SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2986, 6 August 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. Aug. s—Beautiful Star, as., 126 tons, Christian, from Dunedin, via Timaru. Irassenger—Saloon : Mr James. Aug. s—Lady Don, schooner, 68 tons, Toomey, from Hokitika. Aug. 5— Gothenburg, s.s., 459 tons, M‘Lean, from Melbourne, via Dunedin. Saloon: Miss Eairhurst, Mr Hemncker. Steerage, 5. SAILED. Aug. s—Gothenburg, s.s., 459 tons,M‘Lean, for Melbourne, via Wellington and West Coast. Passengers—saloon : Miss Bose Evans, Mr Claremont, Mr Peters. Steerage; Messrs Grant and Day. imports. In the Beautiful Star, J. M, Heywood and Co., agents: From Dunedin, under the Arms Act—lo,ooo percussion caps, 2 cases shot, Hawkes and Strouts. Part of orignal cargo, short landed at Timaru. For Lyttelton, free—i bale drapery, Reed and Rogers; I do, Order; 10 bags pearl barley, Twentyman and Cousin; 42 oars, 2 pkgs nails, 1 case, Forbes; 3 kegs nails, 1 oven, 1 case, 1 boiler, 1 coil rope, Hawkes and Strouts ; 10 cases oil, Rowley; 10 do, Partridge. In the Lady Don, C. W, Turner, agent: 37.000 feet timber, Wood and Cunningham. In the Gothenburg, E. S. Dalgety and Co., agents:—From Melbourne: 31 J-chests tea, Order; 9 do do, L. E. Nathan and Co.; 86 do do, 30 boxes do, 3 J-tierces tobacco, 10 drums oil, 5 cases castor oil, 80 pockets sugar, 20 kegs treacle, Order; 1 bale, 1 pci., H. Fuhrmannj 2 trunks, 1 case, Jones Bros.; 2 cases confectionery, 40 J-chests tea, W. H. Davenport; 2 casks rum, 3 J-casks sherry, 25 cases old tom, J. Dransfield; 3 cases merchandise, G.-L. Beath and Co.; 1 case peel, 114 bags sugar, 5 casks currants, 1 case arrowroot, 1 cocoa, Watt and Co.; 1 case, Wbitelaw and Dawson; 2 pkgs, W. Stringer and Co.; S boxes tea, 1 case fancy goods, 1 pkg, A. Foe; 1 case merchandise, R. Cobb; 1 box, Duncan and Sons; 1 pci., Hobbs and Sons; 2 pels., Sandstein; 1 do, E. Barnard; 1 do, G. Warner; 1 do, J. D. Garwood; 1 case, Bank N.S.W.; 1 case fruit, Dalgety and Co.; 1 bag, Cobb and Co.; 1 pci., Rev. A. Kirk. From Dunedin —Ex warehouse: 1 case tobacco, E. S. Dalgety and Co. Free: 1 case, Bank N.S.W. EXPORTS.

In the Gothenburg, E. S. Dalgety and Co., agents; —For Westport: 5 cases, McConnell and Co. For Greymouth: 22 kegs butter, Cobb and Sawtell. For Hokitika: 12 pkgs hams and bacon, McConnell and Co.; 5 kegs butter, 5 cases bacon, 3 cases eggs, I cask hams, 4 cases cheese, J. King; 15 kegs butter, J. P. Jameson; 1 esse, Heed and Rogers; 1 cask, 15 pkgs, Hey wood and Co.; 25 kegs hatter, Hawkins. VESSELS IN HASBOHB. Ceres, ship. Ramsay, ship. Hennon, barque. William Ackers, barque. Velocidade, barque Nile, schooner. Kaiuma, schooner. Strathnaver, schooner. Rose of Eden, schooner. Lloyd’s Herald, ketch. Annie, ketch.

