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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 28, 13 April 1878, Page 2

The schooner 'OWgn, which left this ]«irt for Xew Britain <m the 12th of March, returned to port on Saturday last, having met with heavy wjjufher find Buttering considerable damage bi consequence. From the l'.tth of March t.i thu J«th she hud heavy squally weather from the west with u a high sea running. On tin-night of the latter date apHrtof the mainmast carried nwuy, and th" i%giug siUfercd couridarably in consequence. It was them considered advisible to return to port, which wok reached in above stated, tjineo hur arrival in port must of the damage doilo Ims lieen repaired, Mill she will shortly be rendyl'or sea again. (in Sunday last the barqno George Xicolaus mok h'or departure I' n- l-'iji. wnore she will complete Itur loudiug awl jirotfced to Hamburg.

The Buhophcr Xirval left her.'' on Saturday moriuug lust for Auckland, via tin 1-r'ion ilv Islands.

On Tuesday morning last the Bolivian lea-quo Wellington, imund from Sydney to

Shu I'Tancucu won a cargo of coal- entered our port in a very Ichkv nujl otherwise shnkvy cpudititm, she baring uncwrntered :. couple of s v, ,-e e ilea on her passage. The following information lias boon furnished uk :—The AW Uingi •.. left tiydi-y ik» the Ist of Jlnr-.h, with alight .N. and N.K. winds', unt'l pleasant woatW. On March 10th

encountered a gain froni the tf.X.K, lasting twenty-font hours, hi lat. 29- and long. ITB'3U. There wits a tremendous high aud cross sea running, which caused the vessel to lahor vor\ Ucftvily and cia-ryiiig away tonic of hev kt-jiidia.r'ri.'sring- for five or s:\ tluya Eollow-iiig tliiS Btroug wuuls 553 a high sea from ti.e £.5:. were exp deuced, <uii iag the v-5,.-l at times to nil raibi i.ndor. On Miui-li 2>sih fall in u-hh another (rule from U..-.K. i:, hit, long. 17-J-.HI, which lnst'Xl for thr.-o days, tiiMosipanied by an eaonajus high uod irregului'sea. During this gale tho vessel t.oraug a leak i-jid part of tho cargo shifted, i'art of the look was discovered, but as nothing coitlil bo done t - i it, aud th piunpa could not ho got to work satisfactorily tic captain determined to ran for this port, which «.is entered as above vrithont ajiv iur:hci- mishisfv!

The harqur- (?arnlino Behn oiTived hero on Tuesday aftwttwri last, from Ginstowii, with e„als.' Shu left tho latter port on tho 4th of February.

By tho "Si M. Herald " we notice that thoSlatuntu. houuu oil the 21st of January, iHTived in Sydney on the 2Ut of KebruiirV. Mio is now hour!v eso.ctcd to arrive from thu latter port.

The American diqi of wur, which wa.s expected to arrive here on the 2uth of last la.uith. had not put in an uppeuraucb up to the time of our going to press.

By tho latest Sydney paper tho bnrqnq i:e.-.iunaisitiice was stiil uilvortisod to have qusM : ■ imtch for thlrtpiirl via the 1 ri: nu.lv "lslmaU.

The Bvhootier Vavau is now duo from Fiji via Tonga and Savage Uluiul. Tho b«xjn» Rhering, which was hero pome uibhtlis ago. bits 0.-ea plßrOmuWd by tho X. S. \V. wovermueiit, for the purpose of making a ningazine lor the storage of t;un cotton, a consider.,Mo iittuntitrof which hud arrived.