SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3572, 28 June 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. June 27—Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Underwood, from Melbourne, via Bluff, Dunedin and intermediate ports. Passengers—From Melbourne: Mr Cohn Father Lo Forrishor. From Bluff: Mr Weaven. From Dunedin: Miss Armstrong, Mr Barnet and Mr Ball. June 27—Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Kennedy, from Dunedin. SAILED. June 27 —Wallace, p.s., 56 tons, Dillon, for Nelson. Passengers—Messrs Wallace, Willcocks, and Chisholm. June 27—Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Christian for Dunedin and intermediate ports. Passengers —Miss Janie White, Mr Bamford. Juno 27—Wellington, s.s., 262 tone, Kennedy, for Wellington. CLEARED. June 27—Wild Wave, schooner, 39 tons, Flett, for Hokitika. June 27 —Kaiuma, schooner, 39 tons, fiissett, for Hokitika. Juno 27—Spray, schooner, 50 tons, Clarkson, for Greymoutb. IMPORTS. Parana, Dolgety, Nichols and Co., agents : $746 pkts sugar. Alhambra, Dalgofcy, Nichols and Co., agents : 8 kegs, 67 cases, 6 boles, 10 qr-casks, 27 bogs sugar, 41 hf-ohests, 60 boxes, 6 trunks,' 3 trusses, 200 bogs rice, 3 pels, 13 pkgs. EXPORTS. Wild Wave, Master, ogetot: 200 sks oats, 140 do bran, 50 bales chaff, 40 hags flour, 80 do oatmeal. , Kaiuraa, Master, agent: 100 sks oats, 30 do wheat, 140 do bran, 70 do sharps, 25 bales chaff, 38 sks wheat, 3 cases, 1 ton cheese, 10 cases, 120 sks malt, 160 brooms, 6 staves. Maori, Miles and Co., agents. For Timaru, under bond : 2 qr-cks s. gin. Free : 1 boll, 60 bdls sks, 2 pels, 2 coses, 1 piano. For Oamaru: 1 case. For Dunedin: 11 cases chicory, 14 cases, 10 pkgs, 1 pel, 2 cases. Spray, Master, agent: 182 sks oats, 80 bags bran, 80 bales chaff, 70 sks wheat, 162 do oats, 40 bags oatmeal, 25 kegs butter, 12 cases. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Dover Castle, ship, discharged. Pet, barque. John Knox, barque. Lady Emma, barque, discharging. Parana, brig. Wild Wave, schooner, cleared. Columbia, schooner. Kaiuma, schooner, cleared. Spray, schooner, cleared. Sarah and Mary, ketch. Emerald, ketch. Antelope, cutter.

The schooner Wild Wave cleared the Customs yesterday for Hokitika. The schooner Spray cleared the Customs yesterday for Greymouth. The schooner Kaiuma cleared the Customs yesterday for Hokitika. The s.s. Maori sailed on her return trip jesterday at 4 p.m. M'MECKAN. BIACKWOOD AND Co. 8 S.B. Alhambra arrived in harbour from Melbourne via the Bluff and intermediate ports yesterday at daylight. The Alhambra left Hobson's Bay at 9 p.m. on the 15th; cleared the Heads at 0.30 a.m., and passed Swan Island at 9.15 p.m. on the 16th. Experienced westerly winds for the first 24 hours, followed by north-east breezes during the remainder of the run across; passed the Solander at 4.30 a.m. on the 21st, and arrived in Bluff Harbour at 11.30 a.m., discharged cargo, and sailed at 6.30 p.m., arriving at Punedin at 9.20 a.m. on the 22nd; sailed again on the 24th, calling at Oamaru and Timaru, and arriving as above. We are indebted to Mr Hart, purser, for files. The Alhambra sailed for Wellington last night.

