SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4185, 19 August 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON Hicih Water. &30a.m. ; 8.57 r.M. ARRIVED. August IS.-Coll»en Bawn, schooner. 29 tons. Games, from Tana Bay, Pclorus Sound. Master, "hL BmbcU. barque, 414 tons, Salmon, from Newcastle. Williams, agent. Falcon, ketch. Fisk. from Blenheim. PassengersCaptain W. Dalton, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Craig, Mr. 1011. Turabull and Co., agents. SAILED. August IS.-Napier, s.s., 44 tons, Butt, for ioxton. Passengers: Messrs. Taylor, Snelgrove, and Baxter. Turntrall and Co.. agents. Otneo, s.s.; 000 tons, Calder, for Melbourne, via the West Coast and Newcastle. Passsengers—* or Coast: Mr. Smith ; for Melbourno: Messrs. Howard and Johnston. W. Bishop, agent. ENTERED IN. August IS.—Omeo, s.s., 660 tons, Calder, from Melbourne, via the South. W. Bishop, agent. CLEARED OUT ' ' August 18—Canterbury, schooner, 33 tons, Anderson, for Havelock. in ballast. Master, agent. Heversham, barbne, 465 tons, Yule, for > ewcastie, in ballast. Williams, agent. Cleopatra, schooner, 92 tons, 0 Bnen, for Weymouth. Master, agent. ,-*■„.. Anne and Jane, barque, 2C2 tons, Holm, for >ewcastle, in ballast. K. S. Ledger, agent. Malay, barque, S2S tons, Davis, for Newcastle, m baUaSt - IMPORTS. Omeo, from Melbourne: CO cases, 5 pkgs, 1 buggy, 3 horses. Frora Bluff; 4 hhds, 1 pel. From Otago : 0 bdls. 7 pkgs, 12 cases, 30 bags. - „„„„.» Colleen Bawn, from Pelorus Sound: IS.OOO feet Falcon, from Blenheim; 50 bags malt, 5 tons potatoes, 1 pocket hops. * EXPORTS. . NBj>ier, to Foxton : .4 casks, 437 pkgs, 11 cases, 17 Ttegs, 1 buggy, 1 portmanteau, 120 sacks. Cleopatra, to Greyniouth: 22 cases, 73S bars railway iron, 50 brls cement. ,'*,„• ,i ■, Omeo, to Nelson : 5 kegs, 1 pel. To Greymouth : 1 box. To Hokitika: 12 quarters beef, 10 carcases mutton. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Strathnaver, St. Leonards, Panthea, Euterpe, sailed 28th April; Douglas, to sail June " IS; Langstone, June 20; Hindostan, July la; 'SVanganui, July 25 ; Cartvale, Star of India, and Hourah. New York.—Oneco; sailed 2nd of June; Marlon, schooner. , . . Liverpool.—J. A. Thompson, ship. Southern Ports.—Wellington, l»th mst. Melbourne, VIA THE South—Otago, 20th inst. • Newcastle. Result, ship ; Anne Melhuish, barque.. Northern Pobts.—Ladybird, 10th inst. -Lytteltos.—Florence, schooner. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. MELBOURNE, VIA THE WEST COAST.—OtagO, 20th Napier, Auckland, and Levuka.— Star of the South, s.s., 25th inst. East Coast Ports (North Island).—Rangatira, 8.5., 24th inst. ' . Northern Ports.—Wellington, 20th mst. Southern Ports.—Ladybird, this day. Wangaxul—Manawatu, 20th inst; Stomibird, this Newcastle.—Heversham, barque, this day; Australia!, barque, 20th inst.; Malay, this day; Frownng Beauty, early. . ,„. „ . Greymouth.—Florence and Fiery Cross.early. Bluff.—Conflict, ship, early. Hobart Tows.—Free Trader, this day. Blenheim.—Falcon, 20th inst.

