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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5360, 21 January 1879, Page 2

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GISBORNE. January 20.—Arrived, 6 a.m.: Southern Cross, 8.8., from Auckland. Sailed : Southern Cross, s.s., for pier. WELLINGTON. January 20.—Suited: Ttupo, s.s,, for Auckland, via Eist Coast. Passengers :—Cabin — Miss Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. Lundon, Captain Kussell and three children, Messrs. Brown, Cameron, Hampton, and .Master Luodon. The Neptune, brig, for Newcastle. Ringarooma, s.s., for Lyttolton. Passengers : —Cabin—Misses Kyan and Holdsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Buller, Mr. and Mrs. Hastield, lion. H. Campbell, Ciptain Fraser, Me*-*rs. Bull, Baynter, Cocks, Mcßae, Shulties (2), Bowen, NixdorfF, Briggs, and Reeves. LYTTELTON. January 20. — Arrived : The Bebington, barque, from London, 101 days out, 99 from laud to land. She brings 32 passengers, all well, and 1259 tuns of cargo. She experienced a heary gale while running down her castings, aud the bulwarks was smashed. Eliza Mary, from the Bluff. Sailed : The Raymond, to Newcastle, aud the Garibaldi for Hokitika. TIMARU. Arrived: The Janet Ramsay and Jane Hannah from Catlin's iiiver. PORT CHALMERS. January The Mataura, barque, 873 tons, for Loudon, with a cargo valued at £93,G38. January 20.—Arrived : Hiuemoa, from Wellington* She reports speaking the ship £Jerlington, of Oamaru, bound for Lyttelton. all well. January 20.—Arrived : s.a. Hinemoa, from Wellington; Maid of Otago. schooner, from Invercargill; Hawta, a,a ti froa> the Jforth*

Departures : Tlie Oceola, brigantine, 232 tons, Davia. for Newcastle. BLUFF. January 20.— Arrive! : Tho ship Western Monarch (Shaw-, .S.viilo and Co.), Captain Matson, 80 days from Plymouth, with 3o!) immigrants ami {• saloon passengers for Bluff, anil cargo for Dnne.lin ; nil well. Three deaths and three hirths <.cciirr.il during the passage. Tlio immigrants will he landed to-morrow. The Albion arrived at sj> "i. She left Melbourne on the 14th. She sails at 4 p.m. to-morrow for Duueilin. Passe'.gers_:-Sdoon : Messrs. Gudgeon, Jirown. and Mcbwan. January 10. —Sailed : Arawata, a.s., for Melbourne. New Zealand Shipping Company s ship Waitar.l, C-pf-in McKelvie, (or London, with 4119 h iles w.n.l. 507 lugs wlieat, 13 casks shells, an.l 5 passengers. The cargo is valued at £88,100. KVENTI'( T L VOVAIiH OF TUB PIAKO. [PEK "iIiiKAMI" SIMXII.I. WIRK.] CllltliiT.limtcSl, Monday. Tlie following particulars of the Piano's voyage have been obtained from the >*ew Zealand Shipping Company : —The ship Pinko is a clipper-built iron vessel, launched from the yard of .Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons in 1577, registering 1075 tons. She has made two successful voyages to and from the colony. Oil this occasion she was on Ifer third voyage. The ship left Plymouth, hound for Lvttelton, on the morning of October the lltli. under the command of C.ipfc. W. I». I'oy.l, heiog wel! oilieered and manned and e.|iii|.pe.l, b.-ddes cargo of about 1050 tons. She ii.nl 2SS immigrants on board. The earlier put of the voyage was uneventful. The ship made ii splendid run, and on November 11 was about io* south, long. 32" west, or less than 200 miles from I'ernambucQ. At 10.45 a.m. that day, Captain lioyd had just left the d.-ck. and was io the cabin making anentryin hisofiiciai log, when Mr. Hollcake, the chief oliieer, cuiie to him, and leportcil that smoke was issuing rhrough the lower fore-batch. C.ptain liayd at .aiee went forward, removed one of the hatches, and went below. There was overy sign of lij*', but tho smoko was not dense. He at once ordered the lire-bell to be rung, and hose w.ts brough'. to play down the hatchway over the coal, while the full force of bands of were put ou to breakout cargo ami find out where the tire was. Within sit tniuutesof the first report of tire, Captain Boyd distinctly siw tl mie, about fcweuty feet abtft the foremast tier of cargo. At o»>ce the hose was brought to pi .y on it, under the direction of the second ulticer, Mi". Hagglewood. The captaiu then r.