SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 70, 28 August 1851, Page 1

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. August 14—Piako Lass, 10 tons. W. Smalley, from Piako River, with 3 tons flax. August 15—Victoria, 17 tons, I. Merrick, from Waiheki, with 20 tons firewood. August 15—Fairy, 15 tons, Hone Pekawaro, from Coromandel, with 124 ships timbers, 4 passengers. AiK'utl 15—Alexander, 30 tons, A. Miller, from the River Thames, with 8 tons flax, IO.OCO feet sawn timber. Auosnt IG—Antelope, 35 tons, D. McKinnon, from the East Coast, with 000 bushels wheat, 200 bushels maize, 8 casks oil, 20 casks pork, CO lbs. bacon. August 16—Julia, 36 tons, D. Hristow, from the East Coast, with COO bushels wheat, 400 bushels maize, 3 tons pork, 1 cask lard, 2 passengers. ». «, . » August 16— Moa, 230 tons, S. D. Norris, from .Sydney, with a general cargo of merchandise, and 5 passengers. „,,,,, August 18—Norfolk, .119 tons, Charles Kreeft, from London, with a general cargo of merchandize, and 7 passengers. August 18—Dauntless. 27 tons, W. Jeffenes, from Poverty Hay with 00 cases pickles, 0 casks vinegar, 3 casks beef, 2 casks pork, 6 baf!s biscuit, 1 anchor and chain, 1 bundle whale bone, 200 sheep skins, 22 passengers and crew of the Eudora, barque, wrecked there. . _,. August 19—Mary Paul, 19 tons, L, Thorogood from the Hay of plenty, with 18 tons potatoes, 10 bushels wheat, 4 pigs. August 19—Isabella, 20 tons, J. Faulkner. fromTauranga, with 42 sacks maize, 1 cask pork, £ ton flax. August 20—Piako Lass, 10 tons, W. Smalley from Piako River, with 2 tons flax, 1 ton potatoes. August 20—Hawkhead, 22 tons, Robert Lawrie, from Mahurangi, with 22 tons firewood. August 20—Susan, 20 tons. W. Nicholas, from Coroniandel, with 16,000 feet sawn timber, 1 passenger. August 22—Napi, 17 tons, James Tautari, from Russell, with 2 casks rum, 6 cut. bacon, 10 hogs, 4 bundles leather, 1 horse, 1 passenger. August 22—Victoria, 17 tons, I. Merrick, from Waiheki, with 30 tons firewood. Au<J> st 23—Benlomond,35tons, Duncan Camp40M, from Waipa, with 500 bushels wheat, 60o'bushels maize, £ ton bacon and bams, 1 passenger. August 23—Elizabeth, 14 tons, Ha Hamiora, from the Hay of Plenty, with 20 pigs, 100 baskets potatoes. August 23—New Zealander, 14 tons, Te Arawa, from Tauranga, with CO baskets potatoes, 80 baskets maize, 20 pigs, 20 bags wheat. August 23—Helen S. Page, 22G tons, J. J. Church, from San Francisco, with sundry merchandize, 1 passenger. DhrARTURF.S. August 11—George Champlin, 361 tons, .Swain, for Panama, with 300 tons coals, 6 passengers.

