SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3570, 27 June 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. June 26—Maori, s.s, 118 tons, Christian, from Dunedin and intermediate ports. Passengers : Cabin —Mrs Taafe, Mrs Wdkm, Miss Warburton, Messrs Townsend, Galbraith, Maxwell, Williamson, Reinhardt, Moss, gin-ell, Mitchell, Professor Hosolmayer. 6 in Jmm'sfi—Phoobo, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Wellington and northern ports. Passengers : Cabin—Mr and Mrs Bannatyne, Mr and Miss Duncan, Messrs Chamberlain, Martin, Taylor, Davis, Mr and Mrs Mclntosh, 2 for Otago. Steerage—Mrs Huntley and 3 children. , Juno 26—Wallace, p.s., 56 tons, Edie, from Dunedin. June 26 —Parana, brig, from Port Louis, Mauritius, via Dunedin. Juno 26—Emu, ketch, 27 tons, Rao, from Akaroa. „ June 26 —Ann, schooner, 19 tons, Tumor, from Little Akaloa.

CLEARED. Juno 26—Ann, schooner, 19 tons, Tumor, for Little Akaloa. June 26—Emu, ketch, 27 tons, Rne, tor Akaroa. SAILED. June 26—Phccbo, s.a., 416 tons, Worsp, for Dunedin. Passengers—Mr Humo; 5 original. IMPORTS. Maori, Miles and Co., agents : From Dunedin under bond—ls{ casks whisky, 2 eases. Free—96 cases, 113 pkgs, 4 bales, 2 trunks, 67 kegs, 7 hhds, 2 brls, 50* do, 44 lengths pipe, lot of timber, do sash weights, 30 boxes, 25 sacks, 30 kits, 33 doors, 3 bdls, 6 tubes, 1 box. „ Phcebe, Matheson's Agency, agents: *rom Onehunga—3 cases. From Nelson—l pel, 1 bdle trees, 1 case. From Picton—2 horses. From Wellington under bond—4 cases, 49 cases whisky. Free—l trunk, 1 coil wire, 1 pel, 25 bdls bags, 6 pkgs, 1 pel, 1 case. EXPORTS. Emu, Master, agent: 3 tons potatoes, 3 tons coal. A-ESSELS IN HARBOUR. Maori, s.s. Wallace, p.s. Dover Castle, ship, discharged. Pet, barque. John Knox, barque. Lady Emma, barque, discharging. Ben'Nevis, brig, cleared. Parana, brig. Wild Wave, schooner. ■Columbia, schooner. Kaiurua, sohooner. Spray, schooner. Emu, ketch. Courier, ketch. Sarah and Mary, ketch. Emerald, ketch. Antelope, cutter. The s.b. Maori, Captain Christian, arrived \ in harbour yesterday,'at 10 a.m., from Dune- | din, and intermediate ports; she sails for ■ southern ports, this day. .We learn by telegraph that the ketch Straggler is a total wreck in Le Bon Bay, having struck on a sunken rock in a heavy | sea. No lives were lost. The s.s. Phcebe, Captain Worsp, arrived in harbour yesterday, at 1.30 p.m.; left Onehunga wharf, at 8 a.m., on the 21st, but had to stop the engines several times in consequence of the dense fog before she crossed the bar; had fresh northerly winds, and anchored off New Plymouth on the 22nd, at 8 a.m.; a strong westerly sea setting in, discharged 50 tons eargo, and proceeded, at 3.30 p.m., ex- I periencing fresh northwest winds, and thick I rainy weather; arrived at Nelson on the 23rd, at 8.30 a.m.; sailed again, at 9.30 a.m., and arrived at Picton, at 6.30 p.m.; proceeded, at 10.20 p.m., same day, and arrived at Wellington, on the 25th, at 3.45 a.m.; left, at 2.30 p.m., arriving aa above. The Phcebe sailed for Dunedin, at 4 p.m. rrxn? TTTYUS!

KAIAPOI. ASEITBD. June 26—Clyde, p.s., Williams, from Lyttelton. June 26—Mullogh, s.s., Marshall,from Lyttelton. June 26—Gazelle, s.s., M'Lellan, from Lyttelton. SAIIiED. June 26—Clyde, p.s., Williams, for Lyttelton. June 26—Mullogh, b.s., Marshall, for Lyttelton. June 26—Gazelle, s.s., M'Lellan, for Lyttelton. EXPOETS. Clyde: 230 sacks wheat. Mullogh : 400 sacks oats. Gazelle : 528 saekß wheat, 20 kegs butter.

