SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4166, 28 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OF WELLINGTON. High AVatkk> 3.52 a.m. : 4.15 t.m. ARRIVED. July 20.—Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, E. Wheeler, from Northern ports. Passengers—Messrs. Gillies. Hooper, McArthur, Jackson, Greaves, Reid, and Narassour, Capt. and Mrs. Keene, Mrs. Webb and family (12), Misses Gully. Mrs. Inglis ; steerage : 9. R. S. Ledger, agent. July 27.—Colleen Pawn, schooner, 20 tons, J. Carnes, from Tuna Bay, Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. SAILED. July 26.—Taranaki, s.s., 200 tons. E. Wheeler, for the South. Passenger—One steerage. Lady Don, schooner (put in wind-bound). July 27.—Napier, s.s., 44 tons, It. Butt, for Foxton. Passenger—Cabin: Mr. Edwards. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., agents. Otago, s.s., 042 tons, John McLean, for Melbourne, via the West Coast. Passengers—Cabin: For Melbourne : Mrs. Fisher, Messrs. Greeland, Hewitt, Wells, and Snowden. For Coast: Mrs. Bigncw, Miss Jackson, Miss Mollor, Miss Priest, Messrs. Hickey (2) find Ross. W. Bishop, agent. Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, J. Griffiths, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin ; Mrs. Dundas, Miss Dundas, and .Mr. Bentley. R. S. Ledger, agent. Mary King, schooner, 70 tons. Hilton, for Oamaru, in ballast. W, M. Bauuatyno and Co., agents. Fiery Cross, schooner, 72 tons, J. Grundy, for Napier. Master, agent. CLEARED OUT. July 27.—Alert, schooner, 43 tons, C. 1L Smith, for Fictou. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Taranaki, from Mauukau : 155 cases, 10 bales, 1 pkg, 3 cask?. From Nelson : 2 pkgs, 5 cases, 10 sacks, 4 trunks, 1 box, 1 omnibus. From Picton: 2 pels. Otago, from Melbourne: 2 boats. 2 horses, 4 boxes gold, 00 cases fruit. From Bluff: 1 tin, 1 bag, 1 wheel, 1 portmanteau, 1 pci. From Dunedin: 340 bags, 1 case, 2 pels; ' From Lyttelton: 1 pkg. Colleen Bawn, from Tuna Bay; 18,000 ft. timber. EXPORTS. Taranaki, to Lyttelton: 2 pels, 5 pkgs. To Dunedin : 3 pkgs. Napier, to Foxton : 201 pkgs, 25 cases, 1 truss. 152 bags, 5 mats sugar, 1 engine, 1 machine, 1 plough, 12 wheels, 07 pels, 1 bale, 1 box, 2 casks ale, 2 kegs butter, 1 half-chest tea. Alert, to Picton: 19 cases, 1 bdl, 8 kegs, 4 camp ovens, 1 pkg, 30 bags, 3 casks, 1 box. 13 tons coals, 10 do coke, 1 do flour, 2 boilers and fittings. Otago, to Nelson : 1 box. To Greymouth : 1 pkg, 1 case, 1 box. To Hokitika : 2 cases. 10 quarters of beef, 10 carcasses mutton. To Melbourne: 8 casks tallow. Manawatu, to AVanganui; 4 cases gunpowder, 10 kegs do, 15 cases, 27 pkgs, 1 bar steel, 28 gunnies sugar, IS casks, 17 bdls wire, 1 keg, 1 chest tea. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Melbourne. —Tararua, s.s., 20th inst. Northern’ Ports.—Ladybird, 31st inst. Auckland.—Schooner Merlin. London. —Reichstag, Strathnaver, St. Leonards, Panthea, Euterpe, sailed 28th April; Conflict, sailed sth May. New York.—Oneco ; sailed 2nd of June. Liverpool. —J. A. Thompson, ship. Sydney. —Hannah Bloomfield, schooner. Southern Forth.—AVellington, s.s , 20th inst.; Cyphreues, s.s., 30th inst. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via the South.—Tararua, a.s., 31st inst. Northern Ports.—AVellington, 30th inst. Southern Ports,—Ladybird, s.s.. 31st inst. East Coast Ports (Middle Island).—Phcebe, i.s.. 31st inst. AVanuanui and Taranaki.—Stormbird, s.s., 2Sth inst. - AVanuanui. —Manawatu, 30th inst. Kandavau, via Napier and Auckland.—R.M.S. Cyphrenes, 30th inst. East Coast Ports (North Island),— Rangatira, this day. Foxton. —Napier, 31st inst. Castle Point.—Aurora, schooner, early. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON. July 27.—Arrived, 7.60 a.m.: Taranaki, from Wellington; 9.30a.m.; Cyphrenes, from AVellington. AVANGANUI. July 27.—Arrived, S a.m.: Stormbird, from AVellington. AUCKLAND. July 27.—East Lothian sailed on Saturday for Lyttelton with railway sleepers from Hawau. Arrived : Ladybird and Luna ; Thomas and Henry, from Dunedin ; Magellan Cloud, from Lyttelton. PORT CHALMERS. July 27.—Arrived : Maria Bhan, ship, from Glasgow, with 475 immigrants, seventy-four days out; Peter Denny, with 383 immigrants, eighty days out. The Claud Hamilton sails for Melbourne, and the Wellington for the North, this afternoon. BLUFF. July 27.—The ship William Davie arrived on the evening of the 25th from Dunedin. MELBOURNE. July 17.—Arrived: Apelles, from Lyttelton. NEWCASTLE. July 15.—Arrived: Oily of Tanjore, from Dunedin; IGth, Asia, from Dunedin ; AVallaroo, from Nelson ; and Heather Bell, from Auckland; 17th. Queensland, from Lyttelton. Sailed, 17th July: Esk, for Dunedin; Briton, for Auckland; Gazelle, for Nelson, ENGLISH SHIPPING . Arrived.