Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1064, 22 April 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

I’ORT -OF POVERTY BAY. The schooner Venus, Captain King, will eail fur the Nortji, weather penoitling, next week. The schooner Minnie Hare, Cupt. Nicholas, with a cargo of timber fro tn ■ Mercury Bay, • inay be expected tv aerkeia port in the course of a day or two. ■ The ketch Jessie,. Captain Cameron, will leave for Mercury or to-Dicrrou:, if the weather keeps fine. She return to this port with a cargo of tiluberr-, . The s s. Oreti, Captain vrift leave 7 for Auckland tlue morning, wjth JiOO ehvep She has been detained, owing tn the unfavprpble elate of the weather.. The s.s, Busina, Captain Harris' ‘will leave for tfie Coast to-night, provided the weather continues to hold fine. She takes with her a cargo consisting uf timber, gruss seed and general stores. >• r • • f/ ;■ Feu)* are entertained (says the Melbourne Leaderj for the safety of jdie Ship Minydon, Captain Leslie, from Newcastle to Lyttelton, Isth February. She is one of the fastest ships afloat, and should iiave reached New Zealand in ten d<ya. , t •* I There is no longer cause to doubt the fate of the schooner Southern Cross. .The steamer Genii reports Xhat wlien r she left New Britain there was Ju news whatever of the Southern Cross, which sailed from Sydney on the 21st of September. JjLlI98O:l 1 J'/.. CLOSS OF THE SCHOONER PRIMA DONNX7" 1. ?< The schooner Prnnu jponha was lost at sea on. evening it. is feared that, * watlrtbe exception of tlife captiSn,' ait hands' have perished. She left Sydney in the afternoon, in ballast,-beutKl When off Bondi, four or five «hpre, she wiis' •struck by a whirlwind, and capsized, without -a moment’s warning, and then sank. The captain succeeded, after agreed struggle, in swimjpiing to Bondi beach. The;mate endeavored t Jli) swim.to the beach too, bnt his progress was very slow, and as the captain could not render him without.being,almost certain to perish himself, the poor felloW was left in the - Jtear., The cook was seen clii|ging to a small portion of the lost vessel. was very severe at this time, audlbfi Bairr wifk coming . down heavily, the captain had a terrible r ii6h? r dtdt Unfit Iki? reiched't’Zriz jirtiia. ÜbfoXunately ioih'e‘time elapsSd'after his'reaeliing shore before he could report the occurrence • - rip-a quarter whence assistafuce could dared. AMr Jennings, obtained the serlhs of a cab, and the captain bflftlii schooner drove ■ -into town and reported the mishap to Captain —Cook-, the -owner -of-tbe lost vessel. The latter cpmniumratqd xiflth Hixson, who at once gave orders fur j)ilot steamer to go outside and ‘ll)6’ missing crew. It was then, however; about? 9 o’cltin’k, when but very little hope of effecting.® rescue could be entertaiaed. At the’tfttye'th«r £rima Donna • capsized she was under only mainsail, lower topsail; and small main. staysail.- The vessel •was valued at £lOOO, and if >l)ut partially insured. The captain of the Prima Donna has more tlian once found himself in a desperate position in the ocean. Come years ago he was 1 on board the ship Wret Riding r which was •wrecked, and he was jiiqre tliap thirteen, hours keejang himself afloat in jmid ocean before a pushing vessel picked bi^.up.—Sydney Mcti.lL