SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 30, 19 August 1871, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED August. 13, Rangatira, s.s., 164 tons, Rentier, from Napier. Passengers-Mm and Mrs Stuart, Miss Bowden, Messrs Duncan (2) and servant, Mrs Nasmith j 2 steerage, and 1 ior the South. _. » 13, Phoebe, 8.8., 416 tons, Worsp, from Lyttelton and Otago. Passengers-Hons Dr Buchanan, Richardson, Holmes, Patterson, M'Lean, Hall, Peter, Colonel Brett; Messrs Steward, Murray, Shepperd, Thomson Mervvn, M'Lean, M<Andrew, Reynolds, Brawn, .Bradshaw, Gillies, Oantrell, Taiaroa, Carslake, Brown, Reeves, Studholme, Peacock, Parker, Wakefield, Webster, and M'Gillivray, MHR's- Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Bradshaw and child,' Mrs and Miss Maitland, Mrs Peacock, Mrs Brown, Mrs Peter Studholme, Miss Minnie ; 21 steerage. 13, Luna, p.B, 200 tons, Fairchild, from Manukau, Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton. Passenders • From Auckland-Messrs WdhamonfM'Leod, Creighton O'Neill, o<Borke M'Leod, Swanson, Clarke, Munro, Farnall, M'Pherson, M.H.R'. ; Mrs O'Rorke Miss O'Neill, Messrs F. Whitaker, G. Whitaker, Paul Holt, M'Lean. From Taranaki— Mets Canton and Kelly M.H.R Mr Scotland, M.L.C. I r ™™ kelson - Messrs Richmond'and Renwick, M.L.C.; Sir David Monro and Messrs Collins and Richardson, MH R • Messrs Simmonds, Travers, Beauchamp, Greenwood, Beid. From PictonMessrs Seymour and Bailey, M.L.C.; Messrs Eyes and Kenny, M.H.R. 13, Waihopai, schooner, 40 tons, Jivans, from Napier. . 14 Wanganui, s.s, 164 tons, Linklater, from Wan'ganui. Passengers—lnspector Atcheson, Mr Craighead, two prisoners, and two lunatics. 15, Claud Hamilton, s.s., 529 tons, J. W. Clarke, from Melbourne via Hokitika. Pas-sengers-Mr Ballard, Master Ballard, Mrs GoJdlief and child, Mrs E. Seager, Miss Sutherland, and twenty-two in the steerage. 15, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, from Wairau Passengers—Messrs Brown, Sinclair, Sutherland, Corcoran, Harrington, O'Meara, Morriarty, Connor. 15, Heversham, barque, 500 tons, Captain Yule! from Newcastle, N.S.W. 17, Wellington, s.s., 261 tons, Kennedy, from Lyttelton. Passengers—Messrs R. H. Rhode* W. R. Douglas, Peyman, Gannaway, Meers,'Robertson, Blakbld, Kent, Palmer, Dean, Mrs Bound, Miss Navve, and nine for the North. 17 Ocean Wave, three-masted schooner, from Lyttolton. SAILED. 14, Luna, p.s., Captain Faivchild, for Cape Campbell, Mana, and Cape Farewell. 14 Rangatiro, s.s., 175 tons, Benner, tor Kaik'ouras, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers. Passengers—Messrs R. Cockburn, Williams, and M'Farlane. 15, Phcebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manidoiu. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Rochfort, Mr Marks, Mr Skeet, Mrs Shaw, Dr Goodman, Messrs Loggie, M'Gell, Ridd, Maddock. 15, Claud Hamilton, s.s., 529 tons, J. WClarke, for Melbournne via Southern ports. Passengers—Messrs Cockburn, Heally, Saunders, Humphreys, and Moltram. 15, Waihopai, schooner, 43 tons, Evans, for West Wanganui. T . ni . 16, Wanganui, s.s., 160 tons, Linklater, tor Wanganui. Passengers—Mrs Perston, Mrs Jordan, Mr Drake, and Mrs Harrison. 16, Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Morrison, for Wairau.

