SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4239, 21 October 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OF WELLINGTON Hion Water, 0.24 a.m.; 1.03 r.M. ARRIVED. October 20.— Manawatu, p.s., 10S tons, Grinitli», from Wanganui. Passengers; ra . Fl »nkUn ami child. Messrs Haime, Tyler, lloweU, Is " rn '> , > A 1 ! 1 To Rato, Manurau, Hoorn, 1 iaku. K. b. Ledger, s.s., 410 tons, Worsp, from the South. Passengers-cabin: Mrs. Drake, Miss Aitkon, Messrs. Corbett, Rutherford, Tod, Hole, and 3 for North. Steerage : 7, and 0 for North. R. S. Ledger, agent. H.M.S. Blanche, Simpson, commander, from a cruise. SAILED. wl „, Ocxouek 20—Australlud, barque, 4SI tons, Williams, for Newcastle. Williams, .agent. . Marmiou. achoouor, 02 tons, Bowden, for Kaipanv, E. Tearce, agent. , r ~ . • Nightingale, brigantine, 220 tons, MePhamen, for Hokianga. • , . . Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Griihths, for Y angamu. R. S. Ledger, agent. CLEARED OUT. October 20.—Canterbury, schooner, SS tons, for Kaikoum via Havelock. Wallis, agent. Aspasia, schooner, 45 tons, Thompson, for Last Coast. E. Pearce, agent, IMPORTS. Manawatu, from Wanganui: 2 portmanteaus, 8 bales, 12 bdls. Phcebe, from Dunedin; 12 plates iron, 7 pkgs. 18 cases, 1 cask, 1 keg, G kilderkins, 1 half-barrel, 5 bales, 3 trusses, 35 boxes. .From Lyttelton: 0 cases, 1 pci, 100 sacks. EXPORTS. Canterbury, to Kalkouva : 30 cases, 1 qr-cask, 1 ton wire, 1 saddle, 2 casks, 10 sheets iron, 1 truss, 2 pels, 0 sacks, 22 boxes, 1 chest, 1 half do, 3 drums, 8 pkgs, 2 bedsteads, 1 table, 0 chairs. Aspasia, for Castle Point; 109 pkgs, 33 bdls, 21 kegs, 32 bags, 1 piece piping, 3.casks, 3 gunnies, halfchest tea, 2 trusses, 1 box, 9 mats, 2 chests, 22 sacks, 2 tanks, 0 cases. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ' London. —Douglas, 1423 tons, Wilson, sailed from Gravesend July 3 ; X’anthea, Langstone, to sail June 20; Hindostan, July 15; Wanganui, July 25 ; Star of India and Hourah, sailed August 25 ; Helen Denny, 727 tons, Ruth, sailed from Deal July 24 ; Carnatic, Jungfrau, E. P. Bouverle, and Soukar. New York.—Sunlight, barque, to sail 10th August. Newcastle.— Anne Melhuish, Camille. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Tararua, s.s.. 25th hist. Northern Ports. —Ladybird, s.s., this day. Southern Ports.—Wellington, s.s., 2Gth inst. Melboune, via the South. —Albion, s.s., 26th Inst., with Suez mall. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports. —Phcebe, 22nd inst.; Welliugton, with San Francisco mail, 27th inst. Southern Ports.—Ladybird, s.s., 22nd inst. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., early; Mary Ellen, early. East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatira, 8.8., this day Newcastle. —Elderslie and Heversham, this day. Melbourne, via tub West Coast.—Albion, s.s., 26th lost. Melbourne, via the South, (with Suez mails), —Tararua, s.s.. 25th inst. London. —Halcione, early in November. Wanganui.—Storrabird, s.s., 23rd inst. BY TELEGRAPH. NELSON, ' October 20.—Sailed: Otago, s.s., for Melbourne, PICTON. October 20.—Sailed, at 4 a.m.; Taranaki, for Nelson. BLUFF. October 20.—Anived, at 7 a.m.: Albion, from Melbourne, with Suez mail. LYTTELTON. October 20.—Arrived, at 11.30 a.m.: Wellington, from Wellington ; Fairlee, SO days from Foo-Chow, with loss of foremast, &c. The Wellington sails for the South, at 6.30 p.m. WESTPORT. October 20.—Arrived in the roadstead; the three masted schooner Marion, from Wellington. She is waiting to be towed in. PORT OF NEWCASTLE October 9.—Sailed : Camille, for Wellington, A new steamer, the Maneira, has commenced to make regular trips between Auckland and Coromandcl. . The United States Corvette Swatara,— This vessel is now at Port Chalmers, on her way to the . Chatham Islands. She proceeds from thence to Melbourne for repairs. The observations completed, she will pick up the parties she has distributed, and return home via the Suez Canal. The Swatara is one of the finest vessels of the United States Navy, and quite new. She is a full-rigged ship, of 1150 tons register, and is fitted with a compound engine of 1200 horse-power, which consumes about twenty-four tons of coal per day. This is the first