SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4275, 2 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF WELLINGTON Hxcm Water, II.C a.m.: 11.40 r.M. ARRIVED. December I.—Ladybird. s.s., 280 tons, Andrew, Irom Mimukau, Taranaki, Nelson, and Pit-ton. 1 assengers Saloon: Reverends 11. McNicol, B. McKinney, D. Brncc, J. Hill, Calcler, and Sherrilfs : Mr. and Mrs. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Scarlan, Mrs. James, Mrs. Nosdcr, Mr. and Master Shepherd, Messrs. Lovistam, Oldham, Donald, Wilson, Kertcli, Flamiaghan, Taylor (2), Bush, Busch, Adams, Lawrence, White, Patterson, Kingrose, and Marks; 15 steerage. B. S. Ledger, agent. _ Napier, s.s., 44 tons, Butt, from Foxton. Passengers ;—Saloon: Mrs. Moss, Mr. White. Turnbull and Co., agents. , a Cynthia, schooner, C 3 tons, Swede, from Kaipara. Greenfield and Stewart, agents. Phoibe, s.s., 410 tons, Worap, from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers Saloon: Miss Gillon, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Messrs. Purdy. Fitzberberb, Strachan, Collins, Hanning, Toope. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, Mr. and Mrs. Ducat and family, Messrs. Ambrose, Fletcher, Flindow, Mr, Jacobs and family. Misses Jacobs and Davis, Drs. Hector and Hoodly, Messrs. Mackie, Buckridgo, Moon, Common, Slmrpler, tfhutor, Bates, Moore (3), and Mrs. Fleming ; 10 saloon and 0 steerage for North. K. S. Ledger, agent, SAILED. December 1. —Ladybird, s.s., 2SO tons, Andrew, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers :—Saloon : Messrs. G. Cook, J. Cook. Eaton, Jeffreys, Aldridge, Me Vicar, and Southern ; 4 steerage, B. b. Ledger, a °XXX, ketch, 23 tons, Campbell, for Picton, in ballast. „ , „ , Enterprise, brigantine, 80 tons, Campbell, for the East Coast. IMPORTS. Ladybird, from Northern Ports: C cases, 10 bales, 3 pkgs, 30 cases, 3 sacks, 1 parcel, 1 box butter, I box, and sundry cargo for Southern Ports. Napier, from Foxton ; 250 sleepers, 15 kits potatoes, 12 sacks do, 5 bales wool, 1 portmanteau, 20 pkgs machinery, 4 hides. , Cynthia, from Kaipara : 40,000 ft. sawn kauri timber. EXPORTS Ladybird, for Southern Ports: 14 pkgs, 2 parcels, 2 boxes, 0 pkgs, 4 crates, 4 cases bottles, 2 parcels, 3 boxes. Enterprise, for East Coast: 40 sacks flour, 1 ton sugar, 10 half-chests tea, 40 bags salt, S do rice, 2 boxes candles, 8 do soap, 1 do pickles, 5 do raisins, 1 pkg groceries, 1 box coft'ee, 2 do tobacco, 5000 ft. timber, 1 ton galvanised iron. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.— Avalanche, Hindostan, Sonkar, Langstane, Carnatic, Jungfrau, Berar, Humboldt, Avalanche, and City of Vienna. New York.—Sunlight, barque Geoorapue Bay.—Grace Darling. Hobarton.— Malay, barque. Port Chalmers. —Jessie Headman, ship, early. Northern Ports. —Taranaki. s.s., 7th inst Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., 7th inst. Wanganui. —Stormbird, s.s., this day, Flanuourne.— Manawatu, p.s., this day. Melbourne, via the West Coast. Claud Hamilton, s.s., 15th inst. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London. —Adamant, in December; Jessie Headman, early; Howrah, in January. Northern Forts. —Phcebe, s.s., this day. Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., 7th inst. Melbourne, yx,k ttir South.— Claud Hamilton, s.s., 15th inst. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON, Tuesday. _ The Alhambra sailed for Dunedin at 5 o’clock this evening. The John Knox has arrived from Newcastle. HOKITIKA, Tuesday. The schooner Wanganui, from Dunedin and the Bluff, got ashore on the South beach this morning : but discharged part of her cargo and got off this afternoon. WANGANUI, Tuesday. Arrived. —3p.ra.: Stormbird, from Wellington. ONEHUNGA, Tuesday. Arrived.— 3.4s p.m.: Taranaki, from Taranaki, with Suez mail. PORT OF HOBARTON. Arrived. —November 13 : U.S, Swatara, from Port Chalmers; Natal Queen, from Lyttelton; Pet, from Dunedin. ICth : Waratah, from Napier. Sailed. —November 13 ; Olive .Branch, for Invercargill. IGth: Acacia, for Dunedin via Port Esperance. ISth; Lady Emma, for Lyttelton.

