PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1086, 24 September 1869, Page 2

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Star of the South, s.s., for Auckland, to-day Rangatira, s.s., for Auckland, about the , 27th instant Wild Duck, ketoh, for Thames, early Mabia, outter, for Wairoa, on Saturday The s.s, Star of the South left Auckland for Napier on Monday, the 20th instant, at midnight, and experienced .fine weather and light northerly winds until arrival off the Mahia peninsula, when the wind changed to the; southward, and blew fresh, {[attended with

rain. She anohored J&sthe roadstead at : 9 ( p.m; on the 22nd. PassSd tHe gimb'o^t St. Kilda, steaming towards'Povertyrßayxafc^ p.m. on Wednesday last, off Table Cape. '%. „. The cutter Mahia left Waboa for Napier 5 at & p.m. on Wednesday, and arrived here after a smart run of 5 J hours, experiencing strong N.W winds dnrinw the pasßag*. She brings two of 'the "Arttie'd Uotiiitabulary, and a oargo of 300 bushels of maize. The Star of the South, s.s., oleared at the Customs yesterday for Auokland, and will leave this evening. She will return to this port after discharge of cargo. The Mahia will proceed again to Wairoa on shipment of cargo. The Colonial Government gua-boat St. Hilda took her departure for the East Coast at 7 p.m. on Tuesday laßt 1 . We learn by the courtesy of Captain Bendall of the Star of South, that he sighted hei ; steering towards Poverty Bay. The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Rangatira is expected here on the 26th mat., and will leave again on the 27th for Auckland. The B.s. Phoebe arrived in Sydney on the the evening of the Bth inst., after a very, boisterous passage from Auokland. Shipping has been unusually slack during the past week. "With the exceptidn of the Star of the South, Wild Dock, and our own lighters, there is no vessel in the pot. The ketch Pearl, from Dunedin to Greymouth, oapsized on the Bth inst., whilst being towed across the bar. All hands were lost." It was instantaneous. There was not the slightest chance of saving life. . A tremendous sea broke on the bar. !