SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4191, 26 August 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON lima Water. 3.40 A.M.; 4.5 p.m. ARRIVED. AUGUST 25.—Phoebe, as., 410 tons, Worsp, from Northern Porta. Passengers—Mr.. Mrs., and Miss Bumes, Mr. and Mrs. Dooley, Mr. and Mrs. Comlskey and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Goodman and family, Messrs. Oldfield, Salter. Smitli, Lorcnzen, Edwards, Rowley, McDonald, Oldfield, Knorpp, Gair, Hamilton, Brittain. Back, Harrison, Shannon, and 10 for South. Steerage, 4. R. S. Ledger, agent. Aspasia, schooner, 45 tons, Thompson, from East Coast. E. Pearce, agent. Forest Queen, schooner, 51 tons, Linklater, from Napier, in ballast. Mclntyre and Co., agents. Hunter, ketch, 22 tons, Hart, from Foxton. Thomas, agent. SAILED. August 25.—Napier, s.s., 44 tons, Butt, for Foxton. Reichstag, ship, 737 tons, Hauschildt, for Java. Star of the South, s.s. 175 tons, Palmer, for Levuka, via Napier and Auckland. CLEARED OUT. August 25.—Colleen Bawn, schooner, 20 tons, Games, for Pelorus Sound, in Ballast. Master, agent. < Auatralind, barque, 481 tons, Williams, for Newcastle, in ballast. Williams, agent. IMPORTS. Phcebe. from Onehunga: 2 cases, 1 wheel, 1 cask, 1 box, 2 pkgs. From New Plvmouth: 1 sack, 1 chest drawers, 1 chair, 1 bath, 2 boxes, 24 hides, 1 bag, 1 parcel. From Nelson: 228 bags, HI cases, 150 sacks, 1 side bacon, 37 bales. From Picton :10 cases. Aspasia. from East Coast: 17 bales, 7 bdls., 1 dump wool, 3 hhds. tallow, 1 qr-cask, 28 cases, 1 box, 2 hides. Hunter, from Foxton: 530 sleepers. EXPORTS. Napier, to Foxton: 43 bags, 30 ca3es, 2 J-casks brandy, 31 pkgs., 1 octave port wine, 1 roll matting, 02 sacks, 25 brtls., 4 ash bars, 10 kegs, 1 truss, 1 jar, 1 hhd. ale, 1 i-chest tea. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Strathnaver, St. Leonards, ranthea, Euterpe, sailed 2Sth April ; Douglas, to sail .Tune 18 ; Langstone, June 20 ; Hindostaa. July 16 : Wanganui, July 25 ; Cartvale, Star of India, and Hourah. New York. —Oneco ; sailed 2nd of Juno ; Marion, schooner. Liverpool.—J. A. Thompson, ship. Southern Ports. —Taranaki; this day. Melbourne, via the West Coast—Tararua, this Newcastle. Result, ship ; Anne Melhuish, barque. Northern- Ports.—Wellington, 29th inst. Lyttelton.—Florence, schooner. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Albion, Ist September. Melbourne via the South.—Tararua, 5.5.,. with Suez mail, 28th Inst. Northern Ports.—Taranaki. this day. Southern Ports.—Phcebe, 27th inst. East Coast Ports (North Island).—Rangatha, s.s.. 29th inst. Newcastle.—Australind, barque; Camille, barque, early; Frowning Beauty, early. Grevmoutu.—Florence and Fiery Cross.early. Bluff. —Conflict, ship, early. Castle Point and Pourere.—Aspasia, schooner, 29th inst. Wancianui.—Storabird, s.s., 27tlnnst.; Manawatu, 27th inst. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON. August 25.—Arrived: Eeronia, from Newcastle. WANGANUI. August2s.—7a.m. Arrived: Stormbird and Manawatu, from Wellington. PORT CHALMEr.S. August 25.—Arrived: Colusa, from Puget Sound, with railway sleepers; Halley Bailey, from Hobart Town, . . , A north-east gale has been blowing for twenty-four hours. Owing to the boisterous weather, the sailing of the Napier to Foxton is postponed till Thursday. . The s.s. Taranaki left Lyttelton on Monday afternoon, but put back at 5.45, through stress of weather. Trial Trip of the Hauraki. The Southern Cros3 gives a description of the trial trip of Messrs. Holmes Brothers" new p.s. Hauraki. The vessel steamed down the harbor until abreast Rangitoto. She wa3 then turned and was coming up the harbor again, when Mr. McDonald, the engineer appointed to the steamer, whilst placing his right hand on the key of the cross head of the forward engine, and without sufficiently