MELBOURNE SHIPPING.

West Coast Times, Issue 261, 25 July 1866, Page 2

MELBOURNE SHIPPING.

AEEIVED. July 12— Ea:nbler, schooner, from Hokitika Tuiy li — Victoria, schooner, from Grey iiith, SAILED. Fuly i&>«-John and Jane, Schooner, for Hois. OttfUlZD OUT. uly 16— Clarendon, & Hokitika.

Ie s.s. AiVedale Sk iled from Bluff Harbor relay morning, h OT kg on board .,, a " oafl ' ?e cargo for thi s p& rfc ' S ¥ wIU ? thore ; *na probability, 1 ' vo thlß e™mng, anl againfo ; a^ on and northern «n to-morrow momiW,, tlde ; T »*v , NTN T S£

gk'r, Siam, and \V inter thur; Canhrbary, Sir Ralph Abererombie and Blue Jacket ; Nelson and New Plymouth, Lord Clyde, Leichardt, Countess of Kintore ; Otugo, Alexandrin, Queen Bee, Tinravu, Seringaputam, and SUvv of Tasmania ; luvercargill, Royal Bride, Wellington, Cumhalee. The s.s. Thane, Francis, commander, left Nelson on the 20th instant, at 10 p.m., and anchored off the Buller next day ao 3 a.m. Attempted t~ enter that river at 6 a.m., but stuck hard and fast, through beiug too late on tide. Reversed engines and cleaved herself, and on tho afternoon's tide ran in and crossed the-bar without further mishap. On the 23rd she discharged 60 tons of cargo, 150 sh«ep, and 6 'bullocks, and left for Hokitika at 5.30 p.m.. arriving in tho roadstead at 4 a.m. yesterd»y, and alongside the wharf at 7 a.m. Fine weather prevailed during the trip. The Thane brings 80 tons of flour and potato 3, and 8 passeugera. Sho reports that tho ps. Lytteltou arrived at the Buller on tlie 22nd, left Nelson the preceding day, and that when she rounded tho Farewell Spit, a large ship, with her masts gone by tho bo.ird, was seen ashoi'e tlure. A steamer wub attending upon her. She is supposed to be> one of the longexpoctctl arrivals from England. The Lyttelton was to leave tho Buller for Greymouth this morning. The Thane was piloted.across the bar yesterday, by tbo mate of the p.s. Challenge, the captain not deeming it prudeu t to run tho risk himself, as his vessel was drawing nearly eight feet, and the channel both narrow and intricate.

The P.N.Z. & ASR.M.A S R.M. Co,'s s.s. Auckland, from Melbourne, come-to in the roadstead at 2 a.m. yesterday. She left Sandridge Railway Pier at 2 p.m. on the 17th, and sighted tho New Zealand coast at 9 p.m. on the 23rd. During tho greater part of the passage she experienced strong E. and SE. winds and heavy head sea. Tho Auckland brings 9 saloon and 60 steerage passengers. She Bailed again for Nelson at mid-day.

A special survey was held last Friday on the s.s. Barwon, and nt the termination, tho agents, acting on behalf of the owners, decidod on taking no further stops with regard to getting her afloat again, and agreed to sell her by auction as she now lios, for the benefit of those concerned. The steamer has ao far shifted her original position that she is now fifteen feet further up on the beach, and more deeply imbedded iv the sand. She has also about four feet mors list to seaward than vvlien stranded. There is, however, no appearance of any strain on her. — Melbourne "Argus,' July 16 th. The ship jJfitzjames, of the White Star line, which left Liverpool in January last, and sinco then has experienced an almost uninterrupted series of casualiies, arrived in port yesterday. The Fitzjames left* the Mersey on 24 January, and encountered the full force of the heavy gale 3of February last in the Bay of Biscay. Tlie ship having sprung a leak and lost her mainmast, Captain Wardrop put into Lisbon for repairs on February 14, and after a thorough overhauling proceeded again to sea on April 19. Light winds prevailed to the equator, which was crossed on May 13, the island of Tristan d'Acunha being passed on Juno 3. A terrific gale was fell in with on June 22 and 24, in lat. 45 cleg. S., and long. 60 deg. E., during whick the mainmast was sprung, the crossjack carried away, and also the mizen topsail yards. The boats were also stove, and a whole suit of sales split to pieces, while a large quantity of metal and sheathing wa3 washed away. To add to these disasters, the vessel then sprung a leak. The crew and passengers worked, at the pumps uaceasingly until the 6th inst. to keep it under, but without much effect, as the water latterly kept ineYeasing at the rate of eleven inches per hour. All hands -by this time being wearied out, the donkey-engine was Btartod, and ha* been kept going incessantly ever since. Tiie Fitzjames was off Cape Otway at nine o'clock ou Saturday evening, and entered tho heads yesterday morning, at eight o'clock. On the 2nd June, one of the crew named George Stevenson was lost overboard ; and yesterday afternoon, in tho bay, the boatswain fell from the fore yardarm, and a block from aloft fell on one of the seamen, both men being nearly killed. On the 12th May, Captain W^lrdrop exchanged siguals with the Beau - maris Cattle, sixty-four dciys out from Bombay to London, with troop 3on board, in latitude 1 deg 39 mm. N., and longitude 23 deg. 43 mm. W. — " Melbourno Argus," July 16.