The schooner Lady Don, Captain Toomey, Viaa arrived in harbour from Hokitika, with a cargo of timber for Wood and Cunningham. The s.s. Beautiful Star, Captain Christian, arrived in harbour yesterday, at 9 a.m., from Dunedin, via other ports. She left Port Chalmers at 5 a.m. on Sunday morning; arrived at Timaru at 3 p.m. same day, where she was detained until Thursday, leaving on that Jay at 5 p.m. without discharging her cargo. She is expected to sail on her return trip to-day. , , , _ . Messes M‘Meckan, Blackwood and Co.’s sj. Gothenburg, Captain M‘Lean, arrived in harbour yesterday at 12 noon, from Melbourne, via Dunedin. The Gothenburg left Port Phillip Heads at 5.30 p.m. on the 27th ult.; passed Swan Island at 8 p.m. on the following day; experienced light S.E. wind and calms on the passage across to the land (sighted at 10 p.m. on the Ist inst.), and arrived at the Bluff at 7 am. on the 2nd. Discharged cargo and left at 5 p.m. against a strong N.E. breeze and heavy head sea; passed the Nuggets at 1 am.; thick weather then set in and continued to arrival at Dunedin. She left Dunedin at 4 p.m. on Thursday, and experienced rough weather to arrival. She sailed last evening for Melbourne, via Wellington and West Coast ports. We are indebted to Mr Norris, the purser for files

KAI APOI. The Sturt, Gazelle, Volunteer, E. U. fhmmm, Jane Elkin, and Emerald, are in the river. The heavy rains of the last few days hare entirely suspended business in the shipping department, and has also been very prejudicial to the farmers who have not yet delivered thdr grain. TELEGRAM. Nelson—Aug. 5, 3 a.m., Airedale, for North. THE TIDES. High water at Lyttelton, for the month of August, 1870 :

A telegram conveys the intelligence that the visits of the Blanche and the Daphne to the Auckland Islands have been attended vrith no success. We fear that to hope any longer that any of the passengers or crew of the ill-fated Matoaka still survive is to hope against hope. Whether, she foundered in a gale, was sunk by an iceberg, or dashed to pieces on some unknown shore, will now, we fear, remain for ever shrouded in mysteiy —unless, indeed, the visit of a steamer to the South Georgias should be attended with any better results, though that is not likely. The fate of the missing portion of the Daphne’s crew adds another to the catalogue of disasters for which the Auckland Islands have achieved such an undesirable reputation. Five more victims have been added to those who have already perished on those shores. Whether their boat was swamped at sea, cracked like an egg-shell on that ironbound coast, or sucked into the cave which was the grave of the General Grant, we shall, in all probability, never know. — Otago Daily Times. Speculation still continues rife as to the probable fate of the missing ship Harlech Castle and the barque Dunkeld, and the surmises and suggestions of one day are supplemented by others, equally feasible and ingenious, of the next uay. V esterday it was reported that a vessel, supposed to be the Dunkeld, was under Rabbit Island, with her rudder gone, but the authenticity of the statement could not be vouched for, and it was further stated that she was ashore on Ninety-mile Beach, but how the intelligence reached Melbourne could not be ascertained. With regard to the Harlech Castle, a telegram was received from Newcastle,

New South Wales, yesterday, in which it was mentioned that the position of the ship, British Nary (which sailed from Port Phillip Heads on the same day as the Harlech Castle) on the 28th ult, the date when the Harlech Castle was supposed to hare been last seen, was in lat. 38 deg. S, and long 150 deg E, the wind on that day blowing a furious gale from W.S.W, On the 29th ult., the British Navy was in lat. 37 deg S, and long 162 deg £, the gale of the previous day still raging, and accompanied with terrific squalls. On neither day, however, did the British Navy see the Harlech Castle. Action in the matter has now been taken by the chief har-bour-master, and the Government steamer Pharos, in charge ofCapt Nicholson, was to leave the Bay last night for a cruise along the coast and among the islands in the Straits, and a close and careful scrutiny will be made for traces of both vessels. In connection with this subject it may be mentioned that Captain Garth, of the brig Our Hope, which arrived in port from Newcastle, N.S.W., yesterday, states that on the 14th inst., when about nine miles S.E. of Jervis Bay, he passed the deckhouse and a portion of the top sides of a vessel. The wreck, which had a quantity of seaweed and shells adhering to it, h$ supposed could not have been less than six weeks in the water. The wind at the time he passed the wreck was blowing fresh, and prevented a minute investigation.— Argus , July 23,

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