SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4298, 30 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON Hion Water, 9.22 a.m.; 9.48 r.M. AMOVED. December 29.—Kate Brain, 118 tons, Geo. Gay, from Dunedin. Master, agent. SAILED. December 29.—Taianakl,s.s., 299 tons E. "W heeler, for the South. Passengers-Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. "Wright, Miss Lemon, Master Lemon, Messrs. Lethbridgc, Harman, Lcathes, Templeton, Thomas, and Salmon, and the Groat Amorican Circus Company ; a in the steerage. K. S. Ledger, agent, ManawatuTp.s.,lo3 tons, Griffiths, for Wanganm Tassengers-Saloon: Messrs. Crothcrs, Compton, and W. H. Watt: oin the steerage. K. S. Ledger, agent. Wellington, s.s„ 203 tons, M. Carey, for Northern ports. Passengers-Saloon: Miss Handsford, Miss and Master Duncan, Mrs. Picket, Mrs Noseda Mrs. Murray, Rev. Messrs. Stuart and Clark, Messrs. Dowiws. Maginnity, Kirk, Standish, Parkcs, Parsonage, Cpx, and Fisher; 9in the steerage. E. s>. Ledger, "Tangatira, s.s., ISS tons, 0: Lloyd, for Napier. Passengers--Saloon: Mrs. and Miss Shaw, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Stafhill, Miss Bartlett, Mr. Mckivdy and two children, Messrs. Eivell, dimming, and Thomas; 4in the steerage. E. S. Ledger, agent. CLEARED OUT. Decemheh 29.—C1i0, schooner, 81 tons, A. Chambers, for Havelock, in ballast. T. Webster, agent Aurora, schooner, 52 tons, G. Eomenl, for Last Coast E. Pearce, agent. Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, J. Stewart, for V, anganul. T. W. Pilcher, agent. IMPORTS. Kate Brain, from Dunedin : 400 sacks oats, 50 sacks wheat, S 3 sacks pollard, 2SO sacks bran, 1010 sacks 540 half-sacks flour, 10 sacks barley, 10 sacks oatmeal. EXPORTS Wellington, for the North : 25 cases, 1 qr-cask brandy, 1 box jewelry, 2 horses, 9 pels, 1 truss 7 gunnies sugar, 6 pkgs, 1 roll zinc, 2 kegs paint, 1 hhd ale, 3 kegs seed, 20 poles, 2 bdls arms, 1 coil wire, 10 boxes, 20 kegs butter, 1 keg, 1 drum, 2 bags, 5 cases sherry. 10 cases groceries, 4 casks lemonade. Aurora, for East Coast: 2 bales woolpacks, 7 boxes soap, 10 sacks flour, 12 mats sugar. Hannah Barrett, for Wanganui: 30 cylinder plate,, S tons iron rails, 17 pkgs thrashing machine and engine, 1 boiler, 1 pile driving machine and monkey. Dunedin, for Wangaaui: 090 iron rails. Manawatu, for wanganui: 35 cases, of) pkgs sundries 1 bueirv. 2 pels, 2 trunks, 1 truss, 2 kegs, 1 pkg staticW, 48 coils wire, 1 keg nails, 1 set leading bar», 1 box. , Taranaki, for the South : 1 case cigars, 2o horses, 31 cases, 8 pkgs, 6 bales. 1 chair, 1 truss, 3 pels. Eangatira, for Napier, &c.: 58 cases, 70 pkgs sugar, 7 pels, 4 cases books, 25 cases claret, 30 cases brandy, o bales paper bags, 29 coils, 1 drum, 161 bdls standards, 400 bars iron, 1 sot truck wheels and axles, 28 pile shoes, 4 bearings, 1 Ml bolts, 14 shafts, 1 tin spikes, 1 case drapery, 200 bars standard iron, 2 cases arms, 18 drums oil, 5 crates bottles, 1 qr-cask, 2 trusses, 1 length gas pipe, 2 casks plaster, 1 wheel, 24 sheep, 2 bulls, 203 pkgs, 4 bales, 1 box. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Avalanche, Ilindostan, Carnatic, Jungran, Berar, Humboldt, City of Vienna, Ardentmny, Tuverene, and Hudson. New Yokk.—Sunlight, barque ; Ossea. Geoorai-he Pay.—Grace Darling. Southern Ports. -Ladybird, s.s., Ist January. Northern Ports.— Phcube, s.s,, 3rd January. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Tararua, s.s., 16th January. Melbourne, via Southern Ports.—Otago, s.s., 3rd January. PEOJECTED DEPARTURES. London. —Adamant, about 9th Jan.; Jessie Eeadman, early; Howrah, in January; Soukar, about 7th February. * Melbourne, via the AVest Coast.—Otago, s.s., 4th January. Melbourne, via the South. Tararua, s.s., 16th January. Northern Ports.—Ladvbird, s.s., 2nd January. Southern Ports.—Phoebe, s.s., 4th January. Dunedin, —Easby, s.s., about sth January. Lvttelton and Dunedin.—Southern Cross, s.s., 2nd January. Foxion.—Napier, s.s., this day. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON, Tuesday. Arrived : 1.15 p.m., Alhambra, s.s., from Wellington. The Alhambra sailed South at 6.30 p.m. NELSON, Tuesday. Arrived : Malay, from Wellington ; Lunan, from Hong Kong. „ WANGANUI, Tuesday. Arrived : 1 p.m., Stormbird, from Wellington.

