MELBOURNE SHIPPING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3057, 14 May 1867, Page 4

MELBOURNE SHIPPING.

Akrival.—April 16tb, Princess Alice, brig, 267 tons, Kiddy, from Auckland, 29th March. The brig Princess Alioe, from Auckland, has arrived in port, with a large miscellaneous cargo and about thirty passengers. Captain Kiddy reports that he left Auckland on the 29th ultimo, and had had light easterly weather to Kent's Group, which was made last Thurday. Variable weather was then experienced to Port Phillip Heads, where the brig arrived on Sunday last. Captain Kiddy has kindly favoured us with files of Auckland papers up to his date of leaving.—Melbourne Argus, April 17. We are already beginning to recover;copious details as to the disastrous effects of the late gales upon the shipping in this port. Yesterday, a schooner named the Maid of the Mill, in the wood trade between this and Snapper Point, arrived in Hobson's Bay, safe herself, but with the information that the schooner Greyhound, with about 150 tons of firewood on board, went on shore at Snapper Point, and become a total wreck, the crew barely escaping with their lives. The Admiral,, of 34 tons, and the Emily, about the same size, were also totally wrecked at Deomana. The Maggie received considerable damage to her stern frame/and the Iris had a very narrow escape from sharing the fate of the Greyhound.—Age, April 20. The schooner Belle put back to the bay on Thursday evening, from the west channel. She brought up at the lightship there during the late gales, and rode with both anchors until the 18th. On the 16th she tried to get under way, but split several sails, which, together with some damage to her hawsepipe and windlass, necessitated her return to port. —lbid. The Ocean Wave. —The three masted [Auoklandbuilt] schooner Ocean Wave — a very handsome apecimen of her class of vessel—arrived in port last evening from Hokitika. Captain Clarke states re« garding the passage that he had variable winds and fine weather to Curtis Island, which he made on the 15fch. Very heavy gales were then encountered, and the schooner bore up for Hunter's Island, where she lay for three days, and had the misfortune to lose an anchor and chain while riding out the gale. Considerable damage was done to her canvas when overtaken by the tempestuous weather; the mainsail, jib, and other sails having been blown to fragments.—Melbourne Argus, April 20.