SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 24, 19 May 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

'• ♦ PORT OF OAMAHt;. "■ ** ♦ E?rWfAßi>a ',; May ta Samson. p.W.124 tons, Edie, Emm, DonwUru If. Ai«J(«n, ugynitijr Ot'TWAfctW. Jlvv. t». BmwtattflkyjK&eetunv'Vu' tons, Frauds*, fur llofeitifci. f. &.J/&tvf„ ttgunt. jr.w to. 3fntiW,s.s., 104 tons, t'rtiuhart. for DuTiedin. Andwrsnu and *'o., aifunfs. Ttvußuigft, schoonoiytS tuns, E'avis,. for Wansanni. VEHtIE'Ly IS P<>RT. >t\Y W. Bl!<»itxn«»-3ivraHiin. &% Cfomatiu. Schooner -Tauranxa. ReWHW-.TeSBfo and Rtdiame. Pur Jffutiiu. (or Dvtnediu -U* sack* whrat. •! dittoUnrtey. Anderson, and Co. : .1 cases, J. Ifonston : i-t ditto, f?a*tftiii|f; li pnekufft* casting, tie id and ttr:v. ; Dot sacks flour, flay and liarr. Put Tauranjui, for Wani-armi .Wo sacks Hour. Ui>'> ditto oltta, 2T> diet" pollard. tS ditto wheat. V> ditto brim, HO- l-saeka Hour. Kay and: fiarr. ♦ Thu sohoonur Slencloueh chared at 6ho Cus-f-onis yestwiftiy. for Etokitika. with produce shipped by AndcrSon.and- t'o.. and original rar.iildmi thtricdiu. Ttoos.s. Matatt sailed on her return trip to tmncdin. this morning, at U nV|m:k, with passengers and: caru'o. E.tPF,tUtWt'KS: Of TIER P.PJ-TE.SCt SKAUKN". "■ A VouiifC Shipmaster " of Liverpool has addressed alottsr to Jlr. P!huso||. K. P., in cite course ot which, h<t says : - ■"' Von* idea in that tiiisoaworthy ships and ovurloadintf arc the- two causes alone ot ail loss "f life ! at sea. Now. I nn-.sf. say it i;; not so. Thousands of ( lives aru lost, owiiij.;-li> the mm alone, t impt admit I nnneaworthy ships and overloading have en,-.-* the lives t ol!many, but, there are thousands who are lost almost be- * foratnuy havo left their native shore, simply owini; to-tho - tiwt of'tlidr boins;' manned by drunken., inelli'-ient * crew* When t left Rutland, about two years a-o. I is was hound for a port in India. We sailed: about tiiree I tt.)M.. twuy stmnicti drunk except otn-' (ollicer-i :>nd I ftpprtnliußS tstduded). and it w< wir.ii the uTear.esf immunity 6h« pilot uonld have hiy commands carried out. t nutsf. admit the men in-this case were eiptat to thtnr work, but too intoxicated to know a-nyCtiinr. Now supposing squally or dirty weather had uvertakew n»and anythinfj'had oeeurred! what woo!,I have, been thdfssult? PerhapN one m»ro "U your wreelv eiiari. Uwls throtiifh- boinja' unwuworth-y or hiving i>een over tiulttili'. ivt tho s>aniß timu mj vessel was as tiv.'ht and fln« » little ertn't as ever was launehed. After we tfo; dear of tho land: two out of four A. TV's were l.i-U up alt ,tht». voysutti 1 one from a disease too uoton-.ou- anion:* th«m, the other from tlie result of years of dissolution. tttitli we sailed- from London. \' e signed, and I i thotitfht we had m>6hir.:- to do l-vit sail; fl-.,- p-lof. on J boardam! a line fair wind lilowi:i_-. 'l'-vo \. i'.'j short 11 want, down to Cravesond with r-lie vessel, where <h • ! was dufaimnl twenty -four hours i. i order fcit.it t jprounrntwo-more seamen, whieh r did- t'.\o l:,-:pi-'«s|y Idmnk (allsxtra »xpeu::e to owners, Imt this is never IfioiwWeretO. After E si'ot to sea o.«-- hml to he siiown Ithu ropes, and the other was readv for the h.'spitaF Swhuii Ito joined.owners bavin::' to |.-:i; Idm .». ln»soon as we arriveil out. a total oc ahmit i*. ?•'>'.••. lit t say our ships were properly ma-nn.-.i. hv qu.i.ii'ed feuumun' nwn who had-servedan aporeu'leeshi;', ni.'u dothodi so-that, wueould ke-p a. jrnod 'lo.-i.-jtout,'thun. we should Knd a ileeira.-e in the loss of lrr\: Wit sun. t win honestly say, duririy n>;, last vtflP-:.'.Tv ; *hutt not a man E coitlil trust at the wheel, only n\y HlppruntSioßS; they were the men. t carry four, and I Itnuilin to say if alf ships were eomnel'ed to carry a err- [ H,Hinnumber ofapprenf.tees, fvt-utnally our f.riti-sh sea- | :i nen must be better ijuulilied men."