Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 383, 14 June 1879, Page 13

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVED. Jonb fl.—Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Petersen, from tlio Manukau and intermediate ports. Passengers— Saloon : Mesdames Gouland, Bear and 2 children, Captain Miller Messrs. Uraham. MeKerrow, Windle, Robertson, Paul, Kennedy, Pickering, and D. Lacy. 1). Mills, agent. Grafton, s.s., 120 tons, Fraser, from AVestport and Greymouth. Passengers—Cabin : Misses McCarthy, Routledge, Mesdames Crocker and family (4), Minogue and family (7), Driscoll, flon. R. Pliarazyn. Captain Williams. Messrs. Crocker. Robinson, and Driscoll; C steerage. Williams, agent. Hawea, s.s., -121 tons, Kennedy, from Auckland via the Rust Coast. Passengers—Saloon: Missei .Johnston (2), sstrein, Mrs. Grace. Mr. and Mrs. Do Kergoria, Major Campbell, Sergeant Laughtree, Messrs. Johnston, Bcatson, Ruigtell. Matheson. ami Kolston : 2(» Armed Constabulary in steerage. D. Mills, agent. itingarooma. s.s., 023 tons, Chatfield. from Melbourne via Hnb.irt.on and the South. Passengers- - Saloon: Kroin Melbourne: Mr. and Mrs. Oowen ami family, and Mrs. Itusscll. From Coast: Misses Barr. Wilkinson, Mr. and .Mrs. Hart and family. Mesdames .Tones. Pick, Messrs. Johnston, Bennett, Morrah. Hammerton, anil Ward ; 1!) steerage. D. Mills, agent. Napier, s.s., 48 ton*, Fisk, from Blenheim. W. and G. Tu nbull, agent 3. iiangatira. s.s., 106 tons. Evans, from the Manukau Tia Taranaki and "Wanganui Passengers—Cabin : Mesdames Stock and Dew. Messrs. Pope. AVaddell, McCall. Mowbray, Hunt. Captain Andrew, and 0 steerage. Martin, agent. Alary Peverley, brigantine, S 7 tons, Evans, from Clarence River. Master, agent. Jvsk 7. —Jane Douglas, s.s., Fraser. from Foxton. Passengers—Cabin : Mrs. Scrimshaw, Messrs. Buick, Goodby, McKwen, >ellers, Futter, and Simpson. Juke 7. —Jane Douglas, s.s., 75 tons, Fraser. from Foxton. Passengers Cabin: Mrs. Scrimshaw Messrs. Buick, Goodly, McKwen, Sellars, Futter, and Simpson. Martin, agent. Southern Cross, s.s., 139 tons, Helambr, from Lvttelton. W. and G. Turnbull. agents. Kiwi, s.s.. 130 tons, Campbell (put back). Levin and Co, agents. June 8.-—Maaawatu, p.s., 103 tons. Harvey, from Foxton. Passengers —Cabin: Messrs. Bsmet, Woods, Hughes, and Mnnro. Manin, agent. Huia, s.s., 00 tons, Wills, from Foxton. Bishop, agent. Tni, s.s., 01 tons, Holmes, from Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Eastwood, McLean, ani Rainie. Bishop, agent. Stormbird. s.s., 09 tons, Doile, from Wanganui. Passengers Saloon : Mr., Mrs., and Misses (2) Lysaght, Mrs. Hall and two daughters, Messrs. Smith. Hughes, McDonald, Brown, and iVolscouski. Martin, agent. Hinemoa, s.s., 252 tons, Fairchild. from Nelson. Passenger : His Excellency the Governor. Wanaka, s.s., 210 tons, MeOillivray, from the South. Passengers—Saloon : Miss Hoggard, Captain? Cook and Mclntyre, Messrs. Kerble, Butter, Parker, Donald, Archer, Fletcher, Newman, Kllaby, O'Reilly, Flyn . Gambia. Donoghue, Mowbray. Kaiuie, Over rend, Hart, Brown, Graham (2), R°id, Hayes, Deverey. Mcllraitli, and Ah Ching. D. Mills, agent. Juxe 9.—Stella, s.s., 150 tons, McKersie, from the Manukau and Tarauaki. Passengers: 20 recruits for the Armed Constabulary. .Tunis 10. —Wanganui, s.s., 170 tons, Bayldon, from Oreymouth. Westport, and Nelson. Passengers —Cabin : Miss Mack, Mr. and Mm. lientleman. W. and G. Turnbull, agents. Patea, s.s., 60 tons. Gibbons, from PaUa. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Kennedy and E Iwards. W. and G. Turabull, agents. June n.