AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4426, 20 January 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

The steamship Haro in _the Sydney_ papers toleave there-for«Aucklanid on the 23th_ she may, therefore, be expected oa or about the 3rd The brig Syren, 157 tons, Capt. Bower, left Sydney j I on the Bth instant for. Onehnnga, hiving as cargo, 332 bags bonedust. . \ : The ship Star of Germany arrived at Newcastle, from Aackl-nd, on the 10th instant. • Captain Sjowerby, of the barque Maitland. -irom • New Zealand to N cwcastle, died on the parage on the 3rd instant, shortlv after leaving Foveaux Straits, ue : had been ailing for some time. The body was broug on here, and an inquest will bejield .. The barque Harriet Armilage arrived at Newcastle, from the Kaipara/ on the 6th inst. ru* A telegram has been received at Sydney^from the A.S.N. Co.'s London agents stating that one of their new steamers named Yaralla would leave England for Sydney on the 23rd January. This vessel is one of three that the company are having constructed specially for the interproviDcial Queensland trade. Tiie CoLiiTA.— Wd understand, says the Sydntv Morning Herald of the 12th instant, that a telegram was received, yesterday, from San fcrancisco to the effect that two crank shafts for the Colima were being shipped by the Granada, which vessel left on the 7th instant. In consequence of this information, the order to Messrs. Elder and Co. to make two new shafts was conntermanded. A third shaft is also being constructed by Mort's Dock and Engineering Co.; but this is being made in sections—a plan which requires less potent machinery to forge it. Loss of the Barque Formosa. — The Torres Straits mail brought the intelligence of the total loss of the barque Formosa, and from Captain Campbell, who arrived in Melbourne by the Somerset, we (Telegraph) learn that the Formosa, while on her voyage from Newcastle to Manila with .coal, was caught in a sudden and violent typhoon on 2Dth Nov., at Bulang, off the Island of Luzon, in the Straits of San Barnardino. The tempest lasted for about 30 hours, and was almost appalling in its fierceness and destructivenes3, and all on board the Formosa were forced to leave her in a large native boat, after remaining on deck as long as they could with safety. Fortunately thay escaped with their lives, bnt lost nearly all their effects. Four country vessels are reported as having gone down the same time as the Formosa, two of them with all hands. There was a great loss of life by floods in the rivers, upsetting of boats in various parts of the archipelago, and it was computed that about 3000 people had perished. The Formosa had been sailing in and out of this port for many years, and was owned by Mr. R. Rao, of Wuliamstown. .... The brig Albion arrived at Dunedin on the 12th instant, from Newcastle. The fine new iron clipper ship Orari, owned by the N.Z.S. Co., arrived at Lyttelton on the 13th inat., on her first voyage from London, she was built by Messrs. Palmer, and Co., at. Jarrow, Newcastle, the designs having been made by Captain Ashby, the marene superintendent of the company in England' The Orari called at tho island of Tristan, da Cunha, to learn of any tidings of the missing ship Strathmore, but, received none. The ship had a very large cargo on board, but in spite of being down In the water, proved herself a heeler, having on several days reeled over 2SO knots, and no donbt will when in good trim, prove herself a formidable, antagonist to any of the many clippers now trading to New Zealand.