PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 913, 1 February 1868, Page 2

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Echunga, ship, for London, about Bth February Hero, schooner, for Mohaka and Wairoa, early Dolphin, cutter, for Auckland, early Ranpatira, s.s., for Tauranga and Auckland, 7th February Storm Bird, s.s., for Wellington, 4th instant Wellington, s.s.. for Wellington and Southern Ports, 2nd February

THE s.s. Lord Ashley, Captain Worsp, left Wellington at 1 30 p.m. on Tuesday, with fine N.W. weather, and arrived afr her anchorage in the roadstead at X p.m. on Thursday. She brings the English mails via Panama and Suez. The Lord Ashley steamed for Tauranga and Auckland the same afternoon at 6 p.m. The p.s. Cleopatra left this port for Wairoa and Poverty Bay on Tuesday last, carrying a full cargo Of merchandise, and 19 passengers. The barque John Bunyan, Captain Allen (the first wool ship of the season) took her departure on Tuesday last at 2 p.m. She takes home 1553 bales and 36 bags wool, 422 hides and calfskins, 10 bundles sheepskins, and 70 cwt. tallow ; also 5 passengers. The s.s. Storm Bird, due here from Wellington tomorrow, will make a return trip to the same port on the 4th, leaving the Pot at 10 a.m. The s.s. Wellington, which is expected to-day from Tauranga and Auckland, will take her departure for Wellington and Southern Ports to-morrow, carrying ths English mail via Panama. By the arrival of the Lord Ashley, we learn that fcho s.s. Star of the South arrived at Port Chalmers on the 26th inst., at SMO p.m. The schooner Hero took her departure yesterday evening for Mohaka and Wairoa, with a full general cargo.

■\Vbeck. — The schooner Joanna, Captain John Gilford, from Havelock. was totally wrecked last night in the Strait. The Joanna, with a cargo of timber for this port consigned to Messrs. Greenfield & Stewart, lefr Havelock on Thursday last, and experienced moderate northerly winds. When near Sinclair's Head, sprung a leak, and the master and crew were forced to abandon her. They were picked up by the ketch Diana and brought into port this afternoon.— Evening Post. Jan. 21. Wreck of the Tasmawian Maid.— We are indebted to Captain Doile, of the s.s. Storm Bird, for the intelligence of the loss and total wreck of the paddle-steamer Tasmanian Maid, Captain Souter, at Taranaki, at 9 p.m. on the evening of the 16th. The Tasmanian Maid left Manukau wharf at 10 p.m. on the night of the 13th January for the West Coast, calling at all the ports on her way to Hokitika. The Storm Bird overtook the Tasmanian Maid at Tarauaki, and Captain Doile obliged Captain Souter by letting him havo three tons of coal, as he had not sufficient to take him on to the Huller. TheTasmanian Maid and Storm Bird left their separate anchorages together, when very suddenly the Tasmanian Maid began blowing her whistle and firing distress guns. Captain Doile hailed the vessel several times to ask if he could be of any assistance, but received ho answer. It turned out that the Maid had struck upon a rock. Captain Doile took his ship as close to the reef a3 'he possibly could without endangering his own vessel. He then lowered the boats and sent them off in charge of Mr. Irvine, the chief officer, to render all the assistance in his power. Mr. Irvine succeeded in rescuing the passengers, crew, and officers, and took them to the surf boats. He then returned just in time to take Capt. Souter, and the ship's papers into the boat as the Tasmanian Maid settled down by the stern. The passengers, crew, &c. lost everything they had except what they stood up in. The ill-fated steamer struck on a reef to the south of the anchorage, and is out of water at low tide. Captain Souter reports the Tasmanian Maid a total wreck. She was loaded with colonial produce, &c., and passengers for the West Coast gold fields. — WanganuiCronicle.