EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3906, 4 May 1877, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Go- Ahead, s.s., from Auckland and Poverty Bay Manaia, p. a., from Wairoa Pretty Jane, s.s., from Poverty Bay and Auckland Rotorua, s.s., from Wellington and Southern ports Jane Douglas, s. s. , from Gisborne Albatross, schooner, from Whangapoua Southern Cross, s.s., from Lyttelton Kiwi, s.s., from Wellington Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland News was received from Poverty Bay yesterday, stating that the s.s. Go-Ahead was still aground. Every effort has been made to get her off, but without success. She has still several tons of cargo in her ; probably when she is lightened of these she may be floated. It has been ascertained that the damage done to her is comparatively slight, one or two trifling holes being the extent of the injury she has received. The s.s. Rangatira, Captain Evans, arrived in the Bay at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, and was brought alongside the breastwork at 9.30 a.m. yesterday. In coming in she took the ground and stuck on the bar for about a quarter of an hour. She brings this time the largest cargo she has had in her since the alteration was made in her tonnage. She cast off from Wellington wharf at 3.50 p.m. on Tuesday, and towed the ship Pleione to the patent slip. She started for Napier at 7 p.m. After clearing the heads she experienced a strong southerly breeze and heavy head sea, which accompanied her up to her ai-rival off Cape Palliser. After rounding the cape the wind aioderated, still blowing from the same quarter, and from thence to arrival she had light southerly winds. She passed the s. s. Kiwi off Cape Turnagain. She takes her departure for Poverty Bay at 9 o'clock this morning. The s.s. Jane Douglas left Poverty Bay for this port at 1 a.m. yesterday. The schooner Columbia went outside and anchored in the bay on the 2Sth of April, but only succeeded in getting away yesterday. The s.s. .Result went outside yesterday for the purpose of towing in the schooner Spray, but had to return, as the captain of the Spray had lost an apehor, and did not wish to come inside. Latest news from the Wairoa states that the bar, though still bad, is improving. The Manaia is still, however, debarred from leaving. Captain BendalTs friends will be glad to hear that he is now in command of the C. G. s.s. Stella, her former commander, Captain Johnston, having relinquished the charge of her in order to resume his duties in the Marine Department. There appears to be considerable doubt existing as to the identity of the wreck at Palliser Bay. It is thought by some to be the schooner Edward, bound from Lyttelton to Le Bon's Bay, while others are of opinion that it is the brigantine Kate Brien, bound from Timaru to Auckland. Neither of these vessels have yet put in an appeai-ance at the ports for which they were destined, although the former is now out 30 days, and the latter 28 days.' It is to be hoped that the matter will be taken up by the proper authorities, and search made in order, if possible, to ascertain anything further on the subject. The ship Fernglen, which arrived at the Bluff on Sunday, the 22nd ult., was 16 days on the passage from Napier, according to the "News," and encountered all the heavy weather that prevailed from the 7th to the 10th instant. She was hove-to under storm main trysail, and lost the foresail and two foretopmast staysails. Excepting the strong S.W. gale of the 17th, provokingly light weather prevailed during the rest of the passage. We take the following sad memento of a lost vessel and her crew from an English paper : — " The wife of the mate of the missing screw steamer Wells, of Hull, has received a letter from her husband, stating that the vessel was foundering with all her crew, and that the ship was overladen. The letter, which was washed ashore at Lybster on the 12th instant, is worded thus: — 'December 21, 1876. — My dear wife and son, — We are laid to in. the North Sea, about 100 miles from the Holman, with our hatch stove in and gangway gone. The sea is fearful — it is washing in and out of the main hatchway, and washing the linseed out of the hold. It happened at 4 a.m. this morning. My dear, we have the boat swinging all ready for lowering, but we dare not for the sea. There is no water in the after uold, and the engines are going ahead to pump the water out. lam afraid it is to no purpose. I don't think we shall live the night out. Pray to God to forgive us our sins, for we have many. My dear wife and son — it is a painful thing to write to you both to say that I expect every moment to be my last. The : ship was too deep down to Plimsolls mark. Ships ought not to be allowed to load so deep. Good bye — God bless you both, and I hope He will protect you ; and tell John to be a good boy and keep honest and sober. — Your affectionate husband, John Cook, chief mate s.s. Wells, of Hull.— l3o, Daystreet, Hull. Kind love to all.' "