SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4145, 3 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF WELLINGTON. High Water.—7.o a.m. ; 7.17 r.M. ARRIVED. July 2. —Tarania, s.s., 523 tons, J. W. Clark, from Melbourne, via Southern ports. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Wilson and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Rodger, Mrs. James, Mrs. Klein, Mrs. Gibbs, Messrs. Greenwood, Shephard, Allen, Russell, Bunting, Parry, O'Connor, Steele, Parker, Curtis, Daniel, and Gibbs. W. Bishop, agent. Frowning Beauty, barque, 365 tons, Campbell, from Newcastle. R. S. Ledger, agent. sailed'. July 2.—Luna, p.s., 11)0 tons, Fairchild, for "Wanganui. Ladybird, s.s., 2SG tons, H. J. C. Andrews, for tho Northern ports. Passengers—Saloon: Capt. Linklater, Messrs. Bratt and Weston. R. S. Ledger, agent. Manawatu. p.s.. 103 tons. J. Griffiths, for Wanganui. Passenger—Saloon: Miss Luxford. R. S. Ledger, agent. Rangatira, s.s.. 185 tons. C. Lloyd, for Napier. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Tiffin, Mrs. Winter, two children, and servant, Captain, Mrs., and Miss Newman, Mrs. Holloway, Messrs. A. and J, McKlnnlc. K. S. Ledger, agent. Lyttelton, p.s., SO tons, W. Scott, for Wairau. No passengers. li. S. Ledger, agent. ENTERED INWARDS. July 2.—Omega, barque, from Newcastle. CLEARED OUT. July 2.—Result, ship, for Newcastle, in ballast. IMPORTS. Frowning Beauty, from Newcastle: 530 tons coal, Tararua. from Nelson: 2 pels, 2 bags oatmeal, 1 trunk, 1 case, 1 bale, 1 bdl trees. t> pkgs reaping machine. Omega, from Newcastle: 570 tons coal, 207 bags maize, 12 cases oranges, 12 drays. EXPORTS. Kahuna: S3S rails, 7 cases, 75 sacks bran, C 7 do oats, 421 joints. Falcon: IS bdls sacks, 2 pkgs, 3 tons coke, 18 do coal, 8 pkgs ironmongery. 2 revolvers. Rangatira; 405 pkgs, 4 bales, 12 cases, 5 pels, 1 bale woolpacks, 3 brls ale, 3 trunks, 1 bedstead, 139 coils, SO boxes, 2 bdls, 2 pulleys. Lyttelton: 1 pci. Manawatu :.120 casks ale, 3 cases, 84 pkgs, 30 boxes tea, 20 do candles, 12 kegs sulphur, 1 keg, 1 truss, 1 pci, 10 cases ginger wine, 10 pairs naves, 1 pair legs. Ladybird, for Pictou : 1 box, S pkgs. 1 case, 22 bars, 2 bdls iron, 14 kegs sundries. For Nelson ; 1 bdl, 1 bale, 1 pci, 7 cases. For Westport; 15 kegs butter. For Taranaki; 3 cases, 1 pci, 1 pkg, 3 kegs. EXPECTED ARRIVALS, Melbourne, via Southern Ports.— Omeo, s.s., this day. Melbourne. —Ashburton,via Geographo Bay,W.A.; sailed 12th May. Auckland.— H.M.S. Blanche, brigantine Rhyno, p.s. Paterson, schooner Merlin. Napier.—Fairy, s.s. Southern Ports. —Star of the South, early. Adelaide. —Kangaroo ; sailed 20th May. Newcastle. —Edwin Bassett, Record. London. —Weymouth, ship, sailed 7fch April (from Dtal) : Waikato, ship ; sailed 18th March—and 24th March from Plymouth, with immigrants; Reichstag, Strathnavar,. St. Leonards, Panthca, Euterpe, sailed 2Sth April; Conflict, sailed sth May. Liverpool.— J. A. Thompson, ship. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kandavau, via Napier and Auckland.— A. and A.R.M. s.s. City of Adelaide (with outward Californian mails of June), on Sunday next. Melbourne, vla the West Coast.—Omeo, s.s., this day. Sydney. —La Hogue, ship, early. London, via Lyttelton. —Wennington, ship. Auckland. —H.M.S. Challenger, early. Newcastle. —Malay, barque, this day; Result, ship, this day. BY TELjxfuAPH. y LYTTELTON, July 2. at 10.10 a.m. : City of Adelaide, from Wellington ; and sailed again at 2.30 p.m. for Dunedin with San Francisco mail. ONEHUNGA. July 2.—Sailed, at 12.30 p.m.: Paterson, for New Plymouth. BLUFF. July 2.—Arrived, at 3.20 p.m.; Albion, with Suez mail. FORT CHALMERS. July 2. —Sailed: ship Wild Deer, for London ; Phcebe, s.s., for Lyttelton. Arrived: Wellington, from Lyttelton.

