SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 80, 24 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF OAMARtI. CfWAftDsJ. JfOtt 25. Good Tempter, kfiteh.Ctorrie. Itota Duaedin. iUaitr. uin&tL IstttteHifc Afld«ti9on» scbooneir, F&Efiurcon. fcoca Oaey' jDoutlx* F. i. agtme. VESSET.ft fjf PORT. | Ji.LI *4. Schooner—t&ibelltt Andsrwu. lUtuh—Good Templar. + Th« ketafc Goad Templar. Captain Cwrrie. arrive! in port from DtmeuJh yesterday murninif. lb* echooner tsabeiia t'aptwn fromGreymouth.. arrived in pi rt »fc tt »•»'• yestewla.. She briny*ft toil wip> ot timber. soul-. "w»d wise,, con* siimoit to order. . . The snhooner Pioneer, for Punmiin, in baiust trim, Bailed tor her destination. on Saturday tuiffht. __ THE OtttfEßAt. GRANT'S WRF.t;K. From (ha "Sydney Morning Herald" of Jrity tth. Welaurn that "ft is reported th.it an expedition l*fr. here oft Saturday tor the> xcene of the tieneral ft rant * wreefc. with appliances for obtaining the goW which wa« aboard that vessel when she wa» tost. The party joft hero on Saturday in the schooner Flora. and we »r# informed; that a memher of Parliament,, at whose •xpanHU the vesset w is tUted out. has tfone with them to superintend this operations. A seaman who was in tn« (twMAf Grant, and is «o act as yuidev stated before taftvtnuf that thwv intended Mating' » s«m<uen6 nuantfoy of roc it off the. top of the <-n(fs to form a breakwater a>B the month of the iwu wherein she was •nirulfmi. and tl\«n sink a shaft Jmm to the head of it. ftowever absurd this may appear. it has some claim to credence, from the fact that heavy (drills ami powder formed part of this outfit. ♦ an eat ra Rptis aK y »esTEXCK. Considerable excitement hit.* been caused iimon£ shipowners' unit shipmasters by" a sentence passed recently by Mr. Patfet at the Thames police Court on Captain Barnes, of the ship tocftsley Ef.i.it'. for. as •ttMNd 1 ,. aseanltimf a sailor on hoard; that vessel by puttinif him in irons. Tho man. it sisemy, had been mutinous and refractory. anil lihU'kil his conduct had btatHKlk that, as the itas'istrar.e himself rsmar vt'il. fie "■ wa» not sntitlfi! to anybody's sympathy." It w;i ' l unreti in defence by the captiiin that hu hadi buen rf)! 11 * pefletito put the man in irons to maintain disciplineMr. Fftfcet. how«v«r. although he artmitted that the man had not been imprisoned "out of malice, fletd that his imprisonment was illejpvl. t\6 a erwwtfed meetinurheid at tiiverpool. under the. auspices of the Mercantile Ittarine iVssoviation. to express imlwr«tion at this sentence, a tetter was read from Mr. It Ivor. St?., in which that srentteman characterised the sentenue iu> the most monstrous thinif he had heard of for many » day. and a resolution was passeif cowlemninir the iudirment of Hr. Pivaet w ntterty rtnjiist.. A vote of sympathy with flaptain Eiai'nes was also passed. »n« {hu cttMv i® w;i» stated, had been brought under the eonnideratiott of the Home Secretary, with the vitr-v t<» the rer«wa of thu baprisoned officer. Itera the mattor t«#t» tor the jiiinHiiit. and there can be no doubt that the; is one of the greatest importance to the - RACE. / jtLMMßrthiiitJhe ocean race, mentioned by m tost" jMNSyvOni closer one than expected. Prom a private . tattaCWttieiurn that the Zealandm passed the tlofft fonr of the Jterope. and Six diiys before the Wsutmhtf, hut ffwinir to iiirht winds the latter assets crog«ed th«j Rn» before the SSenhvncSia. On. the pilot Bourtiittft the 3fealandia v he in formed the officers and crew of that vus»eC that they were the t&rst While waitinir for the tide at Graresenti that the two bthsr vessets were in the ftr»t F but cominsr np' the river the Waitansri passed trie having a fast, steam, twir. 'the time occupied by the three vessete waa as toUuws : —Zeatandia. »? days ili hours ; IJerope. SJT days 2!!' hours: Waitanjt. SAditys tt> hour».<—" Neiam* NatE.