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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 3825, 14 February 1874, Page 6

A meeting has been held at Wellington, to form a Seamen's Union, at waich it was resolved that an advance of £2 per month should be made in the pay ol uiileers, car* peuters, cooks and stewards ; mat the wages of uresaen should be £12 per month; tiia trimmers, £3 per month ; and hands oa coolers, aT per month. .Robert Fulton, iote carpenter of the Wil* iiAni lavioatt, has just obtaiiud a verdict ' ot £50 auu costs against Captain Mclutyre, Ui? American Consular Agents lor a chest o: taken away iu the vessel, and for «Mclntyre promised to become responliii disabled ship Allahabad, reported as arrived on Wednesday iast, came up harbour next morning, and was moored to westward of the wharf. Her Cue saloon cabin is coin* pieteiy gutted. JN'othing but the bare walls remain, while the wrecked fittings are piled up iu a corner of the saioon. Amongst the debrii is to be observed the remains of a valuable harmonium belonging to Captain Crispin, which shared the same fate of all his other property oil board. Xhe bath-room has been washed eieau away, and the bath pouuoed down, resembling a heap of tea lead, lier port ani starboard lanterns are battened in and twisted into ull manner of shapes. Her lower masti are of iron, and the mizeu mast has broken oif beiow the poop deck. A. maintopsail yard dropped into the hollow of the m:zen insst stump, and has served the purpose of a jury mast. On looking at the wreck the vessel presents, and bearing an account of the fearful weaLhtr she has encountered, oue is struct with wonder at the possiuiiity ot her hiving reached this harbour iu safe;y. " Any port in a &torui" is a common expression amoag=t sailors, and Captain Crispin and his otileers and men are thankful thaL they have been enabled to make such a port as Auckland under the circumstances. But for the master's determination to bring his ship to port, the boats would have been resorted to long ago. A survey will be held in course of to day. Collections ia Dunedin for the suu'erers by tho Surat. catastrophe amounted to about £S0 0.

It is satisfactory to learn by trlegram an injunction has been ut Dviuedin prohibiting the <->; lite iniiaigrautj by the Sural sold. We buve not been ablfl to understand now, in tho iirst iusUjnci?* o llc " u proposal uauld have btou mu-.io, and vras not refiisicd. Xiie 01 veesels at Pert GhaloieC Jeeiaed ujh»u tor«ur<ii>ig & pciaioii to tnfl iiourd of Trade, London, appalling against the decision of the Court ul Duuedin ia r3 capUiu ol CSurat.