Messrs. McMccknn, Blackwood, and Company's Tararua arrived alongside the wharf yesterday morning from Melbourne, via the West Coast and Nelson. She brings a large general cargo and a number of passengers.. She left Hobson’s Bay at 10.30 a.m. on the 21th, passed the Heads at 12.30 a.m., and the Sisters at 4 a.m. on the 25th ; experienced strong head winds on the passage across, arriving off Hokitika at 5 a.m. on the 30th; left again at 8.30, and arrived at Greymouth at 10 a.m.; left Greymouth at 1 p.ra., and arrived in Nelson at 10.30 a.m. on the Ist; left Nelson at 10 p.m. same night, and had a good run across. The Tararua leaves for the South to-day with the Suez mail. Private letters from London give particulars of the voyage of the Electra homo, in addition to those given in yesterday’s issue concerning the death of the second officer, Mr. Latchford. The Electra left Wellington on the 12th of January, and during the run had light and contrary winds of unusual duration, as shown by a copy of her log which has been furnished to us. The Horn was rounded on the sth of February, with the wind north-westerly. Five ships bound South were passed at the Cape. Four days after this, in a S.W. breeze, Mr. Latchford was lost overboard. The S.E. trades were hardly caught at all, and the N.E. trades not until the sixty-first day out. On the 30th the ship Lucerne, from Foo-chow to London, ninetyfour days out, was sighted. Moderate weather prevailed until the 11th of April, when she was abreast of Falmouth. The same night she was abreast of Eddystone lighthouse, and the pilot came on board at 10.30 a.m. on the 13th. The passage altogether occupied ninety-one days. Luring thirty-two consecutive days of these only seventy-four miles were made. The ship Electra beat the Hope, whose arrival has been reported at Home, by some days. The ship Douglas, which sailed from here a short time before the Electra, was beaten by her by several days. The ship Douglas mil return to New Zealand for another trip, having obtained a charter at Home for onr ports. Captain Bishop, so well known as the master of the Halcione, is to receive command of a fine new ship, which v/ill be ready in August. She is building at the yards of Messrs. Hall and Co., of Aberdeen, and is reported to be a splendid model. She is to be called the Wanganui, and will trade to New Zealand. Another new ship is building by the same firm, to be called the New Zealander. The command of her will be given to Captain Leslie, formerly of the ships Queen Bee and May Queen.

The Electra ■will not visit New Zealand for some time again, if at all. Her next trip, after discharging cargo at home, will be to Colombo, in Ceylon. Captain Sellars leaves her at London, and does not proceed to Ceylon. The ship Result, which cleared yesterday, has now finished ballasting, and will sail for Newcastle shortly. She moved out into the stream yesterday afternoon.

The barque Frowning Beauty, which arrived from Newcastle yesterday, being some days after her expected time, hauled alongside the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company’s hulk, and commenced discharging her cargo of coal The barque Malay hauled out from the wharf yesterday afternoon. In readiness for sailing to Newcastle.

