SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4250, 3 November 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF WELLINGTON Hicm Water, a.m.: 0.12 r.M. ARRIVED. November 2. —Alhambra, s.s., 407 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne via West Coast P?/ t3 >,v P^ s r s ® l^ ra f“ Mr and Mrs. Standnn and family (4), Messrs, L. Blundell, McDowall, Ehrmann, and Dennett, from Melbourne ; Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs, Newton, - children, and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Hardinpr, Messrs Munson, Smyth, and South, from West Coast. W, Bishop, agent. „ , Lyttelton, p.s., 90 tons, Scott, from Flaxcourne. E. S. Ledger, agent. „ p •. . XXX, schooner, 21 tons, Campbell, from Wairau. Day Dawn, schooner, 56 tons, from Pelorus Sound. SAILED. November 2,—Phoebe, s.s., 410 tons, Worsp, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers Miss Cooley, Messrs. Fleming, dagger, Hartbrook, English Opera Company (34), and 3 steerage. R. S. Ledger, “ E Alhombrs, a.s., 400 tons. Sinclair, for Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Picton, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott and child, Messrs. Johnston,, Bennett, and Robinson. IV. Bishop, agent, Waipara, s.s., 70 tons, Bascand, for Hokitika. Passengers —SO immigrants. Turnbull and Co., schooner, 50 tons, Shilling, for Wairaic Rose of Eden, schooner, 30 tons. Smith, for Pelorus* S °lsabella, ketch, 82 tons, for Plctou. Knill and Co., Manawatu, p.s., 106 tons, Griffiths, for Foxton. Shepherdess, schooner, 44 tons, for East Coast. IMPORTS. Phcebe, from Northern ports : 10 cases, 2 bars iron, 1 pair wheels, 1 bale, 1 locomotive, 1 bag, 1 gnndstone, 8 bales, 1 bag wool. Alhambra, from Melbourne: 100 bars iron, 3 cases, 1 keg. 1 mangle, 6 cases. 2 stoves. 255 bags bark, 5 half-chests tea. 2 casks soft soap, 125 cases ale, 4 bales, 1041 bags potatoes. 5 cases, 1 trunk. 1 qr-cask wine, 1 board, 15 cases oil, 14 pkgs sugar, 3 qr-tierces tobacco, 21 cases fruit, 8 casks soft soap, 10 qr-casks wine, Jo cases moselle, 2 qr-casks brandy, 5 cases, 1 fly wheel, 82 bars iron, 2 bdls ditto. 12 cases, 11 parcels, 1 box, 1 trunk, and sundry cargo for, Napier and New Plymouth. XXX, from Wairau : 60 bales flax, 10 do tow. Lyttelton, from Flaxbourne: 170 bales wool. Day Dawn, from Pelorus : 45,000 feet sawn timber. EXPORTS. Alhambra, for Southern ports and Melbourne: 1 pci, 1 box, S 3 bales phormium, 4 casks hides, 21 tons potatoes, 47 bales flax. Rose of Eden, for Pelorus Sound: 2 cases, 2 pels. Waipara, for Hokitika : 3 casks cement, 1 case. Dido, for Wairau :*sundry mill stores. Isabella, for Picton: 1 pkg bolts, 2S frames, 2 pullies. 2 sets wheels, 3 tons hay, 21 bars iron, 1 cwt. nails, 1 pkg shovels, 1 do picks. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. Star of India, Ilourah, Avalanche, HSndostan, and Soukar. New York.— Sunlight, barque; Oneca, barque. Southern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., 7th inst. Northern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., Sth inst. WiSCA.wi.-Stormbird, s.s., this day. Napier.—Rangatira, s.s., to-morrow. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Bomdon.— Halcione, early. ■ MKLLOUENE, VIA THE WEST COAST.—OtagO, S.S., 14th November. Northern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., 7th rust. Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s.. Sth inst. AVanoanui.—Stormbird, s.s., and Manawatu, p.s., to-morrow. Foxton. —Napier, this day. Pahaoa and Castle Point.—Aspasia, this day. Napier, &c..—Rangatira, to-morrow. Blenheim. —Lyttelton, to-morrow. San Francisco. —Cartvale, to-morrow. BY TELEGRAPH. POET CHALMERS, Monday. Arrived —Waikato, from Auckland, on Saturday night. The Celestial Queen, ship, from London, after a passage of 114 days. The s.s. Easby, from Sydney, after a passage of six days ten hours. Sailed —Barque Oneca, for Wellington. LYTTELTON, Monday. Arrived —Dnke of Edinburgh, 99 days out, with 275 souls There were five births and three deaths (infants) on the voyage. Atlantic, from Jervis Bay. AUCKLAND, Monday. Arrived— Missionary schooner Southern Cross, from a cruise. PORT OF NEWCASTLE. Arkiveij —October 15 : Planter, from Lyttelton ; Winchester, from Napier. October 20 : Vivid, from ■■ Auckland ; Maggie, from Napier. October 22 : Montana, from Auckland. Sailed—October 15 : Coq dn Village, for Dunedin; October 16: Elmsgrove and Robin Hood, for Auckland. October 17 : Wave, for the Bluff. PORT OF SYDNEY. Arrived —October 14: Harriet Armytage, from Auckland : John Knox, from Lyttelton. October 20: Amherst. from Kapler. . ■ PORT OF MELBOURNE. Arrived— October 23: Gothenberg, from New Zealand. ' The steamer Alhambra arrived yesterday morning from Melbourne via the West Coast. She left Hobson’s Bay on the 24th ult., and arrived off Hokitika at 5.30 a.m. on the 30th, having experienced variable weather across. Lay off Hokitika for nine hours; leaving for Nelson, via Greymouth, at 2.15 p.m. on the 30th. Arrived at Nelson on the 31st, and left for Wellington at 2.45 p.m. on Sunday, making fast to Wellington wharf at five o’clock yesterday morning. The p.s. Lyttelton arrived yesterday afternoon from Flkxboume, with 170 bales of wool for transhipment to the Halcione. She will leave for Blenheim this evening. „ ... , , The ship Cartvale finished ballasting yesterday. She