August l'J—Dauntless, 27 tons, W. Jeffries, ' fur the Hast Coast, in ballast. August 20—Piako Lass, 10 tons, W. Smalley, for Piako Hiver, in ballast. August 13 —Kinma, 121 tons, Alfrerl Brooks, for Sydney, with 157 ox hides, 7 bales sheepskins, 2 bags wool, 5 bundles calf and goat skins, 1 bag hair tails, and sundry merchandize, 22 passengers. August 13—Victoria, 17 tons, Isaac Merrick, for Waiheki, in ballast. August 14—Piako Lass, 10 tons, W. Smalley, for Piako Hiver, in ballast. August 14—John, 25 tons, John Mallick, for Mahurangi, in ballast. August 15—Fairy, 15 tons, Hone Pekawcro, for Coromandel, with 5 bags flour, £ ton coals, 9 passengers. August 20—Julia, 36 tons, P. Bristow, for the Day of Plenty, with 1 case gin, 10 lbs. tobacco, COO feet boards, 4 tuns oil casks, whaling gear, 6 bundles iron, 2 passengers. August 21—Antelope, 35 tons, Daniel Mackinnon, for the Ray of Islands, with 1 box clothing, 2 ploughs, 5 bags salt, 12 bags sugar, 1 case merchandize, 7 passengers. August 23—Moa, 230 tons, S. D. Norris, for Sydney, with7ooo feet sawn timber, 3 cases old copper, 2 packages, 12 coils wool lashing, 17 passengers. August 20—Her Majesty's Hrig of War" Fantome" Captain J. 11. Gennys, from Euglaiul, via Hobart Town and Sydney. The " Fantome" has arrived to relieve H. M. Ship " Fly," which having been her allotted period on the New Zealand station, will have sailed for Kngland before our present number shall have been published. The " Fantome" is a fine vessel of similar capacity nnd force as (he » Fly." Tlicra have been of late, we regret to say, several serious disnsters, by shiowrcek, on various paits of the coast. At Port Lyttelton, in the middle island, during two severe gales, the brig Torrington, of Sydney, was driven ashore and became an entire wreck. Several sm«H vessels also shnred a similar fate. The br'gantinc, Pauline, of Auckland, and the John nnd Charlotte, of llobart Town, were likewise stranded ; whilst the large ships, from Kngland, then at anchor in the port, were only saved from similar casualties by the superior weight and strength of their ground tackle. On the 2Gth of July, the barque, liudorn, bound from Port Lyttelton to Sydney, with twenty-three passengers, fetched into Poverty Hay, in which, after eomo difficulties, she came to anchor on the 28th. Shortly afterwards, a heavy gale from the south cast set in, and although the ship was -moored with two anchors a-licatl, she was speedily discovered to be tlrivim;, and that so rapidly thai at low water she was striking hard. Every effort wus made to get her off with the flood tide; but finding it impossible to get her under sail, as a last alternative her cables were slipped and her mainmast cut away ; this, in it* fall carried the niizzon-mnst along with it, but no serious accident occurred, and the ship was fortunately beached. The passengers bestowed great praise upon the exertions of the natives in saving the b.iggnge and the cargo. . This is as it should be. Hut we rearet to add that they also spoke wi.h bitterness of the extortionate demands made by lire natives for the services rendered. It is' to be hoped, in the (•vent of like misfortune in future, they will remember that a generous and unexaeling aid to the distressed is one of the brightest of the social virtue;. On the Cth instant, the schooner, Hero, 17 tons, U. S. Still, master, whilst running from a severe gale for shelter into the river Wai, was struck by a sudden squall as she was rounding Town Point. The unfortunate vessel at once capsized, filled, and went down, all hands on board, viz., the master, \V. Webb, and F. Fairweather being drowned. Mr. l«\ Arnison, Junr., who had taken a passage in the Hero from Auckland, providentially lauded at Mercury Hay, nnd thus escaped the melancholy fate of his late fellow voyagers. To this calamitous list wo must mid yet another name, —that of the Grampus, 23 tons, G. Patten. She was anchored nearly opposite Mr. Hancho's station, in the Uay of Plenty, on the 2!)lh July, when she. wns caught by a heavy gale nnd driven ashore. Tlic ve3 sel became a perfect wreck, but it is gratifying

to stnte that tlio crew, and, wc believe, lier cargo (nil) also were saftly landed. We regret to have to record yet another calamitous shipwreck j that, namely, of the barque '* Maria" hound from Port I.yttletou to Melbourne. On the night of the 20th instant she unhappily was driven on a lee shore near to Cape Terawili, in the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson. The vessel instantly went to pieces, and, with the exception of one Kuiopeau seaman and a Malay, her crew and passengers to the number of 29, miserably perished.