compound engine that has been introduced into the United States Navy, and has proved in every way successful. Tho average speed of the vessel under steam is between 11 and 12 knots. The Swatara has been expressly fitted out for this expedition, and carries one year’s stores, besides ail the necessary and latest improvements in instruments. To afford accommodation for these the battery has been taken oat, with the exception of two 12-pound boat howitzers mounted on the poop deck, and one CO-pound Parrot gun on the bow. Fifteen houses were also brought put, three consisting of equatorial, transit, and photographic hccommodation for each party. The comfort of the scientific gentlemen has been well looked to. The chiefs of parties live and dine in the cabin, and the balance are comfortably located on the steerage deck, and dine with the other officers, who are all very genial gentlemen, and are respected in social life, as well as appreciated by the Government for their abilities. The commander of the vessel is Captain Ralph Chandler, and ho is held in high esteem by the naval authorities. The s.s. Rangatira. —Tho Napier Telegraph publishes the following address to Captain Lloyd and the officers of the Rangatira:—“ To Captain Lloyd, and officers and crew of the s.s. Rangatira.—We, the undersigned passengers, desire to express our grateful thanks for the very able manner, under Divine Providence, in which we have been brought to a safe port, after a most dangerous and trying voyage of five days’ uration, on our passage from Napier to Wellington, during which we ran short of provisions and coal, losing two anchors, and having to seek shelter in four different places. Having no cargo or ballast, we hink the foregoing made our perils more dangerous, and consider the captain, officers, and crew' fully deserving of our praise and sympathy.—Rev. J. B. Holland, Dr. Moore ard son, John D. Eny.i, Thomas Raine, Thomas G. Mason, A. McKellar, Basil R. Wcodd, George C. Fownes, J. James, J. Morrison, W. Bishop, John Heslop, S. Freeman, W. Takowsk, J. Masline, Dies Hansen, E. Hamlin. Off Napier, IGth October, 1874.” The same paper says that a favorite dog of Captain Lloyd's, named Boatswain, was washed overboard and met with a watery grave. The Stranded Vessels at Oamaru.— On Saturday we paid & visit to the schooner United Brothers, and found her high up on the beach, with her stern to the S.S.E. Anyone taking a look at the vessel as she know lies, would wonder how she was ever kept afloat at all. The stern post is almost entirely rotten, and the deck looks os if so many rats had been eating holes in it. Here you find a hole filled up with cement, and there another filled in with tallow ; in fact one of the men said “as fast as we pumped the water out of the hold it ran back again through the holes in the deck.” If there is an officer appointed by Government to inspect vessels in Port Chalmers we wonder where his eyes were when he allowed such a vessel as the United Brothers to go to sea. Mr. Jackson, who launched the Emulous, has got the contract for £230 for launching the Brothers and taking her to Port Chalmers. On Sunday afternoon at half flood the Emulous was safely launched, and a compass having been obtained from one of the vessels in the roads, she, later in the evening, under the direction of Captain Sewell, started with a fair wind to Port Chalmers. She made within eight miles of tho Heads; there encountered the full force of the gale, and having lost the one suit of sails, she has returned to Oamaru and anchored. Yesterday her only anchor parted, and she went on the beach about a mile south of where the Brothers lies, and three miles north of the landing place. Jackson Brothers, of Port Chalmers, are heavy losers by this untoward accident, as their contract was for the delivery of the vessel at Port Chalmers. — North Otago Times. i The Schooner Emu. —The late heavy weather along the coast has proved disastrous to at least one vessel. A telegram was received yesterday by O. J. Stone, Esq., from Captain W. Farquhar, stating that the three-masted schooner Emu had put into Napier dismasted. Her mizzenmast only was left standing. The telegram stated that owing to a S.W. gale blowing the disabled vessel could not get inside the Spit or communicate with the shore. A later telegram, dated yesterday at three o'clock, stated that a pilot was then on board the Emu, and she would probably be inside the Spit in a couple of hours. Captain Farquhar further says:—"lt would be advisable to rig jurymasts, take fresh coal, and proceed on to Auckland, as the weather is moderating.” The Emu is loaded with 1450 bags of wheat for this port, from Oamaru, where she left on Friday last. The schooner is valued at £6OOO, and is insured in the New Zealand Insurance office for half that amount.