SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 293, 28 July 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY ARRIVALS. JULY. 25— Opotiki, schooner, Captain Hamilton, from Napier. Passengers—Messrs H. C. and T. Boylan, Professor Bruce, and others. The Pretty Jana is expected to leave Auckland for this port to-night. The Effie Meikle goes to Napier to-day. Mails by her will close at 10.30 a.m. This will be a good opportunity to send English letters via Napier, as the Jane may not return to Aucklahd in time to catch the 'Frisco boat, which leaves that port on Friday, the 6th August The Rangatira will not come on to Poverty Bay this week. Capt. M'Lean, of the steamer Otago, states that Messrs. M’Meckan and Blackwood’s new steamer Ringaroona left London for Melbourne on the 23rd June. The Kate Monagan, with a cargo of hardwood for New Zealand, was towed into Newcastle dismasted and with her rudder gone. • WILLINGTON. H. M. 8. Dido has arrived here from Auckland, which port she left on the 3rd July. She intended to call at Tauranga, but was prevented by the heavy weather. She emvHiutered a succession of heavy gales the whole way down. Shortly after midnight of the 12th, the forcstaysail was blown to ribbons, and the vessel shipped heavy seas to -windward: at one tiine-over 150 tuns of water were on the deck. The same morning a huge sea struck her on the port bow, tearing away hammook-nettings, foekers, and also a large portion of the bed of the sheet anchor (a solid block of wood two feet square), strewing the itork with bolts, Ac., and breaking several large plates of glass in the main skylight. The ship was in great danger, and the captain says that had she not been a good ship, she must hare foundered. The inward San Francisco mail consisted of 36 bags, containing 2321 letters. According to official information respecting the Schiller s marls, it appears the bags for London and Liverpool were saved, but the whole of the mails for English country districts and for Ireland were lost. Some of the letters for Wales were put into Liverpool bags, and hare been saved, but the great bulk of t h» whole mail is irretrievably lost. Tiro ship Crown Prince, 170 days out from London, has arrived at Melbourne. She has been delayed by baffling winds and foul bottom, but put hi nowhere.