calculating the motion of the machinery, did not withdraw it in time, and the thumb was taken off about the first joint, the lower part being very much mangled. He was at once conveyed on shore for medical assistance. The engines were now working smoothly, and the measured mile was run with the following result:—With wind and tide, 9J knots; against them, 7J knot 3 ; with a pressure of only 3Stbs. to the square inch, a result which, with a pressure of 701b5., ought to give 11 knots per hour. The trial of the engines is considered-satisfactory, and very creditable to Mr. Hawkswood, of the Staffordshire Iron Works, who constructed them from plans by Mr. McCroskie. They are diagonal high pressure surface condensing engines, of 00 nominal horse power, fitted with expansion gear, and are supplied with motive power by two boilers pressed to 701 b. per square inch, THE WRECK OF THE FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR L'HERMIT. The latest intelligence to hand by way of Auckland apprises us that prior to the s.s. Cyphrencs leaving Kandavau the Dido had returned to Levuka from the scene of the wreck of this vessel. The officers of the British man-of-war report that L'Hermit was a corvette of 1200 tons register, commanded by Captain Meit, and had a complement of 150 men. It would appear that L'Hermit wa3 under steam at the time the accident happened, and ran on a rock between Wallis Island and another island contiguous thereto. Tho French Roman Catholic bishop was on board L'Hermit, and, as previously stated, was making a tour round the different stations between Samoa and Kandavau. The vessel met with the disaster while attempting to land thai dignitary at Wallis Island. The wreck was discovered by Captain Wood, of the Cyphrenes, on the 12th ultimo, on the last trip hence of that vesseL The following paragraph is taken from one of the Fiji papers to hand: the officers and crew were landed in safety on the reef, with the exception of two of the seamen, who were drowned. The North-German barque San Francisco was met by a whaleboat despatehed from the wreck at Fortuna, and she proceeded to the scene of the disaster, and took on board half the crew, conveying them to New Caledonia. It was understood that one of the French men-of-war lying in Noumea would be despatched at once to rescue the remainder of the crew. It was mentioned, but we were unable to gather whether there were sufficient grounds for the statement, that the captain of the North-German vessel demanded over £BOOO for the conveyance of the crew to New Caledonia ; but a claim will, we understand, be made by the owner of the vessel—modified, we should imagine. L'Hermit had been in commission about ten months when she left Havre, and cruised for some time in the Pacific ocean, her last port of call being Samoa." By the arrival at Auckland of the Hawaian schooner Dauntless from Noumea, via Norfolk Island, we are placed in possession of the following further intelligence :—The news of the wreck of the French corvette L'Hermit was received with many expressions of disapprobation of the conduct of the captain, but these were modified when the whole truth came to be known, and an universal feeling of sympathy has been expressed towards the captain and his crew. The L'Hermit was under orders in the late Franco-Prus-sian war to proceed with the grand fleet combined by the French for attacking purposes against their then enemies tho German Confederation. The L'Hermit was a most beautifully modelled vessel, combining not only speed but strength, and was constructed specially by the Fronch Government for the purpose of delivering a heavy discharge with a speed which would enable.her, in the event of the non-success of her attack, to escape the guns of the enemy. The French officers and crew behaved themselves bravely.