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■WASGANUI. August IS.—Arrived, 1 a.m.: b.s. Stormbird, from ■Wellington; 1.30 p.m., sailed: Storinbud, for Wellington. NELSON. August 18— Sailed, at noon: Ladybird, for Tioton. The p.s. Luna arrived at the Kaikouras at 8.30 a.m. ' yesterday morning, and there learning that the Omeo, for which she went to search, had reached Wellington, sailed again on her return trip at 10.30 a.m. The barque Edwin Bassett arrived from Newcastle yesterday, having experienced a rough passage, which has lasted twenty-one days. She is loaded with coal, consigned to Captain Williams. The ketch Falcon arrived in port last evening, after a fine run of ten hours from the mouth of the Wairau. She sails for the same port on Thursday evening. A steam tug seems to be as much required at Xyttelton as at Wellington. The Press says:—A steam-tug capable of taking ships of heavy tonnage from the Gladstone Pier into the stream is much wanted, but there i 3 nothing belonging to the port capable of performing such an office when the wind is in the'N.E., and this wind prevails about six months in the year. Many accidents would be prevented were the Government to procure such a vessel. At Southland in the bad times, the Government saw their way clear to have a paddle tug built at Glasgow expressly for that purpose, and yet in Lyttelton, where there is more traffic in a week than there in a month, we have heard of no stops being taken. „ A few days ago, In our telegTapmc news, we announced the arrival of a new whaler at the Bluff. The Southland News thus describes her :—" The Chance is a whaling barque of 290 tons, one of the good old sort. She carries gve boats, and is fitted up for whaling on a large scale, having the latest improved whaling gear. Messrs. Nicholl and Tucker, her owners, will, of course, make this port her head quarters. It is pleasant to record the establishment of a new industry or revival of an old one, and the spirited owners of the Chance deserve every success for their pluck." The Mall Service.—Preferring to the accounts given of the recent mishap to the Tartar, and the complaints made by the passengers of the -iJ&Tacgregor, Mr. H. H. Hall has written to the Sydney " • Mammy Herald a letter, of which the following are the* more material portions: —"I havo the abstract logs and tracks laid down of 48 voyages between Sydney and San Francisco, and vice versa, and the only-mishaps that have ever occurred during the voyages from port to port have been to the Tartar, which was entirely owing to the commander ignoring his instructions—in the first instance, by going to the westward of Fiji, instead of taking the track laid " down ; and in the second instance, the ship wa3 - 4180 miles to the eastward of the track ' pointed out, after long experience, to Captain ' :i;; Ferries, by myself befon. he left Sydney. The Macgregor's passage from Sydney to Kandavau, so loudly '• .complained of by her passengers, is somewhat over- ■ drawn. The Macgregor left this port drawing flin. under draft allowed by Lloyd's, and with 40 tons less coal than she carried on her first voyage. While the Bteamer wa3 running before a heavy gale a mishap occurred to the engines and rudder simultaneously, causing the engines to stop. Before they were "able to get on headsnil the ship fell into the trough of the sea. during which time she shipped several heavy seas. The extert of damage reported to me was 120 fowl 3 washed overboard from the poop deck, and five sheep and one pig drowned forward. Complaints are made by Sown passengers of th.) detentions at the different ports in taking in nnd discharging cargo : if thi3 could be avoided, I quite agree with them that the temporary service with the present ships could be performed " in 45 days." The Suez Mail— Voyaoe op tiie Pera.—The ' mail Iwm been delivered in Hobson's Bay under forty- ' one days, and the fact that the passage from Galle ha 3 bevn made against adverse winds nearly the whole way shows plainly that the Suez route as thus followed by the P. and O. Company's boats is much the best for a mail service, and goes far to prove that the P. and O. Company can, if sufficient inducement be offered, do the work in much less time than the present con- • tract gives them. There is, however, another thing to be said in the matter, and that is, that Captain Mcthven, the commander of the Pera, which has brought this month's mails, has a large amount of energy in him, and,' as he quaintly remarked yesterday, he always endeavors to instil into his engineers " that the proper way to be saving with coal is to have as much time as possible in harbor." Although the passage from Glenelg to the pilot schooner off Port Phillip Heads on the present trip was done in the unprecedented time of thirty hours five minutes, Captain Methven expresses himself as of opinion that it can be done in even less than that, as the detour in Backstairs