SUPPLEMENTAL SHIPPING SUMMARY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3349, 10 April 1868, Page 4

SUPPLEMENTAL SHIPPING SUMMARY.

Thibe is little shipping business of moment to report sinoe the publication of our monthly summary. We have had one interprovincial arrival, and one interproviooial and four .foreign departures. The s.i. Lord Ashley arrived on the 2nd from the South, with a general cargo and passenger*. On the 4th, the s.s. Egmont left for Sydney, with the Suez mail, and 32 passengers. On the 7&h, the brig Alarm sailed for Melbourne, calling at Whangaroa to load 12,000 feet of timber for that market ; and the schooner Queen left the same day for Lyttelton, via Mercury Bay, with 37,000 feet timber. Ob the Bth, the brig Kit* sailed for Sydney, with a general cargo and passengers; and the brig Dart, for the same place} iv ballast. ELM. s. Falcon, Commander Percival, left the harbour at 4 p.m. on the 2nd, under steam, for Hokitika, with a company of H.M. 18th Regiment, in command of Major Kocke. The men were embarked by means of the Colonial Government steamer Stnrt, from the Queen-street Wharf, where they had been accompanied from the barracks by the fine band of the regiment. Stores and baggage were shipped during the morning by means of the p,s. Sturfc. The men numbered 70, and composed the A Company of the battalion, with the following offioers :— Major Itocke (in command), Captain Dawson, Lieutenant Butts, and Assistant-Surgeon Chandler.

WHALERS. We learn that the American whaler .Northern Light, Captain Baker, five months out, with 150 barreli sperm and 450 barrels whale oil, was lying at Russell on the 2nd of April. Thtea other whalers were expeoted to arrive in a few weeks in order to tranship their cargoes to the barque Empress, which has been laid on for New Bedford, U.S. CASUALTIES, ETC.

We regret to have to record the wreck of the cutter Thistle, of this port, with a loss of two lives, near Whangarei Heads. The Thistle left Auckland on March 29 at noon, with a full general cargo and sixteen passengers, for Waipu, in oharge of Mr. McKeuzie, her master and owner. The wind freshened daring the evening, and the weather was very thick. On the following morning about two o'olock, the cutter struck on the rocks off Bream Head, and became a total wreck, the wind having increased from the ULS.K., and the weather continuing thick and hazy. Tw6 of the passengers, brothers named McDonald, had their legs broken in several places, and two others were drowned. The latter werejMr. A. McLeod, settler, Waipu, and a girl about 15 years of age, named Mitchelson, daughter of an old settler in Aucklaud. - McLeod leaves a wife and five children at Waipu to mourn their loss. Several of the passengers were much bruised by the rooks and the violence of the sea breaking the vessel into splinters. The night was unusually thiok and boisterous, and the cutter was driven helplessly on to the point of rooks on which she beoame a total wreck. Two of the passengers, Alfred Boardman, jun., and Daniel McLeod, walked over to Whangarei Heads, and gave information of the occurrence, and of the nature of the injuriei sustained by two of their number who had been left in a helpless condition on the rooks. A boat containing some of the residents at Whangarei Heads left for Whangarei in order to procure medical aid, but the survivors were not reached until the following (Tuesday) morning, in consequence of the severe weather encountered, and were consequently much exhausted when help arrived. They were removed without loss of time to the Heads, and every effort put forth to alleviate their sufferings. The body of A. McLeod has not been recovered. The body of the girl was picked up and taken to Mr. Aubrey's, Whangarei Heads, to await an inquest. The whole of the cargo, which inoluded general merchandise on settlers' account, and three horses, was lost with the vessel. The cutter was uninsured, and the loss will be severely felt by Captain MoKenzie. She was a new vessel of 29 tons register. Fears are entertained for the safety of the schooner Zillah, which left this port for Tahiti on the 23rd of January last, with a large and valuable cargo, consisting of tobacco, spirits, ootton goods, bricks, timber, shingles, &c Since that time, no intelligence has been received of her, and it is surmised that she must have gone down in the cyclone which struck the north-east coast of this island on the Ist of February, and the force of which was felt for several days. The ship Maori encountered this gale off the coast, and the brig Princess Alice, which had left the Bay of Islands nith coal for Wellington, ran into this harbour, and had to be unloaded and repaired. It is thought, from the way in which the cyclone travelled, that the Zillah must have encountered it. The schooner Eugenie, now in harbour, which left Tahiti on the 14th of March, reports that the Zillah had not arrived up to that date. The Zillah was a sohooner of 65 tons, and was commanded by Captain Wyatt. An inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the cutter Comet, which was wrecked on her voyage from Fuhoi to Auckland, was held on April 6, at the Custom-house, before H. S. McKellar, Esq. (Collector of Customs), and Captain Anderson. Thomas Clark and John Stevens, who were employed in working the outter at the time of the accident, were examined, and from their evidekce it would appear that the vesiel struck on a reef about an hour after rounding the Heads, and sank in four or five fathoms of water. Mr. Antonio Martin was the owner, and the vessel was not in* sured.

ANALYSIS. The following is an analysis of the arrivals and departures foreign duriug the month : — ARRIVAL. ApriL Name. Tons. From Cargo. Pas. 2— Lord Aihlojr, i.i. .. 287.. 50uth .. .. gtneral 42

DEPARTURES, ipril. Name. Tons. For Cargo. Pas 4— Egmont, s.s 308.. Sydney .. .. general 32 7— Alarm, brif .. .. 195.. Melbourne* .. timber 2 7- Queen, tohooner .. 46..Lytteltont .. timber — B— Rita, brig .. .. 198.. Sydney.. .. general 19 8-Dart,brig .. .. 154.. Sydney .. .... 2 901 55 ♦ Via Whangaroa. f Via Mercury Bay.