SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 119, 26 July 1873, Page 10

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

arrived. JULY. 18, Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Handle, from the East Coast. 19, Enterprise, 84 tons, Campbell, from Timaru. 19, Day Dawn, schooner, 37 tons, Smith, from Kaiapoi. 20, Claud Hamilton, s.s., 530 tons, Clarke, from Melbourne. 22, Horatio Sprague, American barque, 508 tons, Small, from New York via Dunedin. 23, Wanganui, s.s., 165 tons, Renner, from Port Chalmers, Oamaru, and Lyttelton. Passengers—Mrs and Miss Croker and three children, Mr and Mrs Mosley, Mr and Mrs Sealey, Miss M'Kenzie, Rev Mr Kilgour, Messrs Mueller, Burke, Walker, Buffer, Davies, Morley, James, Oram, Fergusson, and Master Croker ; seven in the steerage. SAILED. 19, Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Carey, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Passengers —Messrs Bell, Bush, Gwynneth, Gra ham, Hawker, Leishman, and Wilson ; 27 steerage. 20, -Paterson, p.s., 260 tons, Kennedy, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. 21, Claud Hamilton, s.b., 530 tons, Clark; for Lyttelton, Port Clialmers, the Bluff, and Melbourne. Passengers—Mrs Brown, Miss Solomon, Mr and Mrs Rowlings, Miss Rowlings, Messrs Fitzgerald, Rusherbon, M‘Farlane, and.Batkin. 22, Luna, p.s., 200 tons, Fairchild, for Napier. 22, Janet Grey, schooner, 30 tons, Ware, for Pelorus Sound. 23, Heversham, barque, 465 tons, Yule, for Newcastle. 23, Jubilee, ship, 746 tons, Monkman, for Lyttelton. 23, Aspasia, schooner, 44 tons, Thompson, for East Coast.

The Janet, barge, of 40 tons, lately trading between Southport and Hobart Town, has been purchased by Mr Thacker, of Canterbury, New Zealand, for £650. It is, we understand, the intention of Mr Thacker, who is a sheep farmer, residing at Okain’s Bay, to employ the vessel in bringing stores to his station from Lyttelton and Dunedin. A correspondent writes from Adelaide to the “ Lyttelton Times”: —The port of Adelaide is an arm of the sea stretching up from Spencer Gulf, and which has, by constant dredging, been made available for vessels drawing 17 feet of water. All this year the wharves have been thronged with shipping of very superior build and size. Some of them have stowed away over 60,000 bushels of wheat, being obliged to complete their loading in the gulf. Grain and flour to the value of over £1,200,000 has been shipped hence during the past six months. The freights realised have been enormous, some vessels earning upwards of £7OOO on the homeward cargo. Jack, who has an especial gift for looking after his own interests, has not neglected his opportunity here, and I am informed that at present ordinary A.B. seamen are getting better pay than the mates of many of the best ships.” We learn that Messrs Bray Brothers, who got the contract for removing the rock in the fairway channel at the entrance to Nelson harbor, are making good progress with their work. By a few charges of dynamite skilfully used, they have succeeded in splitting the rock into fragments, and little remains now but to clear away the pieces. There is already an additional depth of three feet of water above the rock, and in a short time the channel will be clear altogether.—“ Examiner.” The inquiry at Halifax into the loss of the Atlantic has terminated. The judgment commends the conduct of the officers of the Bhip after she had struck, but condemns her management from the time her course was changed, and especially the captain’s conduct in leaving the deck at midnight. His certificate might he cancelled, but considering the efforts he made to save life, it is only revoked for two years. -The fourth officer’s is suspended for three years. Forty out of the crew of the Atlantic have reached Liverpool, among them the second steward and the chief saloon steward. Both of them state that the shortnoss of stores had nothing to do with, making for Halifax, as when the ship struck she had four days’ fresh provisions on board, and salt meat for eight or nine days longer. All the survivors are said to regard the captain as solely responsible for the catasti-ophe. The Government at Washington on May 10th received news from the American Arctic Expedition. Captain Tyson reports that the ship Polaris reached 8216 N. latitude in October, 1871. Captain Hall had died of apoplexy. The ship left her winter quarters on the 32th of August, 1872. She broke away, leaving part of her crew in the ice-fields, on the 15th October. They were found on floating ice, and picked up last April by the Tigris, after undergoing terrible suffering. It is supposed the Polaris is safe. The New South Wales steam marine has received a valuable addition in the shape of the Wentworth, a new steamer of nearly 1000 tons burden, purchased for the Australasian Steam Navigation Company. The point worthy of special notice is that she is fitted with the modern compound engines, and can make eleven knots an hour on a consumption of eleven tons of coal per day—that is to say, she could make the run through to San Francisco on a consumption of less than 400 tons. She has brought boilers and machinery for the City of Melbourne, which, when fitted, will be able to achieve tfie same results. This vessel left Dartmouth On the night of the 23rd April, and anchored in Table Bay on the 16th May. She accomplished a run of 5888 miles, making an average of 256 mile a day, or lOf knots for every hour, carrying one of the largest cargoes ever taken to the Cape, her freight being between 3000 and 4000 tons.