The barque Ayr has been chartered to proceed to Mauritius for a cargo of sugar. She will leave for Lyttelton, and there load grain for Mauritius, returning from that port to Auckland with sugars. A portion of her cargo will also he for Lyttelton. —Southern Cross, June 18. The handy little steamer Wallace, which will he a loss to our coastal trade, sails to-day for Nelson, en route for the West Coast, to enter on a new sphere of operations. It is to he regretted that such a smart craft should leave our shores. The Harbour Company, however, who have sold her to a Nelson firm, intend getting out from home a still faster vessel for the Oamaru trade, which the Wallace has so long successfully worked, never meeting with an accident, and making her passages with great regularity. —Otago Daily Times, June 22. Our Hope, brig, has maintained the appropriateness of her name, although she has had a narrow squeak for it, being all [but shipwrecked at Oamaru, with a large portion of the girders, &c. for the Waitaki bridge. “ Our hopes ” were that she would have landed the plant safely. She has, however, returned to Port Chalmers, with loss of anchors and cables. They being furnished, she will again proceed to Oamaru, to discharge the remaining portion of her cargo. The following is a brief outline of her proceedings :—She arrived at the outer anchorage off Oamaru at 9 p.m. on the 7th inst., from Port Chalmers; was removed next day to a berth closer in shore, and commenced discharging girders, &c., into a surf punt which she took down with her; fine weather continued till the 12th, and good work was done. At midnight on that day, a heavy B.E. swell commenced to roll in, the wind at the time being light off the land. All sail was got in readiness to proceed to sea, but as the wind was so light that the sails could not be “ kept sleeping, she hung on till morning. Signals were hoisted from shore, “Proceed to sea without delay,” and observed by the brig. There was not sufficient wind, however, to take her over the sea, which by this time had increased, and her master, Captain Payne, resorted to lashing coir springs from each quarter on to her cable, so as to ease both chain and windlass, which proved of considerable service. At 10 a.m. her starboard anchor was dropped, and 60 fathoms of cable veered out to hold her. The sea was then breaking at least one mile outside of her, and fears were entertained by all on board as to her safety, as the seas were making a clean breach over her, carrying away cathead, headrails, bulwarks, Ac., the crew at each sea taking to the rigging for safety. The seas at times reached the foreyard, and the men had to hold on to avoid being washed overboard. The sails were still set, and at 3.30 p.m. the land breeze freshened, and on its coming on, the cables were slipped and .the brig forced herself through the surf, much to the relief of all on board. At 5 p.m. she was about three miles clear of the breakers; the wind then died away to a light breeze. About 9 p.m., the wind set in from south ; kept ship on starboard tack, got 16 miles off, and at 6 a.m. on the 14th encountered a heavy SE-gaUr (which has not blown horns, but

accounts for the heavy seas lately rolling in on our coast), reduced canvas to Rouble*; reefed topsails and foretopmast-staysail; ■ tli# gale veered round southerly to S.W. and blcif, hard. After it moderated, light variables were experienced, and no ground tackle to return to Oamaru the came on here for the needful, Mr Pilot Kelly brought her up to an anchorage close in shore with a hedge, with seven fathoms of chain and rope attached. She was afterwards hauled alongside the hulk Industry, whore slip is now moored. Captain Payne of the brig desires to thank Captain Gorn (late of the Pilot Service), who went down in her ns supercargo, for his local knowledge and advice under trying circumstances. We congratulate Captain Payne and all concerned in thus saving his vosseLr— Otago Daily Times, Juno 21. _____

A FROZEN BOAT’S CREW IN MIDOCEAN. ('From the iVew York Herald.) The recent gales have canned a number of serious disasters along the coast, and much suffering has been experienced by seamen. A case in point is furnished by the sad catas. tropbe which bofel the schooner Henry Conrad. The sufferings of her shipwrecked crew are harrowing in the extreme, and hod it not been for the humane and manly action of Captain Q. M. Walker, commander of the steamship Albemarle, of the old Dominion line, they must hare been lost. The Albemarle left’ Norfolk on Monday evening, at 4 p.m. Four hours later it commenced to blow a gale from tho north-west, and continued in violence until the following evening. About 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Captain W alker, when off Cape May, sighted a three-masted schooner sunk. Tho captain at once ran down towards thp schooner, and, to his surprise, found a small boat made fast to one of tho masts, containing six men and one woman, all of whom were stark and stiff, while the little boat was constantly shipping water, and tossing about at the mercy of the waves. The occupants of the boat were rapidly sinking into a state of unconsciousness, and it was evident that, if not already gone to their last home, their hours were numbered. It was perceived that every person in the boat had a coating of ice on over half a foot thick, and benumbed and frostbitten, they were for a time deaf to all interrogatories. At length Captain Walker came up quite close to the suiiken schooner, and, with stentorian voice, hailed them to cut adrift. As if roused from deep slumber, a simultaneous effort was made to obey the kind command. But their powers were gone, and in the effort to relieve themselves, they fell back in the boat in a senseless condition. One man, however, roused to a last desperate attempt, seized an axe with his frostbitten hands, and, by one vigourous stroke, cut the rope that so long bad enchained them to death. Thus freed, the little boat, with its perishing occupants, dropped alongside the Albemarle, and they were taken through the port on the lee side. They presented a most helpless and forlorn spectacle, and it was thought very few of them would survive the terrible ordeal through which they had passed. But the usual remedies were quickly applied, and with the great and unremitting attention bestowed upon them by Captain Walker and the purser of the Albemarle, the poor patients gradually returned to consciousness.

High "Water at Lyttelton for the month of June, 1872 :— Date. a.m. cm. 27 — 9.51 10.14 28 — 10.37 10.59 29 — 11.22 11.44 30 — 00.00 00.07