The steamer Manawatu is expected to arrive this morning from Flaxbourne. The Storrabird will probably arrive from Wanganui in the course of the day. The steamer Ladybird, Captain Andrew, arrived yesterday morning from Manukau, Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton. Fine weather was experienced during the voyage. She sailed for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers at four yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Greenfield and Stewart’s schooner Cynthia arrived early yesterday morning from Kaipara, with a cargo of 43,000 ft. sawn kauri timber, on owners’ account. The brigantine "Enterprise, Captain Campbell, cleared at the Customs yesterday for the "East Coast. She will probably leave this morning. The steamer Napier t arrived at 2 a.m. yesterday from Foxton, with a cargo of sleepers. The steamer Phoebe, Captain Worsp, arrived at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, after a flue weather passage. She will leave this afternoon for Northern Ports. The barque Zelia has completed the discharge of the Wellington portion of her cargo of sugar. She will probably sail for Nelson to-morrow. The barque Wressel Castle, from Freemantle (W.A.), to New Zealand, was signalled by the mail steamer Nubia on the Bth November, on her passage from Galle to Melbourne. Several of the iron pipes, of which the cargo of the stranded brigantine Sarah and Mary consisted, were got out on Saturday by the contractor for removing them. Towards high water the brigantine floated off the outer bank, but unfortunately drifted on to the North Spit, a short distance from the spot where the Aborigine was wrecked. Yesterday several more pipes were discharged, and efforts were made to get the vessel off, but without success, she only having moved a few feet towards the river. Notwithstanding the heavy seas which broke over her, she has not, up to the present, suffered as much damage as might have been expected. By to-day it is likely the remainder of the pipes will be discharged, when it is just possible that the brigantine will float into the river. —West Coast Times, Nov. 23. The Voyage of the Bebington. -The iron ship Bebington, 894 tons, W. H. Knight, master, left East India Bocks on 26tii July ; proceeded to Gravesend, and left on the 25th ; proceeded down Channel to Dartmouth, with head winds and flue weather ; put into Dartmouth on the 2nd August, with condenser out of order; had it repaired, and recommenced voyage with light winds until the Bth inst, when the vind became fair ; carried light N.E. trades till three degrees N. of equator, when she got into the S.E. trades, and proceeded through them with the same light winds and fine weather. Ban down her easting in about 43 a S., and had very fair weather, having shipped but few seas. Was off the Snares in ninetyfour days from Dartmouth, and was twelve days in arriving in this bay, owing to the light N.E. winds and calms. On the 29th October, at 3.30 a.m., a heavy sea broke over the toprail, and took the two men from the wheel. One of them had two ribs

broken, and tbe other had a shoulder slightly sprained and a slight contusion above one knee. The sea , smashed in the after-cabin door, flooded the entire saloon, and smashed the glass ventilator in the single ■women’s compartment, causing some water to enter their part of the vessel. This was soon dried up Had a little sickness on the voyage, which was altogether n very pleasant one. She brings 317 immigrants, equal to 249 J statute adults. There were eight births on the passage, and four deaths. Tlxrec of these were children ; the other was one of the crew, named Trench, about fifty years of age. Me was aloft, at work on one of the yards, when deatli overtook him. His mates having called to him several times and received no answer, went and examined him, and found him dead, still clasping the yard with hia arms. The cause of death was heart disease.— Hawke’s Bay Times, November 24. Oauarv Roadstead.—' The longboat that once belonged to the ship Surat is undergoing a metamorphosis at the hands of Messrs. Jackson Brothers of the port. She was purchased by Mr. Bolan, of Oamaru, for the purpose of being used to recover anchors in that roadstead, after, as is so very often tbe case, vessels have had to slip and stand to sea. Otago Daily Times. Launch of the Steamer Eomont. —The screw steamer Egmonfc was launched yesterday afternoon, at the yards of Messrs. Sparrow and Co., on the reclaimed land. The work of building her was commenced on the Ist of September last, on the bank of the canal adjoining the premises of the firm. Her length is, over all, 83ft.; length of keel, 75ft.; breadth of beam. 15ft. 6in.; depth of hold, 7ft. in the clear; tonnage, about 70 register, capable of carrying considerably more. Her plates arc 5-lGths of an inch above and below, and \ of an Inch intermediate. She has been built to the order of Messrs. Duthie and Co., of Wanganui, and is to trade between Wanganui and Tatea. She U built more for carrying capacity upon a light draught than speed. She has a pair of engines on the compound principle, which arc already fitted up on board, and only for the difficulty there would be in getting the boiler on board while she was on the slip, she would have been launched with steam up. Her ' engines are the first on the compound principle made in Dunedin, and by the adoption of this principle a great saving in coal—a matter of much moment on, this coast—is effected. It is expected that she will have an average speed of about eight knots an hour. She will bo completed in about eight days, and will, soon after that time, probably go North to run in the trade for which she lias been built. —Otago Daily Times, Nov. 23. Tub Late Stra&ihno of the Waipara.