SHIPPING.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OP TIMARU. ARRIVED. Sept. 21—Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Jones, from Dunedin. Sept. 21 —Maggie Paterson, brigantine, 81 tons, Paterson, from Dunedin, SAILED. Nil. IMPORTS. In the Maori, N. M. and A. Company, agents ; General merchandise. Consignees N. M. and A. Co.; Miles, Archer and Co. ; AY. Lane and Co. ; Turnbull ; Strachan ; Priest and Holdgato ; Thompson ; Cornish; Ackroyd ; Waugh; Parsons ; Young ; Reid and Gray ; Rowbothara ; Taylor and Bowie; Newey ; Meikle ; Edwards ; Weddereil; Bradley ; Edwin ; Order ; and various. In the Maggie Paterson : Miscellaneous Cargo. Consignees : 0. Palliser ; Guthrie and LarnachEXPECTED ARRh’ALS. Young Dick, schooner, from Hobart Town, early. Palace, barque, from South Australia, arly. (ieorge Noble, barquentino, from Newcastle, early. Grafton, s.s., from the West Coast, daily”. Maggie Paterson,schooner, from Dunedin, daily. WRECK OP THE SORATA. The captain attributes the disaster to the Betting of a strong tidal current canting the vessel’s stern, and causing her to steer badly; also to a defect in the compasses, which he says have gone wrong. The Duke of Manchester, who went to Melbourne with Sir Herbert Sandford by the Victorian, was on the bridge with the captain at the time the steamer struck. His Grace says there was a haze so thick that he could not see the water’s edge, and the optical effect of the haze was that the coastline seemed very distant. Nothing was more unexpected than the shock of striking. Both the Duke of Manchester and the captain say that the shock of the grounding was very slight. The captain is of opinion that the first shock of grounding did not break the hull, but that the damage was inflicted when the tugs were trying to get her afloat next morning. All the passengers have been transhipped, cither for Melbourne or for Adelaide, only the crow and lumpers remaining. The reports as to the nature of the weather on the night of the disaster arc very contradictory. Some of the men forward declare that the night was very clear, and they could sec the coast plainly, almost as well as at daybreak. Others of the ship’s crew say there was a haze. In the accounts published in the Melbourne papers of the wreck of the ship Eric the Red, near Cape Otway, it is stated that the vessel and cargo -were valued at £40,000. The amount realised at the sale of the wreck was £4lO.