SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4120, 4 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING .

PORT OF WELLINGTON. II to a Wateb. —7.S a.m. ; 7.29 r.M. ARRIVED. Jo.tß 4.— Lylleltoii, p.s., »! tons, Scott, from \\ iuran. No passengers. R. S. loniser, agent. Jla-iowatu, p.s., 109 tons, J. Grillitlis, from w anganui. Passengers—Saloon: Messrs. Purton, Bison, and" VVilmsliiirst. R. S. Ledger, agent. Stormbird, s.s„ C 7 tons, P. Doilc. from New Plymouth. via Wanganui. Passengers- Saloon : Mr.and Miss Duncan, -Messrs. Montrose, .Pickering, Sheen, Wilson. G.vymufill; steerage : 1. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., agents. Unity, ketch, 49 tons, It. Norgrove, from Pelorus Sound. sailed; June 3. -Edwin Bassett, barque. 303 tons. Salmon, for Newcastle, N.S.W. No passengers. Williams, Fawn, ketch. 22 tons, J. Davis, for Blenheim. iNo passengers. T. Filcher, agent. ENTERED INWARDS. June 3.— Tararua, s.s., 524 tons, J. \v. Clark, from Melbourne. W. Bishop. agent. CLEARED OUT. June A—Canterbury, schooner, 71 tons, J. Dunn, for Hokitika. Master, agent. Paterson, p.s., 2-JO tons, Muudlc. for LyUleton. John Brogdea ami Sons, agents. IMI’OKTS. Lyttelton, from AVainui—l2s bales wool, lo do tow, 33 casks tallow. 3 do hams. Mauawatu, from Wanganui—42 iron cots, 0 sacks ior.onul>ivd, from New Plymouth and Wanganui 1 trunk. 3 boxes. 1 cask, 3 pels, 14 pkga machinery, Tararua, from Melbourne, via the West Coast—S3 cases, 0 bales, 4 bdls wire, 15 pkgs petting. 1 case cocoa. 5 boxes candles, 3 cases peel, 35 cases brandy, 393 pkgs sugar, 30 cases wine, 1 qr-cask do, 7 casks do, 3S pkgs, 1 plough, 4 bales leather, 1 bale corks, 1 truss. 3 trunks, S kegs treacle. 37 ovens, 1 bag nuts, 1 keg shot. 33 lengths pipe, 12 axle arms, 10 bars steel, 4 cart boxes. 11 pels, 12 cases machines, 10 half-chests tea. 10 blub stout, 10 eases confectionery. 2 do biscuits. 4 carron boxes, 31 bdls spouting. 205 bags Hour, )?. do bark, 41 coils rope, 3 pkgs chaff-cutter, 20 cases pirns, 4 bdls. 1 cask, 2 kegs nails. 10 camp ovens, 90 cases fruit, 152 rams, 01 cases boots, 3 sacks, X case gloves, 1 case tobacco, 4 do cigars. EXFORTS. Fawn, for Blenheim—l3,ooo feet timber. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. , Melbourne, via the Soutiieiin Pouts.—Alhambra, s.s.,- this day. Melbourne. —Ashburton,via Geographcßay, W . A.; sailed 12th May. . t Southern Ports.—City of Adelaide, mail steamer, this day. Sydney.—il.M.S. Challenger. Adelaide. —Kangaroo ; sailed 20th 3lay. Newcastle. —Austmliud, barque : sailed 21st May. London. —Weymouth, ship, sailed 20th March; Waikato, ship ; sailed 13th March. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Wanganui. —Stormbird, s.s., this day. Lyttelton. —Paterson, p.s.. this day, at noon. Melbourmb, via West Coast.—Alhambra, s.s, this day, Melbourne, via Southern Ports. — lararua. s.s., stu instant. Kandavau, via Napier and Auckland. —City of Adelaide, A. and A.M.S.S., this day, _ Newcastle.—McCallum More, ship : Heversham, barque—early. Sydney. —La Hogue, ship. London.—Wemiington, ship.

