SHIPPING.
Monday. 8.43 p.m, | 10,23 p.m. | 11.C8 p.m. Port Cbaimen. ABBtVXD. May 18.~Pioneer, schooner, 25 tons, Uatheson, from Moerakl. Fernglen, ship, 818 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Koputai, p.a., 158 tons, Sinclair, from the Bluff. May 19.—Wanganui, schooner, 82 tons, Blaney, bom the Bluff. ’ ’ ' SAILED. May 18.—Taiaroa, Timaru. tip, 8.8., 28 tons, Hnnro, for Port Molynenz. Oarnaru, ship, 1,306 tons. Hood, for London. Pas* swwrs: Saloon—Mr Ferguson. Second Cabin I Hosdames Fleming and two children. Small and child, Cairns and child, Misses Williamson, Qilmour, Messrs Flynn, Pringle, Welsh, Cameron, Walls (2), Milne, Bower, Hopkins, Tilderslie, Douglas, Ed. wards, M’Kenzie, Kilpatrick, Small, Murray. Peterson, and Melson. ]ffay 19.—Glimpse, ketch, 39 tons, Foreman, for Oarnaru via Moezaki. Tuapo, s.s., 452 tens, Carey, for Northern Ports. The s.s. Express broke her back yesterday and has gone in two. The ship Fernglen, in towef the tng Kopntai, arrived at Port Chalmers from the Bluff at 10 p.m, yesterday. The Albion Company’s ship Oarnaru, with twentynine passengers and a full Cargo, consisting of 2,843 bales or wool, 4,235 sacks wheat, 1,029 cases pro* served meats, 97 casks tallow, 13 bales of leather, 6 eases sundries, and 6 hexes of gold, of the total value of L 104.637, took her departure this forenoon for London, being towed clear of the Heads by the tugKopntai.
Xhe schooner Wanganui, with a cargo of 2,883 ; Bleepers from the Bluff, arrived at Port Chalmers this forenoon, and continued her course to Done* dm-with a N.E. breeze. She left the Bluff on Wed. all « ht N-W• wind, which continued Eext whe ? ah ® met * strong northerly breeze, which continued to arrival. Peli^ and A l ert Pat into Werser Bay last week through stress of weather. They are . ltill> to Dunedin. It will be sriygia.il-".’’”* <» «>• is entertained of getting off the ,wa * B f •* Kaipara Heads. She is longing to a foreign firm in J e M^wSftJ Ul<3 'n^ 8 u “ der command of Captain J. ♦bAboTfl!ri?*n Captata reports—“We made i a ’“* on Wednesday, and in beating channel the ship was driven ashore * Sby being taken aback. The boats were - out at once, as the vessel was found to be filling. 4.116 tido is now ebbing and flowing ontof her.* 1 « was going up the fairway of Dusky Sound that struck on a rock hitherto unknown (fifty fathoms being marked on the chart where
this impediment to navigation exists). Many veseels have passed over the same ground, but have been lucky enough to miss the rook. The only damage sustained was the loss of one blade of the propeller. Captain Fairchild took hfs passengers to visit a relic of bygone days, and in tbe N.E, corner of the Sound, in a fine cove named Fossil Harbor, toe remains of a ship of upwards of 1,000 toM burthen were found in good preservation. This wreck has been known of for toe last thirty years, but no cine has ever been obtained as *° identity or what became of tbe crew. She is planked with teak on Eng. lish elm coppered with pure copper, Wu fastened with copper bolts* One of her rudder gudgeons was get off, and is now to be seen on board the Hinetnoa; it is pmo copper, with the words “ Savill,’ London," distinctly visible on it. Several pieces of.pianking with the copper still on wore obtained. On examining near the wreck, the cause was found in a reef with only nine feet of water on it. This wos on the outside of the wreck audit may be assumed tbe ship had run for shatter! and, having struck the reef, was beached, though nothing certain is known of ever likely to be • Nelson Daily Times/ May 8. Sblpplng Telegram. Wnussßw, May 18.-SaUed: Wellington, for tleSouth, at 6 p.m. Passengers—Messrs Ward SSmwJS ** “ d *** B * H ’ Bofcmon
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Evening Star, Issue 4437, 19 May 1877, Page 3
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