SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4128, 13 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

TOUT 01' WELLINGTON*. lEiou Water.—3.44 a.m. ; 4.3 r.M. ARRIVED. Junk 12.—Albion, s.s., 501 tons, Tho 3. Underwood, from Melbourno via the Southern pov:s. l'assengers —.Saloon : From Melbourne : Mrs.-and Miss Sireome and 4 children. Messrs Armitage, Davenport, Thomson. and Sample. From Dunedin: Mr. and Mrs. Winter, child, and servant, Mrs. Flooily and child. W. Dishop, agent. SAILED. .TL’SK 12.—Ladybird, s.s., 260 tons, IT. J. C. Andrew, for the Northern ports. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Messrs. Woolcombu and Seivius. Steerage : G. R. S. Ledger, agent. Paterson, p.s., 200 tons, George Mnndlc, for New Plymouth and Waitara. Passengers—saloon: Mrs. Monro, Miss Chilman. J. Webster, agent. CLEARED OUT. June 12. —Albion, s.s., 501 tons, Thos. Underwood, for Melbourne via the West Coast. Passengers— Saloon : For Coast: Mr. and Mrs. C\ Smith, Mr McDowell. For Melbourne: Mr. and Miss Simmomls, Mr. and Miss Petersen, Mr Donn. W. Bishop, agent. IMPORTS. Albion, from Melbourne and Southern ports—From Melbourne : 17 bags coffee, 5 cases sago. 5 do tapieoa, 5 bags pepper, 120 do rice, 4 kegs nuts. 1 pkg. hose, G cases glassware, 5 do billiard furniture, 0 pockets hops, 10 bags malt, SO bags sugar, 4.1 hf-ehests do, 51 boxes do, 40 bags rice, 10 do onions, 5 chests tea. 5 boxes type, 158 pkgs. sugar, 1 bale paper. 1 cases sundries," 4 ovens, 27 cases, 10 cases jam, 2 bdls., 20 tiles copper, 20 cases oil. 1 pci., 5 pkgs. baskets, 2 pkgs., 1 box. From the Fluff: 12 casks beer, 1 case. From Dunedin : 1 box. From Lyttelton : 1 bale, 7 cases, 18 bags pollard, 1 box. EXTORTS. Ladybird, for Northern ports—To Picton : IS pkgs. 50 sash bars, 40 drain tiles. 1 millbaiul, 1 cask, 4 truck wheels, 0 pkgs.. 2 hlnls., 10 bags flour, 0 cases, 11 bags coal, 1 pel., 20 sacks flour, i ease. 20 sheets iron, 2 cases, 44 pcs. machinery, 1 case. To Nelson : 1 case, 1 truss, 20 cases ginger wine To New Plymouth: 4 axle arms, 10 bars, 1 bdl. iron, 20 boxes, 3 cases, 10 bags, 2 pkgs.. 12 boxes, 2 cases, 10 cases kerosene, 2 cases vestas. To Manukan : 20 kegs butter, 1 truss. 2 pels., 225 bags barley, 20 boxes. Albion, to Hokitika : 2 pkgs. luggage. Paterson, p.s., to New Plymouth and Waitara: 0 waggon doors, 2 notice board's. 1 trolly, 2 serov/jacks, and original cargo from Lyttelton. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Claud Hamilton, s.s., 17th inst. Melbourne.—Ashburton,via Geographyßay, V,A.; sailed 12th May. Sydney.—llAT.S. Challenger. Auckland.— 11.M.5. Blanche ; his Excellency's yacht Blanche. Adelaide. —Kangaroo ; sailed 20th May. London.—‘Weymouth, ship, sailed 20th March ; Waikato, ship ; sailed 18th March. WANoANur.—Stormbird, s.s., this morning, earl)'. Foxton.—Napier, this morning. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via Southern Ports.—Claud Hamilton. s.s., 17th inst. Newcastle. —McCallum More, ship, daily. Sydney.—La Hogue, ship, 21st June. London.— -Wennington, ship. Lyttelton.—Golden Sea, ship, daily. Wanganui.—Stormbird, this evening. BY TELEGRAPH. HOKITIKA. June 12.—Arrived, 7.30 a.m. : Murray, from Wellington. PICTON. June ?2. —Arrived, 0.20 p.m. : Ladybird, from Wellington. The s.s. Ladybird took her departure for the Northern ports yesterday, after a long stay at the wharf of nearly two days* having arrived at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The gale showed some signs of moderating towards midday, and the Ladybird would lind it stiff outside, with a considerable swell on the coast and sea in the Strait. As was anticipated, the steamer Wellington, on getting as far as the Heads on Thursday and taking a look outside, came to the conclusion that discretion was the better part of valor, and wisely took shelter inside. Early yesterday morning, the signals were run up that she was steaming out; but her voyage to Lyttelton in the teeth of the gale, with the sea which must be running outside, will make her passage to Lyttelton anything but pleasant.

