SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF OAMARU.

North Otago Times, Volume VII, Issue 158, 27 November 1866, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF OAMARU.

INWARDS. November 24.— Geelonpr, p.s., Hart, from the North. Traill, Roxby and Co., Agents. November 24.- Mary Ann Christina, Ritchie, from Timaru. H. Frnnce, Agent. November 26. — Ahuriri, s.s., Floworday, from Dunedin. Dalgety, Rattray and Co., Agents.

OUTWARDS. November 24.— Geelong, p.s., Hart, for Dunedin. Traill, Eoxby and Co., Agents. November 26.— Mary Ann Christina, Ritchie, for Timaru. H. France, Agent. r NOVEMBER 26. Ahuriri, s.s., Flowerday, for the North. Dainty, K&ttray and Co., Agents.

IMPORTS. Per Ahuriri from Dunedin— Ex Queen Bee: 2 cks, Dalgety, Rattray and Co. Under Bond — 1 qr-cask rum, Dulgety, Bnttray and Do. Free and Duty paid — 2 cs salad oil, 1 bo.x blue, 2 cks barley, 4 cs sundries, 3 bags r'tcr, 3 do oatmeal, Bee ; 3 cka ale, 1 pel, 1 pkg tents, 18 camp ovens, 24 doors, 1 pkg tarpaulins, 1 cs, 2 baskets, Gibbs ; 1 cs glass, 1 tin varnish, Meek ; 1 pkg ■tafcionery, Livingston,

EXPOnTS. Per "Wiiinui, for Dunedin.— 9 bales wool, Driver, Maclean and Co ; 10 tons stone, Traill, Koxby and Co. Per Mary Ann Christina, for Timaru.— 60 tons coals, Traill, Roxby and Co.