AKABOA. ABBIYHD. June 26—Maori, s.s., from Dunedin and intermediate ports with, from Dunedin: 18 caska bottled beer, 4 cases brandy, 1 octave brandy, 1 octave port wine, 6 cases old torn, i qr-cask brandy, 1 case bitters, 4 casks oysters, 1 chest, 4 hf-chests, 6 boxes tea, 6 bags rice, 3 bdls brooms, 1 bag corks, 1 sack oatmeal, 34 mats sugar, 20 bags flour, 6 boxes candles, 1 case confectionary, 1 case castor oil, 1 case groats, 1 box pipes, 1 case vestas, 1 cask currants, 2 bales hops, 2 casks tar, 5 cases whiskey. SAILED. June 26—Maori, s.s, for Lyttelton with part original cargo, and 23 sacks guano; 4 ; passengers. June 26—E. TJ. Cameron, schooner, for Lyttelton, with 734 railway sleepers, 4328 ft timber. The Bengal, Captain Eogers, left Newcastle ,on the 29th ult., with a cargo of coal for Dunedin. On that date, at 4 p.m., the ship was embayed in Newcastle bight with a gale from S.E., and it became necessary to carry a heavy press of canvas to clear Port Stephens, and several sails were lost in the attempt, and the head gear and portion of the fore rigging were carried away. At daylight on the 30th the ship was 50 miles N.E. of Port Stephens, and on sounding the pumps was found to have 6ft of water in the well, although they had been kept going all night. The ship was kept in for the land, and a part of the cargo was thrown overboard, but although the pumps were constantly going, the water kept gaining equally aa much in smooth as rough water. The Bengal was then headed for Brisbane. On ' the 3rd inst. the wind veered to N.N. W., blowing a gale, and the ship was headed south for Sydney. On the 6th, when 200 miles from Cape Hawke, fell in with the barque Alice Cameron, dismasted ; and at Captain Kogers' request she remained alongside the sinking barque all night, and the following morning, as the weather was threatening, and there was 10ft of water in the hold, the Bengal was abandoned, the crew going on board the Alice Cameron, where they were received with every kindness, for which Captain Eogers, on behalf of himself and crew, is anxious to return his •warmest thanks.— Sydney Morning Herald, May 30. A lady passenger who went home in a ship from Auckland, the captain of which was known for his religious enthusiasm, writes a very bitter letter to a friend, which is published in the Southern Grots recently. She says the captain was " religious to a satiety ; had so much conscience that he had no occasion to care what he did; and was such a teetotaller that when the women were in actual want of stimulants as medicine not a drop could be had." After an allusion to the hypocrisy of his religion, the writer says:—"He proved the quality of genuineness of his conscientiousness by packing us like pigs—2l ,' doulb in a space 26 feet long by 9 feet wide by 6 fee't 71 inches deep in which we had to sleep and eat, and in wet weather to live together; by never once venturing down the ladder to gee whether we were alive or dead, or fed or starved; by short-provisioning the ship, so that at the end of 90 days we were nearly without flour, sugar, oatmeal, potatoes, salt pork, preserved meat, and biscuit, and had to be put on short allowance of flour and sugar till we met with a ship that supplied us with sugar." This is what the passenger says of "the good captain." Wo will not attempt to take the good captain's part, although we cannot refrain from saying that the actual complaints can be very much narrowed. The passenger appears to have ! been one of the third class, and as such . "would know the space and provisions she -, - might expect. The twenty-one souls may in reality have represented only a fourth that iTiumber of adults, for which the space would be more than adequate in a sailing ship. She also takes care to insert the word nearly when ' 'alluding to the scarcity of provisions after ninety days' sailing. We perceive that " the food ship" Beth Shan occupied 126 days on er last trip from Auckland. Early on Monday morning last the brigantine Annie, Captain J. Ikin, 201 tons register, arid owned by Messrs Fisher and Facy, of this s«iiy,'sallied from port with a full cargo off