The steamer Paterson cleared for New Plymouth and Waitara yesterday, and sailed late at night with a cargo of general material for the public works now going on in Taranaki Province. There was again a vacancy yesterday in the shipping list, so far as the sailing craft were concerned. The coasters bound hither have sought the shelter of some friendly inlet, and no sailing vessel could leave the harbor with the strong wind from the south-east. The large cargo of sawn timber, ex the Seabird, from Hokitika, is turning out in good order. As usual, however, with the Cynthia and Unity on the one side, and that by the Seabird on the other, the open space on the wharf is narrowed so a 3 to considerably impede easy traffic. The regular Auckland and Sydney trader Hero arrived at the former port on Tuesday last, though no notice was taken of the fact by the telegraph. Her passage was eventful in one way, in that, after leaving the Melbourne wharf and proceeding down the river in charge of a pilot, she took a sheer at the lower part of Humbug Reach, and stuck hard and fast across the channel, thereby effectually blocking up all traffic either from the bay or from Melbourne. The steamers Southern Cross, for Hobart Town : Murray for Port Albert; and Otway for Warrnambool, were thu3 precluded from proceeding on their several passages; and the steamers Rob Roy, Edina, and Express, which had arrived in the bay from Warrnambool, were prevented from going up to the wharf. The s.s. Tamar, which had been discharging cargo at the Sandridge railway pier, also tried to make for the Queen’s wharf, but had to return to Sandridge. Captain l’ayne, Chief Harbor-master, on learning' of the interruption to the river traffic, telegraphed down to Williamstown to stop all vessels from going up the river until such time as the obstruction was removed. Two lighters were towed to the Hero to take out a portion of her cargo, and late the same evening she floated off without having sustained any damage to speak of, and proceeded on her voyage. McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s steamer Albion, Captain Thos. Underwood, arrived alongside the wharf at an early hour yesterday morning from Melbourne, by way of the Southern ports, having had a long and boisterous passage up the coast, and especially between Lyttelton anil Wellington, She reports of the round trip : —Left the Wellington wharf early on the morning of the 15th May, and arrived at Njlson the same evening; reached Grcymouth at 0 a.m. on the 17th ; left for Hokitika at 10 a.m., embarked passengers and cargo, and sailed for Melbourne at 1 p.m. same day. She experienced light E.N. E. wind. 3 on the first day out, and then had light variable winds for thirty-six hours. After that, however, strong west and W.N. W. gales were encountered. She passed the Promontory at a quarter-past 12 p.m. on the 22nd, and arrived at Port Phillip Heads at a quarter-past 12 a.m. on the 23rd, having had to contend against very heavy weather all through. At Melbourne she discharged her cargo of grain and a quantity of gold from New Zealand ports, and was ready for the return voyage on the Ist of the present month, when she cleared for New Zealand. Port Phillip was left at 2.30 p.m. on the 2nd inst., and fine weather prevailed during the trip across ; the Bluff Heads being made at one o’clock on Sunday morning last, the*7th inst. ; lay there under easy steam until daylight, when she steamed up the harbor, taking her berth alongside the wharf at eight o'clock. This run of the Albion from Port Phillip to Bluff Harbor was one of the fastest on record, having been accomplished in the remarkably short time of four days, nine and a half hours. Having landed her passengers and cargo, the Albion left at one o’clock for Port Chalmers, which she reached early on Monday morning, and transhipped her English mails into the steamer Ladybird. She left in the evening for Lyttelton, and arrived there at 8 a.m. on Wednesday; at 5.45 p.m. the same day, she got under weigh for Wellington, the wind blowing fresh at the time from the south-east, and allowing signs of increasing. This proved to be the case, the gale freshening, and bringing up rain and fog, which at length became so dense and thick that the coast lights coukl not be made out, and Captain Underwood deemed it advisable to heave to. From daylight, or what ought to have been so, up to midnight on Thursday, the engines were hardly moving'; the mist and rain rendering any navigation decidedly uncertain. Shortly after midnight the weather commenced to break up a little, though still very dull, with driving mist and southerly wind, arid the steamer’s course was shaped for the Heads, off which she arrived an hour or so after daylight; waiting a slant, she made her way up the channel, and rounded the point shortly before 7 a.m. Her adventures were not over yet, however; in giving the shipping that were lying out in the fairway a wide berth, the Albion carne closer than usual to the ouay, and her stern fell foul of the moorings of the Governor’s yacht Blanche, which got entangled somewhere down near the propeller. There were several fathoms of chain attached to a large and heavy anchor, and the sudden check at once told something had gone wrong. The steamer had sufficient way on her, however, to carry the obstruction along with her, and made her way up to the wharf with some difficulty. Arrived there, a rope followed the example of the chain, and for some time it was thought the chain and rope-might have twined themselves round the propeller itself, in which case the services of a diver would have been necessary. By means of strong warps the chain was raised some distance, and the position of the screw' being ascertained as the water cleared, and the vessel rose a bit when the cargo was taken out, the chain and rope were got free, Captain Underwood himself superintending the work. The Albion brought about eighty tons of original cargo from Melbourne and a few additional items from the coast, the discharge of which was rendered a longer work than usual by the bad weather prevailing. The Albion cleared last evening at the Customs, bather final departure is postponed until six this morning, when she will sail for Nelson, and thence via the West Coast to Melbourne. .She takes several passengers from Wellington. A paddle steamer, probably a tug, named the Leo, of 73 tons register, bound for Australia, was on the slip in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, refitting on the oth of May, The Steamship Macoukuoh.—The Sydney Marine Board, having completed their inquiry into the stranding of the Macgregor mail steamer at Kandavau, have given the following decision; After deliberation, the Board came to the conclusion that no blarno was attributable to Horace Grainger, the master of the vessel, for the accident. The Board, moreover, is of opini ,n that credit is duo to Captain Grainger for having rescued his vessel, and brought her into port from a position of great danger. They also desire to record the exceptional services rendered to the Macgregor by the commander, officers, and men of H.M.B. Pearl, under the direction of the Commodore commanding the Australian station,

