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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 41, 19 July 1845, Page 2

PUBLIC SALE.

JAMES SMITH & CO.

WILL SELL,-BT PUBLIC AUCTION,

'AT THEIR STOKES, iLAMBTON QUAY, THIS DAY,

The following MERCHANDIZE, Ex SCOTIA:MANILLA SUGAR, in small bags, Coffee, Colonial Cheese, Pilot Coats, Moleskin and Canvass Trousers, Regatta and Striped Shirts, Guernsey Frocks, * Gentlemen's Velveteen Shooting Coate, India Silk and Coloured Cotton Handkerchiefs, • 6-4 Merinoes, Fancy Cotton Dresses, Navy-blue Prints, White Calicoes, Ladies' Black- and 'White Cotton Hose, -Gentlemen's Satin Scarfs, Bed Tick, ' Welch' Flannels, Split Peas, Boots and Shoes, Preserves in jars, ' Tooth and Rack Combs, Thread, DoVer knives, &c, &c.,*&c. Ijg^ 3 Sale to" commence at Twelve o'clock. Terms at Sale. Wellington, July 19, 1845.

PUBLIC SALE.

rjilß. R. WAITTwiII offer for public sale, -on Monday the 21st instant, at Custom-house Buildings, at ? One o'clock, A few Tons Superior Flour, About 20 bags Sugar, (to dote consignments), • Tea, Chocolate, 10 boxes Soap, 200 Bushels Maize, - 8 Casks Superior Pork, 'And a variety of Slops. 'Terms — Cash. ' Wellington," 19th July, 1846.

' ON SALE BY'THE UNDERSIGNED, MANILLA AND BRAZILIAN SUGARS; FLOUR, first, quality, in 100 and 2Qofl> bags. P. M. Hervey. Terms Cash — in Bank Notes or Specie. Wellington, 19th July, 1845.

OIL AND BONE.

tr fHE Undersigned is a purchaser for Cash. — Parties willing to contract for the supplyjof übout 200 Tons «-of Oil and Bone will please to submit proposals' to * Charles Robertson, Master of the late Barque Tyne, At the Office of Messrs. Bethune & Hunter. Exchange, Wellington, 19th July, 1845.

FLAX. ' r £BE Undersigned' is a" purchaser 'of New 'Zealand Flax fit for shipment. -P. M. Hervey. Wellington,- 19th July, 1845, Married^ July 14,-1 845, ,4D Tfeprndon Chapel, Mr. George Levy, of -Wellington, to Ann, of Mr. William Bell, of the PoriFna road. At Wanganui, on the 7th June, the Lady of . John Nixon, Esq., J.P., of a daughter.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. ■ July 15. — Schooner Slack Warrior, Anderson, from Akaroa, with oil and bone. .Same day. — Cutter- Katherine Johnxtone, Taylor, from Wanganui,-vrith sundries. July 16. — Schooner Scotia, 'Ward^fEom Sydney, with •General cargo.

-DEPARTURES. 'July 12.— Schooner Lady ofthe-Lake, Axton, for Kapiti. July 17 .- il SchooD.er i Ocean, Ferguson, for Cloudy Bay. ■ Same day.— Schooner-CheZe Sam, Ellis, for the Feejee Islands. -July 18. — Brig JTalco, Mosely, for Auckland and the Feejee Islands.

IMPORTS. Per 6co/f04— 412 bags sugar, 6 chests tea, 3 bundles .leather, 1 package kangaroo skins, 8 packages sauces, 3 coils rope, 1 cask grindery, 4 packages saltpetre, 2 hogsheads loaf sugar, 2 barrels soda, '5 hogsheads pork, 5 bags coffee, 1 piano, 1 case and 1 cask -cheese, 2 boxes -almonds, 20 bags flour, 10 bags sugar, 3 bags coffee, 1 bag barley, 7 boxes groceries, 8 cases and 3 hogsheads brandy, 1 case cigars, 1 pipe rum, 1 leaguer, E. 1. ram, 7 hogsheads B. P. rum, 40 bags sugar, 2 cases machinery, 4 rolls leather, lj cask pears, 5 bags coffee, 119 cheeses, 6 cases and 2 bales drapery, 5 packages fruit, 6 cans oil, 2 cans turpentine, 15 bags sugar, 3 bags biscuit, 1 cask tongues, 5 rolls leather, .1 ton hoop iron, 55 <bags flour, 25 bags biscuit, 3 tierces beef, 10 bolts canvass, 1800 treenails, 2 tons salt.

