SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4235, 16 October 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON High Water. 7.41 a. it.; 8.0 r.M. ARRIVED. , October 15.— Taranaki, s.s , 299 tons, A\ heeler, from Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon : b.r. J. * c-g«s----son and two servants. Captain Lc iatourU, A. D U. Mrs. Schmidt, Mrs. Somers, Mr. and Mrs. McGlashan. Miss Armstrong, Messrs. Gully, Xhompson, Mood, Davis, Park, and ten in the steerage. IMPORTS. Taranaki, from the South: From Dunedin: 38 cases, 2 boxes, 1 cask, 2 bales, 2 eyebolts, 109 bars iron 4 plates do., 1 parcel. Prom Lyttelton *. 1 bag, S cases, 1 box, and sundry cargo for Napier and Wanganui. ARRIVALS. London—Douglas, 1423 tons, Wilson, sailed from tiravesend July 3 ; Panthen, Langstone, to sail June 20; Hindostan, July 15; Wanganui, July 25 ; Star of India and Hourah, sailed August 25 ; Helen Denny, 1297 tons, Ruth, sailed from Deal July 24 : Carnatic, Jungfrau, E. P. Bouverie, and Soukar. Kkw York.—Sunlight, barque, to sail 10th August. Newcastle.—Anne Melhuish, Camille. Melbourne, via the South.—Otago, s.s., ISth instant. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, s.s., this day. Southern Ports.—Wellington, s.s., this day. Wanoanlt.—Stormbird, this day. Foxton.— Napier, s.s., early ; Mary Ellen, early. East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatna, SJ Newcastle.—Australind, this day; Elderslle, 20th inst.; Heversham, 21st inst. Melbourne, via tub West Coast.—Otago, s.s., 19th inst, , . , _ ... Melbourne, via East Coast (with Suez nulls), —Tararua, s.s., 25th inst. Blenheim.- -Falcon, 17th inst. LONDON.—rll»loioiic, early in November. The s.s. Taranaki, Captain Wheeler, left Dunedin at 4 p.m. on the 12th, and arrived at Lyttelton after a passage of sixteen hours, having experienced a fresh S. W. breeze. Left Lyttelton at 4.30 p.m. on the 14th, for Wellington, experiencing a strong head wind with heavy sea, and arrived in harbor at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. During her stay in Dunedin, the Taranaki received a general overhaul of hull and machinery. Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., of this city, are having a tine topsail schooner, of about 75 tons register, built in Sydney for the coasting trade of New Zealand. She Is being constructed of the best materials, and will prove a valuable addition to the already numerous coasting fleet. The vessel is expected to bo hunched shortly. The schooner Alma—it will be seen from our telegraphic news—has been towed into Westport, in a moat seriously damaged state, and with the loss of the chief officer and one of the seamen. She lost many of her spars, starboard bulwarks, boat, and galley ; and it appears that the cargo in the forehold was either thrown overboard or totally destroyed. The Alma was lying-to sixty miles off Westport on Monday night, when she was caught in a heavy north-westerly gale. She was towed into the Duller last night by the Kennedy. The Alma is a fine and very powerful three-masted schooner, and the gale must have been terrific indeed in which she was so severely handled, and, unfortunately, with loss of life. Captain Riddle. —We are sorry to learn that our old friend Captain James Riddle, who has been for a long period in the employment of Messrs. Belbln and Dowdell, and has commanded respectively the barques Eucalyptus and Accacia, belonging to that firm, is about to leave us. He will shortly proceed to Lyttelton, New Zealand, In order to take command of a fine iron vessel of 500 tons burden, the Medora, of which he has become part owner. The vessel has been for the past twelve months employed in the New Zealand trade, and is at present in China. loading with tea for Lyttelton, where she is expected to arrive next month. While engaged in seafaring pursuits. Captain Riddle has earned for himself the character of being a good sailor and a thorough gentleman; and on entering on his new sphere of labor, will carry with him the good wishes of the large number of friends he has made in Tasmania. Captain Riddle will have a worthy successor in the command of the barque Accacia in the person of Captain T. 11. Harvey, of the brig Chanticleer. —Hobart Town Mercury, September 2S. The Schooner Excelsior.—The topsail schooner Excelsior, 92 tons. Joiner, arrived from Picton via Lyttelton, on Saturday afternoon, and sailed on up the harbor towards Dunedin, but was compelled to bring up above Sawyers' Bay. She left Picton on the 19th of September. While coming through the Strait she was caught in a heavy S.S.E. gale, which carried away her mainsail, and thus rendered her unable to work her way down the coast. On reaching Banks' Peninsula, It was found necessary to run into Lyttelton for repairs. These effected, she proceeded on her way, and arrived as above, having had baffling winds down the coast.—Otago Guardian, October 12. The Steamer Bruce.—The s.s. Bruce, 204 tons, McFarlane, arrived in harbor on Saturday night, about half-past 6 o'clock. The occurrence which retarded her progress down the coast happened in Lyttelton Harbor, just as she was leaving the wharf. She had got out a short distance, when her fans became entangled in the anchor chain of a buoy, and the fans at once broke off about half-way up, leaving her only four stumps for the purpose of propulsion. With these she got under way, and succeeded in steering along the' coast at about eight knots. On arrival she went into the Graving-dock, where she will have the new one shipped in a very short time. —Otago Guardian, October 12.