The R.M.S. Geelong, with the English Mail via Suez, arrived at Sydney on the Ist inst. The steamer City of Melbourne left Sydney for San Francisco on the 2nd instant, calling at Fiji and Honolulu, with the Australian Mail for Europe, and conveying passengers to California without change of steamer. Her Majesty's ships Clio, Blanche, and Rosario were lying in Farm Cove on the 2nd instant. Nearly £3OO has been subscribed to the testimonial for Captain Walker, late of the steamer Auckland. The City of Melbourne, for San Francisco, took eighty tons of tallow and a small quantity of wool. It is supposed that there are some castaways on the islands in Bass Strait. The steamer City of Hobart was to pass near the islands to take them off, in the event of falling •in with them. The screw steamship Albion, which was sold on Tuesday, was formally taken possession of yesterday afternoon, and the well known house flag of Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood and Co, after a brief ceremonial, was hoisted at the main. There are few finer boats known in the intercolonial trade than the Albion, and she will be drafted into active service as speedily as possible.—" Argus," 2nd August. The Chelsea, after lying up in ordinary in Hobson's Bay for some considerable time, has been purchased for the use of Hall's Californian line, and is, after having been refitted and overhauled, taking in a cargo ot coal for Honolulu. On her return thence she will reload for Fiji, where it is intended to dismantle and leave her to act as a coal hulk for the mail steamers. —" Newcastle Chronicle."

The clipper ship Mary Shepherd having undergone all requisite examination, was launched from the Government patent slip on Saturday, and it is satisfactory to state that there was no appearance of her having suffered the slightest injury from being sunk on the bank off Sandridge. She is one of the heaviest ships for her tonnage that has been on the slip ; and her timbers and planking being of teak, of unusual dimensions, will account for the comparatively little damage she sustained from the fire. The necessary

repairs will be effected alongside the Sandridge railway pier, where she is again berthed, to take in her cargo of tallow, preserved meats, -wool, &c, for London. The boy Cummins, who saved the life of a seaman of the Scythia, by jumping after him when the ship was running eight or nine knots (notice of which appeared in our paper), was presented, at Sydney, with a silver watch, bearing a suitable inscription; the watch was subscribed for by the female emigrants on board the ship. A terrible disaster occurred between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday night off Dungeness, by which the West Hartlepool screw steamer T. S. Webb, with her cargo of 600 tons of iron rails, and fourteen of her crew, were lost. She was on her passage from Middlesbro' to Taganrog. The night was clear and calm, her lights all properly trimmed, when, at the hour named, Captain Green, who was pn the bridge, observed a vessel approaching end on. He manoeuvred to avoid her, but when within three-quarters of a mile off, the stranger suddenly put his helm hard aport, and came straight on for the ill-fated steamer. Seeing the danger of his position, Captain Green quickly reversed his engine, and tried all in his power to avert the collision, but without success, as in a few minutes the steamer, which proved to be the Paraguay, from London for America (a large passenger steamer), ran into the T. S. Webb, at the fore rigging of the starboard bow, with such terrible force as to cut her down to the water edge, and sink her within about a minute. Captain Green, with Bargewell, Green, Jukes, and Foster, managed to get safely on board the Paraguay, and two others, Coulson and Mowatt, who fell into the water, were rescued by the boats of the latter, after being half an hour immersed, but Hector Williams (chief mate), and J. Payne (second mate), both of whom were on the bridge with the captain at the time of the collision, perished, as did the carpenter (Morfee), the cook (Haley), the chief and second and third engineers (Gray, Watson, and Garland), Giles, Macartney, and Dixon, firemen, and four seamen —one a Swede, one named Parsons, and other two whose names, owing to the loss of the ship's papers, we are unable to furnish. Captain Green and the survivors were landed on Sunday, at noon, in the Thames, where the Paraguay put back for repairs, and the former reached West Hartlepool early on Monday morning. Most of the deceased were married men with families. — Home p-.iper. The "Charleston Herald," of August 3rd, reports:—By a party arrived in Westport from Karamea, we learn that the remains of a vessel's bulwarks, also hatches, water casks, and dingy have been washed up on the beach between Wanganui and Karamea. Fragments of gin cases picked up, with Bailie and Humphrey's brand on them, confirm the