The Star of China was to leave Sydney for this port -and Tahiti on the sth inst. 'When the Slack Warrior left Akaroa there was only •the American *whaler China, of New Bedford, Captain Porter in-port. The Highlander and Cheviot whalers «of Hobart Town, and the American whaler Favouirie, were in'Kgeon Bay. H.M.S. Dadalut, from the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at Singapore on'the 22d April. Captain Egerton, R.N., has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. Hazard. The barque Columbian, Captain W*kem, from Sydney to Singapore was wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar -on the 7th February last, crew and passengers saved. The barque Mary, Captain Newby, from Sydney to London has been totally wrecked in Bass' ' Straits, seventeen passengers drowned. TheJforyieftSydneyforLondon{withaTaluablecargo, 4ind a total of crew and passengers of fifty-nine souls on board) on the 19thMay. It was the intention of the owners that the Mary should proceed by the ordinary route round Cape Horn, which is in fact the only one that can be considered practicable at this season of the year, when westerly winds are so prevalent. The Mary stood away <*o the southward, but when she got off Cape Howe, th«

wind being at east south-east, and " the aspect easterly-wind-like," Captain Newby determined to attempt the westerly passage; for "" although it was not a promising^ time of the year to make a passage by Cape Lewin, it 7 might not have been impossible ;" he accordingly stoodfc into Bass's Straits. On the morning Of the 24th May, the Mary _was off Wilson's Promontory, when the wind suddenly died away, and at 10 a.m. a strong breeze sprung up from the north-west, and gradually increased to a gale with heavy rain. Thinking he had now got into a westerly wind, Capt. Newby determined to give up the westerly passage, and accordingly bore up and ran to the southward of Sir Roger Curtis's and Kent's Groups. At 6 p.m., he estimated 'the ship's position to be five miles south of the body of Kent's Group, fixed her course at east by north, and having been up the two previous nights, the Captain went to bed, there being then a breeze from the north-west, which was sending the ship seven knots per hour. The chief mate had the watch from 8 to 12; about-11 he called the Captain, saying he thought " land was handy ;" but upon the Captain going on deck he could not see any land, and found that it was almost a calm. ; Broken water, however, was soon discovered off the lea beam, and a strong current was, rapidly driving the ship towards it. There was no wind to make the ship answer her helm, she refused stays, and drove broadside on the rock. She first touched on the starboard bilge, then under the fore-chains, and immediately parted abaft the foremast, the bows slipping off the rock into deep water jl'j 1 ' she .then struck abaft, unshipped her rudder, aad the topsides floated off the bottom, over the reef into smooth water. In seven minutes from the time she struck the ship was in pieces. The most melancholy part remains to be told. Seventeen women and children were drowned, and what is most extraordinary is that not a man was lost. Those drowned were three of Captain Newby's daughter's, six children of a Mrs. Evans; Augusta and Catherine, daughters of Captain Collins, of 'Hlawarra ; Mrs. Heather and two children, Mrs. Giwy, Mrs. Turnbull, and Sarah Foulkes, servant to Mrs. Collins. How the remainder were saved we cannot understand ; Captain Newby only remarks, " we were saved in the long-boat in the most wonderful manner." The reef upon which the \Mary was lost lies to the north-east of a rock described in the Australian Directory as Wright's Rock, about three and a half miles, and is known to the sealers who visit Furneaux's Island, as the north-east, or Sleep [? Deep] Reef. — Sydney Morning Herald. The brig Portenia has-broHght-70 tons of sandal wood from the South Sea Islands. The success Of the voyage has been somewhat frustrated, owing to sickness amoifg the officers and crew, since last. - The missionary barque John Williams was at Anatam on the 30th April, from whence she was going on to Tannaarid Erromongo, and after touching at New Caledonia, would come on to Sydney. Whilst the Portenia was at anchor at Anatam, a whaling "barque jpassed, showing the private signal' of Mr.' B. Boyd. On the 17th May, the Portenia saw the cutter Rover's Bride, Captain Paddon, hence for Anatam, inlat. 22deg. S.,long. 167deg. E. — June 13th, in lat. 33deg. 325. S., long. 155deg. 26sE., saw a whaling brig, painted black, and a narrow moulding on her stern white, with a scroll figure head, painted yellow, standing to the northward. — June 28, in a heavy squall, passed a small cutter : made her name out by the glass to be the Sisters, — she showed signals of distress ; but the weather would not admit of any communication with -her, although the brig was hove to for two hours. The Coquette, which arrived 'last night, has on board 23 tons cocoa-nut oil, 1 cask sperm oil, and 3 tons and a-half of arrow root. At Tahiti all was quiet. The American frigate Brandywine and brig P«rry had touched there, and sailed for the coast of South America^ The Uranie was the only French vessel lying at Tahiti. The French had taken possession of Bolooboloo, and had sent the war steamer Phaeton and other vessels on to blockade Raitea, where Queen Pomare was residing. The British barque Elizabeth, 400 tons, with a cargo of coals, had arrived at Papiete, from Newcastle, and her ' cargo had been purchased by the French Government. The French frigate Charte had touched at Tahiti, and left for Bolooboloo. — Ibid.

Shipwreck. — We regret to have to announce the loss, by shipwreck, of the Elizabeth and Rebecca, belonging to the enterprising firm of Nathan, Moses, & Co., on the 18th of April last, in a gale of wind near Streaky Bay. Only one life was lost, that of a young lad named James Wells, who was drowned by the capsizing of a boat after the vessel was wrecked. Captain Shepherd, his wife, and the remainder of the crew, were .saved, and had arrived at Adelaide in the John Pirie before the Sisters (by which we have the intelligence) left that port. The vessel and property on board are all lost, and there is only a partial insurance. — Colonial Times.