sails for San Francisco to-day. The steamer Waipara left fog Hokitika last evening. Fifty immigrants, ex The Douglas, were passengers by her. The Manawatu left Somes Island yesterday morning for Foxton with immigrants. The schooner Day Dawn arrived yesterday afternoon with a cargo of timber for Mr. Compton. In beating up from the Heads against the strong N.W. wind a squall split her mainsail. No further damage was sustained. The Helen Denny is still unable to make an anchorage. A change of wind to the S.E., which will bring her in, may be anticipated at any moment. The Napier brought 120 of The Douglas’ immigrants from Somes Island yesterday morning. Some slight repairs were afterwards effected to her machinery, and her appearance was improved by a coat of paint. She will leave for Foxton to-day. The brigantine Hannah Bloomfield, now at Dunedin from Kaipara, wifi proceed to the Bluff, and there load timber for Wellington on her owners’ account. She may be expected in this port within a fortnight. The late crimping cases in Newcastle terminated in Dominic Kinsella Brown, the crimp, being fined in a total sum of £4O, with the alternative of four months’ imprisonment. Shipbuilding at Shortland. —At Mr. Stone’s shipbuilding yard, Shortland, a large well finished barge, capable of carrying 130 tons of coal, will be launched off the stocks to-morrow. This is the second of the same class which Mr. Stone lias built to the order of the Bay of Islands Coal Company. A steam launch is also so far completed that all her timbers are dressed and prepared, and she will probably be finished in about six weeks. Her engine is now on its way from England. While the launch is being put together other men will be employed in preparing and dressing the timbers for a new vessel ordered by Captain Sonter, the lines of which have been drawn. She will be rigged as a ketch, and will carry about 70 or 80 tons of cargo. She is intended for the coal trade. —Thames Advertiser, October 20. The Typhoon at Nagasaki. —Thursday, the 20th of August, set in with nothing particular, except a drizzling rain. Towards the afternoon the barometer commenced to fall, and the American men-ot-war ssnt down their topgallant masts, yet no one supposed anything, unusual was going to happen. As night came on, however, it commenced to rain In torrents, the barometer went down rapidly, and the wind blew in fitful gusts from E. to E. by N: The harbor was unusually crowded, ■ a number of steamers having arrived from both native and Chinese ports; the greater portion of the U. S. fleet was in harbor, including the flagship Hartford ; one British gunboat was likewise in port, and four sailing vessels, besides two Lcwchewan junks, driven north in the last typhoon, and numbers of native sailing craft. About midnight the wind had increased to a regular typhoon, * accompanied by torrents of driving rain, the wind so strong that, in spite of the comparatively small exient of tiie harbor, the surface of the water was lifted off in sheets, which deluged every vessel. One by one the vessels commenced to drag their anchors, and many serious accidents were caused, for notwithstanding that most of the steamers got up steam, even with this help, and two anchors down, not half-a-dozen succeeded in holding their own. One of the , first to go seems to have been the Madras, recently purchased by the Japanese from the P. and 0. Fouled by some native craft, and lying opposite a gully down v/hich the wind descended in powerful blasts, she did not fetch up till her stornpost took the ground close to the Akcnora Factory. The Japanese ironclad, formerly known as the Stonewall, drifted in the same direction, her bottom getting foul of a reef of rocks, and though the morning found her still afloat, it was necessary to beach her. The Pingon drifted right across the harbor, and finally found herself at high water ashore, her forefoot in unpleasant proximity to a reef of rocks. The sailing vessels all drifted more or less ; one, the Hamburg, only fetching up close to a root of rocks on the Akcnora side : two others, the Lulu and the Bertha, had to cut away their masts to save themselves from falling int« a similar predicament. Most of the men-of-war also drifted to some extent—the British gunboat finding herself at a considerable distance from her previous position. Many of the steamers in port were landing coal, and were surrounded with cargo boats. These and their cargoes wore either carried s away or had to be cut adrift during the height of the gale, and nearly all, if not all, were subsequently dashed to pieces along the shores of the harbor. The wind shifting towards the S. and S.W., the work of destruction which had happened afloat was continued ashore. The Rising Sun of 28th August gives particulars of the typhoon of the 20th-21st, from which wo cull some portions which relate to tho effects of the storm on tho neighboring country. Tho Sun states that the lowest point reached by the barometer was 2810. It was generally thought shortly after tho storm that about CO Junks had been wrecked, and 200 lives lost. The loss of life and Junks has, however, turned out to be considerably more. It Is now computed that between 200 and 250 junks wore lost, and 300 persons drowned. The loss to the mercantile community is roughly estimated at 100,000 dollars. North China Herald, September 5.