VESSELS' IN PORT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6258, 21 September 1891, Page 2

VESSELS' IN PORT.

Flying Scud, three-masted sohponer Reliance, ketch Orpheus, schooner Alert, schooner Enterprise, brigantino , • The s.s. Te Kapu arrived from Wairoa on Saturday night. . The s.s. Weka returned from the coast on Saturday night. After an absence of some months the s.s. Waihora re-visited this port yesterday. She came from Sydney via Auckland and Gisborne, and anchored in the roadstead about 6 a.m. The Ahuriritendered her on arrival, and took off ,the outward passengers at 10 a.m. The Waihora proceeded on to Wellington at 11 a.m. : ' . The Union Company's s.s. Te Anau, Captain Todd, arrived from Melbourne via Southern ports at 11 a.m. yesterday, and was tenderd on arrival by the Ahuriri. The outward passengers were taken oft at 4.30 p.m, and theTe Anau steamed North at 6 p.m. , ThaShaw, Savill, and Albion Company s barque Langstone was spoken to on the 21st August by the steamer Port Denison, in latitude 43.3 ° S., andlongtitude 71 ° E. The brigantino Enterprise arrived from Dunedin yesterday afternoon. The 8.8. Ohau is due from southern ports this evening. She will have to be partly lightered, and will come inside to-morrow morning. She steams for Gisborne, Tauranga, and Auckland in the afternoon. Owing to the heavy rain of last week, a treinendouß current—some estimated it at between nine and ten knots an hour—was running when the Ahuriri came mfrom the Te Anau yesterday forenoon. She made very little headway after getting in between the pierheads, and Captain Tonkin got two lines made fast on to the western pier, so as to winch her up past the worst nip. These lines broke Boon afterwards, and the steamer had to go outside again. Captain Tonkin immediately made another attempt, and got as far as the freezing Company's wharf, when the propeller struck a boulder, evidently rolled down by the flood, and directly the vessel's head canted towards the pier and ' she grounded just below the Freezing Co. s lower wharf. Her head was quite near the western pier, and Captain Tonkin had a Stage made to the steamer, the passengers being assisted ashore with very little inconvenience. There was a little excitement on board when the vessel struok, but Capt. Tonkin soon quieted everyone by assuring them that there was not the slightest danger. The vessel was got off about 3 p m., without having suffered any injury, and she tendered the Te Anau aB usual at 4 P- m - -