SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4243, 26 October 1874, Page 3

SHIPPING.

POET OF WELLINGTON High "Water. 5.3 a.m. ; 5.22 r.M, ARRIVED. w , October 24.—Albion. s.s.. 501 tons, Underwood, from Melbourne, via the South. Passengers: Mm* Grant, Miss Grey, Miss Moorhouse, Messrs. Row, George Smith, Mooli, Cowper, Boom, Webster, Carter/lCingston, Mcnzies, Cox, Carter, Bowen, Bradwell, and Kentish. W. Bishop, agent. . Pearl, schooner, GO tons, Urquhart, from Kaipara. Master, agent. ... Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. Passengers : Mrs. Fisk and child. Mrs. Simmons and child, Mrs. Oxley and child, and Mr. Luxford. Turnbull and Co., agents. XXX, ketch, 21 tons. Shilling, from Wairau. SAILED. October 24.—Luna, p.s., 190 tons, Fairchild, for Napier. Passengers: Sir Donald McLean, Colonel St. John, Sirs. Huntley, Miss Sheath, Miss Halliday. Messrs. Davis and Enys, Captain Mair, 20 A.C., and 7 immigrants. _ , . October 25. —Tararna, s.s., 523 tons, Clarke, for Melbourne, via the South, Passengers—For Coast: Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Quick, Messrs. Dundas, Hingston," Sydes, and Symo. W. Bishop, agent. ENTERED IN. , , October 24. —Taranta, s.s., 523 tons, Clarke, from Melbourne, via the West Coast. W. Bishop, agent. CLEARED OUT. October 24.— TIeversham, barque, 4G5 tons. Yule, for Newcastle. Passengers: Captain and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Sumner, Mrs. Wortley and two children, Messrs. Wales and Wortley. Williams, agent.IMPORTS. Tararua, from Melbourne; 41 boxes, 155 bags, 11a cases, 43 half-chests tea, 453 mats, 9 trunks, 3GS pkgs, 20 kegs, 410 bars iron, 15 do steel. 51 coils rope, 10 bales, 5 casks, 25 quarter do, 8 pels, 17 plates iron, 10GO bdls, 1 drum, 144 sashwoights. 1 fly-wheel, 1 qr.tierco. 20 boiler plates, 2 pairs bellows, S axle arms, 2 dray boxes, 24 barrow wheels, 12 ovens, 1 mangle, 1 screw jack, 1 turnip cutter, 1 sack, 1 truss. From Nelson : 130 sacks. 1 trunk, 1 pel. ' Albion, from Melbourne : 1 pkg. From Bluff: 1 case. From Dunedin : 3 jikgs, 12 plates, 1 pci. From Lyttelton : 2 pkgs, 4 cases, 4 bags, 1 pci. Pearl, from Kaipara: 53,000 feet timber. Falcon, from Blenheim: 20 cases, 1 cask, 07 bales, 3 pels, 1 truss, 1 saddle. . - ters beef, 1 case. lleversham, for Newcastle; 20 bales, 800 feet timber, 13 empty tanks, 5 tons iron. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Panthea, Langstone, to sail June 20; Hindostan, July 15: Wanganui, July 25 ; Star of India and Hourah, sailed August 25; Ruth, sailed from Deal July 21 ; Carnatic, Jungfrau, E. I’. Bonverie, and Soulcar. .... New York. —Sunlight, barque, to sail 10th August, Newcastle. —Anne Melhuish. Northern Pori's. —Taranaki, s.s., this day. Southern Ports.— Wellington, s.s., this day. # Wanganui.— Manawatu, p.s,, this day ; Stonnbird, s.s., this day. Napier. —Rangatlra, s.s., this day. Melbourne, via the "West Coast, — Alhambra, s.s., 2nd November. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports. —Wellington, with San Francisco mail. 27th inst. Melbourne, via the West Coast.— Albion, s.s., this day. v East Coast Ports (North Island),— Rangatira, s.s., 2Gth inst. _ London. —Halciono, early In November. Wanganui. —Stonnbird, s.s., this day; Manawatu, p.s., this day. Southern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., this day. Melbourne, via the South,— Alhambra, s.s., 2nd November. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON. October 24.—The Wellington is appointed to sail to-morrow at eleven. PORT OF NEWCASTLE. Arrived. —October 0: Easby and Woodville, from Dunedin, October 10 : Annie Brown, from Lyttelton. Sailed. —October S: Syren, for Lyttelton, October 0: Memento, for Auckland. October 13; Helen, for Napier. PORT OF MELBOURNE. Arrived.— October 12 : Antipodes, fromHokianga; Queen of Nations, from Dunedin. Sailed.— October 11: Eliza Firth, for Hokitika ; Florinda, for Builer River. The s.s. Albion arrived at the wharf early on Saturday morning, after a fast passage from Melbourne and a particularly smart run (of fourteen hours) up from Lyttelton, She was to have sailed again via the West Coast yesterday, but has been detained for the Northern portions of the Suez mail and a supplementary one from Wellington. She sails about six o'clock this evening. Trial Trip oe the Steamship Barrabool.— The other day we chronicled the arrival of the fine steamship Barrabool, belonging to Captain W. Howard Smith, and we have now to mention her trial trip. Since her arrival she has been put into fine order, and after getting up steam on Friday, to test the machinery, she was taken over the customary convincing ground on Saturday, to show her steaming capabilities. A party of 100 gentlemen were invited, and the vessel o’clock. -From the lightship off Williamstown to the lightship at the Swanspit the trip occupied one hour fifty-seven minutes, being an average speed of ten knots and a-half per hour upon a consumption of coal of 3 tons 17 cwt. for the afternoon, or 2£lbs. per horse-power per hour; the engine working up to GOO horse-power. The result was declared to be most satisfactory, and Captain Smith was warmly congratulated upon having acquired a vessel eminently suitable for the trade. Speed, carrying capabilities, and elegant passenger‘accommodation have in fact all been combined in the vessel, which was specially built for her present station. On the voyage homfc the company sat down to a dinner prepared in great stylo by the ship’s steward. Captain Pain, who is transferred from the Maccdon to the Barrabool, was paid a warm compliment, and made a characteristic reply. The Barrabool was taken back to the Queen's Wharf, and the gentlemen who are advocating the formation of a harbor trust had an opportunity of realisingmore fully than ever the difficulty of bringing a thousand-ton boat up the river. The greatest skill had to be shown, and despite every care the steamer took the ground once, and stirred up the mud considerably before she could be got off.