SHIPPING NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 76, 19 June 1852, Page 4

SHIPPING NEWS.

ARRIVED. June 13, schoooner Sea Bird, 30 tons, Bowler, •om Wellington. Passengers, Mr. Mills, Miss %/fe, and Miss Fraser. SAILED. * June 5, brigantine Pauline,' 106 tons, Bain for Wellington. Passengers, Mr. Le Cren, Mr. and Mrs. Page, and 8 in the steerage. June 15, ship Stag, 678 tons, Clarke, for Wellington. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Bowler and family, Dr. Evans, Rev. Mr. Hogg, Mr. Blencowe, Mr. Robinson, Rev. Mr. Nicholls, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and child, Miss Thomas, Mr. Sells Mr] and Mrs. Saulby, and 4 in the steerage. June 17, schooner Sea Bird, 30 tons, Bowler, for Wellington. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Swinbourne, Mr. Mc'lntosii, and Mr. W. Bannister, Sen. * We accidentally omitted last week the sailing of the ■; Pauline.'*

IMPORTS. In the Sea Bird, —2 tons and 43 bags flour, 27 bags sugar, 13 chests tea, 2 bags coffee, 28 bags rice, 20 kegs butter, 1 ton pork, and sundries, variously addressed. EXPORTS. In the Pauline, —3 bales wool, Tribe; 1 case boots and shoes, 7 cases drapery, Swinbourne. In the Sea Bird,—l ton cheese, Lanrie ; }£ ton do., Fraser. The Barque " Gwalior," which sailed on the 10th December from , London for Auckland, had not arrived at that port up to the 19th of May. The " Barbara Gordon" had been taken off the berth, and the "Persia" laid on in her place, to sail from London for Wellington about 1 the. 10th of February. The ship " Canterbury," was laid on at Melbourne, chartered to convey stock to this settlement towards the end of May. The " Will-o'-the-Wisp," arrived at Melbourne, from Lyttelton and Wellington, on the 13th of May. H. M. Ship "Calliope" arrived at Melbourne from Hobart Town, on the 13th of May, and sailed for Geelong on the 16th, and was to proceed thence to Sydney. The Ship " Agra" arrived at Otago- on the 4th May from England, vi& Wellington, with 49 passengers for the settlement, and was advertised to sail for China. The Barque " John Phillips" arrived at Nelson from England, vi& Auckland, on the 14th of May. The Barque, "William Hyde," Captain Applewhaite, which sailed hence for Auckland in March, has encountered a disastrous accident in crossing the bar of the Hokianga river. The following particulars are given in the Southern Cross of the 18th May:— "On Saturday, the Ist May, the day being fine and clear, with a light breeze from the eastward, and the ship in charge of the pilot, Mr. W. Young, at 4 a.m., the hands were turned out, and the cable shortened in to twenty fathoms. All sail was then set, and the ship made ready'for casting with the last quarter of the flood tide. At 7 a.m., it being then nearly high water, a fair wind blowing, and the bar, as accurately as could be calculated from the ship, sufficiently smooth to cross, it was determined to proceed to sea. Accordingly, the anchor was weighed, and the ship stood out towards the heads under all sail. The pilot left the ship close under the South head. At 8 a.m., she entered on the inner edgeof the bar, Martin's house just bearing clear of the South head, which according to the sailing directions it should do. At this moment, the rollers proved very heavy, and the ship was plunging fearfully. When about half way over she took the ground abaft, and stuck fast. Every effort was made to keep her head fair with the sea, but without success. She came up tc the wind with her head to the north-west, and fell over on her starboard side. The' position of ship and ship's company then became truly frightful, for the sea continued to beat completely over her, so that the crew and passengers had much difficulty in holding on. They remained in this state fr.r nearly threequarters of an hour, expecting the ship every moment to break up, when providentially she lifted over into deep water. Captain Applewhaite is of opinion that the accident would not have occurred, but for the heavy swell that prevailed on the bar, and which it was impossible to discover until the ship wasin the middle of it. Captain Applewhaite who has frequently and successfully loaded in the harbours of the west coast of New Zealand, considers Hokianga to be the safest of them all. A survey was held, and, we are told, as a preliminary step, it has been recommended that her cargo shall be discharged." Wreck of the Whaling Brig " Maukin." —With reference to this event (which was briefly mentioned in our journal of the 15th May) we have much pleasure in recording the humanity and kindness to ship-wrecked mariners evinced by the natives. The following appears in the Government Gazette of the 15th May:— Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, May Uth, 1852. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to direct that the following Letter be published, and that it be notified that he has authorized the sum of Five Pounds to te paid to each of the Chiefs, Brown and Busby, as a token of his approbation .of their, humane, and. praiseworthy conduct on the occasion referred to.•'" ■■■';- By His Excellency's command^ j. '! Andrew Sinclair, I \ .■■■:-- : " V -Colonial Secretary.

/Auckland, Jlfaj Ist, 1852. Sir, —Believing that it would be the wish of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor to confer a reward upon a deserving native chief for humane and hospitable treatment to the officers and crew of a shipwrecked vessel, and for honesty and integrity towards the owners of the wreck, I do myself the honour to request that you will have the goodness to bring under the consideration of His Excellency the treatment experienced by myself, officers, and crew, in the case of the recent wreck of the f frying brig, Maukin, of this port. (( vs Having been driven ashore in the tremendous gale of the sixth of March last, near North Cape, we saw no natives for three days,. during which time we succeeded in saving some provisions, sails, and other things with which we made tents, and encamped. -j On the third day, a native who was travelling es- v pied the wreck and our encampment, came down, and remained a short time with us. His visit was the same evening rfollowed bythe arrival of about forty men and a number of women and children. These people displayed the most friendly disposition, and when I wanted a guide towards Auckland, Brown, the chief at Pahrengarenga, furnished me with one. I immediately travelled across to Ahipaia, and as soon as the native chief, Busby, heard of my arrival there, he came over from Kaitaia, and the next day started for the wreck, where his presence was very beneficial. ... ■ . ;, During my absence the natives invited the officers and men to remove their camp to the settlement at Pahrengarenga, about three miles distant, where they, would be much more comfortable, and the chief, to ensure, the safety of the property left behind, tabooed the place, so that no native should go there, unaccompanied by one of the ship|s people. Prior to the removal of the camp, the mate observed that the lead of the'ship's scuppers had been cut out of the wreck,,of which he complained, when it was immediately restored. When removing to the settlement, every one of the natives, male and female, came to assist in carrying the tents, provisions, &c, over three.miles of most difficult country, without stipulating ,for fee or reward. . During the entire stay of the party at the wreck, and.at the settlement, only,one. theft of any kind was committed by a native ,•"this was of a smallH: quantity of sugar, not worth a shilling. On a complaint being made to the chief, the thief was brought before him, and a kind of semi-judicial investigation was conducted with great,deliberation a&d care, and upon conviction, the culprit-was sentenced by Busby to pay to the officer in command the sum of twenty-four shillings. This, the mate.declined to accept, being satisfied that the authority exercised by Busby would prevent similar occurrences. On the whole, Sir, I think it my duty; knowing as 1 do, the fate that too often awaits shipwrecked» mariners on the coasts of countries professedly civilized, to place on record this instance of conduct'of the native New Zealanders in like circumstances'; and this at such a distance from any European settlement, that, had they chosen to have taken not only our property, but our lives, totally unarmed as we were, prevention would have been impossible, and from the nature of the country,impunity almost certain. • I have the honour, &c, &c, Robert J. Eames. Late master of the ' Maukin.' The Honorable the Colonial Secretary. ■