ARRIVAL OF THE "WILLIAM CARGILL."

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1030, 13 March 1869, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE "WILLIAM CARGILL."

The barque William Cargill, from London via Ota,jo, arrived in the roadstead on Wednesday last, at 2 p.m., and was at once moored at- the western anchorage by the harbor-master. She left Plymouth oil the Bfch November, 1868, and had light and variable winds to 20" South. From off the Cape of Good Hope, made the passage to Otago Heads m 37 days ; since then, squalls, light winds and variable, have been experienced. This ship is fitted up with all modern improvements, condensing apparatus, donkey engine for cargo, and screw for steering the vessel. The saloon is fitted up with bird's-eye maple and teak, polished, touched with gold. Houses are put up on deck for all the officers and crew; and the ship is in every way splendidly adapted for the China and India trade* She was built under special survey, and this is her first passage. The William Oargill belongs to Dunedin, Otago. The s.s. Wellington arrived in the roadstead at 245 p.m. on Tuesday, from Wellington and Southern Ports. She left Port Chalmers afc 6 p.m. on Wed: nesday the 3rd; arrived at Lyttelton next day at noon -, left again at ll a.m. on Friday the sth, and arrived at Wellington on Saturday; left again on Monday the Bth, at 2 p.m., and rounded the Kidnappers at 12*30 p.m., arriving as above. ExperisiKsa t teah head ■winds all tha uassase. ithe schooner Tawera, Oapfe. Kennedy, cleared Ol\ Tuesday toe Porerty hay and Auckland, tuui took her departure late in the evening. The Colonial Government gunboat St. Kilda, Capt. Fox, arrived in the roadstead on Tuesday last, from a cruise on the East Coast. She had on board the well-known Ngatiporou chief Ropata and about 78 of his followers, as well as several passengers. The St. Kilda left for "Wellington on Thursday. Ropata, as anticipated, did not proceed by her. The s.s. Lord Ashley, Gapt. Worsp, arrived in the roadstead at 2 pm, on Wednesday. She left the Bluff at 5 p.m. on the 3rd, and arrived at Port Chalmers at 8 a.m. on the 4th; left on the 6th, at 5 p.m., arriving at Lyttelton at noon on the 6th ; left again at 2'Bo p.m. on the 7th, experiencing a strong N. W. gale from the Kaikouras, and anchored at Wellington at 830 p.m. on the Bth ; left again at 2*30 p.m. On Tuesday the 9th, rounding Cape Palliser at 645 p.m., and Cape Kidnappers at 1215 p.m. on the 10th, and arrived as above. Experienced fine weather on the passage up. The Lord Ashloy left again for Auokland on Thur-day at 11 a.m. On Thursday H.M.S. Blanche left; Wellington for the Auckland Islands; Robert Henderson, ship, left the Bluff for London; and City of Dunedin, ship, left Port Chalmers for London. The Countess of Kintore, ship, was to leave Auokland for London on Wednesday last. The barque Rapido arrived in Auokland from Liverpool on the afternoon of Tuesday last, after a fine passage of 106 days. Tho Waipu correspondent of the Soutliern Cross communicates a report that has reached him to the effect that a whole boat's crew from the cutter Oaliforniahad landed at the Cove, Waipu, reporting that they had been driven away from their ship in a squall and fog, and that the officer in charge of the boat had been accidentally entangled in the line while following in the wake of a whale, and tumbled overboard. Our correspondent states that the boat's crew will come up to Auckland in the cutter Don. The brigantine Prince Patrick arrived in the roadstead at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday from Newcastle, N.S.W., which port she left on the 80th January, and had fine weather till making Cape Farewell on the 10th Feb., when a north-east gale came on, which lasted for three days, and drove the vessel 150 miles off land ; from then till 28th Feb. experienced a succession of calms and gales from N.E. to S.E. ; made Cape Farewell again on 28th Feb. .In the Straits the truss of the foreyard was carried away, which compelled her to put into Wellington for repairs, at which port she arrived on the 3rd inst., and lay there till her repairs were finished on the 7th, when she left for this port, and rounded Cape Palliser at noon same day, after which she was becalmed till midnight. The wind coming up from the northward, passed Cape Turnagaiu on the 10th, rounded the Kidnappers at 12.30, and arrived as above. Captain Anderson reports fine weather the first part of the voyage, and strong gales and head winds the latter. She lost several sails during the gales. On the discharge of her cargo, sha willleave for Newcastle, N.S.W., again. The s.s. Star of the South, Bendall, left Auokland on Tuesday evening, 9th inst., and arrived in the roadstead at 5 p.m. on Thursday, and at once entered the Pot. During her stay in Auckland she has been on the slip and undergone a thorough overhaul both in maohinery and hull, and has been fitted with a new foremast, maintopmast, and rigging. She has also been fitted with a patent reefing topsail, as well as other improvements, and is now in fine condition. Captain Bendall gives the following report of his mishap on the passage to Auckland from this port. Left Napier on Monday, 15th Feb., at 9 a.m., with a cargo of 1200 sheep, with the wind S.S.W., veering to the eastward with squalls at 11 a.m., and at noon changing to the S.S.E. with thick weather and heavy sea, the steamer shipping great quantities of water, and compelled to carry a pres9 of canvas, so as to clear Portland Island, in doing which the foremast was carred away, taking with it the main fore-topmast. The engines were immediately stopped, and the ship brought to on the port tack, to clear away the wr^ck. She drifted a considerable distance to leeward whilst thus engaged. The wind having hauled to the southward, she was kept before it and ran along the coast with a heavy sea. On Tuesday, Feb. 16, rounded East Cape at 5 a.m. At 8 a.m. on 17th. rounded Cape Colville, and arrived and landed sheep at Tamaki jetty, and reached Queen-street wharf, Auckland, at 8 p.m. The Star of the South will leave for Auckland early on Sunday morning. The sohooner Jubilee, Hill, will probably leave for Tauranga with a cargo of sheep on Sunday.