—Go-A head, s.s., 85 ton.s, Dicker, from the Manukau. Johnston anil Co., agents. Martha Reid, schooner, 75 tons, Sandstrom, from Oamaru. Master, agent. Tui. s.s-, 04 tons. Holmes, from Wanganui. Pas-sengers-Cabin : Misses Hogg. Thompson, Rankiu, Messrs. Thompson, Smith, Dransiield, McGregor, Donnald, Trueman, Vine, Chevannes, Sallow, Govett, Grinns, and Holland; Bin the steerage. Pi-hop, agent. "Taiaroa. s.s., 223 tons. Petersen, from Nelson and Flcton. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Berry, Orames, King, Mesdames McMaster. Kendall, M-.-ssrs. Guise, Lock (2). Hamilton, Hurford, AVilcoeks, Con, Feild, Brown, Britton, Windle. Ilefferman, Hooper, Gallop, Ijodson, Murphy, Weyms, flood worth, Hyland, Purkiss, Lockhead, and Thomas. D. Mills, agent. Stormbird. s.s., 09 tons, Doile, from Foxton. Passengers—Cabin : Captain Gibbons. Messrs. Lloyd, HiU. and Batchelor; 8 in the steerage. Martin, a<ent. Junk 12.—Thames, ketch. 23 tons,Hamilton, from I'elorus Sound. Master, agen'. Aspasia, schooner, 45 tons, -Moore, from West Wanganui. Master, agent. Spray, topsail schooner, 50 tons, Buxton, from (Jreymouth! Master, agent Colleen Pawn, schooner, 28 ton-, Lillybrand, from Otaki. Master, agent. Xaoior. s.s., IS tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. Turnbull and Co., agents. Huia. s.s.. 90 tons. Wills, from Kaikoura and Lytteltmi. Passengers-Cabin: Miss Little, .Messrs. Casie Cli tty and Knowle.s; 1 steerage. Bishop, agent. SAILED.

Junio G. llawea, s.s., 402 tons, Kennedy, for the South. PasscngCßS—Saloon : Misses Walcott and Bannatyne (2), Mrs. Williams, child and servant. Judges Williams and Job ston, Messrs. Brown, Johnston. Mitchell. Priest, Bnnkes, Hargin, and Preston. D. Mills, age t. Emerald, ketch, 40 tons, Walsh, for Lyttelton. Master, agent. Hinemoa, s.s., 2SS tons. Fairchild, for Nelson. Fas■engcr: LI is Excellency the Governor. Tui s s., 04 tons, Holmes, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Davis and Crowther, Bishop, ''Huia, s.s., 00 tons. Wills for Foxton, Passengers— Cabin -Messrs. Davis and Kelly. Bishop, agent. Maaawatu. p.s.. 103 tou.s. Harvey, for Foxton. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Humphries. Giigg, and Nation' Martin, agent. .„.,._. Kiwi, s.s., 133 tons, Campbell, for Napier and tho East Coast stations. Passenger—Cabin : Mr. Turnbull. Levin and Co, agents. June 7.—Napier, s.s., 43 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. W and G. Turnbull, agent*. JukbS— Grafton, s.s.. 170 Uus. Fraser, for Greymouth and Westport. Williams, agent. Ju.vis 9.—Stormbird, s.s., 00 ton.?, Doile, for Foxton. Passengers—Cabin : .Misses Murphy (2). Messrs. Rae, Hall, and Harman. Martin, agent. Tui, s.s., 04 tons Holmes, from Wanganui. Bishop, 'jane Douglas, s.s., 75 tons, for Kaikoura and Lyttelton. Passengers—Cabin : Miss Howe, Mrs. Roberts Mid family, Mcssr«. Gray and Martin. Martin, '.Southern Cross, s.s.,' IS7 tons, Helander, for Auckland and the East Coast. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., agents. ~,,«• t Kiwi, s.s.. 133 tons, Campbell, for .Napier and Fust Coast ports. Levin and Co., agents. Rangatira, s.s., 190 tons, Evans, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin: Mr. and Mrs. Crocker and family, Messrs. Blundell, Sibbald, Boyes, and Orchiston, Martin, agent. Taiaroa, s.s., 223 tons, Petersen, for Picton and Nelson 'passengers— Si loon : Miss Lourie. Judge Richmond, Messrs. Fitzgerald, Taylor, Eastwood, Raluer, and Master Thorp. I>. Mills, agent.