— New Zealand Herald, Oct. 15. The Brigantine Seagull. —This morning tho tug Geelong proceeded down to the Heads, and towed up the brigantine Seagull, which left this port for the Bluff on the 7th inst., but on account of the severe gale then blowing, she was compelled to anchor at tho Heads the same evening. Since then she has made three attempts to proceed on her voyage, having twice got as far as Coal Point, and on the third occasion as far as the Ocean Beach. On Monday tho brig ■William Cundell arrived from Newcastle, and in rounding-to ahead of the brigantimo, came across the bows of the latter, and carried away her cut-water, besides doing other damage, thus compelling the .Seagull to return to port for repairs.—Dunedin Evening 'star, Oct. 14. Insubmersiblb Snips.—The following Is a new method for rendering ships inaubrnersible : —At the water-line the hull should be divided by a bridge, preventing the penetration of tho air from the lower to the upper division. If a hole be made in the bottom the water will rush in, but will not entirely fill the compartment, for the air finding no outlet, will be compressed, and will equilibrate the exterior force. From this point the ship will cease to sink—it will be in the position of a diving-bell. Wreck of the Steamship City or Guatemala. —The City of Guatemala, an iron propeller of 1700 tons, sister ship to tho City of Panama, sailed from New York on the 11th instant, for Aspinwall, with a crew of forty-five officers and men, but without pascengers, a cargo of 1000 tons of coal and SBO tons of assorted freight. She was commanded by Captain J. B. Hildreth, an old and experienced captain of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. On the night of the IGth, at ten minutes to twelve o'clock, she ran on a rock or more properly speaking, two rocks, situated one mile from the beach, on the north point of Watling’s Island, one of the Bahamas, and said to bo the

original island of San Salvador, tho first land discovered by Columbus in America; it is 1000 miles from New York and about 150 miles from Nassau. It was the third officer’s watch, lie having instructions to call tho captain and first officer (who had both turned in) at a quarter to twelve. He obeyed his instructions, and on their coming on deck and tho first officer taking tho glass, the latter exclaimed there was land ahead, and gave orders to change the course of tho ship, which was done, but too late, ns tho ship in a moment afterwards struck on the rocks. There was a very thick and heavy rain at the time, which may somewhat relievo tho blame attached to tho officers ; but why the captain permitted himself to remain in his room on such a night and on such a dangerous coast is a question. Mr. Fowler returned at 10 o’clock, and reported that it was impossible for us to do anything for the relief of tho Guatemala. The wreckers had removed all of her freight, except tho coal, which was owned by the company. Some ten tons of freight, which wore forward between decks, were thrown overboard after the vessel struck, with a view to lighten her; but as this did no good, they discontinued throwing over the cargo, and the remainder, some 370 tons, was saved by the wreckers, within the past sixty hours, in a pretty good condition. The Guatemala first struck under tho bow, which knocked a hole in her; afterwards she was forced forward by the sea, until she lay on tho rocks just underneath the engines, where she now has a large hole, and is firmly imbedded in the rocks, with fifteen feet of water in her. There is no possible chance of her ever being floated; —New York Herald.