SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3368, 21 November 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Welwx«to.v, November 20th. .Sailed.—Phoebe, h.sj,, for the North. Lyttkj.ton, November 20th. Arrived.—Alhambra, Kg., from Wellington.

Sailed.—A Jhambra, b.h,, for the South ; Glencoe, barque, for Newcastle. Bluff, November 20th. Arrived. — Raugitoto, «.»., from Melbourne, G. 30 p.m.

The U.B. mail-steamer Nebraska, was illuminated on Tuesday evening by blue lights on each yard-arm,'and fired several rockets in honour of General Grant's re-election as President of the United States. The demonstration was acknowledged by the British ship Peter Denny. The s.h. Wellington sailed for the North yesterday afternoon. Two coasters passed the Port for Dunedin yesterday afternoon. The bri'.£ Ziska was towed out last night by the Geelong tug steamer. The brig is bound for Melbourne, with part of her t«a» from Foo-Chow-Foo.

The p.H. damson returned from Oamaru Jresterday evening. Her passengers were jrought to Dunedin by the p.«. Golden Age. The schooner Strathnaver, Capt. Mack^y, from Mercury Bay, arrived at Jtattray street Jetty at C o'clock last evening. Bhe left Mercury Bay on the evening of the 9th, and had fine weather, with light westerly winds, until (iff Banks Peninsula, when she wan becalmed for two days. During the? remainder of the voyage, southerly winds were met with.

The «crew steamer Wallabi, from Duncdin direct, ran up the river on yesterday's tide, and moored in the ufilial berth at the jetty. During the afternoon a portion of her cargo wan lauded, the remainder being left for the next morning. Not the slightest apprehension for her safety was entertained—the weather, in fact, being singularly calm. About 7 p.m., however (dead low tide), those on board were startled by what resembled an explosion, and it was noon afterwards perceived that the vessel had parted amidships, a gaping rent making its appearance on cither side. Steps were at once taken to prevent the influx of water by stuffing the apertures with blankets, &c, and also to discharge the remainder of the cargo. With the removal of tbe dead weight and the rising of the tide the rent so far closed as to render it probable that the vessel might be kept afloat and run on the beach at high water. The cauiie of the accident, bo far as we have been able to ascertain, wan a small recently formed sandupit f-r "hummock" at the centre of the outer T. On this the Wallabi—a long, flatbottomed craft—was, so to speak, pivoted, and the weight of h-jr machinery at one end, and cargo at the other, proved too much for her backbone.—Southland Newa, lGth inst.