AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5602, 31 August 1875, Page 2

A USTRALIAN SHIPPING.

The lunjua Queen of the South :u lived at Newcastle from this jtort on the 21st iimttnt. Tho brig.mtiuc Sun them (Jros-i, 2"> ) ton*, |\viih O'l the berth ut Sydney foi this poi t when the s.s. Hero left. • ' The bir<(ite Forget-Me-Xot, 2'M toiiH, w.ik:i]*o loading at Syilnoy tor thy poit. She had the greater portion of her cargo engaged. Tlie barque Uoll.i M.uy loft Hopai t Town for this port on tho 2Jst instant, with a cargo of fruit and.sovei-al passenger*. The Union, barque, Captain Sherlock, from Auckl.tnd, arrived ut Newcastle on the 2b.t instant. The ship Huinibil arrive I at Newcastle from Wellington on tli'o 21st instant. Tlie Witch of tho Wave, b.miiio, Captain Guthi'ie, Hailed for Auckland from Newcastle on August 21, with *)70 tons coal. The Flying Kagle, American ship, anived at Queeiihcliff from New York on the lHth inst. Sinking ok this Stkymkii Commissuiv fiKN'KKAf..— Yostoiday morning (AugiiHt 21) at about 12 o'clock, the Htc.un dioglier L'ommissary(Jeneral was pioccedin^ down the harbour with a cargo of niiiizo for the ban i ne AiiHtialind. When ne.-ir tho bnrquo Hovenihaiii the wind, which was blowing strong from the N.W., suddonly increased in velocity, and canned tho steamer to collide witli a lighter which was lying alongxide tho Havorshum. Tho anchor of tho lighter wont through the bilge of tho drogher, causing her to leak ho fast that it was found necessary to run her on tdioro. This was done, and »bo now lies on the North Dank opposite the Li mo Kilns, and was iu 10 foot of * water. ArraugemonU are being made to have the atoamor romoved fiom her proient position at once. Tho Coininissary-(>ouoral had on bo.ird 1(30 b.igs of maize, tho proporty of Sir. George Otto, which will, »o doubt, be totally destroyed. She was in command of a poi-Hou nfunod John M'Doimld ut tho time of the accident.—Neuraattc Pilot, Captain Caldor, late of the s.s. Omeo, has been appointed to tho command of the s.s. Otugo,vico U.iptnin John M'La.in, who leniaiiu ashoiu awaiting the anival of the now uteauici Kiugaroomu, to take cliurgo of lior. Mr. ( 'hatticld, lito chief officer of tho (Jl.ind Hamilton, has boon ]>laood in oommunl of the Omeo.— Melbourne Af/c, The H.M.s. Sa]niho anived anived at Sydney from a cruiso on the 2 lid inst.mt. She nailed from Sydney on July l.'Hh, on a cruino among the various groups in the I'.icifie, and the islands of Tanna, St. Bartholomew, llavuuuah Harbour, and sorornl othciH. Sho is hwt fiom tho Now Hebrides, and reported hivving com muuicatcd with H.M. Rohooner Alaciity. at thb latter group. H.M.s. Pearl arrived on the same day, from n cruise. Tho ship Quoon of Nations, undor command of our old friend Captain Donald, who visited Auckland Last year, nrrood at Sydney on tho lsth inat., after a fair passage from London. Tho Tuliitian papers to hand rocord (Hays the Sirtliiii/ Morality Herald of tho 18th inst.) the ill owning of Cap tain Moneie, comm»n<lei of the schooner Marion, while on the passago from Amu ; be had fallen asleep on the top of the deckhouse shortly aftor noon ; it was blowing itiong, and a heavy lursb thow liim overbo.ini. Th/' heliiism.iu, hooing tlio oociuu-nco, ut ouce gave the alarm and ft boat was lowered, but

nftci pulling about f«» two Iiimuh the boat hml tn letuin to tho schooner without having s.immI the captitm. Tho accident ouciuu'd on tlio'Jnd Juno.