SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3740, 16 January 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. AEBIVED.

Jan. 15—Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, from Akaroa. Jan. 15—Edward, schooner, 32 tons, Palmer, from Le Bpn Bay. a Jan. 15— Elizabeth Curie, schooner, 76 tons, Calvert, from Hokitika. Jan. 15—Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Wellington. Passengers Messrs Rowe, Towers, Chisholm, Henderson, Paul, Chisholm, Phillips, Fry, Mackey, Lewm, Gould, Mundy, Mitchell, Worth, Blackett, -Rose, Miss Buckingham, Mrs Leech and 2 children, Mr and Mrs Dalton, Mrs Taylor, Mrs Gray, Mrs Corbett, Mrs Williams, 1 Mrs Barlow, Mrs M'Donald, Mrs Worth, Mrs Jameson, child, and servant ; 11 for Dunedin- Steerage —Messrs Beck, Davis, O’Brien, Robb, Smith, M'Namara, Thompson, Plowden, Lynn, Collins, Collett; 7 for Dunedin. OIiEABED. Jan 15— Princess Alice, brig, 268 tons, Brownell, for Newcastle, in ballast. Jon. 15— Lady Don, schooner, 68 tons, Buxton, for Hokitika. SAILED. Jan. 15—Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for Dunedin. Passengers Messrs Blackett, Lumsden, Haynian, Bowdea ; 18 original. Jan, 15—Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Pearce, for Wellington. Passengers—Messrs Benn, Balderson, Mrs Shackelton and family. Steerage Mrs Griffith and son, Messrs Tableau, Greathead, Stewart, Flett, and Shaw. IMPOSTS. Edward, Master, agent: 200 sleepers, 7000 feet timber, 6 cords firewood. Elizabeth Curie, 0. W. Turner, agent: 50,000 ft timber, 5 cases bacon. Antelope, Master, agent: 7200 ft timber, 4 pkgs, 9 casks. Phoebe, G. Mackay, agent: FromOnehunga —1 box. From Wellington—2 qr-casks, 126 coils wire, 69 boxes, 34 bdls, 1 waggon, 1 pci, I bag, 100 sheep, 13 cases. 1 qr-barrel, 2 bales. EXPOETS. Lady Don, C. W. Turner, agent: 110 bales chaff, 250 bags bran, 250 do oats, 50 sacks barley, 50 do malt, 30 kegs butter, 5 cases. Alhambra, Dalgety, Nichols and Co., agents: For Wellington —under bond *1 qr~ cask; free—9 cases, 1 csk. For WestportII cases, 1 csk, 6 kegs. For Greymouth—so kegs, 2 jars, 12 cases, I case, 4 bdls. For Hokitika—lo kegs, 15 cases, 2 csks. For Melbourne—l trunk, 60 cases, 2 portmanteaus, 5 bales. For Adelaide —42 cases cheese. VESSELS IN HABBOUE. Crusader, ship. Pleiades, ship. Lady Jocelyn, ship. Celestial Queen, ship, cleared. Helen Denny, ship. Sarah Dreyfus, barque. Lyttelton, barque. Princess Alice, brig, cleared. Fawn, brig. Kahuna, schooner. Mavis, schooner. Aurora, schooner. Lady Don, schooner, cleared. Elizabeth Curie, schooner. Nautilus, cutter. Antelope, cutter.

The brigantine Elizabeth, Curie, arrived in harbour yesterday morning from Hokitika. The Lady Don, schooner, cleared the Customs yesterday for Hokitika. The brig Princess Alice cleared the Customs yesterday for Newcastle. The s.s. Alhambra sailed for Wellington yesterday afternoon at 5.15. Thbeb watermen’s boats had a narrow escape last night. It appears that the Alhambra got under weigh unexpectedly. The Boats, which were loaded with luggage, were capsized, and Mr Butterworth, a commercial traveller, estimates his damage at £l6O. The N.Z.S.N. Co.’s s.s. Phoebe, Captain ■Werop, arrived in harbour yooterday at I.IS p.m. from Wellington and northern ports. Left Onehunga wharf on the 9th at 5 p.m., but anchored at the heads, the bar being dangerous; proceeded next morning at 5 o’clock, encountering a strong S.W. gale and heavy head sea; anchored off New Plymouth at 5 a.m, of the 11th; had fresh S.W. winds across the Straits, and reached Nelspn on Sunday morning at 6,30.; sailed at 7.15 a.m. on the 13th, and arrived the same day at 4.30