The ship "Wemungton, which will leave for London, via Lyttelton, some time next week, is now filling up rapidly with cargo. The ketch Falcon cleared with a miscellaneous cargo for Blenheim yesterday afternoon. She was to sail during the evening. The Government steamer Luna sailed at noon yesterday for Wanganui. The s.s. Ladybird left for the Northern ports yesterday evening, with few passengers and a miscellaneous cargo. TheManawatu sailed yesterday for Wanganui, with one saloon passenger and a full cargo. The s.s. Kangatira took her departure yesterday for Napier, having several passengers and a fair cargo. The p.s. Lyttelton sailed yesterday for Wairau, with no passengers, and only one parcel of cargo. The three-masted schooner Melanie, which arrived on Wednesday afternoon with a cargo of sawn timber, will come up to a vacant berth this morning, and commence discharging. A London and Melbourne Steamship Ashore. —The Somersetshire left London, intending to call at Plymouth to take passengers, for Melbourne on the 23rd of April. In running into Plymouth Sound she ran on the centre of the breakwater. She had a Plymouth pilot on board, and was going about five knots per hour. The weather was thick, but she was seen by the breakwater men, whoso shouts of warning attracted attention on board, and her engines were stopped, but too late to prevent her running stem on and grounding. An anchor was at once let go, and fortunately the steam-tug Trusty was in the Sound, and, perceiving the accident, immediately proceeded to render assistance. A warp was got out from the Somersetshire's port quarter, and was conveyed to the Trusty. By the strenuous exertions of that powerful tug, the Somersetshire, which was settling on to the slope of the breakwater, was hauled out, and ultimately floated. She then steamed into the Sound. She was at once examined by divers, and found to have sustained no damage, and sailed from Plymouth with a fair wind early on the morning of April 28. Terrible Sdpterinoh at Sea.—A story from the sea, as full of horror as any wo remember, reaches us from Calcutta. The Arrucan, coal ship bound from Shields to Bombay, was found at sea. One of the boats, containing three men and two boys, was picked up in the Arabian Sea on March 20, having been thirty-two days In the Indian Ocean, with only ten days supplies. On March 0 the last bit of bread was ate, and the last drop of fresh water drunk. Yet from then till March 20, eleven days, they survived. They chewed lead to moisten their throats, tried to cat their boots and jelly fish, and in delirium sought to kill one another—inviting death. Blood from wounds in a fray was eagerly drunk, but when the frenzy passed the men would shake hands and kiss each other. Lots were cast, and a boy in the boat doomed to be killed; but tills the mate, who acted throughout most resolutely, jirevented,— Jsuroi*Mn Mail, May 5.

The Wahataii— On April 25 Messrs. Hall, ■Russell, and Co. launched from their shipbuilding yard at Aberdeen an iron screw steamer named the Waratah, of the following dimensions Length, 105 feet; breadth, 24 feet 6 inches ; depth, 14 feet; 600 tons registered, Tbis vessel has been built in accordance with Lloyd's rules to class 90A, and has all the latest improvements, including water ballast, steam winches, &c. She is fitted with compound surface condensing engines of 05-horse power nominal. This vessel will be commanded by Captain Stewart, and is to bo employed in the Australian coasting trade.

THE STRANDING OF THE WAIT AKA. The following particulars as to the position of the Waipara on the beach at Greymouth, and as to the probabilities of her being launched into the lagoon, are given by the Grey River Argus The s.s. Waipara is in about as favorable a position for launching Into the still water of the lagoon as could bo hoped for, and the work of getting her on her sea-legs again should not be very difficult. Yesterday afternoon, about two hours before high water, she was broadside on to the beach, and there was the probability that she would be hoisted by the next tide further up the beach. Everything portable, except a few bags of coal and the ordinary utensils of the vessel, had been sent ashore, and there is nothing left but her hull and machinery to lift. Her propellers were unshipped, and hawsers were placed from both fore and aft to anchors on the shore, as to keep her in her present position, which is considered to be the best for her overland journey. It unfortunately happens that jiut immediately opposite to the vessel the beach is much more than usually high ; in fact, there is a sort of step about five feet above high water mark, which will either have to be cut away or extra expense incurred in raising the ways up to that level; and in the additional power required to haul the vessel up. The hull does not appear to have suffered any damage. It is said that some small strain is observable amidships, but the tight little steamer appeared to be entirely unscathed. The contract for launching her has been let to Mr. J. Kilgour for the sum of £6OO. We regret to learn that the borough surveyor has expressed the opinion that permission should not bo given to cut away any portion of the crown of the beach at the place where the Waipara is stranded. He fears that if the surface is tampered with in any way, the next flood may cause the river to make a clean sweep out to sea across the lagoon, and thus damage, if not destroy, the port. Should the Borough Council confirm his objections, it will be necessary to haul the steamer clean over the crown of the beach. There seems to be every' probability of her being got in the river before many days.