Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealand Herald, Issue 18, 24 December 1863, Page 4

Shipping Intelligence.

P(> RT (> F AV C K UXP. ! DEPAKTI'RKS. \ Wilhrlm, barque, for Guam. Ttiunm»a, schooner, for Tauranga. I Rita. nng. for Newcastle. N.S.W. Alexandra, *.-., for Manukau. Sea Shell, ketch, for Norfolk Island via Rimscll. KNTKKEH INWARDS. i»kci;miu-:r. fSi — Industry, U3 tons, MuKeu/ie, from Oniah, with j 50 tons firewood. ■ L'li- Surah Alice, 15 tons, Xilman, from Coromandel, '■ in ballast —1 passenger. —Stephenson and Wardell, • agents. lill- Wanderer, 23 tons, Farroll, from CoromndH, , with 15,000 feet, sawn timber. 1 bag onions- 13 passengers. —Webster and Patterson, agents. 23—Osprcv, -10 tons, Kogere, from Warauaki, with 3£ tons kauri gum, \ head cattle.- Combes and Duldy, agents. j 23—.fuliu, 17 toi.s, Warbriek, from Kikowhakarere, with 11 .UOO feet sawn timber- 2 passengers.—C. . J. Stone, agent. CI.KARF.D OUTWARDS. nt'CEMUUR. 23—Industry, 23 tons, McKeuzie, for Omah, in ballast. 2'.\— Miranda. 22 tout*. Bruwn, for Cabbage Bay, with sundries--2 passonners. 23—Sarah Alice, 15 tons. Nilinan, for Coromandel ■ \rith buiidrics- t passengers.— Stcpheiisun and Wardell, amenta. ' 23—Murv Ann, brigantine, 13-i tons, Davies, for Newcastle, N'.S.U'., in ballast.—John Robert on and Co., agents. I 23— Hope. iiS toim, Black, A>i* Matakana, with 2 , casks bottled beer. 1 box raisins, 1 ease pickles, 10 pork casks. --'I. Mucky and Co., agents. I 23 -Julia. 17 ton:-, Warbriek, for Kikowhakarere, wiih mmdrL-s- H passengers.- C. J. Stone, agent. FNTF.KF.D OUTWARDS. ' i)i:ci:.u:ii.i:. | 23—Ann aud Jane, barque for Newcastle, N.S.W. The eclioonor Mary Ann, Captain Davis, cleared yesterday for Newcastle, N.S.W. The barque Ann aud June, Capt. Smith has also entered out for the name pert. The following vessels sailed yesterday: —Alexandra, h.s., for Manukan ; Wilhnlni. barque, for Guam ; Rita, bi-ig, for Newcastle ; Taurauga, schooner, for Tauranga. The ship Bombay, Capt. Sellars, hauled to the end of the wharf yesterday morning to discharge her c.irtjo. the ketch Sea Shell, Capt. Wyatt, sailed for Norfolk Island via Russell, yesterday afternoon. The brigantine Mary' Ann, Captain Valentine, will sail shortly for Launceston. The s.s. Kangaroo, Captain Bell, will sail from the Manukau for Sydney this evening, provided she is not chartered for any New Zealand port. The s.fl. Phcrbe, Capt. Kennedy, leaves the ManuLau for the .South this day, should the s.s. Auckland, now overdue from Sydney, arrive before noon. The schooner Abeona and Excelsior arrived in the Manukau, from Wangamii, with cattle, yesterday. A schooner vas signalled early yesterday morning, and went up the Tamaki; we suppose lu>r to be the Zillah from Napier, with cattle. The schooner Albatross, Captain Clarke, and cutter Marwell, Captain l'oiili;raiii. hate been chartered by the Government to proceed to Kaglan with stores. Ln«s or tut. Horr: .at Hampton Shom..—On Thursday inorninjj iib<..ut H o'clock, tin; luasti r and portion of tho crew of the American whaler Hope, arrived in liiishani* in their boats, and reported the wreck of thuir vessel on liamptoii IShoal, on the 17th October last. The following particulars have bt en hiniished l> us by Captain Gitloid, the master o! the vebsel: —The American ■whaling ship, Hope, 300 tons register burthen, L. S. Oifford master, belonging to New He J ford, sailed from Sydney, on a two years' umVo, in July last. She was tolerably successful in taking wholes up to tho 17th October last, on which date she got stranded on Bampton Shoal. The wi-ather at the time was tine, and the disaster was solely owing to an error of nearly forty miles in the position of the shoal, as laid down on Captain Clifford's chart. From the time of the. wreck to the r.Otli October, tin; alup's company were engaged in Hicuring provisions, stores, and other articles from the ship by means of tho boats. Theso they convoyed to an island near tho scent. , of tho disaster. Subsequently, from thu 30th October to the (">th November, the crew wen; employed in repairing the boits, to render them fit for tho passacro to the Austialian coast. Tho party win; ready to loave the island on the Gth November, but during the ten following days, to tho lGth, sueh heavy weather prevailed that it was deemed imprudent to put to sea. At daylight on tin- morning of tin. , I'th November a brig was seen on the reef about six miles distant from the Island, which was occupinl by the master ami ui'i'w nf the Hope Tho crtw was afterwards soon to abandon the brig, and come toward tho Island in the boats, when it was ascertained that thn vessel was the Sporting Lass, whaling brig, of Sydney, Bennett, master. Capt. Bennett, as our readers will n-membor, was cast away some few months ago at the same place, in the schooner Prince of IV-nmark, from the remain* of which he constructed a smaller vessel called the Hamlet's Ghost, and in vhich ho mado his way to Brisbane. The crow of tho Sporting Lass sand nothing from thru - .vessel oxcept what was taken into the boats when leaving her, and she soon afterwards became a total wreck. The two ships' companies remained together on the island for two dxiys after tho second wreck, and on the 17th November the entile crow of tho Hope left the shoal in tho four boats which belonged to her, and in company with five boats containing tin- crow of tho Sporting Lass. The whole of the nine boats remained in company together until the evening of the l'Jth, when Captain Gifforrt lost sight, of the live boats belonging to Captain Bennett, alto ouu of, his own, which was m charge of the third mate. The three now remaining continued their eour.-e without further accident, auJ on the morning of tho 2-1 th instant, at three o'clock, they made Cape Montou light. They reached Hris•bune about right o'clock yesterday morning, all in Kood health and spirits. It ia supposed that the six missing boats have proceeded to Sydney, it being Captain Bennett's mtontion to go "thither ivitmmt "first putting into Brisbane, and as far as wo can learn thure arc no apprehensions to bo felt respecting their eatety. lienpecn'ng the vessel herself, we learn that ehe haa been absent from New Bedford about six years on her present voyage. With her cargo on ■board, as at present lying on the shoal, she is valued at 70,000 dollar*. Captain Giffijrd is a. heavy loser aud in all probability haa lost the earnings of ninnj years' toil. We understand that it is the intentioi of Captain O-ifford to sell tho wivek on his arrival ir Sydney. — Courier.