supposition that they are the remains of the Rose, which left here for Brighton early in July. A party sailing in this vessel for some time, and who'is at present mining at Wanganui Beach, is beyond all doubt certain that the timbers washed ashore are a portion of the remains of the Rose, formerly known as the Woodquest. Bradley was the name of the master, and, we believe, the crew consisted of two, beside himself. She was built in 1858, at Riwaka, Blind Bay, seventeen miles from Nelson. Upon further enquiry we learn that the debris of a wrecked vessel were first noticed on Thursday, the 20th. It is also stated, though we fear upon very slender grounds, that, on or subsequent to that date, a ketch, supposed to be the Rose, was seen off the Buller. Waller and Harper, who arrived from the Karamea yesterday, state that the beach is strewn with the debris of a small vessel, but nothing was seen by them to lead to the identification of the craft to which they belonged. They are certain, however, that the vessel must have foundered. As far as they know, no cargo had been washed ashore. We cannot state accurately who composed the crew of the Bose, but it is said that there were two hands in addition to Bradley, the owner and master. Two men, strangers to this portion of the colony, joined the vessel at Onehunga in April last, named Henry Earles and Louis Brown, and they are believed to have sailed in her from Westport on her trip to Brighton. Caution to masters of vessels holding certificates of exemption from pilotage. —A notice to the following effect has been posted up in the Customs by the Chief Harbour Master of Auckland. —"Notice is given that masters of vessel* exempt from pilotage, neglecting to hoist an exemption flag of the proper dimensions and at the proper time, will be charged full pilotage. The exemption flag is a white flag, must not be less than four six long and four feet broad, and must be hoisted from the time of approaching within three leagues of the Pilot Station, to the time of such vessel anchoring in the port." The steamer City of Melbourne, from San Francisco via Fiji, arrived at Sydney on July 24, after a long passage of thirty-four and a half days, the trip from Levuka to Sydney occupying nine days. THE BEAN ROCK LIGHTHOUSE. The building as it now stands, with the several extras which have been considered necessary to be added as the work advanced, has cost about £2762. The lighting apparatus is of the dioptric kind, of the sth order, and was made by Messrs Chance, Brothers and Co, near Birmingham. It cost, together with the lantern in which it is placed, a little over £3oo—the dioptric apparatus alone cost £l5B. The lighting apparatus is above the level of high water of 50 feet, and the level of the lightkeeper's dwelling is 35 feet above the same level. The light from this lighthouse will be seen about ten. miles distant, and therefore can never be confused with the light from Tiritiri, as there is only one point where both lights are seen together. There will be three fairways shown by white lights: one

through the Rangitoto Channel, shaded on the west side by red, and on the east by green; there will be another showing the passage past Brown's Island ; and the third will lead up the harbor to Auckland. The back portion towards Kohimarama will be entirely dark. The building is a neat structure now that it is finished, and it affords much more accommodation than one would conceive, looking at it from a distance. It is divided into four compartments, three of which are occupied by the lightkoeper, and one used as a storeroom for the lightroom, and also containing the water tanks. In the centre of the building is a special staircase leading up to the lightroom. The lamp has been officially lighted for the purpose of obtaining the necessary bearing, Mr James Stewart, C.E., who designed the building and superintended its erection, having gone down with Captain Burgess and several other gentlemen for that purpose. About six o'clock the lamp was lighted, and from the lighthouse it was seen that its guiding rays were shot far to seaward to direct the mariner the course to steer. The bearings of the fairway leading up the harbor were first ascertained, after which the Rangitoto channel was examined. There was evidently a peculiarity in some of the shade lights here which will have to be altered, as it might lead a vessel astray. The fairway leading from the sandspib past Brown's Island was found to be everything that could have been desired. The shade on either side of the white lights, showing the fairways, is remarkably distinct, and will indicate to the mariner at once when he has entered upon dangerous ground. The bearings taken we refrain from publishing, for obvious reasons. A new set of sailing directions will have to be drawn up, which will be submitted to the Colonial Government for approval and publication in the New Zealand Gazette.