*u on deck to get the carpenters to cut a hole in the 'tween decks over the fiime. tie was not absent two minutes, but ou his return large volumes of bl ick, sulphurous smoke wore coming rip the hatchway, aud the men were running up on deck to save their lives. Captain Boyd theu at once closed down the hatches, and covered evorything with wet blankets. He tried then to get through by tlie married people's compartments, but he and his volunteers were driwn back almost stifle i. AU the hatches wera thou closed, ami also tho scuppers, and the master had the main deck tioodwd, rwo engines playing down the fore-ha:ch, mil holes cut in the upper deck. The donkey engines were pla3*ing down the air-shaft. Captain lijyd at this time altered the chip's course to make Peruatnbuco. In a comparatively short time the combings of the hatch became so hoc that they could not be touched. Meanwhile, all tho bo..ts were gut out alongside, aud some stores put in, hut even from the after store-room the bauds were driven back by the tire, aud that had to be battened down too. About 2 p.m., most providentially a barque was sighted ou tho weather bow, and Captain Boyd m «de Mguuls of distress, aud bore tip to her. The vessel proved to be the Loch Doon, bound from s>m Frauci-jco to Cork. At three p.m. Captain Boyd commenced to tranship the passengers, which was happily accomplished in two hours, without the slightest accideut. Ot course, when nil danger of sacrifice of hum tu life was passed, Ciptain Boyd's chief anxiety was over, but having doue his duty to the passengers he was lo.ith to neglect the further heavy interest confided to him, and determined not to abandon the ship and cargo if his crew would stick by him. He told them he intended, if possible, to t*kc the ship into port, and every man cn board said he would (and he did) Co tlie ship, ami right manfully they worked, never leaving the pumps till 4 p.m. of the 13th, when tb:; ship reached Peru&mbuco roadstead, the Loch Doon following her, aud reaching thare a few hours afterwaid. The origin of the tire h-.il not then been ascertained. Every regulatiou had been carefully* observed. The captain is certain no oue could have got down below. Immediately onariival at Pernainbuco, Captain Boyd waited on tho fcl.B.M. Consul (Mr. Cuff), aud conferred with him and the President of the ?3t«te us to arrangements for th-j care ami comfort of the emigrants. Kverything possible was done to ameliorate their unfortunate position. They were all landed on Coco.mut Island ([1 ba De 3lokueria), wh re a largo house aud outbuildings were available. The Consul was uu willing to supply clothing, but Captain Boyd at once ordered it for the emigiauts at the company's expense, and arranged for their being provisioned suitably, and at the d tte of the advices, all were in excellent health and spirits, aud most comfortably housed. To revert to the ship, the tiro was gaiuiuj rapidly, and it was ilcemeu "necessary to scuttle her; she was s.'.jjkins; and blazing up the moment when she u-.s submerged. Lvte telegraphic advices have a prised the company of the raising of the ship, and her sailing again with her living freight ou December 20, and she may be expected here about February 10 or 15. A perusal of Captain Boyds simple narrative of the occurrence leaves the impression that bo acted with calmuoss, jud.menc, discretion, and energy, uuder most trying ciioumstances, and, doubtless, to these circumstances, and to excellent: support he received from his oliicers and crew, is to be attributed the happy result that no lives have been loat; and, although the cargo must all bo more or less damaged, the ship has been saved.