Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 81, 18 February 1862, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Feb. 15.—Young America, 1741 tons, Carlyle, from Glasgow, 4 passengers. Dalgety, Itattray, and Co., Agents. ENTERED OUTWARDS. Feb. 17.—Mary E. Ray, 458 ton 3, Green, for Melbourne, 1?2 passeuger3. INWARDS OOASTWISE. reb 17.—Guiding Star, Fraser, from Invercargill, 10 bales wool. 1. .Tones & Co.; 9 bales, Dalgety, Uattrny, & Co.; 7 passengers. Lyttelton, Torney, from Oamaru, 55 bales wool. Dalgety, Rnttrny ami Co. OUTWARDS COASTWISK. Feb. lfl.—Rifleman, Newton for Auckland, part of original cargo from Sydney, 35 passenger?. Feb. 17.—Lyttelton, Torney, for Oamaru, 390 sheep. Lalla Rookh, 147 tons, Greig, for Nelson, 7 passengers. Matilda Hayes, Falconer, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Versailles, Thursday, Feb. 20, Melbourne. Eureka, Thursday, Feb. 20, Melbourne. EXPORTS. Feb. 17.—Per Mary E. Ray, for Melbourne, 397 ozs. 5 chvts. gold. Per Matilda Hayes, for Oamaru, 10 tons sugar, 4 qr-casks brandy, 1 qr-cask whiskey,! bale wool packs, • 11 boxes soap, 1 puncheon rum, 800 feet weatherboards, 8 cases brandy, 2 cases glassware, 18 bags sugar, 1 horse dary, 2 bag's oats, 1 bale ba.es, 1 bag mipir, 1 cask brandy, 1 barrel bottled ale, 1 case ditto. PORT CHALMERS, ARRIVALS. Feb. 17th. 5 p.m. : None. DEPARTURES. Feb. 17th. i p.m.: Rifleman, schooner, Martin, for Auckland, with original cargo and 33 passengers. Feb. 17th. noon : Rainbow, for the Taieri Ferry and Waihola. Passengers per Guiding Star, from Invercargill : Mr. Moodie, Cnntain Louden, Messrs. Felton, Dewbridge, Joseph, Francna. Passengers per Rifleman, for Auckland : Captain Shepherd^ Mrs. Shepherd, &c. A case interesting to shipmasters and charterers of shipping was yesterday heard at the Resident Magistrates' Court. The circumstances were much the same as those relating to tlie case of the Mary E. Kay, recently before the same court, and^ the penalties were almost identical in amount.—£3 80. The ship in this case was the City of Melbourne, of Sydney; and, in default of payment, it will be »een, the "master has been committed to prison. It is now expected that, instead of the Omeo, our first arrival from Melbourne will be the Akliuga. In the event of the English mail having reached Melbourne at the regular time, we may, therefore, reasonably look for her arrival this day or the following, and, as there is little time to spare, she will necessarily have immediate despatch so as to arrive in Melbourne before the 26th. WRECKS. The official register of wrecks on the British coast for 1860 presents some remarkable facts. The following are extracts from a condensed account of it published in the London Times. We find that 21 wrecks took place from not heaving the lead; 2 from intemperance; 35 from general negligence and want of caution ; 35 foundered from unseaworthiness, and 5 from defective compasses^ Some curious facts are given in the Register regarding the ages of ships. It appears that when they should be most vigorous they are most feeble. Thus we find that, during the past three years, 377 vessels ■ under three years old were wrecked, 472 between the ages of three and seven years ; while 614 of them perished between the ages of fifteen and twenty. The Register famishes, as usual, some curious facts relative to the class of ships that are inevitably wrecked when overtaken by a gale of wind. Of the 2,725 vessels wrecked on our coasts during the past two years. 1.504—0r more than half—were colliers and of that class, and 1,29] were timber-laden, passenger ships, and vessels in ballast. Of these our old friends the schooners hold, as usual, their pre-eminence for wrecking, 912 of them naving during the same period gone to pieces. Next to the schooners come the brigs, 600 of which have in the same time met it similar fate. We find that, of the 1,379 vessels wrecked last year, 554 were commanded by masters who were not required to have certificates of competency. We believe, that this lamentable state of things, by which a great loss of life and an immense destruction of property take place every year, cannot be "remedied ■until all vessels are subjected to a rigid inspection before they put out to sea, in order that it may be accurately ascertained whether they are well found and provided with lifeboats, and with such a proper and suitable equipment .as will enable them to combat successfully with the elements. From the above account of the loss of life on the coasts it is seen that the most serious wrecks, resulting in the greatest loss of life, do not happen on the North-east coast of England, as is generally supposed, but on those parts of our coasts most frequented by large foreign ships. A few months ago a large American ship, tin; ' 'Danube," was coming up the Irish Channel, Mistaking her position, she found herself on some rocks in Cardigan Bay. A fearful storm was ragiug at the time. Her signals of distress was observed late in the evening. The " Portmadoc" lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was immediately launched for the rescue of the crew, who had taken to their boats. After a night of great hardship and ceaseless toil, the lifeboat brought on shore 17 poor creatures, who were more dead than alive. Similar services are constantly being" rendered by the institution's lifeboats to foreign ships' crews, and'frequently to those belonging to the 'United States of America. During the past nime •s. the total number of all casualties on the coasts iithe seas of the British Isles are thus given : — I>2, there were, 1,115; in 1833, 832; in 1854, Sin 1855, 1,141; in ias6. 1,153; in 1857, 1,143 ; M, 1,170 ; in 1859, 141G ; and in 1860, 1,379; ,ing a total of 10,336 vessels lost in nine years, or lost in every 210 British ships, undone in every foreign vessels, and giving an average annual of 1,148 vessels on the coasts and in the seas of United Kingdom. > regret to find that the sacrifice of life from this gmultitude of shipwrecks amounted to 7,201, or an tige of 800 lives that meet with a watery OTavim shipwrecks every year on the coasts and bt the of the British Isles. ¥r LATEST" DATES. Engl Nov. 27 }y telegraph' Dec. 2 Amerio Newrk.... Nov. 13 San Fzisco Nov. 4 Valpara, Oct. 20 CnpeofGood is Nov. 3 Mauritius.....;.... Dec. 6 Ceylon (Colombo) Dec. 17 China (Kong Kong) ' Nov- 14 Madras ~.. ;?■, Dec. 14 Bombay „,,....•>,••■ Dee' 12 Calcutta ~,..„.'.• ec- 9 Singapore Dec. 7 Australian Colonies— Melbourne Jan« 30 Sydney i.... Jan. 2!) Queensland Jan. 13 Adelaide- .Jan. 21 launccston .'• Jan. 18 Hobart Town ~ Jan. 29 Perth Dec- -25 New Zealand— Wanganui Jnn- 2s Wellington U.Feb. 1 Hawke's Bay Fe.b 1 Canterbury ,. -~ .:, Feb. 13