Shipping.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 288, 24 July 1860, Page 2

Shipping.

ENTERED INWARDS. July 19.—Australian Maid, schooner, 17, ;Groat, from ifotupipi. Three passengers. July 2L.—Mary ft schooner, 40, M'Lean, from the Takalca. s ' July 21.—Necromancer, schooner, 3f>, Eure, from the Waitapu.. ... July 2i..—Supply, cutter, 26, Walker, from Coilingwood. Five passengers. ENTERED OUTWARDS. July 19.—1.R.M.5. Lord Worsley, 650, Johns, for Soutnem Ports. Passengers—Saloon.: Mr. and, Miss Clarkson. Messrs. Halcombe, Justice Johnston, Talford, Mills. ForeCabiu: Messrs. Perry, Culling, and Barnes. ■ .-. July 19.—1.R.M.5. Airedale, 286, Johns, for New Plymouth. Passengers from Nelson,—Saloon: Chilman, Marshall, Domett, Kelling, H. Curtis, King, Watt, Col. Richmond, Dr. Monro, Lieutenant Pocock, R.N., M»i Richmond, sen., two Masters do, Miss •Hursthouse. 2lid Cabin: Messrs. Gussen, Maude, and a seaman from the Anne Longton, and part of original passengers. Jnly 23.—Necromancer, schooner, 25, Eure, tor Collingwood and Waitapu. Passenger: C. Ross. . IMPORTS. Per Australian Maid, for Motupjpi:'2o7 bundles laths; Page; 238 feet timber, Order; ,7 casks, Meld; 2 casks bottles; Master. . / | Per schooner Mary,.from the Takaks: 40 tons limestone, ordar. „.,£ ■ ..-. --.«•"»•. Par Necromancer, from the Waitapu: 5500 feet timber, Askew,; 9 sacks wheat, 36 sheepskins, 1 hide, 31 oz. gold. Per Supply, from Collingwood: 14.5 oz of gold, 3 hides, 2 bags coals, 2 do sundries, order. EXPORTS.. Per Lord Worsley, for Southern Ports': 1 case, Edwards and Co; 3 cases plants. Epps; 9 bags grass seed, Morrison and Scknders; 36 bundles skins, 78 bundles hides Bettany; 1 parcel VVeyergang; 42 bags oats, Stafford: 3 pkgspersonal effects, I case, I trunk do, 1 bundle quicks, Levick. . Per Airedale, for New Plymouth : 30 hhds beer, Hooper and Co; 2 do do, Blythe; 40 bags sugar, Wilkie; 7 octanes wine, Levicn and Co; 13 cases merchandise, Watt arid Sharland; 4 qr-casks wine, Edwards and Co; 1 hhd brandy, Curtis Brothers; 1 bale paper, Elliott; 2 half tierces tobacco, Johns; and sundry cargo transhipped ex Lord Worsley, from Per Necromancer, for Collingwood and Waitapu: 3 bags sugar, .6 do salt, 1 box candles, 1 pkge coffee, 1 do sundries, half chest te», 15 doz sacks, 1 tin nails, I M. Hill; 1 ton Hour Askew; half ton do, Hume; l'hh'd ale, Hooper and Co; 50 sheep, H. Stafford. The Prince Alfred on her last trip to Sydney from Nelson, made'it in less than five and a-half days. The William Alfred was advertised to clear at the Customs (Sydney), on the sth instant, for Wellington and Nelson. ■ j Ships Loading at London for New Zealand - For Nelson and New Plymouth—The Bride. For Wellington—Hounds and Thames City. For Auck-land-Caduceus and Rob Roy. For CanterburyChapman and Koh-i-noor. For Otago—The Evening '"tar " Ships Sailed for Nett Zealand in APR^.-John Phillips, for Nelson, flOth; Ecliptic, 24th; Persia, 30th. Ships abriVkd in London.—Roxana, from Nelson, Mays(98fdays).< Mary Ann, from Auckland, May 12 (102 days). Christopher Newton, from Wellington, February 8 (93 days). THE P. AND 0. COMPANY'S SHIP MALABAR. A. correspondent to the Colombo Observer, dated 28th May, writes as follows respecting the loss of the ship. • Where so many conflicting versions of the story touching the loss of the P. and 0. Company's Ship Malabar prevail, the enclosed extract from the log of the ill-fated vessel will be valuable, as supplying at least reliable information. You will at once perceive that, although the Captain and officers of the ship, with praiseworthy mag. nauimity, avoid attaching blame to anybody, the in evitjihle conclusion to be drawn from their account of the transaction is, that the Red buoy which marks the Hospital Reef was not only out of the true position when the accident occurred, which would be easily accountedfor by. the suddenness and severity of the squall—but that it was so out of position when the s hip arrived, and that tints misled, the pilot berthed her in a foul.position. The impression at first prevailed—in which I too shared—that the ship drove on the shoal owing to her having been "hauled short" ready for a' start, before steam enough was generated to make head way on her. • The report from which this impression sprang was circulated most industriously, and tended of course to affix