SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 282, 19 June 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF BAY 1 that the local Ageny for the A.S.P. Comp-iny’i beats in Gisborne has been transferred to Mr. W. Adair. The Rover will leave about Tuesday next for the coast and Auckland. The Opotiki hence arrived at Napier on Wednesday last. The Coepatrick Relief Fund has been distributed, having amounted, after payment of expenses, to the very respectable sum of £3,050. Dr. Featherston was present at the meeting of the Distribution Committee. £5OO has been awarded to the two orphan daughters of Captain Elmslie, £685 among the near and dependent of the crew who were lost, and the remainder amongst the dependent relatives

of th* lost, passengers. The s.s. Hawea, under the command of Captain W heeler, arrived at Dunedin on the 12« h June, from Glasgow, the passage from Greenock having occupied 65 days. She brings ri«jl teen passengers. The Hawea is fitted up in a most superb manner, and is calcu ted to carry about seventy cabin and twenty-two second cabin passengers. Auckland, June 14. The Margregor arrived to-day from Sydney, after a protracted passage of days, during three days of which rhe encountered very severe gales. Ou the 11th, during a heavy gale, and accompanied by rain and lightning, and u tremendous sea running, the engines going dead slow, she shipped a hea\y see, which wash d sheep-pens and hen-coops overboard ; no other damage was done. The Margregor sailed for San Francisco with sixteen saloon and seven steeiage passengers from New Zealand. She shipped carpenters here for the voyage, to repair the damage done by the late gale. The st earner Norman by via Torres Straits, left Singapore two days before her contract time. The ketch William and Mary foundered between Wellington and Foxton during the late gale, and four of the crew perished. Captain Renner, of the Hannah Barrett, picked up the master of the ketch, who was found floating on a piece of timber.