Shipping Intelligent.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1071, 9 May 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligent.

PORT OP POVERTY BAY. ARRIVALS. 7th May.—Rotomahana, s.s., from Melbourne via Southern Ports. Passengers :—Misses Taylor (2), Miss Winlaw, Miss Harvey, Mrs Craig, Mr and Mrs Curtis, Mr and Mi's Thomson. Messrs Hamlin, Smith, Kerber, C'atull, Barnett, Bromley, J. Dick. DEPARTURES. 6th May—Oreti. s.s., Captain Campbell, for Whangarei and Auckland. Passengers : — Mr and Mrs Lewis and four children, Mr Parsons and Mr Cummerford. 7th May.—Rotomahana, s.s., for Auckland. Passengers:—Mr and Mrs Lamb, Messrs Aland eno, Bee, Hughes, Adair, Moore, and McDougall. The s.s. Rosina, Captain Harries, will leave for the Coast this evening, with a cargo of stores. The s.s. Oreti, Captain Campbell, left on Saturday night last, at 10 o’clock, for Whangarei and Auckland. She took with her a cargo of live stock. The Auckland Star says :—At the termination of the Albion’s last outward trip, Captain Webster was presented with a handsome tea and coffee service, accompanied with a flattering address. The Union Company’s Rotomahana, Captain Underwood, arrived in harbor about 5 o’clock on Sunday morning, from Melbourne via Southern Ports, with 35 tons of carge. She took her departure about 10.45 the same morning for Auckland. ANOTHER OUTRAGE AT SOLOMON ISLANDS. Attack on a British Brio.—Massacre of Six Europeans. News is to hand from Sydney, that the labor agent, the mate, and four of the crew of the brig Janet Stewart, have been murdered by natives of the Solomon Islands, who afterwards plundered and set fire to ship. The caplain was absent on a recruiting trip at the time of the massacre, and consequently escaped. A STEAMER ON FIRE. The steamer Tangil, belonging to the Lakes Navigation Company, Gippsland, had a narrow escape from total destruction on the morning of the 16th instant. She wrjj lying at the Bairnsdale Wharf, and about 4 o’clock the stewardess, who wrs sleeping in the cabin, awoke almost suffocated. She at once called the captain, who, with the men employed on the boat, found that the fire was in the steward’s pantry and bar. After a lot of trouble, they succeeded in extinguishing the conflagration, which damaged the steamer to the extent of £3O or £4O, and the providore’s stock of wines, spirits, Ac., to the amount of about £35. The fire caught a quarter-cask full of whiskey, and tlie wood was burnt almost to the spirit. The probability is that if the fire had got to the whiskey in the cask nothing could have saved the vessel. The Tangil was insured, but the stock of Mr Hunter, the providore, was not. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been caused by rats getting at a box of matches. THE BARQUE CAMPISE GLEN. Captain Maxwell of H.M.S. Emerald has kindly furnished the New Zealand Timet with the following report respecting the above vessel: —“ On Saturday evening the 29th ultimo, when in latitude 39deg 14min 8., longitude 168 deg 59min E., running before a fresh westerly wind, with a gale evidently coming on, we fell in with a barque lying-to under close reefs, which hoisted English colors, * Union down.’ The ship was immediately rounded-to, sails furled, and the barque closed, under steam. On ub approaching she signalled 4 Captain dead; Campsie Glen.’ Coming within hail, we learnt that the captain had committed suicide, and they were in want of knowledge of the longitude and error of chronometer. The longitude was hailed to them, also hoisted by signal flags, but at that moment a heavy ■squall from N.W. with blinding;rain, made it impossible to see or liear more, and brought on night darkness and a gale of wind. The Emerald was laid to for the night on the same tack as the barque, in order to communicate in the morning, but at daylight she was not in sight. It was then blowing a heavy gale from N.W. The Emerald was put round on the other tack, head to northward, and steamed slowly all day, but saw no more of the Campsie Glen. In the evening the weather moderated, and the course was resumed.”