Shipping Record. PORT OF NAPIER

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 294, 24 June 1862, Page 2

Shipping Record. PORT OF NAPIER

ABBIYED. June 21— Ten, schooner, 17 tons, Pekama, from "Wairoa, with 4,810 palings, 3,700 feet timber, 240 rails, 14 kits maize, i ton bacon and hams, 13 kits onions, l£ tons flax, £ ton rope, 1 cart, and 4 native passengers.— V. Janisch, accent. June 21 — Gipsy, ketch, Baxter, from Wairoa, with 200 bushels wheat, 50 bushels maize, \ ton bacon, 5 cwt. potatoes, 200 pumpkins, 10 fowls, and 400 feet timber. One native (prisoner) passenger. June 23— Sea Serpent, brigantine, 60 tons, Blair, from Wellington, with 4 qr.-casks sherry, 1 qr.-cask port, 5 qr.-casks brandy, 10 cases old torn, 5 cases brandy, 10 cases sherry, 2 cases port, 92 mats sugar, 1 case coffee, ' 1 bag pepper, 5 kegs butter, 1 box tea, 8 cases, 1 pckg. calico, 10 kegs nails, 6 nests tubs, 5 dozen buckets, 10 sets camp kettles, 10 coils rope, 10,000 shingles, 3000 feet timber, 20 tons coals. Passengers— Messrr. Wallace and Gillies. — Master, agent. The Sea Serpent arrived in port yesterday morning about 7 o'clock. She left Wellington about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon— thus making a very good run of 40 hours. Captain. Blair reports very heavy north-westerly gales as having been experienced in Wellington just before his departure. The Surprise was in Wellington, and would most likely load ex Blanche for Napier, Unless it be determined to send that vessel on, (she having a good deal of cargo for this place,) which was uncertain. The Otago Tbade.— The Storm Bird from Otago, on ! Sunday morning, brings a full cargo and some five and twenty passengers. She was obliged to shut out a large quantity of merchandise belonging to Mr. John Martin. It is very satisfactory to find that the W.S.N. Co.'s boats are in no danger of lying idle, for if plenty of trade can thus be found for them in the winter, there is no fear of their not doing well in the summer. The Wonga Wonga and Storm Bird possess the very great advantage of being able to load and discharge at Dunedin wharf, thereby saving the cost of lighterage between Port Chalmers and Dunedin— about 30s. a ton. This ensures a prefer* ence over larger boats, very beneficial to the sharehold- ' ers. — Independent, June 17. The Wonga. — This steamer is expected to-morrow from Auckland via Wanganui— the severe weather she encountered on. her upward trip having delayed her considerably. She will probably bring a few days later news, especially as to the correctness or incorrectness of the very doubtful rumour that Tirarau — one of the two contending Kaipara chiefs— had been shot.— lbid. The Lord Worsley.— True to her time, this vessel started on Sunday afternoon for Lyttelton and Otago, with supplementary mails for England. She will probably arrive in Otago sometime to-night, the Otago steamer being detained for her until 2 aclock p.m, tomorrow, (the 18th), if need be. As she was detained at "Manakau Heads for two days, unable to cross the bar, and was very nearly detained here by strong southerly winds, our merchants and others will in future do well to forward as much of their correspondence as possible by the Queen, which, sailing about the 11th, is certain I to be in ample tune for the Otago steamer. With every exertion to keep to the exact dates of the published time ] table, "We must bear in mind that their sailing is subject to the proviso " wind and weather permitting" — a proviso which, though only of importance in the case of the supplementary mail steamer, is in that case most seriously so. — Ibid. The Hermine, Capt. Berg, sailed from Wellington on the 6th inst., with one 170 head of cattle, and arrived at Port Cooper on the 10th inst. landed her cattle in good condition ; having lost only two head on the passage, and left Lyttelton on Thursday hist at 2 p.m. and arrived in this harbour on Saturday hist at 5*30 p.m. On Friday last, when about 20 miles off the Kai Koras, about 12 o'clock, the dead body of a man was observed floating on the water ; he had a black coat on, his face was upwards and a number of birds were about him.— lbid. The Pole Stab.— This vessel, for the loss of which strong fears are entertained, had as a passenger Mr. Charles Baker, formerly of Otago, but then onnisway from Auckland to Napier to enter upon the duties of a Resident Magistracy in a Native District of the North, to which he had been recently appointed. Mr. Charles I Baker is a near relative of Mr. E. Baker of the Native Department here.— lndependent, June 20. HOKEIBIE AITD THBII/LIITG NABBJLTIVE^— The St. John's Daily News, of December 6th, gives the following account of the sufferings of John ]?. Sullivan of Hadley Fall, Mass., and his companions, deserters from the whale-ships Daniel Webster and Ansel Gibbs, of New Bedford, Cumberland Straits, on the 4th of August hist. The narrative was written by Sullivan. The writer says that he had no reason for leaving the ship, only that he was not sufficiently provided against the cold Northern climate, and was afraid of dying by scurvy. The crew of the Ansel Gibbs complained of bad treatment. There were John Giles, boat-steerer; John Martin, Hiram J. Davis, Willard Hawkins, Thomas Colwen, Joseph Fisher, and Samuel Fisher, who, with Sullivan and his shipmate Warren Dutton, constituted the deserting party. They stole a b«at from the Ansel Gibbs, in which they managed to place a very small quantify of provisions, two guns, and a little ammunition, and steered across the Straits. They left the vessel in latitude 65, about five miles from Penny's Harbour. On the fourth day they fell in with the barque George Henry, Captain Cuddington, of New London, who offered to take all on board, but they declined. He gave them some provisions, which were augmented by a duck and the hind quarters of a white bear they managed to shoot before they reached Constitution Island, where their provisions became nearly, exhausted. On the 20th August, at Cape Chidleigh, they had nothing but mushrooms and berries to live upon ; and here Hawkins and Davis ran away from the party, and carried away everything that was useful belonging to the boat. After an attempt' to leave the place, which was prevented by stormy weather, they landed again, and Dutton died of starvation. The narrative of Sullivan says :— "The evening he died, Samuel Fisher proposed to eat him : he took his knife and cut a piece of the thigh, and held it over the fire until it was cooked. Then, next morning each man followed his example ; after that the meat was taken off the bones and each man took a share. We stopped here three days. We then made a start; but the wind being ahead we. were compelled to put back. Here we stopped two more days. During that time the bones were broken up small and boiled in a pot or kettle that we had; also the Bkull was broken open/the brains taken out and cooked. We then, got a fair .wind, but as we got round a point we had the wind, very fresh off shore ; we could hardly manage the boat; at last we drove on to an island some way oufc tojsea* :We got the boat under thejl©^^o/;it| but the same night we had a large hole stove into her. Being unable ip haul hiar up; we stayed here eight days jit was' onthisislandthey tried toinuj^er me.. The tinrd day iifl&llltMSiiiiiiMiM:iililli^

