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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4206, 12 September 1874, Page 2

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FOXTON. September 11.—Sailed 7,.30 a.m.: Napier, for Wellington. WANGANUI, September 11. —Sailed, 9 a.m.: Manawatu, for Wellington. SPIT. September 11. —Sailed, 11 a.m.; Rangatlra, for Wellington. AUCKLAND. September 11.--Arrived ; Phcebe, from South ; East Lothian, Ryiio, from Lyttelton. NAPIER. September 11,—The Rangatira sailed at 10.30 a.m. for Wellington. Some persons who intended to proceed by her were left behind. LYTTELTON. September 11. —Arrived; Brunette, from San Francisco, with railway sleepers. The Taranaki has sailed South. PORT CHALMERS. September 11.—The ship Conflict passed the Heads at 7 am., from Wellington for the Bluff. The Alhambra sails at 3 p. co. The Stormbird returned from Wanganui yesterday morning after a rather protracted detention at that port by bad weather. She left Wellington on Sunday morning, arriving off the bar at midnight, keeping her position there until high water with great difficulty owing to the heavy gale and sea. She landed her valuable stock safely, notwithstanding the severe weather they experienced. She was to have left again on Monday night, but was prevented by the heavy fresh in the river and rough bar, until Thursday morning, when she started with a strong southerly breeze, but which chopped round to the north in the evening. The p. s. Manawatu, Captain Griffiths, left Wanganui at 10 a.m. on the 11th, and arrived at Wellington at 11.30 p.m. Experienced strong westerly winds and heavy sea throughout the passage. The s.s. Napier, Captain Butt, arrived in the harbor last night at half-past seven o’clock. The master reports having left Foxton at eight o'clock a.m. The Napier crossed the bar at nine o'clock a.m., in company with the p.s. Tongariro. She experienced strong westerly winds during the passage. The Tongariro put bock. The Napier reports having spoke a barque at Kapitl, which bad met some severe weather, and was obliged to seek shelter. The Ship J. A. Thompson.—The following address has been presented by his passengers to the master of the ship J. A. Thompson :—“Wellington, New Zealand, 11th September, 1874.—Captain Thompson, —Dear Sir, —Before parting with you after a voyage of nearly four months from Liverpool to this port, we, the undersigned passengers, wish to express to you our appreciation of, and thanks for, the uniform kindness and consideration we have always experienced at your hands throughout a rather jirotracted and boisterous passage. We do not wish, in writing this letter, to be thought to be merely following in the wake of writers of similar letters ; but we do particularly wish you to gather from this how grateful we are for your kindness, and should we happen to be travelling on any line where you may be running with your ship, we only hope we may have the good fortune to sail under your command. Wishing you health and prosperity In all your undertakings,—Wcare, dear sir, yours very sincerely, Thomas Leigh, A. M. Leigh, Godfrey Jeffery, A. Sample, Chas. Langley, Thomas Unsworth, F. B. Bell, E. R. Walter, Geo. W, Mortimer, C. F. Jukes, Alex. Veltch.”

The ship J. A. Thompson scoured a berth at the wharf yesterday, hauling up to the inside of the southern outer T. The ship Strathnaver commenced discharging cargo yesterday. The 5.3, Wellington arrived yesterday from the South, where she has been on the slip undergoing a cleaning. She sails North to-day. The barque Cheverte, which has been lying in harbor for some months, cleared yesterday for Newcastle. Munxsr at Ssa. —The iron clipper ship Cathcart, from London, 1387 tons, Captain Crawford, with 481 Government immigrants on board, arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday afternoon, after a voyage of seventysix days twelve hours from starling. There was no sickness on board, and the vessel was therefore cleared without delay. The ship is nearly new, and well found in every respect. The single girls—seventy-two in number—-are spoken of as a very superior class of young women, and the single and married men, who are principally of the laboring class, have the appearance of being well suited for colonists. Five deaths of- children took place during the voyage from measles and convulsions, and four births occurred. From the captain’s report wo learn that a disturbance, amounting to a mutiny, occurred on board. The following are the particulars ; “Some of the crew having during the night broken into the forehold, broached cargo, and got drunk, one of them was brought aft and placed in irons; another, having attempted to rescue him, was also taken In charge, but while securing him, the first prisoner escaped to the forecastle; Captain Crawford and the officers going forward- to recapture him, were prevented from doing so by several of the crew, who made use of threatening language. The captain, finding that the mutineers would not listen to reason, came aft, and after deliberation with the officers, armed himself and went forward the second time, and finding the doors of the foiecastlc closed, demanded admission. Previous to this, part of the crew had left the mutineers. Those within refused to open the doors, threatened the captain, and said that they meant shortly to bo masters of the ship. Finding arguments useless, the door of the starboard side of tho forecastle was, in spite of much resistance, partly forced open with handspikes, and the captain, again warning the mutineers, fired three times amongst them; three of them being wounded by this means, an entrance was effected and the mutiny quelled, the ringleaders and two others being placed imrirons." The men were brought ashore on Sunday, preparatory to taking them before the Itench on Monday. —Tirnaru Herald . . The new Stkamhtiii' Lessing. —The German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company of Hamburg, now established about two years, and which is known to the American public as tho Eagle line, has added another steamship to itsl v fleet. Tho name of the new vessel Is tho Lessing, called after one of Germany's greatest poets. This line, as a rule, names all of its vessels after tho most noted German poets, and has now In operation the steamships Goethe, Schiller, Werder, and Lessing. There are also two steamers now building for the line, to be called tho Wieland and tho Klopstock, and two more aro projected, which will be called the Koorner and tho Gcllert. Each of those vessels will cost tho same sum as tho Lessing, namely, $30,000. Tho Lessing was yesterday thrown open to the public at the dock at which she Is lying, loot Of First Street, Hoboken, im-

mediately adjacent to the Christopher and Barclay Street ferries. The saloon of the Lessing is athwart flap and runs the entire width of the vessel, giving it the appearance of a large drawing room. The Lessing was built on the Clyde by Alexander Stephens and Sons, of Glasgow, and her dimensions are as follows :—Length, 375 feet; beam, 40 feet: depth of hold, 32 feet; height of spar deck, 7 feet 4 inches; lower deck, 7 feet 7 inches ; 3000 indicated horse power, and 3.C00 tons burthen, and is brig-rigged, having a compound vertical engine, with two cylinders of 104 inches diameter. She has seven watertight compartments, completely separated, and the vessel runs fifteen miles an hour. There are eight boilers, with six furnaces to each, .and in addition to the working engines there arc thirteen steam engines to perform mechanical work. There is a steam steering apparatus, a starting and a stopping engine, and the vessel is entirely under control of the captain, regardless of the engineers’ province, by means of these apparatus. The grand saloon has eight tables, ranging crosswars, each of which will seat eight persons, in order that parties may be formed separately for dining; and tills saloon has a large number of windows each side of the vessel, affording complete ventilation. The Lessing is very staunchly built,and the state rooms are fore aiiid aft, entirely separated from the noise and bustle of the saloons. As soon as the Wxeland and Klopstock are finished, the Eagle lino will have a weekly steamer leaving New York, The Lessing will leave her dock in Hoboken for Hamburg at two o’clock this afternoon. —Hew York Herald, June IG.