SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4146, 4 July 1874, Page 4

SHIPPING.

POET OF WELLINGTON. Hian Water. —7.33 a, m, ; 7.33 p.m. ARRIVED. July 3.—Record, barque. 337 tons, Jenkins, from Newcastle. Passengers—Mrs. Jenkins, anil Master Jenkins. E. S. Ledger, agent. Edwin Eassett. barque, .'Kin tons, Salmon, from Newcastle. W. E. Williams, agent. SAILED. July 3.—Tarania, s.s., 523 tons, J. W. Clark, for Melbourne, via Southern ports. Passengers—For Coast; Messrs, iiowan and Travers. For Melbourne : Messrs. Worth, Nicholson, Williams, Lye, and Howard. W. Bishop, agent. , ~ , „ , Kainma, schooner, 39 tons, F. Maule, for Nelson. No passengers. Plimmer, Eeoves, and Co., agents. ENTERED INWAEDS. July 3.—Record, barque, from Newcastle. Melanie, schooner, 130 tons, Creagh, from Kaipara. CLEARED OUT. July S.—Cora, schooner, for Havelock. IMPORTS. Record, from Newcastle —020 tons coal, 400 felloes. Melanie, from Kaipara—3l,ooo feet timber. EXPORTS. Tararna, for Lyttelton—l case, Ido drapery. For Dunedin: 1 case bottles, 2 bags fish, 1 pel.. lor Bluff: 1 case, 23 do bottles. For Melbourne : 70 bales 11 do tow, 3 casks hides. Cora, for Havelock—X box, a quantity of stores, 10 cases. 0 pkgs sundries. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Melbourne, via Southern Ports.— Omeo, s.s., this day : Albion, s.s., 7th Inst. Melbourne. —Ashburton, via Geographe 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. —Robin Hood ; sailed 2titli June. London. —Wevmouth, ship, sailed 7th April (from Deal) ; Waikato, ship : sailed ISth March—and 24th March from Plymouth, with immigrants; Beichstag, Strathnavar, St. Leonards, Panthea, Euterpe, sailed 23th April; Conflict, sailed sth May. Liverpool. —J. A. Thompson, ship. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kandavau. via Napier and Auckland.—A. and A.K.M. s.s. City of Adelaide (with outward Californian mails of July), on Sunday. Melbourne, via the Vest Coast. —Omeo, s.s., this day : Albion, s.s., Sell inst. 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. Napier.—Stormbird, s.s., on Monday, at 4 p.m.

BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND. JtTLY 3.—Sailed : Taranaki, for the South ; Victoria, for Sydney; Monnimuck, for Lyttelton, via Hokianga, with timber. NEW PLYMOUTH. July 3.—Arrived: Paterson, p.a., from Manukau, and Stormbird, s.s., from Wanganui and Wellington. The Paterson left for Wellington at noon to-day. LYTTELTON. . July 3.—The Dunedin, from London, with imgrants, has arrived at the Heads. No particulars are to hand as yet. PICTON. July 3.—Arrived, S.lOa.m. : Ladybird, from Wellington ; sailed again at 0.10 a.m. for Nelson. WANGANUI. July 3.—Arrived, 11 a.m.: Manawatu, from Wellington. POET CHALMERS. July 3.—Arrived, 9 a.m.; Albion, from Bluff.; 11.5 a.m. : City of Adelaide, from Lyttelton. She sailed again at 4 p.m. for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland, with the San Francisco mail. She takes fortv-one saloon passengers. At 4.15 p.m., the Albion, for Lyttelton and Wellington ; Harriet Armytago, barque, for Stewart's Island. The barque Record arrived from Newcastle on Thursday night, and yesterday lay at the inner anchorage. She will commence discharging her cargo of coal into the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company’s hnlk to-day. , , , , , The barque Edwin Bassett entered the harbor about ten o'clock on Thursday night, and, in turning the point, unfortunately kept too close in, so that she got aground on the sand. At the full tide yesterday morning she had all sail set, in the endeavor to get clear, but the attempt was unsuccessful. During the afternoon about twenty tons of her coal were transhipped Into the Maori, and a quantity of her cargo shifted forward, which process would, it was believed, enable her to float off by the full tide last night, as she was then only aground aft. The schooner Kahuna sailed yesterday afternoon for Nelson with a cargo of railway iron, transhipped from the La Hogue. The Tararua sailed yesterday for Melbourne, via Southern ports, with passengers and cargo. The schooner Blackwall is now at the northern middle T, taking in a large miscellaneous cargo for Patea, whither she will sail shortly. The barque Malay, bound for Newcastle, was, at a late hour last night, at the outer entrance, waiting for an opportune breeze. The barque Omega, which arrived from Newcastle on the 2nd, coaled the s.s. Tararua yesterday morning, and then hauled alongside the hulk to discharge the balance of her cargo. The ship La Hogue is now busily engaged taking in ballast, prior to sailing to Sydney, en route for London. She leaves about next Wednesday. A number of people have already taken passages. The schooner Melanie is now at the wharf, discharging her cargo of timber. The Stormbird is due from New Plymouth to-day, coming direct. She left Wellington on Monday afternoon for Wanganui, arriving there on Tuesday morning. She sailed the same day for New Plymouth, bat owing to the westerly gale had to run back to Wanganui. On Thursday night, as the weather moderated, she left Wanganui, arriving at New Plymouth yesterday (Friday) morning. She was to leave for this port at 2 o’clock the same clay. The Stormbird proceeds to Napier direct on Monday afternoon. The City of Adelaide is due here to-morrow (Sunday) morning. The advertised hour of sailing is 9 o’clock. The steamer will not come alongside the wharf, and as her stay will be short, it will be advisable for intending passengers to be smart in getting on board. The schooner Hunter has been chartered by Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co. to take a cargo of general goods to Patea. A new steamship, named the Barrabool, has sailed from England for Melbourne. She is intended for the Newcastle coal trade.

