SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4605, 28 May 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND.

High Wrnn.-Tbi, D» y - : i 0i 0 53 a n».; 11.23 p.m. ScKßißt and SUNBBT.—Thij Day: 7.6 a.m.; 4.49 welrr, AXA K" THIR - May 27: Wlnd ' S ' * nd S - W -' MOON'B Phasjb. -Last Quarter, M»y 30, 1.51 a.m.

ABRIVALS. . n d n &toS!.gent. 2> S6On ' ft ° m M^»^-Onyon •Droter, brig, from Lyttelton.

„_ VESSELS EXPECTFD. Froic London.— Helen.lee, sMp.ialled Jannary 11; Sll™*]S 11 ™*] *hlp. «Hed February 29 ; Coronilla, sidled March 21 ; Counteis of Kmtore, ship, Celestial Queen, Wip. loading ' From Honowlb.— Nevada, pi., Juno 16 •a«ed Ja^Tl YY ° RK> ""* Adelftlde -- East Lothian . bl-»b 1-» F»om Sidnet — City of Mrthourne. 5.«., early. From MKLBOORN«.-Rlta, brig, loading. . . ™>" Southern PoRTs.-lntheManukau: Phoabe, ••"•Wellington, ,.,,, Keera, *. a ., early. From Duntoin.— Pakeha, brig, sailed May 1 in. L rT ELTON -, EIDI Grove - l>q-. «»"ed May '. J" rt » 0 -. s * llcd May 23; Lapwing, cutt., ■ch^wl Cleopmtr., sch., Charybdisrschf, Reine, Fhom Oaharu.— Coronet, bj?tnp.. parly. From "Wjcllinqton-— Thames, bq., early. Frou LsvDXi — Sea<ull, Prima Donna, schs., early Froh NiwoiSTLS.- Frowning Beauty, bq, Briton,

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. In this list coasters are not included. Fob SroNEY-City of Melbourne, 8 s., early ; F. M. Jervls, agent. c J° R -/ IMNOI M N0^ L , D-D -~ Neb " ska ' P- s ' June 13; Hendorson and M»cfailano, agents. For Socthekn Ports.— From the Manukau Keera, s •„ to-morrow ; Thoebe, s s. , "Wcllincton, s s ? Combos and Daldy, nuents. Fon Whanganui.— Keera, s s , to-morrow.

IMPORTS.—May 27. Per brig Drover, from Lyttelton: 1,505 sacus wheat, 834 sacks oats.

By the arrival of the s.s. Rangitoto at Hokitika yesterday from Melbourne, we learn that the s.s. City of Melbourne put back to Sydney with her machinery damaged, as surmised by us some days back. We are requested to stato that the brigantine Hercules, Captain Cooney, left Newcastle on the 10th instant, and not the Bth, as stated in yesterday's ( boss. The Lapwixc!.— The cutter Lapwing left Lyttelton yesterday for this port, with a cargo of J l7 bags oats, 2/4 bags barley. 17 bags beans, 13 bags peas. The p.s. Enterpnse No. 2 (in place of the p.S. Lady Bo wen) arrived yesterday afternoon from Mahurangi and Hot Springs. Tho brig* Drover, from L\ttelton, arrived in harbour last evening, bringing a full car«o of grain. The cutter Rob Roy, from Kennedy's Bay, arrived yesterday, bringing a cargo of 20,000 ft. timber. The Rob Roy took the cutter Nautilus in tow off the Kawau, and arrived with her last evening. The barque Tyrol, fiom Nelson, is expected in a few days. She will on arrival be placed on the berth for London. Thb Nautilus : Narrow Escape.— The cutter Nautilus had a narrow escape of being ■wrecked on Sunday evening last. Ifc appears that the vessel was working up to Auckland, and when off the Kawau she struck on a rock and remained hard and fast. Shortly afterwards the cutter Rob Roy was seen passing, and, being hailed, stood in towards them. She had no sooner received on board the Nautilus's passengers (a lady and gentleman) than that vessel heeled over, and, in so doine^ slid off the rock into deep water again. Captain Diaz at once made fast to the Nautilus and took her in tow, arriving in harbour last evening. The damage to the vessel is expected to be very slight, Messrs. Caird and Co., Greenock, havb i lately commenced the construction of a j acrew steamer for the luman line. She will I be 4,800 tons register, and 730-horse power. This will be the largest merchantman afloat except the Great Estern. Tho British mercantile marine consists of 37,000 vessels, representing 6,000,000 tons. Of these, 4,000,000 tons are steamers ; and, altogether, the English have more ships than all other nations combined. An interesting discovery has lately been made which throws some light upon the oourse and rapidity of the great ocean currents circulating between the continent of South America and the western coast of Australia. The figure- head of a large ship was picked up some time ago at the little island of Rottuest, near Fremantle, and has since been identified as having belonged to the Blue Jacket — a wool ship which was lost between the Falkland Islands and Cape Horn, on her voyage from New Zealand to England. The Blue Jacket was burned on the 9fch of Maich, 18G9, in about 53deg. south lat., and 60deg. west long. The distance from that point to Rottnest Island is over 6,000 miles ; the time occupied in traversing was about two years and a half, giving a mean rate of about six miles and a half a day. The course was for the most part through those portions of the Great Southern Ocean which are subject to constant westerly winds ; consequently this rate of velocity in travelling may, perhaps, be ascribed more to the force of wind ane sea than to current. Probably, however, it was the action of the known northerly current fioin Capo Leu win which brought it np this coast. It would be of interest to science were this piece of wrc*k preserved, with, what is easily obtainable, an exact recoid of tho circumstances. This was tho only well-authenticated instance of wreck having been washed nearly half round the world ; for bottles from the sea cannot bo trusted as true messengers, as very often they are found to contain only the written vagaries of those whose brains perhaps were muddled by their contents, and simply bear false witness of that which never happened.

[by electric telegraph.] Lyttelton. ~ Arrived: Monday, 4.30 a.m., Nebraska, from Wellington. Sailed : 9a. m. , Nebraska, for Dunediu ; noon, Lapwing cutter, with 117 bags oals, 274 bags barley. 17 bags beans, 13 bags peas.