The s.8. Ahuriri, from Dunedin, came into port at 6 p.m. yesterday, and after discharging a light cargo, left at a late hour for the North. During some squalls at Port Chalmers last Wednesday two boats capsizod. In one were Captain Ridley aud one of his sons, who both perished ; and in the other two fishermen and a settler named W. Geary, the latter of whom waa drowned, and the other two rescued by Pilot Patten and a volunteer crew. Quito a gloom has been cast over the inhabitants at the Port from the melancholy occurrence. The brigantine Dispatch, which sailed on 1st Nov. instant, from Lytlelton for the Chathams, arrived there nfter a splendid run of threo and a-half days. She carried a full cargo of merchandize and 20 passengers. The weeks of three fine ships off the Cape of Good Hope is reported :— The Stalwart, from Bombay to Liverpool ; the Alfred, also for same port from Bombay ; and the Agincouit from Southampton to Hong-Kong. Insurances were effected on ships and cargoes to upwards of £300,000, which amount is considered as a total loss. £200,000 was insured on the Stalwart and her cargo. She was thrown on her beam ends in a hurncance. All deserted her save Captain Wilson, who was saved just before she sank by the entreaties of Mrs Wilson, (who •was with the crew in the boats) declaring she would throw herself into the sea and perish with him, if a boat wore not sent to take him off by foice from his vessel. This boat was picked up by H.M.S. Swallow the third day after, all then being in a state of utter exhaustion, »nd without food or clothing in a boat which had begun to leak rapidly. Another boat with fivo sailors, and most of the provisions, made Bird Island in safety. Tho chief officer's boat, with 13 besides himself, was less fortunate, only three or four reaching the mainland alive. The crew of the foundered ship Alfred sared themselves by taking to the boats, and those of the abandoned ship Agincourt were picked up by the the Formosa. Captam Philpot died immediately before the abandonment, and tho second mate was washed overboard and drowned. The London Correspondent of a Scottish journal has the following on the ocean race from China, which appears to create so much interest every year: — "There is an annual race homo froni China overy summer among the crack tea clippers, incited by the reward offered of 10s per ton additional freight on the cargo of tho ship first in dock with the now season's tea. The raco this year was a most excitimy one, being neck to neck between the chief competitors all the way. Tho Fiery Cross, the clipper which won the race last year, hud tho start of her rivals by a day, and kept the lead till on this side the Cape of Good Hope, when she got becalmed, *nd bad the vexation of seeing- her companions one by one walking away from her with a capful of wind which ■did not reach her. The other three ships— the Taeping, the Ariel, and the Serica- sailed almost knot for knot together till they got nearly home, when the two former got tho start of the latter by a few hours. When it became known here how close the race was, the excitement among merchants became very great, and there was a deal of betting on the result. Tho Taeping and tho Ariel came tearing up the Channel almost abreast, with not a. rag furled, in a breeze before which other ships were under double-rtefed topsails. Every now and then they were almost on their beam ends, and every sea broke over their decks. They reached the Downs together, and were immediately taken in tow by tugs on the outlook for them, which whisked them up the river at express speed. The tug which had charge of the Taeping had the heels of the other ci aft, and thus the Taeping got into dock first, and won the reward, but only about an hour in advance of the Ariel, while the Sorica wai not abova four hours behind, and the Tiery CroBS turned up the day after. The fun of the thing was that the consignees of the different cargoes were doing all in their power to delay the docking of the ships, as the vessel first in claimed tho reward, which the consignees were bound to Day, but which was money thrown away, as the simultaneous arrival of several cargoes destroyed tho command of the market usually achieved by the first arrival, while, of course, the captains, for their own credit and their owners' interest, were enger to reach dock, All four vessels are Clyde built, and only ninety-nine days were occupied by the voyage, ai against 106 days last year." The "Wellington Independent" of 15th instant reports : — The Government steamer St. Kilda arrived in the harbor yesterday morning at 11.30 from the Chatham Islands. She left Wellington on tho 19th October last at 4.30 p.m. for Napier, arrived there on Sunday the 21st, at 9.30 a.m. and left again for the Chatham Island* on Tuesday the 23rd October, with »ixty-one Hau-hau prisoners, in charge of a guard of ten Europeans and ten natives, under tho command of Lieutenants Tuke and Hamlin. After a fair sail, the West Reef was sighted at 4.39 on the morning of the 26th ult., but in the course of tho day, in consequence of the weather being foggy, tho anchors had to be dropped. The captain then went round tho Islands to take in potatoes for tho prisoners, and on his course passed portions of a wreck, which, on the arrival of the St. Kilda at Waitungi, on Nov. 6, was found to be that of the barque Lizzie Scott, which lately left Wellington bound for Callao. On the morning of Saturday last, the steamer St Kilda left Waiiangi to return to this port, bringing with her the chief officer and nine of the crew of tho Lizzie Scott, but not the Captain, as he preferred to remain at the Islands, and as previously stated, arrived here yesterday aft«»r a run of four days, the particulars of which are given in our shipping colums. Captain Johnson reports that the chart or the coast at the Chathams is " out," and requires to be corrected, as at tho present time it causes the navigation to be dangerous in foggy weather. He brings no news of tho Soa Serpent, and, as will be Keen by the letter of our Chatham Islands correspondent, there is little doubt but that the vessel has been lost. This is a terrible misfortune, as the Sea Serpent had on board Captain Blair, four of a crew and five passengers, who in all human probability have been drowned. It is said that one of the passengers, Mr Alexander Hunt, had upwards of £1000 in caih on board for the purpose of purchasing goods in Wellington. Wo cau but express our deep sympathy with the surviving relatives of those of whose fate so little doubt can now unfortunately be entertained. With reference to the wreck of the Lizzie Scott, it appears, from information supplied by chief officer Lovick, that an official enquiry was held at the Resident Magistrate's office, Waitangi, on the 8th inst. The Court, nftor careful deliberation, came to the following conclusions : — 1. That the wreck of the barque Lizzie Scott appears by the evidence to have been c uised through a course having boen steered from "Wellington which carried the vessel direct for the Chatham Islands, and through want of a proper look-out being kept. 2. That such being the case, the Court (piovisionally on the Governor's certificate) feels called upon to suspend the cei tificate of Jas. West, late master of the Lizzie Scott, for a period of three mouths. A terrible collision occurred on Sunday morning, 19th August, between the steamer Bruiser, and a screw collier, named the Haswell, off Aldborough, on the Suffolk coast. In ten minutes the Bruiser went down. Eleven or tw clve lives w<re lost.