SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3685, 26 November 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, November 25th. Arrived.—Merlin, schooner, from Levuka. . Lyttelton, November 25th. Arrived.—Ryno, from Picton. Sailed.—Tararua, s.s., for Southern Ports.

.., -A relations mishap to two of the powder ;keg* has been the means of detaining the Christian M'Ausland at the powder ground anchorage. It appears that two of the kegs burst, and their contents, ■ about 100 lbs of powder, ran down amongst the cargo, .. and: so became a serious danger to the ship and' crew. As the vessel would not be allowed to berth at the Pier whilst in such a condition, there was no help for " it but to discharge some of the cargd, and collect the loose powder. This we understand has been done, and _ the ship will in all likelihood -take up a discharging berth at the Pier to day. • The Harbour Company's steamer Beautiful Star, from Lyttelton via Timaru, arrived at th c Port during the "wee sma' hours" of yesterday morning, and after " transhipping 40 bales of wool to the ship Peter Denny, went up the harbour to Donedin. Sixty-two bales of wool and five' bales of leather were transhipped yesterday to the Peter Denny from the steamer Golden Age, '. . ■ '. ; . .We are glad to hear that the ship Columbus has commenced loading. 60 kegs of butter and 10 barrels iron sand, the first of her cargo, were transhipped from " the (jplden Age on Thursday, and yesterday the same steamer took off from the Railway Pier 22 casks of tallow and 100 bales of wool. . 84 bales of wool and ,45 bales of rags reached the Port for her last night,; and •-, •; -will;be:shipped this morning. .The cargo for the Co- ; lumbus should now flow in freely; the captain expects unto have-500.bales of wool on-board by the end of the week. ■ We trust that he will. receive quick despatch.> , Yesterday morning the ship jßokeby Hall received .' on topard;2oo,ba#s'of oats,, making' the total of her * cargo for Wellington 1100 bags of ; oats. She left last .-.- Bight, in tow of the tug Geelong, and with Pilot Kelly .;'-- ;rihi Charge/ = In hauling' 6ff' from the wharf she stuck for a long time on the edge of the bank, but eventually cleared. The Rokeby Hall is a glutton in the way of ballast, requiring, as, she does, some .700 tons to fit her for "sea; and yet her registered tonnage is only 1044.' ; .The steamer Samson left for Oamaru yegterday morning,l sharp to time. Her freight and passenger lists were''well filled. ' ■ ■ . . Good haste is being made with the May Queen's cargo. She is nearly two-thirds discharged, the lower decks being clear excepting a, few deals and some cargo that is to be transhipped for Osmaru and other coast •ports', Whilst a great hole has been made in her lower —bold.--The dunnage in the main hatchway was in sight yesterday. -Better conditioned cargo than the May Queen's could not be desired. The echosner James Paxton, which arrived on Sunday from the Bluff, transhipped 200 bags of oats . to the iiokeby Hall yesterday, and then sailed up .the '-■harbour to Dunedin. ' . • The cutter Jane, with a cargo of coal from Shag Point, arrived yesterday, and passed up the harbour. " The hatchway of the barque Jane Rolland was surveyed yer.terday, and bulk broken.. The sugar bags in - alght looked well. -' - ; Discharging the barque.Le Nbro was commenced yesterday, and by knock-off- time some 20' jO bags of sugar, in first-class condition, were-landed ■ The twin-screw Pretty Jane sailed for Port Moly- ' Beux on Menday night.' •' The s.s. Rangatira, with the Auckland Cricket Eleven,. and' a number of other passengers, took her ; i departure for the North yesterday. : • The s.s. Maori sailed last evening for Lyttelton, via '■- intermediate ports. . ".: We see by the Freemantle Gazette, of the Ist inst;, 'that the coast of Western Australia was visited by a heavy north-west gale that set in on the 25th October, and blew with greater or less violence for three days. A number of vessels were anchored in Gage Roads, off : Swan River, and of those a French barque, named the Emilienne, which had just arrived from the Mauritius with a cargo of sugar, parted from her anchors' and »..,werit ashore on the rocks at Arthur's Head, and be- ■ came a total wreck.. Two other vessels—the Sea Ripple and Annie Beaton.. (the barque of that name we ...presume) also went ashore, but -were expected to be' got off again without damage. Several of the vessels had narrow escapes, and were only saved by the prompt assistance rendered from the shore. The same . -paper informs us of the wreck on the 25th October, of the brig Wild Wave on the Montebello Reefs, : , jnrhere she was bound with cargo for Freemantle, in-

~ .eluding some miningl machinery to be used on. the goldfield lately. opened there. The brig had also a -"part cargo of sandal wood for Singapore. The wreck ~"was sold for the benefit of whom it might concern. * "Our contemporary further reports the stranding of, the steamer Georgette on Beecher Point, and her sub- "■ ' sequent removal to Garden Island, where she was to '■■ be hove down and repaired; The passage a few miles on proved perilous in the extreme to those on board, :• 'inasmuch that when the vessel commenced moving' through the water, her leaks opened afresh, and consequently the hands had to pump literally for dear —life. -As luck would have it, 'Garden Island was ■ reached and the vessel beached just as the water * touched the fire bars of the furnaces. :