Huia, s.s., 90 tons. Wills, for Kaikoura and Lyttelton. Bishop, agent. Ringaroonia, s.s., 023 tons, Chatfield, for Melbourne via Hobarton and the South. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Hall and Slevwrlght (2). Mesdames Cose and Jones, Captain and Mrs. Wagenian, Messrs. Whimple, Graham. Hall, Havnian. Weidner, Smith, Ryan, Reynolds, Page, Brett, and Gatehouse. D. Mills, agent. Wanaka. s.s., 277 tons, McGillivray, for Auckland via the Fast Coast. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Pawson and child. Chief Justice Prendergast, and Mr. Frederick. D. Mills, agent. June 10.—Manawatu, p.s., 103 ton=, Harvey, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Russell and Jones. Martin, agent. Patea. s.s ,50 tons, Gibbons, for Patea. W- and G. Turnbull. agents. Wanganui, s.s., 170 tons, Bayldon, for Lyttelton. W. and G. Turnbull, agents. Junk .12, —Pleiades, ship. 097 tons, Setten, for Loudon ' Levin and Co., agents. Endeavor, brigantine. 75 tons, Mundell, for Oamaru. M ster, agent. Junk 12. —Stormbird, s s., CO tons, Doile, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin : Captain and Mrs. Flummery and 4 children. Mr. Sheardon. Martin, agent. Gloria, barque, 735 tons, Lawson. for Oamaru. Turnbull and Co., agents. Peri, ship, 897 tons, Hurst, for San Francisco. Levin and Co, agents. Napier, s s., 48 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. Passenger —Cabin : Mr. Gordon Allan. W. and G. Turnbull. agents. Jll r TELEGRAPH. A UCKLAN D. Tuesday. Cleared : Tamaya, barque, for South America. AUCK L \ND, Wednesday. Arrived : Weymouth, barque, from Loml -n, 131 days out ; the Loch Dec, barque. 102 days, both arriving this morning. In the Pay of Biscay the Weymouth lost her main-topmast, and sprung her main boom. Tnc Loch D e experienced moderate weather. Both vessels bring passengers and cargo. There have been no deaths during the voyage of either. The Thames, barque, arrived to-night from Lyttelton, after a smart pass ige of tive days. She experienced horrible weather and severe gales on the passage. She loads with grain for New York. LYTTELTON, Tuaiday. Arrived : AVaimate. 97 days from London. She brings 58 passengers, all well. Fine weather was experienced throughout: was 08 days to Leuwin, and had light easterlies since. She cain9 right in to the wkarf. BLUFF, AVednesday. Tho Albion, which arrived yesterday from Melbourne, brought the following passengers for AVellington :—Messrs. Marks, Home, and Hill ; 8 in the steerage.

Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co. have received a telegram announcing the departure from Singapore, oi the 3rd Juno, of their three-masted schooner May, for Wellington. The ship Pleiades, which has been detained for the last eight days through the prevailing south east weather, got under way on AVednesday last. At one time it looked as if she would have to drop anchor again, but what little wind there was increased at midday, and by 1.30 she was out of sight from the harbor. By dusk she was well clear of the land, with a light north-west breeze. Wo wish Captain Setten a speedy passage Homo. Experiments with an electric light apparatus fitted on board tho turret ship Dreadnought havo tak n placo at Portsmouth. Thesystom employed was Mr. Wilde's, and the machinery for generating the electricity wa.s driven by a 40-horso power engine, which was fitted in tho hold. The light was so contrived as to be capable of concentration upon objects at a short distance, or of diffusion of a large area. The experiments, which were carried out under the superintendence of Captain AVilson, were considered very satisfactory. w e (the Australian Shipping News) understand that tho Rotomihana, s.s., the newest addition to the Union S.S. Company's tine fleet of steamers, conies out to the colonies under the flag of the Colonial Line, and is to leave London on August 5, taking cargo, as do the other steamers of that line, for Adelaide, Melbourne, a d Sydnoy, afterwards crossing over to New Zealand. The largest shipbuilder in New York died recently. Tn a review of his life an American paper gives the following list of vessels constructed by him during the 53 years of his business : " From 1821, until his retirement, ho constructed 174 sea-going vessels, of a gross capacity of 139,039 tons, comprising 30 steam vessels, 47,921 tons : 91 ships, 50.477 tons ; 5 barques, 2701 tons ; 4 brigs, 799 tons. He al-o constructed 10 schooners, 9 pilot boats. 2 yachts, 1 sloop, 2 U.S. lightships, 9 steamboats, 2 towboats. 1 barge. Ho also built the U.S. sloop-of-war Brooklyn, the gunboats Ottawa and Otsego. Of the 91 ships the Hudson, ISOI tons, launched February 2», ISH3 was tho largest, while the next was the U.S. frigate Hope, lauched November2B, 1825. The smallest ship-rigged vessel built bv him was the Jupiter, of 280 tons, launched March 7. 1822. Between ISSO and 1855 Mr. Westervelt built 55 vessels, of 53.093 tons. In 1359 ho withdrew from active participation in tho business, but still used to daily supervise the work at the yards." — Australian Shipping Xeir.i. The " Reports made to the Admiralty on the Anchoragtt, &C. of the Island of Cyprus." have just been published. Admiral Hornby states: —"The opinion I have been led to form is that a harbor might be fo med at Famagosta at a small expense, which would shelter more ironclads than the grand harbor at Malta, and where they might coal with great facility. Captain Harry 11. ftawson, of the .Minotaur, proposes fo make a breakwater for about a mile along the shoals. ■ If this were done 14 ironclads might moor under its shelter outside the five fathom line, with a good bottom, and at a distance of one cable apart. The grand harbor at Malta affords similar moorings for only nine ironclads, but they are only three-quarters of a cable apart. If the inner harbor at Famagosta were dredged out, which it appears it may be, to a depth of 24 feet, a basin of SO acres would be obtained for mercantile purposes." Speaking of the position of Famagosta, Admiral Hornby remarks: —" It must strike the eye of ev-ry seaman, situated 250 miles from the entrance of the Suez Canal, the maritime power which holds it must always command that important highway, while at less thau half the distance from the open roadsteads of the Syrian and Karainanian coasts—Acre, Beyrout, Tripoli, Lattakieh, Alexandletta, &c..—it would se..-m that the whole trade of those coasts must be drawn to the only port which can offer this perfect shelter, and the facilities for rapid loading and discharge which merchant ships require." FATAL COLLISION IN' THE CHANNEL. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Severn, from Hamburg, came in colli don off Dungeness about half an hour after midnight on the 13th of March with the Edinburgh, a cutter of 02 tons, which left Dover on the 12th, and was cruising in the Channel with a number of London pilots for the supp y of passing ships. At the time of tho accident she had on board a total of 20 persons, of whom 12 were pilots, and eight formed the crew of the cutter. The steamer ran into the cutter's fore-ringing, struak her on the starboard bow, and she sank in about three minutes. The steamer stood by and lowered two boats. Pike, one of the tire men, who wis saved, says he was in the water 20 minutes before he was picked up, and that he saw three of his shipmates—Goldsiiek and two others —go down by the side of hint. Bourner says lie sank twice, and was at last hauled up to the steamer's deck by a line, the others being picked up by the boats. After the steamer's engines were stopped, two boats were immediately lowered, properly manned and officered, and sundry tloatablo gear thrown overboard, including .several of Uolmos' patent life-buoy lights. Bluelights and rockets were also fired to attract the attention of passing vessels, of which there were plenty about, making up or down the Channel. Two Steam tugs from Dover came up and steamed steadily round the spot, hoping to pick up more of the survivors. The men who were taken to Southampton in the Severn gave it as their opinion that the reason no more lives were saved wis that the hands of the cutter crowded into their own boat and she capsized with them alongside the vessel, and th y were doubtless sucked into the vortex when the cutter went

down. The two pilots saved warmly thanked Captain Lawson when the vessel arrived in dock for the smartness and efficiency with which the boats were lowered, and expressed themselves satisfied that everything possible was done to save the lives of the unfortuuato men.