anything I could find to eat. Coming in I chanced to pick up a mushroom. I brought it in with me. also an armful of wood to keep. While kneeling down to cook the mushroom, I received a heavy blow, of a club from Joseph Fisher, and before I could get on my feet I rei oeived three more blows ; I then managed to get on my feet, when Samuel got hold of my right arm: 3. Fisher struck me three more blows on the arm, I somehow got away from them, and being half crazy, I did not know what to do. They made for me again; I kept begging of them to vpare my life ; but they would not listen to my cries. .They said they wanted some meat, and were Bound to kin me. I had nothing I could defend myself with but a small knife; this I held in my hand until they approached me; Samuel Fisher was the first to come towards me ; he had a large dirk knife in his hand; his cousin was coming from another direction with a club and a stone. Samuel, came in and grasped me by the shoulder, and had his knife raised to stab me. I then raised my Knife and stabbed him in tha throat ; he immediately fell, andlthenmadeastepfor Joe, but he dropped his club and went up to where the rest were. I then stooped down to see if Samuel was dead ; he was still alive; I began to cry; afteralittle while the rest toldme to come vp — they would see there was nothing more done to me. I had received four deep cuts in the head ; one of the fellows dressed them for me, and washed the blood off my face. Next day Samuel Fisher died ; his cousin was the first one to cut him up ; his body was used up the same as my unfortunate shipmate's. After a while we managed to repair the boat and left the island. We ran in where we thought was mainland— it proved to be an island ; here we left the boat and proceeded on foot walking; about one mile a day. At last we reached the other side of the island in about four days; then put back again to the boat. It took us four days to get back. When we got there, we found the boat stove very bad since we left her. We tried to get round this island in her, but she sunk when we g»t into her; we then left her, and went back again to the other side of the island, to remain there until we should die or be picked up. We ate our belts, boots, and sheaths, and a number of bear and sealskins, articles we had with us. To add to our misery it commenced to rain and kept up for three days : it then began to snow. In this miserable condition we were picked up by a boat's crew of Esquimeaux on the 20th September, and brought to Okoke on the 3rd of October. The missionaries did all that lay in their power to help us along, and provided us witn food and clothing, then sent us on to Nial, were we met 'thedoctor* HDavis), who was picked up three days before we were. He reported that his company died, and told many false stories after he was picked up." The Boston Journal says the above thrilling narrative has the air of romance rather than reality, and some of the circumstances appear very improbable, but as the Ansel Gibbs, which arrived at New Bedford on the 11th of last November, reported the desertion of seven of her crew, with a whaleboat in the Arctic region, at the date above given, the main facts of this story are doubtless true.