SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 4551, 29 September 1877, Page 3

SHIPPING.

High Water.' MoHDAT. 8.28 p.m. | 9.08 p.m. | 9.53 p.m. Port Coalmen.' ABBTOD. September 28.—Fanny, ketch, 25 ton", Owens, from Catlin's Biver. September £9.—Kestrel, ketch, 52 tons, Bern, from Catlin's River. Shag, 31 tons, Wing, from Shag Point. SAILED. September 29.—Alpr a, ketch, 25 tons, Welch, for Oamaru. Clyde, schooner,) 106 tons, B'.axell, for Bj,teman Bay.N.S.W. Taupo, s.i., 461 tons, Carey, for Northern Porta. Passengers ; For Lyttelton Messrs Cumraine, Mudley, Orwin, Johnstone, Davies, A. H. Vrlrut, IV. B. Brugge, Wickes, W. Kent. For We liag ou —Mrs Murphy and child, Misses E Vernon, Uaclo i Willis, Messrs Denniston, W. J.' Pull, A. B . th, 'S. S. Smith, Spearer, Ruff, Proctor, J. Patera) . Nelson —Messrs J. ME wen, Cock?. Greym. uta— Mesdamea Downey, Leonard and family (3), li spector Mallard. Taranaki —Mr Mayne ; and e!eT6B steerage for all ports. A SAO TALE. Though told in homely language no more eloquent account can possibly be furnished of a t»ad event and a record of heroism than that contained in the following letter which has been handed to us <* Southland Times'):—" Puysegur Poiut, September 34,1877. W. G. Fox, Esq., Inspector of Police. —I am sorry to inform you tuat two of our carpenters were drowned last Sunday, Atthur Mitchell, of Hamsville, and John Ewing or M'Ewen, of Invercarglll. We thought that we saw smoke ou Coal Island, Ewing looked at it with his glass, and he said he saw men walking about, and he asked Mitchell if he would go with him and bring the men off, as they must be shipwrecked people. We all went down to the beach after dinner, and they took a small boat and went off. They stripped off their clothes, except the shirt and drawers, and rolled them ' in a bundle and placed them in the boat loose. Mitchell tied his boots inside the boat. It was blowing hard, and a heavy sea was running in, the Tollers breaking all the breadth of the Sound. We kept sight of them tor upwards of a mile, and tbeu, as it was raining and squally, >*e lost sL;ht of them They started for a sandy beach about a mile from us, but we saw them pass it, and we thought they would make the sai-dy beach at the top end of Coal Island. We did not expect them home that night, as they would have to travel about five miles through a dense bush. Five of our men ktpt watch all night and kept a large fire burning. I came back in the morning, and as they had not returned I had our large boat repaired and started about four o'clock with four men. We made for the place where we lost sight of them. We pulled close inshore till we came to the beach at the far end of the island, and we landed and fpulled the boat on the beach. We could find nothing of them. As it was dark by this time we lighted a fire alter a great trouble, as it was raining and every bush wet. We had no tent or blankets, and as it rained the greater part of the night it was | rather miserable. We started at daylight and searched all the islands that crossed the Sound. We found the boat on the shore of one of the islands, and Mitchell's boots jnst inside, but the oars Sone, and no appearance of the men. We then came own along the beach to where we started from. IMb was about twelve o'clock. After dinner I manned the boat asain, and they went round the rest of the shore of the Sound, and saw nothing of them. They returned about five o'clock. We started again on Thursday morning, and went all aleng the shore and looked into all the caves, but could find nothing except one of the oars—uo clothing or men. We returned about six o'clock. We manned the boat yesterday with four men, and they grappled all over the bar and along the thore, but found nothing of the men. A. Mitchell leaves i, wife and four children in Harrisville unprovided for. Ewing was a single rtiau. The smoke that we supposed we saw was water blowing over the top of the cliff in spray, and the high wind blew high above ttie cliff and the supposed men marks on the rock.—William Boyd, of Birsa and Boyd. Mr George Saycrs, Inspi ctor of Puolic Works, report under date Puysegur Point Lightbouse, says: —" Every effoi t to find the remains of the men or some clue to them has been unsuccessful. One of the oars was picked up en Thursday, and parts'of the inlet dragged. There are no hopes of ever finding the bodies as the inlet is swarming with sharks."

Shipping Telegram. Wellixgtok, September 29.—The Wanaka sailed South at 6 p.m. Passengers: Mesars Logan and Curry, Miss Caflin, and Captain Mosey. The Wakatipu sailed for Port Chalmers at noon, with four steerage passengers