p.m.; left at 5.30, and arrived at Wellington , the same night at 11; sailed at 3.30 p.m. on the 14th, and had a strong N.W. gale across the Straits, with variable winds during the remainder of the passage. The Phcebe sailed for Dunedin yesterday at 4.30 p.m. KAIAPOI. ABEIVKD. Jan. 16—Gazelle, s.s., M'Lellan, from Lyttelton, in ballast. AKABOA. ABBIYBD. Jan. 13—E. U. Cameron, schooner, from Island Bay, with 45 bales wool. SAIXED. Jan. 13—E. D. Cameron, schooner, for Island Bay, with cargo. The schooner Day Dawn, from Lyttelton for Camara, resumed her voyage from Akaroa on the 13th inst Daring the south-west gale on Wednesday week, the schooner Ann, laden with St cargo of timber for Lyttelton, whs totally wrecked. The men in charge were William Ban tan (master) and D. Fraser, who had passed the cable round the foremast in order to make it more secure. The vessel was riding with forty-five fathoms paid out, ■ but a squall of such violence strnck her about 11 o’clock p.m. as to carry away the foremast by the board, together with the windlass and the bits, thus leaving her most completely ,at the mercy of the wind and waves. Finding that they were powerless to save the vessel, which began to drift and fill with water, the men took to the boat, and after a bard straggle attended with considerable danger, succeeded in reaching the ketch Minnie. It is due to the men to say that they did their best to save the vessel, which, with the cargo of timber, belonged to Messrs Brown and Fraser, who are uninsured. On Thursday morning the ketch Minnie, with a volunteer crew, went in search of the vessel, but could not find it f as nothing has since been heard of her there can be no doubt that she sunk during the gale. On the morning of the same day that the wreck occurred, the ketch Margaret, whilst under repair in the creek, had a narrow escape from destruction by a huge mass of rock rolling down the hill into the creek. The rock weighed about four tons, and fell within a very short distance of the vessel.

The Beautiful Star arrived from Dunedin yesterday afternoon. When off Patiti Point, a sudden gust of wind carried away her foremast about twelve feet from the deck. The steamer sails for the north to-day. —Timaru Herald, Jan. 15.

By the last San Francisco papers to hand by the Dacotah we perceive that the steamship Mohonga, designated “ Satan’s deathtrap ” in the spurious report of the Chandler debate, has been sold to the Union Pacific Company for 100,000dols (£20,000). This fact vfery emphatically refutes the opinions of the wiseacres in New Zealand who, without any knowledge whatever as to the value of the vessel, pronounced her a rotten and useless old tub.

A meeting of proprietors of the patent for weighing the contents of any vessel afloat was held lately in Melbourne. It was resolved to proceed at once with the manufacture of the machines ; the chairman, who is one of the original inventors, stated that he had discovered a more simple and economical way of manufacture. The whole interest of the company is to be represented by 4000 shares, and an allotment of shares took place. A vessel , trading from Melbourne has been fitted with ' the apparatus, which has been found to work satisfactorily. The oldest steamer in the world has been presented, by her owners, to the Glasgow "Cffamber of Commerce. The vessel is named Industry, is 64 tons register, and hm launched