odium on Captain Grainger and his. officers. ■ A searching inquiry, however, has resulted in our being unable to obtain a tittle of evidence as to the "hauling short," while curiously enough we have equally failed in discovering" the person with whom the report originated. On the other hand there is most overwhelming testimony as to the anchor not having been meddled with at all, and this once estab-. lished, I am bound to confess that it go.es far to absolve Captain Grainger and the pilot from all. blame, since we find the ship " swinging on to the reef almost immediately after parting her stern hawser." The allegation that she drove on to the shoal being altogether disproved by the fact which now seems to be admitted on all sides " that the ship when struck by the squall was riding at thirty fathoms on her best bower anchor. . . ■ The conclusion which forces itself on my mind, therefore, is that the red buoy had drifted imperceptibly from its proper place, aud that the steamer was anchored in the first place too near the hidden danger. - . • ' All attempts at- a solution of the mystery must be more or less speculative. But there is one point which does not admit of a diversify of opinion, and that is—considering, the amount of tonnage accommodated—that the harbor is in a most aboriginal state, the rocks and shoals until recently having been marked off by bundles of sticks, which have given way to buoys little if at all more useful, as was exemplified clearly on the fatal 22nd, by the Cyclops having made several vain attempts to reach her anchorage. . Let us hope .this accident, so disastrous in all its consequences, if we except loss of life, of which happily there was none—-will impress on her Majesty's Government the absolute necessity there exists, for for the erection of a breakwater, and in the \ mean, time, the attention of the local authorities to the uri- ; questionable claim the public have to buoys and moorings which can be relied on in all weathers. Foremost among the'losses resulting from this sad event, must be noted that of 117 boxes of mails. Out of 1000 boxes of treasure only two have been recovered, and of 750 cases of opium'some more or less damaged have beensaved. ' - The whole of the passengers' luggage has been lost, with an exception of a few packges belonging to the Plenipotentiaries and their suite, and having had reserved accommodation .were enabled to stow away all immediate necessaries in theiriCabins. ' Among those who suffered most in this respect is ■ Mr. Bowlby, the Times' own correspondent, who. was left literally' With what he; stood; in, but, who has the -remote consolation at all events that he was fully insured. The necessities.of.all, as far as human exertion could go, ; had been .provided for,and even; this <san be overstrained and. overtaxed as in thejcase' of the indefatigable agent, Captain Bayley,'whoyou will be sorry to learn,, has been prostrated' by ; a severe attack of fever'resulting from exposure and overexertion. - ' Happily, however, under the able treatment of Dr; Anthpnisz, a favorable crisis is intervened, and he is now quite out oftianger.' •• {-'• ■'' '■' "J . . The Ministers Plenjpotentary are still here, althbiigh the Singapore is, 1 believe to be had for asking. No" one, however, .will assume responsibility, and Captain Baylev is unable to do so, having failed 'most' uuaccoun'tahlyfiPprocuring'ansWers ;tphis repeated :tele-' grams'to Bombay for instructions'! :i ■■'"■; In eonclu'sioii.lliave.but to' add, and that seems superfluous, that the ladies, as usual, behaved ad-; mirably^and that there was not that marked difference, between the Gflal and the Saxon in the iface of. danger, that another eoirekponderit has. led "you to Suppose. .■•...;.". (, . '■■■■■ -.^ . ■ .'Neither halthis; rship been blown up as stated.:■ She: lies snugJy opposite the Cuteheryv^and'/the di-vei-g commence their operations to-morrow, Monday— j Captain Grainger having very properly decided, that this should be a day of rest to all concerned.

i ■ - MARRIAGES.. • ■■ M'DoNALDrT-HoDGKiNsoN.-rAt Wakefield, on the 16th July, by the Rev. D. DolaniOre, Mr. A. M'D^nald, of Collingwood, to Miss Emma Hodgkinson, of Wakefield. . ;■ Matthews—Bell.—At Waimea West, by the Rev. D. Dolamore, on the'lßth July, Mr. _R. Matthews, of Nelson, to Miss Margaret Bell, of Waimea Weft.