— Daily Telegraph, October 12.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. Reported Dangerous Ground in Fovbaux Strait. Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, 14th October, 1874. Captain Thomson, Harbor Master at the Bluff, reports having observed from the Bluff Hill heavy breakers in three places to the N.E. of Toby Rock, near Ruapukc Island. Ho states that in his opinion there arc not more than four or five fathoms in these places, and probably less. The position of the northernmost breaker is given by Captain Thomson as bearing— From Bluff Hill, S. SS 1 E. magnetic. „ Dog Island, S. 87° E. magnetic. „ Green Island, N. 29* E. magnetic. „ Toby Rock, N. 29° E. magnetic, distant two miles. He also reports seeing breakers in several places from one to three miles N.E. of Dog Island. Until these localities have been surveyed, masters of vessels should approach them with great caution. Edward Richardson, (for the Commissioner of Customs), PERSUADING SEAMEN TO DESERT. THE CAMILDE AND THE FROWNING BEAUTY. The following cases were heard in the Police Court at Newcastle on the 7th instant Dominick Kinsella Brown was charged with attempting to persuade a seaman, named James Short, to desert from the barque Camille. Mr. Capper (on behalf of Mr. Wallace) appeared for the defence; and Mr. Sub-Inspector Thorpe prosecuted, James Short deposed : I am an articled seaman on board the barque Camille. I remember Friday last. I was in the ship on that day. I saw defendant close to his own house in the city. It was about eleven or twelve o’clock in the day. I had a conversation with him. I and a man named Laroney were together. Brown eamc up, and asked us to back out of the vessel we were in, the Camille, and go in the Frowning Beauty, barque. The latter vessel was then loading coal alongside the wharf. I told him that I would not back out of the vessel I was then in. as I would get into trouble if I did. Brown said u You won’t get into any trouble ; we’ll go down and see the owner now.” He only asked me once that day to leave the Camille. Brown knew I was shipped in the Camille. Laroney is an articled seaman on board the Camille. Brown said he would not give us threepence for onr advance notes from the Camille. By Mr, Capper; When the conversation took place there was no one except myself, Laroney, and defendant present. Henry Laroney deposed : I am a sailor belonging to the Camille, and know Brown the defendant. I saw him on Friday last near Thompson’s Commercial Hotel. The previous witness was with us. Brown said to Short, “What do you want to go on hoard the Camille for; go on board the Frowning Beauty, and I'll cash your note right off then, and sign you on board.” Short said “I can't go on the Frowning Beauty ; I have signed one ship’s articles already, and cannot back out of them.” Brown replied “ That's nothing ; I'll make it all right with the owner of the Frowning Beauty.” Short said “ I won't back out now ; if I do, I'll bo punished for it; I’ll go on board the Camille,” Brown, In reply, said “I can sign you on board; and you won't, get into trouble.” By Mr. Capper; It might have been about three o'clock when the conversation took place. Defendant did not offer to cash the Camille advance note. He said ho would cash the Frowning Beauty advance note He said the Camille advance note was not worth threepence. If Short said he had no conversation with Brown on Friday about the advance note, he was wrong; it did take place. This closed the case for the prosecution. Robert Kinsella Brown was next charged with attempting to persuade Henry Laroney, a seaman on board the barque Camille, to desert from that vessel. Mr. Thompson appeared for tho defendant in this case, and took an objection that the man was not legally in custody. Tnero was nothing hero to authorise his worship to Issue the warrant under which tho defendant was in charge. Tho warrant was not founded on any substantial compliance with tho Act. A summons ought to have been issued In tho first instance, and then a warrant could only have been issued according to the Act, on a non-complianco with the said summons. The‘second section of tho Summary Convictions Act, under which the proceedings had been laid, was quite clear on. this point.' There must have been an information and a sworn deposition before a warrant could have been issued. Tho re was in this case no sworn deposition substantiating the matter of complaint, and therefore tho defendant was illegally in custody, and was entitled to his discharge.

Mr. Thorpe was about to reply, when Mr. Thompson objected, and said Mr, Thorpe had no right to act as an attorney. It was not a police matter, but a private matter. Mr. Scott said it was a public matter, and the penalty would go to the Crown. He held that the defendant was legally in charge, the information liaving been made on oath. The evidence was precisely similar to that adduced in the preceding case, the same witnesses being examined for the prosecution. Mr. Thompson submitted that the case must be dismissed, because the information disclosed no offence, inasmuch as it did not show the means employed to induce the complainant to desert; secondly, there was no proof that complainant was an articled seaman on the Camille, nor that the Camille was in harbor as alleged, nor that the Camille was registered m Sydney as alleged. There must be legal proof of all these points before a conviction could bo obtained; there was no proof of the ship’s articles being signed, or that they were in existence. On the following day the same defendant was charged with other offences of the same character, in which legal objections were also raised. The Magistrate reserved his decision until the 9th the date of our latest Newcastle papers.