AUCKLAND SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1154, 20 May 1870, Page 2

AUCKLAND SHIPPING.

The iron barque Ismay, Capt. Sherwin, arrived in harbour this afternoon, from Liverpool. She is deeply laden, and has had a very protracted passage of 142 days from Livers pool. The Ismay is corisigned to . Messrß. Owen and Graham, and brings a full cargo of machinery and general merchandise.— Eoew ing Star, May 14. We learn from a correspondent that a sad accident occurred on board. About ten minutes past 12 on 23rd April, when in reefing the mainsail, a boy Richard Earnshaw fell from the main-yard overboard. The vessel was immediately hauled to the wind, a life buoy thrown to the lad, and a boat lowered ; but no trace of him could be found, although search was kept up for 40 minutes. The schooner Challenge has. been lost at Manukau beads. The Evening Ne7vs .of May 14 says : — We regret very much to learn of the loss of this smart schooner. By the arrival of the Sfurt we are in possession of rather imperfect information regarding this disaster. The schooner Challenge left the Manukau yesterday, bound for Lyttelton, with a cargo of 40,000 feet timber. Captain Hobbs, who had charge of her, is one of the oldest hands along this coast. - It appears that on working out along the Heads the wind died completely away, and although everything that was possible was done to prevent her drifting, she gradually got ashore on the rocks, and is now, we understand, a total wreck. A tent and flra on tho beach was noticed by the Sturt people as they passed ; so, it is to be hoped, that no lives are lost. The schooner belonged to Messrs. Belcher and Pair weather, and was, we believe, insured for £500. The Steamship Great Eastern. — A letter dated at Bombay on the 29th of January bays : — " To Bombay people the event of the week has been the arrival of the Great Eastern, with the greater part of the cable -that ia to be ]t*id between Bombay and Suez. She was signalled on Tuesday evening, and, having lain outside during the night, sailed up the harbour to her moorings yesterday morning. Her voyage had been performed without a mishap. She left Portland on tho 6th of November, stayed 6 days at St. Knceat^in^-a-^^ Ko - i^t~r-^--^«^ttroT"lfie voyage being thus 83 days, including stoppage?. We may mention that she " hugged" the land on the west and south coast of Africa, and for two days up to the east coast, and, finding the currents strong, then went right across to the coast of Madagascar. Thereafter, her rate of sailing increased from about 110 to 200 miles per day. The Chiltern, bringing another part of the cable, arrived safely on Wednesday last. We need hardly say that the Great Eastern is the talk of everybody, European or native ; and while she is here, the powers placed over her per- ! mitting, there is certain to be a continuous rush of visitors to her decks. She has to take in some GOOO tons' of coal. Three coalladen ships have been lying here waiting for her, and, that over she, will go outside the harbour, in order that the shore end of the cable may be laid in Black Bay. After she has spent some ten or twelve days at Bombay, the daily routine of cable-laying will begin, and it is gratifying to think that tho great work is so near completion, Captain Baliver, of the Helen Maria, arrived at Spithead on March 23, in distress, from New York to Antwerp. She states that sho left New York on the same day as the steamer City of Boston, on the night of the 20th of January. She met a hurricane from the S.E. to S.W., which, while she hove to, took away her foretop-mast and jibboora, although 6he bad no sail set at the time. The captain believes the City of Boston must have been in the same hurricane. A letter from Halifax says the City of Boston was loaded with wheat when she left there 18 or 20 inches deeper than the insurance shows.