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Nelson*. —June 3, sailed—S a.m., Luna, for Wellington. Foxton*. —June 3, sailed—ll.so a.m., Napier, for Wellington. Lyttelton’. —June 3, sailed—2 p.m.. City of Adelaide, for Wellington. The barque Edwin Bassett started on her return trip to Newcastle, N.S.W., yesterday morning^ The foreign barque Chevert is now discharging her coals into the hulk previous to getting the extensive repairs to masts and gear which she requires, Messrs. Turnbull and Co.’s steamer Stonnbml arrived in harbor yesterday morning from a round trip to 'NY'angaiiui, New Plymouth,- and Waitara, and back again, having had fair weather during the greater part of the passage. She left Taranaki on the evening of the 30th, with the wind easterly^at midnight it chopped round to the south-east with heavy sea, and blew hard till 10 p.m. on Sunday night, when the wind shifted to west with heavy rain, which continued until her arrival at Wanganui early the next morning. Having discharged and taken in cargo, she left Wanganui on Tuesday night at 0.30 p.m., at the same time as the Manawatu, and the third trial of speed between the rival Wanganui traders resulted in another victory for the Storm bird, the Manawatu coming in about un hour afterwards. The Stormblrd will load to-morrow, and return to Wanganui in the evening. The schooner Fiery Cross, now alongside Plimmers wharf, is discharging a quantity of grain and other produce. The ketch Thames, berthed at the same place, has now put out all her timber, amounting to 1 22.000 feet. The 'schooner Canterbury cleared yesterday for Hokitika, with lead and water-pipes. The Isabella and Lizzie Guy will follow her in a day or two, when the schooner Tauranga will also have completed her loading. The steamer Tararua was engaged all yesterday in putting out the large cargo which she brought for this port. She will saU South to-morrow (Friday), with the June English mails via Suez. The steamer Alhambra may be expected at the wharf to-day from Melbourne via the Southern ports. She is advertised to leave in the afternoon. The mall steamer City of Adelaide left Lyttelton yesterday afternoon at two o’clock, and as the wind gave every indication last night of veering round from tlieN.W. to the S.E., she may be expected at the whan not long after daylight. She will sail for Kandavan, via Auckland and Napier, in the afternoon. The p.s. Manawatu arrived in harbor yesterday from Wanganui. She left there on Tuesday evening at 11.30, p.m. and on getting outside found a N.W. wind blowing, with some sea in the Strait. She made the run in fifteen hours, a longer passage than usual. The p.s. Lyttelton arrived early yesterday morning from Nelson, with a cargo of wool and produce, which is to make part of the Wennington’s outward cargo. The run across was made in fifteen hours, during which moderate winds were experienced. She will leave again on Friday or Saturday. The p.s. Paterson cleared at the Customs yesterday, but did not leave for her destination. She will steam to Lyttelton at 0 a.m. this morning. •The ship Result sailed over from the outer anchorage yesterday morning, and brought up near the coal hulk European, into which she will discharge her coal, which is consigned to the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company. The ketch Fawn has cleared at the Customs with 18.000 feet of timber, for Blenheim. The barque Hovers ham, now at the wharf, will follow the Edwin Bassett to Newcastle. The “ Newcastle Chronicle ” of May 10, records the arrival at that port of the .ship ‘VVemyss Castle, Captain Joan Shields, which left "Wellington in ballast on the Cth of May, on which day the Woodlark and Malay also sailed for Newcastle, The W'cmyss Castle lias kept up her reputation for fast passages which she gained in the China tea trade, on this voyage. She beat through Cook Strait on the night of the Cth Mav, but on account of adverse \\Tnds and calms did not get past Cape Eginont until Sunday, the 10th, when she may be said to have fairly begun the run across. At this time she was in company with the Woodlark and Malay, which had left some six hours before her. The run across was made in very severe and trying weather, the ship having only two days of a leading wind, and being frequently reduced to lower topsails, while thunderstorms, with heavy rain and vivid lightning were experienced. On the evening of the 17th inst, the Werayss Castle was at the entrance to the Hunter, but she did not get in until daylight the following morning. Up to the evening of the 20th there were no signs of the Woodlark or Malay, a triumph for the China ship, as both were expected to beat her. On arrival, the harbor of Newcastle was found full of ships, some of very large size, and Capt. Shields expects to be detained there some five or six weeks before he can obtain his cargo of coal for Shanghai. Shortly after coming into Cook Strait the Werayss Castlo lost her head boards with the ship’s