MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3643, 23 March 1869, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The steamer Hero may be looked (or this evening, or atlatest to-morrow moraine. The schooner Ivanhoe, for Mangonui, ran out of the harbour before a splendid breeze last evening. She ha<l on board a small general cargo, and three passengers. The feat-sailing and hnndsome sohooner Sea Breeze, in command of her owner, Captain Ge«rge Cook, set sail yesterday evening for R»rot<>i#a Island, with » oargo of sundries nuitabe for the natives of that place. Captain Co k expects to rua his oompnob little craft to her destination in lees than fifteen days. Allowing a week for di^ohar^ing and loading, the Sea Breeze may b3 expected back in six weeks. The barque Alice Cameron, Captain Carter, for Sydn«y, set sail yesterday evening, with a fair wind, and got well out of the harbour before du«k. If the Alice Cameron gets anything like favourable winds she is sure to make a *r»»rt trip of it, as she is a splendid sailer, and commanded by a thoroughly Mtpeuouced captaio. The barque took away 76 bales fltx, shipped by J. ft. Roberts, and the following paxsentjers :— Mrs. Spiers, Messrs. Smith, Button, McGregor, Wilkins, Jones, Walden, Cook, and Russell. The schooner T eonidas arrived in harbour early yesterday morning from the Bay of Islands. Her cargo oonsisted of 15 tons gum, 27 boxes apples, 10 cacUs grass seed (150 bushel*), 10 hides, 1 bundl* skins, 2 kegs butter, And 150 sheep. The Leonid»g landed her sheep at Kobimarama, and then oame alongside the wharf to discharge. The Ltonidas will return to the Bay of Islands this evening, at 4 o'clock. . Passengers— 3 . J'he paddle-steamer Royal Alfred left Graham's Town yesterday afternoon at tight minutes p*st 3 o'clock, four minutes after her powerful opponent the John Perm, and arrived at the wharf last night ex*cbly 27 minutes before the John Perm oame up. I Both vessels had a large number of passengers. The steamer Lady Bowen i* undergoing extensive alterations at present; before long we hope to tee the I vessel again at work, and, in the hands of her new owners, prove to be a great success. . The p.s. Favourite arrived yesterday from the Bay of Islands, with cargo of sundries. The Favourite on rounding Cape Brett met the Go-ahead, but the capUin reports the Taurang* to have arrived some hours before he It ft Some cattle were waitiog to be put on board that steamer,' and at she wai to leave the Bay of Islands last night it is likely the will ariive m harbour this morning. The captain of the Favourite reports the two whaling barques toil ton and Hunter «tdl lyiug at the bay. A Dahgirous Cargo —Captain B •bioion, master of the iron stesmer Marmora, of Bartlepool, bound from Cardiff to Bangor, Dpited States, with 1,000 tons of railway ion, arrived in the Shannon on Monday. Four of the orew were in a deplorable condition, being drsaufully maimed and wounded, ariwing from, in juries su-ta : ned at tea in the fearful gale of the 14th insl. and following d»yi, when the steamer was seriously damaged, and had a narrow escape of going down, owing to th* da»gerou« nature of the cargo. The Marmora left Cardiff on the sth inst. , and experienced very severe weather "p to Mondsy, the 14tb, when, as far west as 20 degrees, •he encountered the full force of one of the most violent storms ever experienced. The gale wai * terrific In the extreme, and raged with fury for some days, the ship, crew, and cargo being completely at its mercy, while the sea washed over her to such, a height as to float the lifeboats lashed to the ,' davit 8. The b»w* of the steamer were stove '■ in, and th« bulwarks shivered to atoms ; the bridge and deckhouse .were tot Jly carried aw%y, and everything on deck fell , a pity, to, the', violence of the wind and > water. The {tlata 1 bd'<*» having given way, it was feared the Marmora would have gone to .pieces, but the was kepi well brfofethi wiml, as the only obance left. The •uffering endured by the seamen upon the occasion were extr«(tii«s; 1 ' i ! At( r J the steamer dipped and tossed oniiiie ocmql tJl* rail< way iron was nvaved against the decks, icompietely driving them up, and the steamer was looked ?i|i(in as all^ut lost. She wMdrivenfnimAdistanoe of 700 miles intotha Shannon, and can^is to; anchor it Tar Vert Roads on Saturday nigkt. Two of th« . or^w have b?en sent to Barringtort's Hospiial— John iJuni). in » dangerbu* state, with iwotured head and le«, arid' several bad wounds io different parfcs«f t)U body ;

Araman FrangaU (a bl«ck),fc attire of Martinique, with broken thigh, fracture of the head* and eontuaioni about the back and chert. Two b'tberi <Jf the >-crew Ar# | n p T i r%^ lodging-hoiun, Sinder nodical treatment, and are reported at wok or disabled.— Sstprtit, ' \