timber for Geelong. Captain Ikin reports that on leaving he had a light north wind and moderate weather, which continued till the evening. At 8 p.m. the wind freshened up, blowing from the south east, and by midnight it had increased to «. gale, accompanied by thick weather. Captain ikin kept tack}ng occasionally until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, when ho discovered that the vessel was embayed in Adventure Bay. All possible sail was then made to work her out, but the wind and sea were both so heavy that it was found impossible to do so, and Captain Ikin was compelled to wear ship every time. lie then found that the vessel was going so fast on* the lee shore that ho determined to let go both anchors. This was done immediately, and as soon us the vessel was brought up it was discovered that she was right on the edge of the breakers. The weather was still very thick, and the sea rolling clean over the vessel. In this perilous position Captain Ikin, with a view to save life, thought it best to abandon the vessel, which was accordingly done at half-past 4 p.m., the captain, his wife and child, and nine seamen taking to the lifeboat. At this time the vessel was lying about two miles south of Cape Frederick Henry, and after toiling arduously for seven and a half hours the crow succeeded, with groat difficulty, in getting clear of the Capo, and finally after toiling for twenty-three and a half hours in the boat, and breaking two oars, they landed at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at the pilot station, whore they wore all .most hospitably received and provided for by Pilot Bleach and Mrs Blench. The weather, having moderated in the mean time, Captain Ikin and his crew left the pilot station again early yesterday morning for the vessel, and Pilot Bleach brought Mrs Ikin and her child up to town, and advised the owners of what haJ taken place. Captain Ikin and the crew, on reaching the vessel, found that she had been boarded by two fishermen named respectively Walter Munn and George Jones, and three boys, and that, finding no one on board, they had slipped the anchors, and wore endeavouring to set sail, with a view to bring the vessel up to port. Finding that they were not sufficiently strong to work the vessel, they gave Captain Ikin charge on his rejoining her, and immediately afterwards all sail was made to bring the vessel up to port to get new anchors and chains before resuming her passage. On the owners hearing from Pilot Bleach what had transpired relative to the abandonment and subsequent return of the crew to the vessel, they chartered the steam launch Enterprise to tow her up to port, and at 4 p.m. she left with Captain John Fisher, and reached the Annie near Passage Point, and towed her up from that place, the salvors remaining on board. At 7 p.m. the vessel was safely berthed alongside the Hew Wharf, where she now lies.— Hohart Town Mercury , June 7. The Straits Observer of April 16 contains the following particulars;—“ On Saturday night last, about half-past 11, it appears that the Ellen Lewis, Captain Schlolke, a British ■ barque from Amoy, with a miscellaneous cargo caught fire in these roads. The water police and Mr Richards, men from the menof.war in the harbour, the! master attendant, Captain Kirby, Mr W. H. Read, and various other gentlemen were soon in immediate attendance, when it was at once determined—as the fire hod evidently speedily gained a clear ascendancy —to beach the vessel as soon as possible, so as to be enabled to save something ; most of the passengers’ luggage was consequently rescued, but it was also found that some Siamese and others from vessels in the roads had been making too free, and proceeded to plunder the cabins during the confusion. Theraidersor wreckers weredetected carrying off bundles of clothes and other sundries. The clothes were rescued from their grasp,. but a gold watch and chain and other valuables have not yet turned up. The remains of the ill-fated vessel now lie beached near Sandy Point. It has nob been ascertained' how the fire arose, but it is reasonably supposed to have originated in that carelessness regarding lights which has caused the destruction of so many vessels annually in all parts of the world. Too great care cannot possibly be bestowed on the use of lamps, or lights, or candles on board ships in harbour ; as in harbour, especially after recent arrivals, as in, the present case, care in the case of casual lights is of course more honoured in the’ breach than in the observance. The Ellen Lewis was a barque of 366 tons, owned by. Captain Hellon, and registered at Adelaide ; she is insured in the General for £IOOO and. in the Victoria for £1500.”

