VESSELS EXPECTED

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1423, 3 September 1874, Page 2

VESSELS EXPECTED

v;ny or Meioonrne, s a., rrom syaney, aoouum oepw Macgregor, s s., from San Francisco and Honolulu, about 10th pror Victor!i, s.s , from Sydney, abr.nt 4th September Magellan Cloud, from Chatham Islands, early Loch Urr, barque, from London ; sailed 3rd June Ferndale, barque, from London ; sailed May 6 Oxford, ship, from London : sailed 7th June Pearl, ketch, from South Sei Islands, early Pacific, scho< ncr, from South Sea Islands Dauntless, schooner, from the South Waitingi, ship, from London ; loading Stanley Castle, barque, from London ; sailed 7ien Tsin, barque, from Launce3ton Glimpse, barque, from Newcastle Jackson, ship, from London ; sailed Zealandia, ship, from London ; sa'led Kenilworth, schooner, from tho Islands

The barque Comet is advertised by Messrs Find lay and Co., her Dunedin agents, as open for sale or charter. The barque Stanley Castle sailed for Auckland on the Bth July, and the ship Zealandia on the 9fch July. The ship Celestial Queen, which was announced as loading in London for Nelson and this port sailed for Otago on the Bth July. In the European Mail, of July 10th, we find mention made of a vessel named the Antarctic from Auckland to London being spoken on the ISth June, lat. 23 N. long. 38 W. No such vessel has left this port, and we are at a loss to see the correct reading of the announcement. The schooner Swallow and the p.s. Effort have cleared out in ballast for Tairua. The ship City of Auckland entered inwards at the Customs to-day. The schooner Golden Isle brings 100 tons coal from Russell. We find the following in the Home "Nexos : —Master's Report of the Windward, at London, June 20, from Hobart Town' —On June 22, in 4G N. 12 W, passed a large painted port water-logged J3hip, with three lower masts standing, and fore-topmast, two foretopsail yards aloft, lower yards broken in slings, with decks awash and partly gone; also bulwarks, cabin-house, and poop planking outside. Masts painted stone colour, with black mast-heads and yards ; lower rigging standing. No name to be found. The vessel was in the stream of the Bay of Biscay current.