name carved upon them. It is not unlikely that these may have drifted on to some part of the New Zealand coast, and, if picked up by some person unacquainted with the particulars, the anxiety which is always caused by the finding of a ship's timber with the name on might arise unnecessarily. This account of the voyage is extracted from a private letter received by the Tararua. Some idea of the immense number of vessels which the fame of its coal draws to the port of Newcastle may be formed from the following computation from the "Chronicle” of May 0. On that day there were in the harbor 22 full rigged ships, representing a total tonnage of 21,502 tons, and an average tonnage of 081 tons, the tonnage ranging from 53-1 in the case of the Farfleld to 1773 in the Knowsley Hall, and 170(5 in the Glengarry. Of barques, there were 13, representing a total tonnage of 20,0(55, and an average tonnage of 480, tire tonnage ranging from 102 in the Sydney to 1180 in the Dclawar, and 1200 in the Addington. Of brigs, there were 13, representing a total tonnage of 3215, and an average tonnage of 247, the tonnage ranging from 102 in the Heatherbelle, to 230 in the Alexandra and Restless. Of schooners there were four, representing a tonnage of 852, the largest being the George Noble of 252 tons. Altogether there were 82 vessels in the harbor, the total tonnage being 4(5,324. Most of our readers will remember the foundering of the Belle isle off Newcastle, and the rescue of her crew and passengers by the barque Velocidade, and the Board of Trade have since recognised the services of Captain Ifwerson and his gallant crew. The Marino Board of New South Wales forwarded to the Board of Trade a recommendation that their services should be acknowledged, and the following letter was received in reply:—“To the President of tho Marine Board, Sydney. Sir,— Inferring to your letter of the 15th May, forwarding the finding of the Marine Board of New South Wales in the case of the inquiry into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the ship Belle Isle, and recommending that the conduct of Air, Charles Ifwerson, master of the barque Velocidade, of Lyttelton, N.Z., should receive recognition from this department, I am directed by the Board of Trade to acquaint you, for the information of the Marino Board of New South Wales, that they have awarded Mr. Ifwerson a gold watch, which has been sent to the Colonial office for presentation to him. To the live seamen of the velocidade who manned the boat from that vessel, by which the rescue was actually effected, the Board have awarded the sum of £2 each; and they have requested the Secretary of State for the Colonics to be so good as to take such steps as ins lordship may think fit for discovering the men (whose names were not given in the finding of the Marine Board) and paying them the rewards. - Signed, TuotfAH Guay, Board of Trade/ Whitehall Gardens, (sth March, 1874.” The circumstances attending the stranding of the schooner Kate aro thun given by the Wanganui papers;— It appears that while sailing through the

narrows with a light easterly breeze the ebb tide was running very strong, and caused the vessel to hug the lee shore and touch with her keel on the Bluff two or three times; in spite of this, it was thought she would stand out clear, but she drifted fast to leeward. The anchor was then let go, but before it gripped she was into the break and driven ashore on the north beach, where she now lies. There was very little sea on when she stranded, but shortly afterwards a strong breeze sprang up, and by midnight it had increased to half a gale, when the sea broke clean over the masthead of the vessel. There were, however, only about eighteen inches of water in the hold the following morning, which was pumped out. It was expected, the cargo would all be got out before the next tide made round her.’ Unless the weather keeps very nno for a few days it is not likely the schooner will bo got off the beach. . , , , A Sailor’s Engaoevents. —A somewhat novel point in mercantile marine law was raised at the Sandvidgc Police Court yesterday, when the master ot the barque Cingalese summoned four of his seamen •for refusing dutv. It appeared that when the Cingalese shipped her crew in England, she hailed from. Glasgow, and was under the command of Captain Graham. Since her arrival in Melbourne she had been taken over by new owners, and Captain Robson superseded Captain Graham in the command. Iho men contended that, as they had entered into an agreement for a voyage nut exceeding three years in the barque Cingalese, of Glasgow, commanded bv Captain Graham, the change of owners, of port of registry, and of captain, invalidated the articles signed by them, and they were therefore free to leave the ship if they liked. The point was a somewhat nice one, and as the two magistrates on the bench were not agreed on the subject, they decided to reserve their decision until Thursday next. —Melbourne Ar<jas, May 12.