At Noumea, Captain Charles Smith, of the schooner Chance (says the Maryborough Chronicle of Thursday last), reports that, while he was lying at anchor, at midnight, in "Woodm Strait, New Caledonia, a French gunboat came stemming up. The second lieutenant boarded the Chance, and demanded the ship's papers. Having: examined the documents, he informed Captain Smith that instructions had been received from the Governor to bring the vessel to Noumea, and meantime he should retain her papers. In answer to questions, he stated that he did not know on what grounds the vessel was to be seized. At 0 a.m. the next day the Chance was fastened behind the gunboat and towed to Noumea, the lieutenant taking the papers on shore, and ordering Captain Smith to attend at the harbor-master’s office in the afternoon. At that interview the harbormaster explained that all vessels were forbidden to apss through the Strait without calling at Noumea. Captain Smith replied that when he was at Noumea the previous August the harbor-master had given the Chance leave to pass through as often as necessary, so long as light dues and pilotage were paid. "When entering the Strait on the present trip, the Chance was spoken by the pilot, who inquired, and found that his services were not required. The harbormaster said the regulations had not been issued until November last, and the pilot was clearly to blame for not informing the Chance; ho also said there was danger of vessels being attacked by Communists. Captain Smith showed that without the permission of the Government agent, who was a passenger, ho was unable to take any man on board. At the request of this official. Captain Smith drew up a statement explaining why he had gone through the passage, which showed that this route saved some 250 miles. Next morning the papers were returned, and the captain told that his vessel was free. The officials, however, refused to tow her out to sea again. A New Vessel in the Intercolonial Trade.— Amongst the late arrivals in port from London, says the Melbourne Argun, was a large powerful threemasted schooner named the Mera. She is a vessel of 237 tons, and was purchased in England by Mr. Fulton, the owner of the steamer Easby, which has also just arrived, and is intended for trading between New .Zealand and Newcastle. The schooner, in charge of Captain Hays, left London on February 2, but meeting with very adverse weather in which one of the crew was lost overboard—she put into Falmouth, and did not sail from thence until February 23. Moderate variable winds marked the voyage afterwards to the Equator, which was crossed on March 20, in lon. 23deg. iJOmin. W„ and variable winds and fine weather were experienced to the Cape, where the schooner put in on May 2, and remained until May 0, when she squared away for Melbourne, Her passage thence until arrival was marked by most unsettled weather and exceedingly variable winds.

Waif# from King’s Island. —The ketch Cygnet, K. Lawlor, master, from King’s Island, has brought fifty-one hogsheads and four half-hogsheads of beer and three Casks ruin. Captain Lawlor reports that a large quantity of cargo had been washed ashore. Three more bodies have been found and buried. Ono was identified as that of the second officer. The hull of the ship has not been discovered. The cargo brought by the Cygnet was recovered from the rocks near Currie's Harbor. A parcel of letters found strewn on the beach has been handed to Mr. S. Gardiner here. Amongst the letters are a number concerning or belonging to the Hale family, which Mr. Gardiner will restore to the rightful owner,—Melbourne Aryus, STEAMBiI FOK NEW BEAL AND, The Easby, which has arrived in Melbourne, is a large Iron screw steamer of 9G9 tons register, and Is Intended by her owner, Mr. Fulton, of Dunedin, for trading between that port and Newcastle. She is evidently meant for a cargo vessel, from her largo stowage space, and for the carriage of coals, or grain, or live stock she Is well adapted. This new addition to tho steam marine of New Zealand was built in 1573 at Stockton-on-Tees by Messrs. Itichardson Aau Duck, so that she is comparatively a new

vessel. She measures in length 257 ft. over all, with a beam of 32ft. and a depth of hold of 21ft. Cm., and she is driven by engines of 140-horse power nominal. There is a small but neatly furnished cabin aft, which can accommodate about a dozen passengers ; but forward of this there is space winch could be fitted for a hundred. She is schooner-ngged, and in general appearance is not unlike the steamer Jason, which was here recently. The Easby, in charge of Captain Shand, left London on April 0, passed the Lizard on April 8, and encountered exceptionally heavy weather in the Bay of Biscay. The gales were accompanied with high topping seas which broke over Iter with great force, smashing the boats at the davits and doing other damage. The equator was crossed on April 2S, in long. 12 W., and strong S.E. winds prevailed generally until arriving at Cape Town on May 18. Having only put in there for water, her detention did not extend over twenty-four hours, and she resumed her voyage on May 19. From the Capo, the passage was marked by strong variable winds and very unsettled weather, and for two days before arrival at the Heads strong gales and squalls were experienced. In the Strait there was a very strong tide setting to the S.E., and instead of making the Otway light, as expected, it was the light at Cape Wickham which was sighted,