SHIPPING. PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 112, 26 January 1866, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

HIGH-WATER. Friday ... 4.48 a.m. ... 5.12 p.ro, ARRIVED. January 25 — Mary An ie, seh, Eobcrtson. from Grey Isabella Jaokson, Elms'.ey, from Lyttelton. CLEARED OUT. January 25 — Australian Maid, for Blind Bay i'liames, for Bruce Bay Crest of the Wave, for Chrislclnirfli "William Miskin. p.p. for Nelson Dunedin, for Dunedin Kennedy, s.s, for Nelson. SAILED. January 25 — Kennedy, s.s., Whilwell, for Nelson. Passengers : Saloon — Mrs Sweeny and two children, Messrs Martin, Ellis, and two in the steerage. Egmont, s.s, Hagley, for Bluff and Dunedin. Passengers : Saloon — Miss King, Messrs Holmc-s and Eoss, and 13 in the steerage William Miskin, s.s, Hepburn, Dunedin via Nelson. 3 steerage passengers. Bruce, p.s, M'GHll, for Okarita. Passengers : Saloon — Messrs Bracken, Bond, Blake- • ian, Bossitcr, Nash, O'Donnell, Williams, Byrne, S. Isaacs, and. 48 in the steerage. Dunedin, sell, Stewart, for Dunedin Crest of the Wave, sell, Clark, for Lytteltou via Pelorus Sound. Lioness, p.s, Whitford. for Grey. IMPOHTS. Per Lapwing, free and duty paid — G cases stationery, Morison, Law and Co ; 1 c use mchdise, Molloy ; 3 cases pipes, M'Lamlresa and Co; 3 crates earthenware, Lyons and Prince ; 1 case mnhdise, Louttit, Reid, and Co ; 10 tons coals, Throcfcmorton. Per tliree Sisters — 39 A- tons coals, Throekmorton. EXPORTS. Per Kennedy — G boxes gold, containing G,OOO oz, Union Bank of Australia. Per Egmont for Bluft' Harbor — 1 trunk, Penters, 2 do, 1 tin box, Gannon ; 1 case drapery, Sargood aud Co. EXPECTED AKIiIVALS. Eangitoto, s.s., from Melbourne, on the 27th Gothenburg, s.s., from Melbourne, on the30th South. Australian, e.s., from Nelson via Dunedin, on IViday Keera, s.s., from Dunedin, early Phoenix, sch, from Dunedin Lloyd's Herald, ketch, from Dunedin. riIOJIXTED MI'AUTUni'.S. City of Nelson, for Okarita, 28th instant Thames, for Bruce Bay, to-day Australian Maid, for Okari'a, eaily Tiger, for the (irey, eaily. Three Sisteis , for tl.o (riey. Dart, for Melbourne, i';uly. lona, for Okaiita, early. John Mitchell, for Giey, this day. South Australian, s.s., for Melbourne 27Lh instant. VESSELS 111 I'ORT. Brigan tines — Dart. Schooners— Caroline, Meteor, lona, Tiger, Matilda, Three Sisters. Cutters— Thames, Australian 7\[aid, Volunteer, Traveller's Bride, Lapwing. Steamers — Ballarat, Yarra, Lady of the Lake.

