisborne on the sth with 30,000 ft. timber and 4,000 pales. The Southern Cross will steam for Napier and Wellington early this morning. The mails by her closed last night, at 5 o’clock. New Steamers for the Colony.— Messrs. Levin and Co., are about to bring out three steamers from Britain. Two of these wiil he about the same size as the Wellington or Taranaki, and the third will be considerably over 100 tons. The coastal steamers here, have now more than enough to do, and Messrs. Levin and Co.’s venture will no doubt prove a success. One of the boats is*to go- under the colonial title of the Kiwi. — Tribune. Severe Storm off the Coast of England. —London, December 10.—The storm yesterday was very disastrous to the shipping. A dozen vessels are ashore at Whitby. One vessel is reported sunk, with all on board. The mails from France are several hours behind time. Heavy damage is done to wharves in the harbors. At Jersey 200 yards of pi*T was swept away, and blocks of concrete weighing several tons, were displaced and broken. The storm was very severe on the Continent. The telegraph lines between Switzerland and Paris are down and communication is interrupted. Wreck of the Steamer Mongol with Great Loss of Life. — The steamship Mongol formerly employed or the mail service bet ween the colonit's and San Francisco has been totally wrecked. The following telegram gives some particulars of the catastrophe : — The Colorado sailed from Hong Kong on December 12, four hours after the British steamer Mongol, butli vessels bound to Yokohama. The Mongol, when twenty miles from Hong Kong, struck on one of a cluster of rock* known as the “ Nine Pius,” and immediately sank, carrying down with her the captain and his wife, the first and fourth officers, the second and third engineers, and • perhaps others. Fourteen are reported as saved. The Colorada passed near the scene of the disaster, but there was no sign of the wreck observed. Another Ship Burned at Sea.—The Sydney Empire has received the following information from Calcutta, 25th OctoberThe County of Perth, bound from the Clyde, has been burnt at sea. The Captain and twenty men have arrived. The County of Perth, Captain Craig, sailed from the Clyde on or about the 9th of July last for Calcutta. She was an iron vessel of 1,636 tons net, built in Glasgow that year, and owned by Messrs. R. and J. Craig. This was her first and last voyage. London, December 29. Madeira specials give the following particulars of the burning of the emigrant ship Cospatrick : “ The fire broke out at midnight on November 17ih, and within half an hour enveloped t;.e vessel nearly its entire length. The scene was one of the wildest confusion, but two boats succeeded in getting away, each of which contained tliirty persons. These remained alongside the ship until the 19th of November, when the hull was completely burned and the vessel sunk. The two boats then started for land. They kept together for two days, when the gale separated them. One of them has not since been heard of. The other was fallen in with by the British ship Sceptre. At that time it contained five persons, two of whom died before the Sceptre reached St. Helena.”