passage, to avoid .Page's Keef, causes a greater distance of ten or twelve miles to be run on. the passage to one not thoroughly acquainted with the place; but Captain Methven is too old and prudent a navigator to ran any great risks and cut off corners even for the sake of making a quicker passage than the present one, which is unparalleled, viz., thirteen days five hours from Galle to the Sound, eighty-eight hours from the Sound to Glenelg, and forty-one hours and three-quarters from Glenelg to Hobson's Bay. This latter includes stoppage for a pilot outside Port Phillip Heads, detention for clearance and landing the Geclong and Ballarat mails at Queenucliffe, and coming by the South Channel. The Pera was detained five hours in the outer harbor at King George s Sound, waiting for a pilot. She fired five guns, seven blue lights, eight rockets, and finally had to send in a boat to acquaint the authorities of Albany of the ship's arrival outside.—Melbourne Age, July 24. THE LATE CAPTAIN HART. The very melancholy circumstances under which Captain Hart, of the steamer Beautiful Star, lost his life in the prime of manhood, seem to have excited a very deep feeling among tho inhabitants of Port Chalmers and Dunedin, and his funeral was largely attended by his brother Freemasons, the clergy, harbor officials, shipmates, merchants, and the citizens generally. The circumstances under which the accident occurred are thus narrated in the Dally Titiies:— -"As soon as the hawser r.-as fast to the Ballochmyle, the Star went ahead, and moved slowly on Naturally solicitous about the hawser holding good. Captain Hart went aft with the mate, Mr. SlcKenzie, to inspect it. It was surging considerably with the send of tho sea, and the mate remarked that ' he was afraid that trapping would not hold. • Captain Hart, however, did not appear to be particularly apprehensive on that point, and then both men turned to go forward, the captain in advance. There is a low break or step to the Beautiful Star s deck at the cngtne-r;om skylight, and tho captain was in the act of stepping down the break, right leg first, when tho steamer gave rather a heavy pitch, then a send aft, and In an instant the frapplng gavo way, the hawser lifted clear of the bltt heads, and flew with immense force against the galley and skylight. As It struck the galley, it produced a report iiko that of a spar snapping, and the mate at first thought the mainmast had gone. His first glance was towards it. His next, however, fell upon Captain Hart lying prostrate on the deck. He had been struck oa both legs by tho hawser, and Jammed against the skylight, the right leg receiving the first shock, and was dreadfully injured, as was evident by the blood which poured in streams from tho mangled limb. To rush to the poor fellow and lift him in his arms was tho work of a moment on the part of the mate. Assistance being at hand, the captain—who merely exclaimed "Take care of my leg " —was removed to the cabin, and there and then bandages were applied to check the flow of

blood. Then the mate rushed on deck and cist offthe ship. The accident, however, had been observed, from the latter, and she was at once anchored, whilst a boat was lowered, and with Dr. Smythe, her medical man, hastened to the Star. Meantime the mate headed the Star for tho wharf, and hailed one of the small steamers that was running in, and asked her master to report the accident on shore, and send off a medical man. Presently Dr. Smythe came on board, and was > followed shortly after by Dr. Rouse from the shore. The examination that ensued revealed the fact of the sufferer's right leg being absolutely in splinters, whilst the left was compound fractured in two places. By this time—about two o'clock—Captain Hart had sunk very low, and could not speak ; so, beyond assuaging tho flow of blood and administering stimulants, nothing could be done to him. Between two and five o'clock he rallied considerably, and then the amputation of the right leg was performed. The patient bore tha operation better than would have been expected, and by eight o'clock had wonderfully rallied, and the heart's action being comparatively strong and increasing it was decided after a serious consultation to send him on to Dunedin in the Star, but during the passage he succumbed. Mrs. Hart and many friends waited up for him all night to receive only the sad news of his death. The Star left Lyttelton at midnight, and until noon of Thursday the sufferer bore up remarkably well, slept and dozed, and took what was given him in the way of nourishment and stimulant. Then he turned for.the worse, vomiting setting in and when stopped by the application of mustard poultices to the stomach, was succeeded by severe ' hiccuping—a bad symptom. From that time the poor fellow gradually sank. At eight o'clock he lost consciousness, and at the turn of the night, just as Taiaroa Head light hove in sight, he died.