The Isabella Jackson left Lyttelton on the 20th instant, with a light westerly wind, and arrived off Holdtitu on the 25th, towing over the bar same day. During the passage moderate breezes and fine weather prevailed. She brings a full general cargo to our port. Capt. Elmsley reports that when abreast of the EulW he fell in with, an immense quantity of drift ■wood, some of it very large timber. This would lead to the supposition that the river must have lately been visited by violent floods. '

« A Steel Snip in a Cvcloxk. — It has been said, with truth, that o:ie fact is worth many theories; and, therefore, it may be inteiesting to know what was the behaviour of a steel ship under trying cireumstancpf, particnlaily as the homogenous qualitifs of the steel plates used in shipbuilding have been called in question. < On Thursday night the clipper ship Clyteinnestra, Captain Stewart, belonging to iUew-rs Jones Palmer and Co., arrived in the Meipey, with a large cargo of jute, *c, after weathering the disastrous Calcutta cyclone. She is a steel-built vessel, three-eighth inch plntes, of 1250 tons register, launched by Messis Jone«, Qnisitin and Co., now the Liverpool Shipbuilding Company, in April, 1864, and next month left on her fir.st voyage to Calcutta. At the timp of the cyclone she was lying in the river at Calcutta, and encountered the full foice o£ the storm. The following brief account of the hurricaue is fiom the pen of the chief mate: — "The morning of October 5, 1864, commenced with strong wind.s and thick drizzling rain. Eight am. had gale and tremendous squalls, with thick constant rain. From Ba.ir.until noon gnle increasing, and barometer falling fast, with very threatening appearance. Two p.m. — Tremendous gale and most terrible squalls, with tlu'ck rain and dismal appearance. The shins attached to the same moorings bulow us break adrift, with sails blown from the yards, and topgallant masts gone. ITalf-past three p.m. — Hurricane at its height, blowing so terrifically hard that it was impossible to stand on deck without holding on. At this time our inshoro bower chain parted, our sails were all blown from the yards, and the topgallant mast went with the foretopmast. When the bower chain parted we swung our stem on to the gale, and held on for a few minutes, when, in a tremendous burst of wind, our stern chain parted, and away we drove across the river before wind and tide, at a frightful rate, smashing into several ships on our way. Finally, we were brought to a standstill on the opposite side of the river, and became a target for the one-half of the ships in Calcutta. One wooden ship driving up, struck upon our starboard quarter, walking i'ighl through the upper part of our stem, and raising the poop deck. Three or four ships were- constantly pitching into our main rigging, being all fast together, and smashing and tearing away at everything from thence forward. At half - past four p.m., two iron ships and one wooden one drove right into us abaft the fore rigging, carrying away chain plates and rails. One of their bowsprits struck the foremast, and, with a fearful crash, the foremast fell over the port side, almost burying a small vessel lhat was fast to us. The rigging of the foremast was totally gone. Some time before the mast went, it brose 'tween decks, tearing up the main deck, and breaking two beams. 5.30 p.m., wind abating very fasf, and barometer rising, with fine weather. Ship lying almost a total wreck." Captain Stewart calculates that, at one time or other during the cyclone, at least twenty ves-cls ran into them. The toughness of the plates was something astonishing. At one point abaft the foro-rigging the Clytemnestra was struck at the shear streak, with terrific force by an iion vessel, the (i!eu Roy, of over 1000 tons burthen, stem on The only effect was a comparatively slight dent in one of the plates, and not the slightest approach to a fracture. More forward, the continual hammering of several large vessels had beaten the bulwarks level with the deck which led to ihe fall of the foremast, by the removal of its suppoifci. The plates forming the bulwarks wore, however, so tenacious thai, they were prized bade to their origlnfu positjpn, «ud wrnle to do duty again without Hio i\jV, oi' » mAlw. In litifit-lißi' prw vt tiiii liuhvsii'kfi ft

