SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 257, 20 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POST OF POVERTY BAY ARRIVALS. MARCH. 18— Go-n-hcad, s.s. Captain NPGillivray, from Auckland. Passengers—Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Bach, Miss Stcggall, Miss Moon*, Miss Brewer, Messrs. Moore, Parsons, Wilson, Jones, Boylan, and Baker. 19 — Rangntira, s.s, Captain Griffiths, from Napier, with general cargo, aud passengers. DEPARTURES. MARCH. 16 — Opotiki, schhooner, Burke master, for Napier, with full general cargo, and the following passengers:—Messrs. Buriiand, Brcingan, Espie, Goldsmith, and three others. 18— Go-a-head for Napier. 19— Rangatira,s.s., for Napier and Wellington. The A.S.P. Company’s screw steamer Pretty Jane arrived in harbor, after a successful passage from Gisborne. The engines, considering all things, worked wonderfully well. When off Hick’s Bay at noon on Saturday the bilge-pumps were found to be choked, and Captain Fernandez put into the Bay to dear them. Here the vessel remained till 7 o’clock the same evening, when a fresh start was made. The weather could not have been more propitious for the journey. There was scarcely a perceptible head wind and the sea was as calm as it could well be. The Hole in the Wall was passed at 8 o’clock last night. Cape Colville was rqunded about midnight, and the harbour was made at seven o’clock on Monday morning. The s.s. Southern Cross, Captain Holmes, was passed on Saturday morning at 8 o’dock, about eight miles south of the East Cape. The Pretty Jane, as she lies alongside the A.S.P. Company’s T. presents a very sorry spectacle.— Evening Star of 15th March. A special telegram to the Southern Cross says: —Several conjectures as to the voyage on which the Gothenburg was engaged when she mother untimely fate have been made. The facts are as follows: The vessel was chartered by the South Australian Government for the purpose of conveying from Port Adelaide to Port Darwin a Judge of the first criminal sessions there. The vessel left Port Adelaide on the 16th January, with the following passengers: His Honor Judge Wearing, Mr. Pellam, Judge Associate ; Mr. Whitby, solicitor general; Mrs. Donnldson, three children and servant; Mrs. Mitchell in the cabin, and two steerage passengers, and it was therefore on her return voyage that she was wrecked, having left Port Dai win on the morning of the 16th February. The first steamer of the new Australian steam Company leaves London on the 2nd February for Melbourne. Two directors accompany her for the purpose of arranging a contract with the Victorian Government for a fort nightly mail Lo alternate with the P. and, O. Uoinpanj.