SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 43, 27 July 1878, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

rOBT 0* Al'lA. Am:iyah. July 21. John A A"'' ;■ ■-.- I srqilP, IS6 tins, Turpie, from a eru •• igers— Mrs. Turj i ■-. Ri v Dr Gk A. Turner, Mrs. Turn r uud family, an ; ■ > rai aal > : July 23. Stormbird, l.rigautine, 1-30 tons, Jackson, fruw Honolulu. Dl IuItTTBES. July 21. J..)m Williams, barque, 18G tons, Turpio, for Tahiti. July 2.0. n.1.0.M.5. Ariadio, » gun«, 1700 tons, Captain von Werner, for Sydney, Urive. brigantine, 10'J Inns, Lane, fur Fasitootai. I'assengers—Messrs. Gribbon, Butler, Duinergue, and Douglas. Vessels i.\ Uaruoi-ii. : S. - irvctti Adams I 'esar Godetfroy, ship liodild, barque Mutautu, brigantine Sturm Bird, briguntino Bonanza, schooner

On Tuesday morning last the brigantiuo Storm Bird arrived in harbour from Honolulu, uftor u spleudid run of fifteen day*. The Storm Bird is the property of the Hawaiian Government, and is engaged in obtaining labourers for those isluwis. No >-x----pence seems te have been spared by tho Government to make tho emigrants comfortable mi their sen voyuge. Buuks have been erected and are kept nicely whitewashed. The best of rice and biscuits are provided as food, and huge quantities of trade are supplied for presents, &c. Iter object in calling in hero was t" laud thirteen passengers hero from Honolulu. On Thursday morning last th" Germai ship of war took her departure for Sydney where she will provision, and after u sliori stay there she will return to port, probabl) about the cud of October. The brigantiuo Active, after several attempts, left for Fasitootai ou Thursday afternoon lust, but she did not make much progress on account of the calm weather, foi t-he was in sight from the harbour yesterday afternoon. The London Mission harquo John Williams left Apia cm her annual cruise to tin N.W. ouMations of the London Missioi Society's Siunoan Mission, on'ho lltlio: -May last, taking Dr. G. A. Turuer as d. putaticm. She returned to port on the 21*1 instunt, having called at the following islands:— Fukaofo, on L-th Mav; Atafu. 11th Mav; Xukukelae. IStli "Mac, and Funafuti, on l'Jth May, where she cam t< anchor. Leaving Funafuti again on 21s! Mar, she made Vaitupu on the same day, uinl Dr. Turner landed ou .Nukufetuu on tho evening of the 23rd May, though it was not till the morning of the 2-ltii that tin l ship could get in to her anchorage. Sin left Nui -lVuiu on the 2,oth, mid called at jS'ui on the 2 th. From Nui she whs drifted away, and it was the 3rd of June before she

K to the Gilbert Group, rallin" at Tu-nam on the 10th of Juno, Arorue on I th June ISikunau on ISthJune, Peru on lah June and Onoatoa on l'Jth June. She returnee from Onoatoa to the Ellice Group, touching at Niutaoon the zßth .Cue, from whicl she beat back to Apia, arriving as abov. mentioned on the .Is. instant. The avera"i time spon; ashore at each islund by th. .'■ p'ltatiou was twenty-nine hours. 'high wiwh and calms were experienced from Nu i.onhwards and all through the Gilber Group. From Niutao back to Sanioastroin BE winds with frequent squalls and wnsional thunderstorms were experienced. Ji the Gilbert Group, although the eurrent.were somewhat irregubir, the old strong easterly set .-..'cms to prevail again, in fail •*""""' tnics il was running at the rate of . I to 48 knots in tho 21 hours. Tho followiiif vessels were communicated with during th. cruize:—Tho Tongntabu, oil r'aknofo oi the ICthofMay, and Patienco, ketch, Stam morjohnnn iflUster, i„ iho soutliward oj Niutao, on ftio 29th une; she was on: labour cruiso, had recruited some seventy labour, and was bound hack to 1- ji. Cant. Mummcrjohunii was ill, but when ha lei and assistance offered, the replv was that hi Imped to be well again in a co pie of (bus. On the lab instant, about 200 miles to tin north of the west end of Savaii a brigantinc was sighted standing to the southward osi hauled; she first showed tho circular saw the house flag of Messrs. Henderson Mac i aila- ,of Auckland, at the peak. Then ini-: was taken down and the .• sign runup. After a little the ensign was put half-mast. As soon as Captain Turpi.- noticed this hi hove to and waited. o„ tho schooner coming . lose uii signals were made, " What do you want: ' To 'Jus the sehoo-.er replied by again hoisting tho ensign at tho peak. ( ml iin Imp.; hen k?pt an ■ aftei i » ai lourfuwaitiiig.andfooahadtheschooner li Oldown. The Superior, Americanschoonei I.ee, master, forty-nine days from Puget Sound, bound to Levuka, iiji, was sigh?, d i.a the 1 9th instant, about fifty miles to the KNWof tlie port, and a file of papers obtained from them. On the outward voyage, when about !-U miles to the east of Nulcilluelae, vast quantities of puuiico stone were passed; and the shores of nil the Kline Islands from Nukulnehie to Niutao and Nuniim'oa are thickly covore I with it. It is no exaggeration to say that hundreds of to;.a have bei n thrown up on every island. Stumps of trees and thick bamboos with roots attached have been thrown upon some of the islands. Early in May tho brig Isabelle, Everts, master, from Sydney, called at Vaitupu. and there left a report that there bus been some volcanic eruption in the Society Group. One report even savs "that Jvanitea and Horahora have been destroyed and 2000 lives lost. 'There were also passed while boating buck, between Nuknlooloo and I'akaofo, one malili tree about eighty feel long, one coooanut tree, and four other gigante forest tff c , nil evidently |ir ofs that tin. story of Captsiu Evan is probably only too true. Thopnmico stone began to arrive on the l-.llicc Islund.. about the middlo of April, and continued till the mi Idle o! June. When tiist notieod there was no tea-weed grow til on the piece*, and no bar-

muli's, i :t t,v tho lu ginning uf June this to 1-Jil ‘nly i.utuv.ihle. ’l' l Is t!i uukv »t n in t* Union or Gilbert Uroups, anil tin time© • arrival in the Wife© Unmp will V> in. i »t ■ 5 to those who atuily the t|ti --t f wan currents. The John Williams ) hn* u gam on the 24th ; r the & i y 14uu Is uu«l Ht'rvt v Group