Messrs J. and G. Harris received a telegram from Cape Moreton on the 31st May to the effect that the ship Young Australia had gone ashore, and that all the passengers had been landed on-Moreton Island, and were badly off for provisions and other necessaries. MessrsHarris, on receipt of the news, at once de- ; spatched the Francis Cadell, s.s., to the scene, of the wfeckj with an ample supply of neees-: saries of all kinds. The Young Australia,, Captain Cooper, cleared at the Customs fon London on Thursday, May 23, and on,Satut-i day, the 25th, the Nowra, steamer, took down' her passengers. At that time Captain CodpCß anticipated that he would be detained for some days, in consequence of the desertion of several of his men, who had been en gaged in Sydney and brought to Brisbane to complete the complement of hands to work the vessel. The following is Captain Cooper’s own statement respecting the loss of the vessel, as given by himself to our reporter -. —“ On the 31st May, at anchor off the Pilot Station, Pilot Shell being on board; at 4 a.m. turned hands out, hove in short, and made all sail, it 6.30 a.m. weighed anchor, there being light variable airs from east to southwest. At 10.30 a.m. the pilot left the ship off the Yellow Patch, the wind at the time being light from S.S.W., and the ship steering an easterly course. The wind continued to veer from S.S.W. to S.W. and W., being light all the time. At 11.15 a.m. the wind flew round to the N.N.E ; braced the ship up on the port tack, the East Cape of Moreton Island bearing B.E. by compass. Stayed ship. After hauling the main yard the wind fell, and it became a dead calm, ship remaining stationary, whilst a heavy easterly swell and strong southerly current set, the ship towards the rocks. The vessel ultimately commenced to pay off, but : before she could gather way she was so close to the rocks that it was considered expedient to let go the anchor, which was accordingly done. A few minutes after the ship struck on her heel lightly, the heavy swell immediately setting her broadside on to the rocks, where she remained stationary. As the flood tide made, the ship commenced to work heavily on the rocks. At once set to work, and lowered the port lifeboat after much difficulty, in which all the female passengers were sent safely on shore, from which the vessel was then distant about 200 yards. Clewed all sails up and furled as well as able, the ship labouring heavily all the time upon the rocks. The boat which took the passengers on shore was unable to return to the sliip again in consequence of the heavy sea. Got the large lifeboat off the skids, and in endeavouring to get her over the side she bilged. Lowered her into the water, and sent as many male passengers on shore in her as she could cany with safety, the boat also taking a line on shore from the vessel to enable the boats to be hauled to and from the ship. When the second boat returned the remainder of the passengers were sent on shore. The boats were afterwards employed in sending the luggage of the passengers and crew ashore until 5 p.m., when deeming it inadvisable to remain longer on board, the captain left the vessel with the remainder of the crew. At 4 p.m. the ship was labouring very heavily, and the mizenmast was cut away to ease her.” Arrangements were made with the passengers to proceed on foot to the pilot station, from whence they would be conveyed to Brisbane by thq, Francis Cadell. The majority of the steerage passengers consented to go, but some few preferred to remain by the; wreck, with the hope of recovering more of their traps. The i saloon passengers had all previously left. Affairs in connexion with the wreck do not appear to be quite so hopeless as they were believed to bo at first, and there seems to bo a pretty fair prospect of a good deal of her cargo being saved. Messrs Armour and Woodward, who arc Lloyd’s agents, having accepted possession of the vessel, chartered the Francis Cadell for the purpose of proceeding to the scene of the wreck. It is the intention of Lloyd’s -agents to use every effort to get as much as possible of the cargo on shore with.out delay. —Brisbane Courier.

High Wate June, 1872 :- Date. 28 — 29 — 30 — THE TIDES. r at Lyttelton for the month of a.m. p.m. 10.37 ... 10.59 11.22 ... 11.44 00.00 ... 00.07