Arrival or the Cordelia.—The barque Cordelia, 598 tons. Captain J. W. Simmons, from Liverpool, arrived in harbor yesterday afternoon. She is a merchant vessel, having no passengers, but full of cargo, about two-thirds of which is for Dunedin, and the remainder for Wellington, for which port she will sail after discharging the portion to be landed here. The Wellington cargo consists principally of castings for a large bridge in that province. The Cordelia has had a very long and tedious passage of 134 days, _which is accounted for by the depth of the vessel in the water, and the very poor weather she has experienced on the voyage, having had very little favorable weather throughout, and especially during her easting, the part in which, if winds are at all favorable, a vessel can pick up for lost time elsewhere. On the 21st September she sighted the southern portion of Tasmania. Encountered a stiff S.E. gale on the 20th to the 29th, which drove her up to the northward, very much out of her course- She was hove-to for fortyeight hours, and was head-reaching the rest of the time, and on it taking off she again stood up, and the first landfall made was Cape Farewell, at the entrance to Cook's Strait, on the 3rd inst., about 10 a. in. She then stood in through the Strait, and passed Wellington harbor light at midnight on the 4th, and from that down the coast she has had quite a tedious passage, with baffling and light winds to a vexatious extent, the beat day’s work off that part being seventy miles, and on Saturday she only made forty miles in twenty-four hours. The airs were from the north, with short spells of southerly breezes between.— Otago Gwirdian, October 12. Arrival oeH.M.S. Blanche at Port Chalmers. —Early this morning, the signals at the Heads announced the arrival of H.M.S.S. Blanche, with His Excellency Sir James Fergusson on board. She was immediately boarded by Pilot Kelly, and stearaed up to her anchorage off Carey Bay. Since her last visit to this port, the Blanche was recommissioned in Sydney on the 12th of October, 1871, and Monday next will be her third anniversary of her recommission. We are indebted to Mr. Kay for the following report of her cruise from Wellington Left Wellington at 9.30 a.m. on the 4th of September, but through stress of weather, anchored in Hassey Bay; left again at 0 a.m. on the sth, and arrived at Picton at 2 p.m., where she remained until 6.15 a.m. on the 7th, and came to anchor again in Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, where she remained until 7.30 a.m. on the Bth, and anchored again at Port Le Gar, Pelorus Sound, same day; left there at noon on the 9th, and went through the French Pass, arriving at Nelson at 7.15 p.m. next day; went up into the inner anchorage on the 10th. The Governor arrived at Nelson in his yacht Blanche on the 22nd. Remained at Nelson until the 28lb, when both vessels got under way at 8.30 a.m. on the 26th, and on getting clear of the harbor, took the yacht in tow. The wind then commenced to freshen, and at 3.40 p.m. the hawser which was made fast to the yacht carried away. Both vessels then bore up for Tongar anchorage, where the steamer anchored at G p.m.. the yacht dropping anchor ten minutes afterwards. The weather at this time being very bod, His Excellency thought it advisable for the yacht to return to Wellington, which she did, and His ExcelIhhqy* Captain Le Patourel, A.D.C., and Mr. Gully, of,Nelson, artist, who has taken a number of sketches during the trip, went on board the Blanche. Weighed anchor, and proceeded to Milford Sound, reaching Fresh Water Cove on the 30th, and made the vessel fast by the stem to a tree. Had good fishing, but poor shooting; and the same remark applies to all the coves visited. At 0 a.m. on the 2nd got under way, and came to anchor in Anchorage Cove, George’s Sound, at 4.10 p.m. same day; at 5.30 a.m. on the Gthgot under way again, and anchored at 2 p.m. in Richards’ Sound, and at 3.35 a.m. on the sth, felt a shock of earthquake. At 6 a.m. on the 6th left, and at 3.15 p.m. anchored in Duck Cove, Dusky Bay. Left again on the afternoon of the Bth, and arrived at the Heads as above.—Dunedin Evening Star, October 10.