-— The inquiry into the stranding of the Waipara was concluded at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, when Captain Baacand deposed to no lives having been lost by the disaster. The particulars of the damage done to the vessel were then minutely described, and the names of the owners, Messrs, iionar, Crosbic, Bascand, McLean, McEae, and Roysc, taken down. Judgment was then given, substantially as follows; Tins Court finds on the evidence adduced that the master of the steamer Waipara was forced by the owners to leave Hokitika on the 27th of September last, to carry out agreements made with passengers, although at the time be entertained fears as to the Grey bar being unworkable. That the signalman was telegraphed to let the vessel in, but refused to do so, and kept the signal, "bar dangerous,” displayed. The flood water oould be seen by the officers on board the vessel, and according to the evidence of experts the captain should not have taken the bar, the chief officer of the vessel stating that he would not have risked his certificate by so doing. But against this there was the evidence of the captain of the Despatch, who stated that had ho been circumstanced as Captain Bascand was he would

have taken the bar. After carefully comparing the statements of the different witnesses, the Court was of opinion that Captain Bascaud had been guilty of culpable negligence, and the Court further considered that his master’s certificate should bo suspended for three calendar months. But in this matter the Nautical Assessor was of ft different opinion, as he considered the defendant had only been guilty of an error of judgment, and owing to this want of unanimity the order of the Court could not be enforced. Captain Bascand would, therefore, retain his certificate, and tlie evidence would be forwarded to Wellington to sec what further stops the Government were inclined to take in the matter.—Oreymouth Star, November 20. A MADMAN ON BOARD THE BARQUE ANN AND JANE. (From the Newcastle Pilot , November 13.) By the arrival of the barque Ann and Jane, Captain Thompson, from Wellington, New Zealand, yesterday, we have been placed in possession of the following sensational story of insanity at sea and suicide of the maniac:— . , , , .., . Before the barque left Wellington (about the sth of October) a man who gave his name as \v uliam Anderson, aged thirty years, shipped on board as cook and steward. He stated that he was a native of Dundee, and had come from Glasgow in the ship J. N. Flemming, to Dunedin, whence ho proceeded to the diggings, where ho had been for some time employed. When placed on the articles of the Ann and Jane, Anderson appeared to be perfectly rational, and (lid not evince any signs of having been drinking. Ino barque sailed on the 18th ult for Newcastle, when the cook was apparently in good health and full possession of ids senses. On Saturday last, the 7th instant, he first showed evidence of mental aberration. On that day his behaviour was so extraordinary that the captain deemed It advisable to place him under arrest. At one moment he was on his knees, seemingly absorbed in earnest prayer, and the next danced about the cabin, singing, and asserting that lie had “sold ins soul for gold." Seeing that the unfortunate man was a dangerous lunatic, Captain Thompson had him firmly secured in the forecastle, and a watch placed over him. The man continued in a violent state for several days, but as careful watch was kept there, were no apprehensions of the poor creature doing himself or others injury. Yesterday afternoon, however, shortly before five o’clock, the vessel being three miles off Nobbys, all bands were employed in shortening sail, and tor a time Anderson was loft unwatchod in the cabin, with his legs and arras, as it appeared, firmly secured. Suddenly, while every man in the ship was on duly, the man at the wheel raised a cry, “ There's the cook going to jump overboard and on turning quickly, the captain saw Anderson standing on the rail. Another instant, and he had sprung clear of the vessel into the sea. After sinking once ho rose to the surface ami appeared to “tread water,” as he remained with his body in an upright position, and his head above water. Captain Thompson immediately ordered the barque about, and a boat to bo lowered, both of which orders wore executed with the utmost possible despatch. Before the boat could reach Anderson the latter had sunk, and the body did not rise again, but the boat was pulled about a considerable time. The steam tug Southland was near the spot, and on being hailed, passed over it several times, but without seeing any signs of the drowning man. , . , It is impossible to state the cause of Anderson s sudden insanity. Up to the day of his seizure he was quite collected; and did not appeag to have been drinking on board. The above particulars respecting his name, age, and nationality, &c., are all that is known of him on the barque.