from the building of Messrs John and Win* Fyfe, of Fairlie, on the Clyde, in May, 1814. She was the seventh steamer built on that river. Latterly she has lain sunk in the East India Harbour, at Greenock, but some time ago she was floated and beached to be caulked, thereafter to proceed to Glasgow, where she will be preserved as a memento of the early days of steam riavigation. , , It is a pleasing thing to see two vessels lying in the Wellington fairway, with full cargoes of colonial produce, ready to start for England on a favourable change of wind. It is the first time, we believe, that two wool ships have been lying in the fairway together, and it is certainly an evidence of the increase in the export trade of the port. The value of the two cargoes is estimated at £154,000. The short time occupied in loading the Electra, as in the case of the Bebington, speaks of a vast improvement in the facilities of the port, which; together with the alacrity displayed by her agents, Messrs Turnbull and Co., have tended very much to shorten the stay of the vessel, and consequently to a reduction of the expense incurred through detention in times past. —Wellington Independent, Jan. 10. A sad storv reached London, by letter from Aden, dated September 27, written by Captain E. Garden, of the iron screw steamer Isa (about 1500 tons) giving an account of the total loss of the vessel on the Island of Socotra, in the Red Sea, on June 23. A week after the ship went ashore, the sheik of the. island, with 100 armed men, arrived from Tamarada, and wanted to take away the cargo of rice, which the captain refused to allow. He thereupon, stopped the supply of fresh water and food, which had to be brought four miles. On the 23rd of July they were compelled to abandon the ship. The crew lived iu caves and holes in the rocks for fifteen days, suffering intensely from the heat. The sneik now came down again >vith 300 men (armed with swords, daggers, and spears) and 150 camels, and told the captain he had come to take charge of the ship ana cargo. He then went on board the ship, and landed all the rice, and plundered her throughout, also demanding the captain’s money. Captain Garden gives further details in these words : —“ He compelled me to go to Tamarada, and when the monsoon changed would find me a ship to take me and the crew to Aden. We arrived at Tamarada on August 11, shoes worn put, and feet very sore and blistered, as we had to walk about 35 miles over rocky ground. _ We had a rough stone building given us to live in, from whence the natives daily stole a good deal of our things. At night they threw stones into our sleeping-place. Wo lived on rice, dates, and an occasional sheep, which we had to pur* chase with sheets and linen. The rice being nearly exhausted, I sent the first mate and the six strongest hands of the ship, for a fresh supply, to return in the lifeboat with it, so that we could communicate with the first ship that hove in sight. On the morning of the 10th an Arab told us, in very good English, that an English man-of-war, called the Briton was at anchor at Bander Delishi, and that he was her interpreter, and had been sent to bring us on board, as he accidentally heard the night before that an English ship’s crew were at Tamarada.”

Important tidings have been received from the great open Polar Seas, tidings that will be read with deep interest as furnishing new evidence of the existence of that mysterious phenomenon first made known by the explorers under Dr Kane. This time the explorer is Captain Nils Jonsen (a Norwegian), who as late as the latter end of, last August re-discovered and re-explored for the second time the islands, lying to the east of Spitsbergen, and also discovered from the mountains of the islands seas free of ice to the N.E., and the indications of powerful oceanic currents serving to keep open the high Polar Seas. Captain Jonsen attained the high'latitude of nearly 80deg. north, and there found the sea to the N.E., in the track of Payer and Weyprecht’s expedition of 1870, was free from ice. The islands visited lie ,in the very throat, or, at least, on the edge of-the great Polar ice current, which, in 1827, when out 420 miles from the Pole, compelled Parry to give up his northward advance. Captain Jonsen sailed in May from Norway in the yacht Lydonia, 26 tons 'burden, with a crew of nine hands. Gh August 16 he had passed as far as 78deg. 18m. 465. north latitude and 30deg. east longitude, and’ shortly afterwards sighted land (Wiche Land ?). The whole sea was ■found free from ice. , On the 18th and 19th' he sailed along the entire E. 'and ,S.E. const of the land, which was far and wide destitute of ice. Dr Petermann of Gotha, has received information from the Payer-Weypreoht expedition, dating from the 16th of August, when it was near the Bear Islands, in 76deg. 17min. north latitude, and 60 deg. 44min. east longitude. The expedition found immense masses of thick ice—since it is driven to the west half of the sea—but Payer wrote, “ Por, steam easily penetrable.” “ Although,” Dr Petermann concludes, " the expedition first arrived on the 25th of July at the ice barrier, in 74ideg. north latitude, and 48deg. east longitude, it was enabled by the 16th of August to make its way to its position in sight of Cape Nassau, at least two hundred and twenty leagues in a straight line.”