SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 9773, 1 August 1895, Page 3

SHIPPING.

High Water To morrow. -Taiaroa Heads: (I.UI a.tu., 0.31 p.iu. Port Chalmers; O.b'J a.m., 11l p.m, Dunedin : 1.11 a.m., 1.59 p.m. Port Caalmers. ARRIVED.—Jm.v 31. Brunner, s.a., 332 tons, Ramsay, from the West Coast. Passengers: Mr Davys; and live in the steerage. . . SAlLED.— August, 1.

Tarawera, s.s., 1,269 ions. Sinclair, for Sydney via the East Coast. Passengers; Misses Barsht, Watson and two children, Cameron, Hay, Beadle. Bonner, Cochrane, Simeon (3), Ormond, Carr, Bannister, Findlay (2), Rowe, Reynolds, Hall, Gibson, Mesdames M'LeUand. M Donald, Findlay, Morrell, Ormond. Fraser, Brownie and three children, De Carle, Lihfcon and family (6), Ferguson, Johuston'aud infant. Knox, A. Johnston, Bolt and child, Henry, Barsht, A. E. Cohen and child, Chaplin and child, Dr Stewart, Bev. J. Brmmeson, Messrs Gcllately, Fenwick, C. W. A. Stewart, Hay, H. G. Marsdeu, A. Reid, J. D. Melrose, Tapley, H. R. Law. Linton (2), Smith, D. Reid, W. Moore. M; Henderson, F. P. Pitt, E. Whitcowbe, Maitland. Donaldson, M'Arthur, J. P. Shaw, G, C. Matheson, E. H. Ormond, Fraser, Miles, Ormond, J. J. Feeney, Campbell, R. Thomson, R. Cockbnrn, A. Stuart. Liston, F. Rule, M'Levie, H. B. Jones, De (Me, Morgan, Dumbleton, Masters Hay, Ferguson, G. Jackson and forty-seven steerage

Captains Sinclair and Phillips change ships when the Tarawera and Talunemeet m Welling* ton. Purser Siegel has been transferred to the. Tarawera. - The Maori, up to noon, to-day. had taken on board about 6,800 carcasses frozen mutton. i While coming down the coast .early this week the s.s, Tafawera came through the snowstorm, and the severity of the. weather froze the snpw to the yards and iigring in masses. .A partlcularljr heavy sea struck her on one occasion, the vibratiqn shaking a quantity of frown mow heavy mass crashing through 'the saloon skylight and breaking the plate glass into splinters In its descent.

The Tarawera steamed down from Dunedm this afternoon, and on her arrival at the Bowen pier the alarm bell was sound.ed for beat, drill, when the crew ran promptly to stations and the- boats. wcre lowered in a very abort time, thus proving tlio value of their previous drilling. MOVEMENTS OP UNION S.S. COMPANY’S FLEET. ' Titimstuv, August 1. LvttelToN. —Wareatea sailed 1 p.m. for West' port.—Orawaiti sailed 4 p.ru. for Westport. Wellington.— Grafton arrived 1 a.m. fro til Nelson.—Talune arrived 4 a.m. from Sydney.— Wakatimi arrived 7 a.m. from Lyttelton.—Penguin aiid Corinna arrived 7 a.m. from Lyttelton. Auckuand,— Moa arrived 9.30 a.m, from Gisbofne. RUsseLL.— Ovatau sailed 4 p.m. for Samoa. COWARDICE OP A CAPTAIN. That, a British , sea captain should, With his crow, desert bis burning vessel at sqa a lid make i for a port, leaving the unhappy passengers to, ex- ' tricate themselves from their predicament as best they may, is such ah urihe’ard-pf occurrence that it is small wonder the case of the senbonfar Why Not is exciting a good deal of interest, ih England and France; The vessel was a trader between the French port of St. Brieux and the Channel Islands, and left the former place on Friday. June 7, for Guernsey, with a cargo which included some ten tons of hay and straw and a quantity of lime, and twenty passengers, male and female, bound to Jersey for the potato harvest. The i next thing that was known about the vessel i was the arrival of the ship’s boat, containing the captain, crew of three, and one of the passengers at Erquy, near St, Brieux, .with the report that they had abandoned the vessel on fire, and that the other passengers were on board her. The following day the schooner itself drove ashore at Erquy, and a remarkable story was learned from those on board. They stated that soon after leaving St. Brieux a fire was noticed in the hold, and all hands set to work to extinguish the flames. Suddenly one of the sailors dropped or threw a bucket overboard, and the captain ordered the boat to be got out to recover it. The crew and the captain got into this boat and rowed away from the ship. One of the passengers swam after them and was taken in, though not without some reluctance. Up to this point .there had been no panic on the Why Not, but the peasants, abandoned oh a burning vessel, without a sailor or even any one who knew anything about sea craft among them, gave way to,something like despair. But this only lasted a little while. One brave fellow, Jean Burlot, though he understood nothing about steering, took the holm, and another went into the bows and gave him warn ingot reefs. ’I hesetwo also set about the task of infusing courage, into tho passengers: “We encouraged,” they ,said, “the women to pray and the men to work, but the lire made steady progress, and the smoke was blinding.” As the tire gained ground they thought they were doomed to death, when suddenly they felt the vessel ground, and, their shouts for help being answered from the shore, they were speedily rescued by a friendly fishing boat. Endeavors are to be made to secure the Cross of the Legion of Honor for Jean Burlot, to whom the party owed their lives. As for the captain, the latest reports stated that he was kept under observation by the judicial authorities, and it is not Tit all improbable that he may have to explain his cowardly conduct in a French court of law.— ‘ Press.’ " Shipping Telegrams. Wellington, August B—The Talune,, which arrival from Sydney at 3.30 a.m., brings 104 passengers. Those for Dunedin are: Misses Burby, Forrester, and Orr, Mesdauics Close ami child and M’Kelhir, the Rev. W. Dixon, Mr MTrlick; and seven iu the steerage. Sydney, July 31,—Tasmania and Manapouri, for Auckland.