c itching ng.ihut the sido of the other vessel, BIETH. no doubt have tho full beni fit of this, *v li.dbconrolloclupHspcvrecllyos a sheet of Jauuai . y 25 , at his residence, Revcll street, as well as of ethev, evidence throwing '«. JSt^A^I^ESISS tho.ifcof M rHj«aH«baf a son. 1010 ii^ht upon the question of the mental « been driven in by repeated blows from a heavy == condition of his wife. Only ono nnpres- vc wooden ship; but here the splendid nullity LATEST DATES. ? - on can oc left on the mind of those tli of the metal composing the plates was ad- „„„,„„' * T o< who were present yesterday, and ai numbly tested. They and the angles were London ... Oct. 27 Salle ... Nov. 24 .it tl ' '.. (1 • p « sp _ s0 ci twisted into a hundred fantastic forms, in By Eloclrio Tel- Australia. walcHel the plotless ot this case so some cases doubled and redoubled, but in no K™,,l. - Nov. 10 Melbourne ... Jan. 11 momentous m its issue to the man who * case v as there a crack or fracture that iudi- New York ... Oct. 14 Sydney ... Jan. lo ftands arraigned in the do 2k on the sl . cated any brittleness in the metal.- Notwith- 13y Electric Tel- lsrUb.inc ... Jan. 10 most solemn charge that lies withiu the i n standing all the hard usage she received, the giapk ... Nov. 2i Welaide ... Jan. i_ o . ltcfrmT of indictments— and that is pr Sfto^^lT^f^SS' ™P^ Si " ao1 n a«SU- J«. C tWtlie calm majesty of the Irtish JJ (^ ri *» "I-, *"• 23 n «" '"7 „ !™ Mat *1C «*«* lector of £ no fnrlhcr repairs to her hull than the ship's Oa P c of &00^ „ ° m " lu \ "' 3 l m - U "^occncc, and the surest minister of tli carpenter was able to eifect. This wonderful TT H°l^H ° 1^ - „ , *« •! » l" justice. By the most diligent enquiry, ar stron.th is in itself a suQicient recommenda- "°ng Kong... **'■ f uiu^eiiiuxii .i.-m. ij the most patient and painstaking in- ™ tion : but when we find steel vessels posses- *X™ " L £\.\ I WeiliUto,, "./. in. 20 vestigation, the Truth is sought lo be P< ing ono ihivd greater caning capacity, and a N [uvercargill.... Jan. U established; and no man can challenge a ! const or b:y less draught of water, their , r , J ,T, T , r . T „ „ " T , ~ « 7 , ' o . , ... , . . °, c\. advantages are self-apparent. IfthcClytem- -"afer orde«l of tiiai, if his conscience be w nestra, had been an iron ship, her increased ' guiltless, than to be '• put upon his te draught of water would not have permitted /4 ytY H\ * '\s*-i- 7i\ tsu-Ai" country." be her to get, into dock until to-day. She is now {, XjJD ill? I ' ™~~- — tli lying on i lie north side of the'Slanlev Dock, '* ' " In the Resident, Magistrate's Oonrt, yesterday, ?. 1 and is well deserving of a visit.— Liverpool = — - : John ]si-ad!y, brought up on leman'd for the Alfjwn, Oc-f. IG. . „„ larceny of twa Cnmo.in shirts, w-as sentenced to 01 , AJSrwSciimvroRSTEVMrHS.— A scries of I'hJJJAI, -JA^uaui .a>, isuo. o ue nionlh\s imprisonment with hard labour. "' important trials have just been completed on - : - , jj o l, n R c irl and Charles Liar, for disorderly con- !° the Thames and Medway, to discover the best . . duct and resisting the police in tlic execution of !c! c form of screw propeller for the propulsion of Inn first CrmunaL bession ot the bu- their duty, were each lined LI, or forty-eisjht "j steam vessels, by which some exceedingly preme Court in Hokitika has nearly hours in the logs. John Clark was charged 'by jl'j 1 ' valuable data have been arrived at. The i- Oilc ] lc d its close. The only case at nrcsi'iit liis vife with having broken into her house, wil- 1( vesfcel eNperimented on was a, screw stcninor : l!C j; cc j s that of the man Stewart * iu 'y < Ips troyed her property, and al?o making belonging lo Messrs Eennie, fitted with an ' '•' ' , .; , , viliwlm , » -i'- , •,■' use of threatening language towards her. She ".' improved Qriflith's propeller, as supplied to CliargCfl^iUl Ult mm an Ol nib AMU, milflo application lie should be bound over to S J the ships of the Eoyal Navy, with the addi- whose, trial commenced yesterday, and lceep t]lo IK ,. lee . Thi; . C . ISP was dismissed. cl tion, an.l in which lies the improvement, of will in probability continue over to- The tijal of George Stewart, charged with what nii'T be termed a fixed screw or " boss" day and part of to-morrow. Of coui'Se murdoriiig li's wife, was commenced .vestord.iy, s ' having a number of anus attached, similar in fi]y L \\\ \\^ o'nilLy neither of the ill- am as " c an ' 11 ' l: ip^ (;^> was not liaiC concluded, . form and design lo the sails of a windmill, the , ' " i:, „.