— May 30 : Celfeno, from AVellington, at Gravesend. Sailed. —From Gravesend: May 17th, St. Lawrence, for Canterbury; 19th, City of Auckland, for Auckland; 23rd, Corona, for Otago ; 30th. Carisbrook Castle, for Canterbury, and Columbus, for Otago. The Cyphrenes, which left here at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, arrived at Lyttelton at 9.30 a.m. yesterday, making the passage in eighteen hours, —good time, considering her trim. The schooner Colleen Bawn arrived yesterday from Pelorus Sound with a cargo of timber. The master of the barque Record yesterday gave notice of sailing. The Eureka will shortly clear and sail. A new steamship called the Durham has been launched at Blackwall for Messrs. Money, AVigram, and Co, She is for the London and Melbourne trade, and is a sister ship to the Northumberland. The Steamer Flintshire. —This steamer has managed to reach Sydney, but her voyage from Magnetic Island appears to have been attended with great danger. The following account is from the Sydney Horning Herald: —“After the fore compartment of the vessel had been filled with water casks and tanks, on the Ist July, the Flintshire steamed to sea from Magnetic Island, with fine weather and moderate S.E. wind. At 4 p.m. on the Gth the weather looked very threatening, the vessel being then off Sugar-Loaf Point. The coal ran short, the weather increased in violence, with terrific squalls, and the ship could scarcely steer. At midnight on the Gth, Port Stephens light bore N., and the wind had increased to almost hurricane violence, with tremendous sea and heavy lightning to S., the barometer still falling. The ship was now quite unmanageable, heading S.E.. rolling and lurching in the trough of the seas. Great fears were entertained for the security of the tanks and casks in the fore-compartment, as it was feared if these broke adrift, they would beat a hole in the bottom. The chief officer describes the noise made by the water rushing in and out of the holes near the bows as like the roar of artillery. The gale continued with unabated violence throughout the night, and at four a.m. on the 7th it had increased to a hurricane from the S.S.E. There was then very little coal left, and it was deemed advisable to stop the engines and let the fires out, so that the slight remaining fuel might be used as a last resource to enable the ship to make port when the weather moderated. The ship was now considered to bo in great danger, as she was perfectly helpless, and unable to steer, and rolled gunwale under with almost every sea. There was also difficulty with the Malays and Chinese, who did their best, but were quite unable to be of service during the height of the gale. They stowed themselves away wlicrever protection from the weather could be obtained, and they could not be found when wanted. In fact, the general opinion then was that the vessel would founder. An attempt was made to set a small sail in the rigging to keep her head to the wind, but to no purpose, as she remained quite unmanageable throughout the night. At 1<» a.m., succeeded in getting the ship's head to N.AV., when a heavy sea smashed the starboard quarterlies, and washed everything moveable from the quarter-deck overboard. At noon the gale had abated somewhat, and towards sunset the weather still moderated, and the sea went down considerably. All hands were then employed collecting fuel to keep up the fires. The fore-cabin timbers were removed and broken up, together with all loo&s wood from the hold ; at midnight there was a moderate S.AV. wind, and at 3 a.m. on the Bth the fires were lighted, and at 5 o'clock the ship stood in for the land, which was made ten miles north of Sugar-loaf Point; at 9 passed Port Stephens, and signalled “short of coal." Then stood in for Newcastle, and entered port about noon, just as the fuel was exhausted. The h.h. Macgregor.— The s.s. Macgregor, which took out the July mails for San Francisco, had a very large passenger list. Her departure was thus noticed by the Sydney Morning Herald of the 4th instant : “ The A. and A. mail steamer Macgregor leaves today at noon, for San Francisco via Kandavau and Honolulu, carrying the homeward English mails. Since her stav in port most important alterations have been made in her passenger accommodations. The original saloon aft has been fitted up and sot apart entirely for the lady passengers, and the largo and commodious deck-house amidships has been converted into an elegant dining saloon, with wellventilated enclosed cabins on either side. The sanitary arrangements, including baths, &c,, have been fitted up, and, in fact, for comfort and every convenience the Macgregor is perhaps the most perfect steamer leaving this port. Captain Granger, her commander, has with him a staff of first-class officers in every department, the ship is fully coaled and provisioned, and will take her departure under most favorable circumstances." A Cask for Inquiry. —The following statement, signed by two of the sailors of the ship Oakworth, and attested by Mr. Ryan, the President of the Seamen's Union, has been forwarded to us for publication : “AVe signed articles in Liverpool to join tho (ship Oakworth, lying at Queenstown. We joined ship, and sailed from Queenstown on the 20th of March, and on the morning of the 21st, when off the Irish coast, as near as we could reckon to the Head of Kinsale, wo ran into a fishing vessel, cutting her in halves, as we saw her mast and a part of her passing the side, and could hear tho cries of the men asking (or God's sake to save them. Tho hands on deck immediately cut one of tho boats adrift, and had her over tho side, as the vessel was going along easy, only about five knots.

Three of us got into the boat, but the master would not let ua go, as he said the men would be all drowned before wc could get to them, white we are certain that, bad he hauled the yards aback in time, it would have been quite easy to have saved some, if not all of them, and wc hope for the sake of humanity this case will be inquired into. Signed, Georue Bun, John Ramsay. AVitncss, AVilliam Ryan. The rest of tho crew avo quite willing to sign tho statement signed by the two men,—Melbourne Age, July 11.