The 3.3. Sir Donald, while off at the ship Bebington, on Friday afternoon, had her mizenmast carried away, and, on entering the Pot, in the evening, ran on the Boulder Bank, and got two of the blades or her propeller broken and the crank shaft bent.— Bav:kt's Bay Herald, December 22. The screw steamer Eesult, recently built in Auckland for Messrs. Baxter and Light, arrived in port on Sunday last on her way to Napier. She seems to be a handy little craft, a modification of which would suit this harbor admirably. She has a 20-horse power high pressure engine, and made nine knots on her trial trip. Mr. Light, who is at present acting as engineer, expects to work her up to ten or eleven knots when he has the machinery in better order. Captain Baxter seems desirous of running the Eesult between Napier and Poverty Bay when the wool season is over, if sufficient inducement offers, so as to fill up the gap made by the alteration in tho Bangatira's visits.— Poverty Bay Standard. . Ocean Routes.—Our neighbors, the Hollanders, have a Meteorological Institute at Utrecht, in which, under some of the ablest officers of their navy, good work is done for the benefit of navigation, which may worthily take its place by the side of what is effected by our own Meteorological Office. One of their latest publications, "Sailing Directions from Java to the English Channel," is interesting to the mariners of all countries, inasmuch as it tells them how to make the voyage in the shortest possible time. In preparing this book, the .log-books of a large number of ships have been examined, comprehending a long course of years, and the exact time at which the several ships (Tossed certain parallels and meridians was carefully noted. Each voyage is so thoroughly discussed, that any captain may examine the course he took and see for himself where he gained and where he lost, and in what way his passage was lengthened or shortened. The average of the whole is then taken, and shows that certain crossing points must be, as a sailor would say. "closely fetched," while on other parallels or meridians a captain may do what seem 3 best, accordng to wind and weather. One example may suffice : A sailing ship bound from the Cape of Good Hope •will arrive off the Lizard in sixty days if she crosses the fifth parallel of South latitude to the westward of 17 deg. 5 min. W.; whereas, if she crosses the same parallel to the eastward of 10 deg. 5 min., the time required* will be sixty-six days. In other instances, our or five days are gained, and in the best course of all, a clear gain of ten days is shown. The book is so printed that these results can be readily seen and understood ; and for still further clearness, a chart for each month of the year Is given, showing the most advantageous route to be taken by a ship in any and every month. Hence, if by bad weather a ship has been driven out of her course, the captain may easily see how best to recover it. From this brief sketch, our readers will see that the Meteorological Institute at Utrecht has promoted, in a highly meritorious way, the interests of navigation. ■ The book, which is published in Dutch, ought to be translated into the languages of all the maritime nations of the world.— Chambers' Journal. PIRATICAL OUTRAGE IN CHINA. The China papers just received contain detailed accounts of tho murder of the captain and officers of the steamer Spark on its voyage from Canton to Macao. Some Chinese pirates who had embarked as passengers attacked the crew and passengers near Bocca Tigris, murdered the captain, mate, and purser, and wounded most dangerously the only European passenger and the whole crew. After the pirates had been in possession of the steamer for six hours a junk came over from the shore to take them and their booty, and the Chinese engineers brought the steamer over to Macao. The China Mail gives the following particulars, which it has learnt from Captain Carrol, of the Poyang, who brought the news of the outrage from Macao to Hongkong:—The pirates were ore than twenty in number, and took passage as at first stated at Canton. They got up a disturbance by fighting with sticks. The mate went down to part then), when the men assaulted him. He called the. captain, who also went down. Tho pirates flrod at Captain Brady, one bullet striking him in the shoulder. He ran to the upper deck, got a revolver, and returned below. He then attempted to fire on the pirates, but hia weapon repeatedly missed fire. The unfortunate captain was thus entirely at the ' mercy of his assailants, and a fierce onslaught was - made upon him. One of the pirates stabbed him in the knee, another cut him on the wrist with a sword, others shot him, and some again speared him. There were thirty-two wounds upon his body when found. On the lower part of the back was a serious wound, which probably proved fa,tal, Captain Carroll describes the sceno on board the Spark as horrible. The decks were covered with blood. Brady was found in his cabin, dead, lying on the floor with one arm raised in the air, his wholo body a mass of wounds. Mr Mundy was on the fore deck fearfully wounded, and still Insensible. Near him lay four dead sailors. Mr. Mundy was the only European passenger on board, and he offered a brave and determined resistance. He knocked down two of the pirates, flpd was engaged with tho others when he was stabbed twice in the breast. The weapons were evidently aimed at his heart, but fortunately did not reach there. Nine persons altogether were killed in the affray—namely, the'eaptain, the mate, the purser, one fireman, one Chinaman, and four passengers. The Chinaman was occupying the cabin of the Compradore and the pirates no doubt mistook him for that officer. It is impossible as yet to say who are the dead pmengers; but It is thought they formed part of 'the gang of pirates. There were about 160 passengers on board In all. Both mato and purser also bravely resisted the attack, and did all that could be done ; but they were of course soon overpowered. When very badly wounded, and seeing further resistance useless, they are said to have jumped overboard. One of tho firemen was also killed and it vim owing to the fact of tho others secreting themselves, that the vessel ever reached Macao Out of twenty-two cases of silk on board, only eight or ten pounds were taken ; but, as among the property stolen from Mr. Mundy thero were several English sovereigns, it is to bo hoped that these and the loJt notes may afford a clue to , the discovery of the robbers. Several thousand dol--lars in notes of the Hongkong banks and in silver, were taken from the purser. The incentive to tho outrage is supposed to havo arisen in a rumor to the effect that a gambling-house proprietor wasgoing down to Macao from Canton in the Spark with 818,000 in his possession. Thin appears to have been a false report• but that the pirates had belief in its accuracy is Wne out by tho fact that they ransacked and rifled

tho luggage of all the passengers, whom they forced below and kept there, battening down the hatches." The China Mail says that heavy rewards have been offered for the apprehension of the pirates, and the availablo British, Portuguese, and Chinese gunboats have been searching tho river for them, hitherto without success.