„,;„„ . v nn ' though the (Joint &.it till nraily seyen o'clock, invention of Mr I\W«, a civil engineer at decency nur tl.c mdisciet.on of com- Thpj ° nre yef> millcist!lIll1> Jr So , ne soven or '■ Chester. Thcalltnlio'n'ofMr Griflitli has been mentiny; upon this remarkable case ill e i g i,t witnesses for the Grown, and Ah- South h directed to Ihis subject, from the fact that any way likely to afreet the verdict of staled, in answer to his Honor, that, he pro- V nothing has boen done during ihc last feu- Q lo . jury. At the present stage of the po&cd cilling four witnesses for the defence. J -i j ears to improve llie propeller invented by him. i) 1 -occeclin"S neither is the 'li' G j»>'y, as will bo senn by our report of the \ The new invention may be described biiefly as a '„ , " „ ..' r , „1%«,.-., ?,,„• 1" reelings, weic locked up. and will not be " "1.0,5" iillicheil to 'the ruddor-po.fc o£ Uio ( . jt the case ioi Int. Ui own oliow 11,1101 aischai-grcl from what ix in fact custody till the 1 vessel, behind the ordinary screw. Emerging is the cx:ict line ol deienco more than cace is over The Court will be reopened this c from tho "boss"' arc a number of blades which, vaguely indicated. The hypothesis of the morning, and it is just probable that the trial for the S'ikfi of description, may.be called a fixed prosecution is that the prisoner may be concluded to-nig!it. screw, which, in reality, it is. The« blades aie aiix ,- ous lo , : . nt ?{& o f IjJ s AV jf c j n cousc . The latest intelligence from Ko^lown, the ? set at a directly oj.po«ite angle to the screw, and *' ' „ if " f i v , Ml i.,,,, i,,,'},,^ . 111f l fl, o chief pottloment of the Tolara district, is r nn +110 l.Utnr Iw.l.wr <»t ii. mnli'nn + 11,»1 1 ,» wit IT QUCIICC Ol 11C1 (UllllKCll JlUDlth. illlCl IIIC , „ -„ . , ' 11 on tue J.utei immpk set in mouon, me w.uli i dccidedlv oncoimmins:, as there is ovcrv proactcl.upaniseje'jlcdntar.auj.lecoricspoudiiw unhappy life they led, followed her to babilll>v ' lnat the dtvp lead Avill be traced * wiih its jnti-h and -velocity. Ai tlie insiant of the beach, felled her by a blow, and through th-> large flat lying between the town- 1 the water l)ci»s tin-own off by the sure-v, it is that tlio aca then suckeclia'and afterwards ship °nid Doimolly's, ' Creek. Tho utmost anestcd ami caused to deviate l»y. the !Ked v h b()dy _ The luoory uf th( , activity and determination prevails umong.t f blades, aheuly de^noeJ. as it impnigt- upon i , - , wolll . m in i-nnsp tho » lini ' r^ who ]ia ™ in «m«v insliiiiL'W l them. The re.uk of this operation *, defence is that tac Momanm con.se- nssocilltciUllcniStlln . s t , Uct iuti tk>s of «; that the water i, thrown oft at nearly qneupc of the wrctchcdncbs ot her mar- fjurtwn> Hixlm lUK f Uvcn[ji Vor (he ' aline with the vosse. s keel, taking away alt nod life, and the ill-treatment, ol her pUrnosop Urnos0 of sinking their shafts on tho V vibration^ rendering the action of the ruckler ij^l^n^^ committed self-destruction in oight hour &h ill system, and thus be more more perioct, and, ai a consequence, enabling p . u . oxvsm of su i c i f l;,l mania. The able to .acces-fully contend mUIi th,. body uf the bhip (o be more easily steered. lho re- 1 • nm .,\- - m c\ water mot with at a curtain dppth This provia suit ol li,c trial*, which were conducted pn- on citlu i S/ . c i, lUyj cinrt rt my gren(l dl , liVb . lck to lhu \, cvo , o£ sonalh by Mr GriClih and Mr Pugg, un.U-i- minutely circumstantial. V. helher the the IcsuU iiccos-itaiiiir the u>e of twenty and i the supervision of Mr Jfuniblc, late chief m- husband was Oil the bcacll aI or lie ir the thi-.ty gallon l(f,'s. which lu.ve to I.c kept going spcclor of machinery of the steam reserve in t ; mc w hen the wnnwn wih last seen, night and day witiiout intennis-ion. lho pros- c IJ.o Medway, was in tho highest degree sal is- j