Shipping

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 4, 22 April 1893, Page 8

Shipping

BLUFF HARBOUR. The barque Colwyn, bound from Newcastle ~to Valparaiso, is posted as missing. The schooner Fleetwing, of Auckland, is 20 days out from Wellington to Westport, and fears are entertained for her safety. The s.s,Waitohi has reported an unsuccessful search for the reported dismasted vessel, ’which was believed to.be the missing schooner Malle. It is now thought that the dismasted vessel was the Minnie Swan, which arrived at Auckland on the 15th ihst. The schooner Just In Time foundered on the morning of the 4th, just 13 miles north of Smoky Cape, the crew landing in safety at Trial Bay., Tre Just In Time was Norwegian built, and owned in Sydney. The ketch Reliance, which recently went ashore at Young Nick’s Head, has been floated off.' The barque Jasper (Captain Burton) sailed for Newcastle on the "4th inst. with a cargo of 4,013 sacks of oats, shipped by The J. G. Ward Farmers’ Association. A board has been picked up on the TasfSStuari coast, near Low Head, bearing the name of the Auckland schooner Maile: The s.B. Dispatch, on her last trip from 'Pegasus, succeeded in towing off and bringing into port the Bluff Oyster Company s cutter Alarm, which was recently blown ashore at Bench Island. . The s.B. Kaikoura arrived at Wellington from London at 7.30 a.m. on the ipst. She left London on March 2nd. The lumpers employed in the Hamburg shipping trade are paid according to the lumpsum system. For the year 1892, a mans wages averaged 4s 6d a day, working from € a.m. to 6 p.ih:, with half-an-hour for breakfast and dinner. . The Union S.S, Company’s Miowera initiates the Vancouver mail-service, calling at Brisbane and Honolulu. She leaves Sydney on her first trip on 11th May. The barque G-azello, 336 tons, Capt. A. Ball, sailed for Sydney with a fair wind on Thursday afternoon last, taking a cargo of 5,277 sacks oats shipped by The J. G. Ward Farmers’ Association. Capt. A. Ball, of the Othello, is now in charge of the Gazelle, Capt. E. Peterson, of the latter vessel, having replaced him as master of the Othello.