Shipping.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 175, 24 June 1859, Page 2

Shipping.

ENTERED OUTWARDS. June 20.—Tasmanian Maid, steamer, 90, Whitwell, for Wairau and Wellington. Twelve passengers. June,22.—Marchioness, brigantine, 177, Kreeft, for Port Cooper. June 22.—Supply, cutter, 26, Walker, for CoUingwood. June 22.—Gipsy, schooner, 30, M'Cann, for the Wairau. Four passengers. EXPORTS. Per Tasmanian Maid, for Wairau and Wellington: 20 cases geneva, Wilson ; 2 tons sugar, Moore • 1 case guns, Blanch ; 1 orate plants, 21 sacks wheat, Hays; 200 sheepskins, Bellamy. Per Marchioness, for Port Cooper: 34 pairs oars, 2 cases drapery, and part of original cargo from Melbourne. Per Supply, for Collingwood: 1 quarter-cask wine, Hays; 2 do. brandy,' Edwards and Co.; 2 hhds. ale, 4 cans oil, 6 kegs lead, 4 cases sundries, 1 bundle iron, Nash and Scaife; 1 dray, 1 case sundries, 1 cask do , 2 packages do., Beit: 2 quarter-casks vinegar, 1 do. rum, Scaife; 20 bags sugar, half-chcsfc tea, 1 bale drapery, Moore; 12 packages sundries, Symons; 3 tons flour, 5 tons pollard, 2 head cattle, Master; 5 cwt. bacon, 6 bags sundries, 3 cwt. bacon, 1 iron safe, Symoii3. Per Gipsy, for the Wairau: 12 buckets, 1 bed and bedding, 2 iron bedsteads, 2 bagp sugar, 4 chaiiv-, 1 case, 32 bags oats, half-ton flour, Askew ; 1 box medicine, Pilchard; 1 box merchandise, Hairis: 4 packages books, Elliott; 1000 feet timber, Gorrie; 2 bags seeds',' Sclmes: I do., Redwood; 4 casks beer. Hooper: 3 caaos clothing, 1 plough, 1 box plough fittings, Carter; half-ton ha} 7, Askew.

We are glad to see that our first Auckland-built steam boat has at last been fairly launched. She has not yet been brought into the neighborhood of the wharf, and we must therefore defer saying anything more particular concerning her;"-but we

hope in our next to be able to congratulate the spirited builders —Messrs. Tizard—ou th« addition which they have made to our steam fleet.— Southern Cross, June 14.

Our old approved ship builder, Mr. Nicol, has lately turned out from liis building-yard a small cutter, the Fanny, which has been pronounced as fine a craft of its'siao as has yet been launched in . Auckland. Mr. Nicol has another larger one on the stocks, which will shortly be ready. We understand that they are both made to order for Can terbn vy. — lbid. Loss of the " Jaseuh. '' Gun-Boat.—The West India steamer La Plata, which arrived at Southampton on Thursday morning, had on board, we are glad to state, the officers and crew of the unfortunate gun-boat Jaseur. The Jaseur was wrecked on the night of the'26th February. She had left Kingston, Jamaica, only the day before, and was on her way to Central America (Greytown). Right in her track lay the shoal of Baxo Nuevo, to avoid which a course was shaped far to windward. But a powerful current interfered, and on it the vessel was wrecked. Aware of their vicinity a sharp look-out was kept, and breakers were reported lo leeward. It was a dark night, the wind blowing fresh from the eastward, and the vessel was under sail alone—no steam up. An attempt was instantly made to tack off; the vessel came up head.to wind, a heavy sea struck her, which sent her back, and she filled very shortly, afterwards. Two out of three boats were swamped. One alone got clear of the wreck, but the crew of tin's managed'to right the others. In the meantime the masts were cut away, and a raft,formed from the stumps. Daylight revealed to those on board a precarious position. No land was visiblenothing hut rollers near, and the sea beyond; But the sight of the boats approaching cheered them. Some preserved meats were saved, and the yvreck was abandoned full of water, and breaking up. Some fifty souls*now found themselves packed between two boats, a dingy, and a raft, while the sea was high, and the breeze freshening. They were surrounded by sharks; their fresh water turned salt, and only four oars between them ; all together with the dingy's sails. A hard struggle was maintained to keep afloat. Discipline remained perfect from the first moment of danger, and the sailors .behaved as British sailors always have done in the hour of trial. Two men were unfortunate^' drowned by the swamping of the dingy; another turned delirious and jumped overboard. Seeing tbat the whole party were only drifting down to he wrecked ou other shoals, it was determined on the third day, for the general safety, to separate, abandoning the raft. The crowded boats were thus still further filled, but the weather fortunately improved. The commander, with twenty men in one boat, and the second master, with the remainder, towing the dingy, soon, however, lost sight of each other. On the 7th of March—after nine days' privation in a tropical sun, existing on preserved meat juice (a spoonful daily, unable to swallow the meat) —both parlies struggling with two oars only —each reached a place of safety. The Island of Jamaica was passed ; the second master's boat was picked up 300 miles from the wreck, off Cape Cruz (Cuba), by a trading schooner, and taken safely hack to Jamaica on the 16th March. The commander fetched some sixty miles to the westward, and landed at Port Santa Cruz, and was conveyed also back to Jamaica on 25th March, by a Spanish steamer sent round from Havannah. Much joy was felt at their appearance at Jamaica, as serious doubts had arisen as to their safety, a month having elapsed without any tidings.— Weekly Dispatch.

British Columbia.—Destruction by Indians op a San Francisco Vessel.—On the 28th of January, the brig Swiss Boy, of San Francisco, left Port Orford, Washington Territory, for this port, with a load of lumber. A gale spinging up from the south and east, with a heavy sea, the vessel sprung a-leak, and was driven into Nittinat Sound, on the Vancouver coast, and after much difficulty and danger was anchored under the lee of an island about four miles from the entrance of the Sound. On the Ist of February, whilst the crewof the vessel were -endeavoring to pull her to the beach, for the purpose of repair, about 300 Indians, apparently friendly, and armed with bows and arrows, muskets, knives, and tomahawks, boarded the brig, and, making an attack on the crew, compelled them to escape in a small boat. Reaching the shore, they were taken prisoners by the savages, and carried seven or eight miles inland, where they were kept ten days in confinement, and then liberated only after Captain Welden had. promised to return from Victoria with presents for them. They started for San Juan in canoes, but a portion of them fell in with the schooner Morning Star, and were taken to Victoria. The Swiss Boy, after being plundered by the Indians, was burned. Laying his grievances before Governor Douglas, Captain Welden was informed by that official that the brig in entering the Sound became a lawful prize, and the Indians very properly took possession of it.— Golden Era, March 6.