w j lhcv j fl v .. w t h cro l ie did pcot^ J.owever, iliat have been obtain^ out of c laclory. Ibe new s;,>f em if may be remarked ,■ ;1; 1 , in i ri -, v , „:,j» nf . n . w |,ml,,, v Hios-c shafts which have reached the thiid i lvi*. linr.il <i--< i>rl in in\ <n i->n<.i'l inn v illi 1 ln< mi- !Uiylllini> IniIHVUHi MOICIICO I V lietliei i c •,• i•? „• • i j nas oeen ie:.tcct m itixui-pohiuon w an iih 1111 j _ p _1. ( o _- _ layer of ntiiilcions duft are sul.icicntlv i proved M-injjin mtcw now introduced into tho tlic inclination 01 the woinitus nund. was c n Co ,, n^i,,g to warrant the expenditure o"f ( Eoyal navy, and fitted in the first instance lo to suicide, or the inclination of the time and capital in striving to traco that which 1 the iron-clad frigafe Achilles, built at Chatham man's mind to murder: which hypo- is now generally believed to be a bona fide deep ' dock yard as well as the iron cased frigate t i K , s j<, j s „l ost .favored by ' the ]eild o£ oltl - Although this deep ground is the 1 Uc-llorophon, now preparing for sea a! the .' ' „.'„,/* ' ,i „ „.!,:,i * n principal attraction, there are nvuiv men work same e.tabiy.m-it, and the results obtained eiicu.nstcincc:, uaclu A\ Inch the illff 01 , tlie -linllowe*.t p-n-Ls of tlie tlat, and ol»- ' arc somewhat surprising. With the G-ritlith dead bocly^ was iound, and tne taining fair rttunn for their labor. Some of 1 screw, working in conjunction with Mr Pigg's sj'mptoins it exhibited ; what those the fifty feet ground is paying as much as Ll2 1 invention, tho main speed attained™ as 7-547 circumstances and symptoms precisely and LI S por man weekly, and a great deal of 1 per hour, with JS-i lvvolntions per minute. wcl . c _th eS c are the leading niiestioiis it: will yield mOllur;lte wa " cs - j With the ordinary bcrew now in use by ihc . ' ' i° A i A meeting of the Improvement Committee '• Admiralty, in the new ironclads, Ilio average Uiat S'° l 0 } lie «- lui y» ancl xl P on tlie was held last evening, when there Merc present < speed attained by the same yes-el v. as only nature of their answer to which their Messrs Paliher (chair), Munro, Eu-ke, ICc-cles-5-S7l knots per hour, with 227 revolutions of verdict raibt llingc. As elements Gt'Ul, and Clark. The chairman imnoiuuvd ' the screw per minute. Tins results of tho ex- ] )cari n "' upon these lioints wo find very ''^t he had seen Mr Eoclil'orl, who had in- i perhuents were consequently ascertained to be , '„ f , „ . .' -, -, , formed him (hat the plans arc completed, and ' an increase of 1-703 knots 'per hour in speed, c \ ollcslte raised and _ battled lhe ancl tracings woutd be ready with forty-three revolutions less per minute ; about, as to exact moments of time and i n a cu ,y 01 . two for Tancred ancl Weld streets. ; or, in other words, a gain oi" 22*18 per cent in the position of objects connected with The improvements in these streets would conspeed, willi a saving of IS-91 p.-r cent in the scene of what on cither of the only sist- of a roadway 20ft. in width, and a footway ! power It is hoped that the Admiralty will fcwo poss iblo hvpothescs, must bo do- o» «i|l»cr Jo of the street. The residents in ; grant the use oi tlie iron screw steam yacht .. - 1 , - 1 . „ v] . . , Jleuch street had requested assistance troin lho Fairy for further experiments with the SCriDecl as a tra»cdy. Jjeyond llus bnci Committee, and the street was to be at once ' invention, as that vessel is in rcpect reviev.' of the bearings of the evidence, surveyed, when, if the inhabitants would pay ] better adapted than, perhaps, any other \yc do not dare to comment oil it at a fair proportion, the work would be at once ' steamer m the naiy for experimental purposes, a time when the JIU" r are eil'^u'ed ii> Proceeded with. Some goim-al business was while she has the i'urlher advantage of having „- „ + i. o . -!„,„„ ■ "' ,^ t^ 0 ' 0 ! gone info, and bCM.-ral notices of motion given, ' had nearly ovevv form of screw ever invented Lf"S c solemn issue 01 Ine or death. of { tmcc was done . ° t tried upon her. Although nothing we might say would The re-appeari;:ico of Miss. Palmon-lon at ' . 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GREY RIVER. high vrATim. Friday ... a 32 a.m. 4.2G p.m.