Wkegk .Seen orr the Kent Gj;oui*.—The Captain of the barque Gleudtoe, from Newcastle to this port, reports that while between Cape Howe and Kent’s Group he passed a vessel bottom up. Theohject when first seen was supposed to be a whale, but on sailing past it was made out to be a vessel of about 300 ton.s, which had evidently turned turtle. The copper looked clean, and it was supposed that the wreck could not have been floating for any length of time.— Melbourne Daily Thyraph, June 1.

The Wreck of the Corsair.—The purchasers of the wreck of the cutter Corsair would appear to have made rather a dear bargain, as nows was received i>v the coach vesterdav morning to the effect that when they went to look after their craft she had either gone to pieces or slipped off into deep water.— Ueelmuj Advertiser.

Tin; Southern Cross.—The screw steamer Southern Cross, which arrived on Saturday from the Tyne, was taken up on the Government patent slip yestcrdav, to have her hull cleaned and the bottom coated with patent anti-fouling composition. When the steamer has got rid of the barnacles with which the bottom is encrusted, and which greatly hindered her on her voyage hero, she will proceed at once to her destination —New Zealand. —Melbourne Daily Telctjruj'h, May 27. Tin: Western Route to England.—The favorite South Australian ship Collingrove, Captain Angell, arrived in Table Bav yesterday morning from Adelaide, with fortv-five "passengers bound to London, and °OO tons of wheat and flour for this port. The run from Adelaide to near Algoa Bay was rapidly made in thirtv-five davs with very fine weather ; but from there" to Table Bav the Collingrove encountered heavy head weather, which took her a fortnight to get through to this port. One heavy sea shipped by her off Algoa Bay did damage to the extent of .2100. She is, however, now quite taut and trim. When he reaches England, Captain Angell is going to build, or get built a new ship of 1200 tons, which is to be a perfect model, with every modern improvement. She is to cost .225,000, and is to be owned jointly by himself and three others, two of whom are the well-known Adelaide millionaires, Mr. Elder and Mr. Hughes. The Collingrove is likely to remain here until Wednesday next. —Cape .Lryus, May l). The Wreck of the British Admiral.—The Government have decided to despatch the Pharos to the scene of the late disaster to the ship British Admiral, at King’s Island, the Victoria not being in seagoing condition. Yesterday afternoon orders were forwarded to the captain of the Pharos to proceed in the first instance to the South Channel, with a view to seeing that the lights were in proper trim. This having been accomplished, she was to coal, if necessary, and continue her voyage to King's Island. There may be a large quantity of cargo floating near the scene of the disaster, and perhaps many .bodies have been washed ashore, and it is possible that some survivor from the wreck mav vet be found. The Pharos proceeded last evening'on her voyage. It is surmised that it was the Waterwich reef on which the vessel struck, and that it is only three or three and a-half miles off shore. The Steam Navigation Board will meet to-day. at 12 o’clock, at the temporary offices of the Customs, Queen Street, to investigate the circumstances which led to the wreck of the ship British Admiral.—Melbourne Aye. Melbourne Pilots and the Chief Secretary of Victoria.—Through the wreck of the Corsair, No. 1 Pilot Company sustained a loss that was expected to amount to not less thau .25000. On Thursday last, Pilot Rocket, with one of his company, waited on the Hon. Mr. Cohen, to ascertain if any relief could be granted by the Government. The Minister received the Idiots with much kindness, and expressed his sympathy with them in their misfortune, recommending them finally to sec the Chief Secretary. This tliev did, when Mr. Francis told them in his bluff, frank stvle that no public money would be voted for such a ’purpose ; but, putting ins hand kindly on Rocket’s shoulder, he uttered one of his emphatic expletives and said. “You are worthy of great consideration, and rather than see you stumped I’ll see what can be done for you; Come with me.” The result was, an arrangement was concluded with the bank for the purchase of a new vessel through Mr. Francis's intervention, that will save the company a very large sum of money in interest. By this act on the part of the Chief Secretary, the pressing anxieties of the members of the company are entirely removed for the present.— O'cdony Dreniny Times.