SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3907, 25 August 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, August 14th.

Sailed.—Eliza Firth, for Greymouth ; Florinda, for Wanganui, August 10th ; Mary Bannatyne, for New Zealand.

Newcastle, August 15th. Arrived.—Ribord, from Wellington ; William Akers, from Wanganui ; Isabella, from Auckland; Woodville, from Dunedin, August ICth ; John: Bull, from Lyttelton ; Ada, from Dunedin.

Sailed.- Cyreue, for ; Lytteltou, August 12th ; Memento, for Auckland, August 14th; bieur-de Meurice, for Auckland; Ann Jlelhuish, for Wellington; Montana, for Auckland, August 15th. ;

The clipper Hobart Town trader the schooner Hally Bayley, arrived from Hobart, Town yesterday morning, after a smart passage of 8£ days. She left the Derwent on the evening of the 15th inst., was favoured by S.W. and west winds and moderate weather, and passed the Solander ht (i p.m. on the 2lst, thus doing the run from land to land in six days. Passed the Bluff at 1 a.m. ou.the 22nd, and arrived off the Heads on Sunday evening. She sailed in yesterday morning, 'anchored at Deborah Bay until Pilot Lowden boarded h.'.r in the steamer Peniusula, and then proceeded to Dunedin. The Hally Bayley has a full cargo of timber, fruit, &<:., variously, consigned. We have, to thank Captain Harrison for this report and full files of Hobart Town papers. The schooner is consigned to Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co.

The Colusa, a large barque of nearly 1200 tons register, aud carrying double topgallant as well as double topsail yards, arrived at. the Port yesterday forenoon. She came, in under canvas before the fierce nor-easter then blowing, and brought up off Deborah Bay. The Colusa is full of timber, and has a deck load nearly level with the topgallant rail. There are over 1,000,000 feet on hoard, of which between 800,000 aud 900,000 ft. are yellow pine railway sleepers. The barque is from Victoria, Vancouver Island, and has had a very comfortable "passage, fine weather and moderate hreezes having favoured her throughout. Captain Howe reports having left Victoria on the 29th of June, with-westerly winds, which held until July Bth, lat. 41, then veered to the northward, and gradually merged into the N.E. Trade. The latter were lost on the 19th July in lat. 13 N., and. four days later the S.E. Trade found the barque in lat. 6.38. The Equator 'was crossed on the 26th m long. 152 W., and on the 7th August the barque was up to Savage Island, and hove-to for a few moments to communicate with numerous canoes which came alongside with fruit," &c. On the following day she lost the Trade, and found a better wind at the same time, for the Trade merely veered to the eastward, and finally the breeze settled at N.E., and held there steadily until the Colusa was within 20 miles of Banks Peninsula on the 20th inst. There the breeze died away, and she lay becalmed until Sunday night, when another north-easter caught her aud brought her to the Port. ...

A survey was held yesterday forenoon upon the steamer Comerang, hut the surveyor's report will not be presented until to-day. The Comerang must have given the Waipapapa Point reef a tolerably hard rub, her bilge pieces and keel being smashed in places, and her copper torn up in patches. As soon as the steamer Maori ia clear of cargo she will, weather permitting, be taiken into the floating dock to undergo her periodical overhaul and cleaning. There is a great cry out for ballast at the Port. 3000 tons of the material are needed this week to supply the shipping. . - . . . ;

Another heavy N.E. gale has visited the Port. It came on during Sunday nisht, and blew hard all day yesterday, raising a considerable sea. The shipping, as usual, held its own.

The barque Harriet Armitage was yesterday takingin a quantity of flour from a lighter. She has now got well on with her loading, and will soon be ready for sea. </•

A large quantity of the bulk timber was discharged from the Circe yesterday. She is laid on for-Hokitika, and will soon he ready to receive cargo for that port. The Wallabi will sail for Thnaru to-morrow.

The Dauntless has nearly, if not all, of her outward freight on board. All things being favourable she will sail for Auckland to-day. Notice to Mariners.—Captain Howe, of the barque Colusa, reports that whilst his vessel was running through the Friendly Islands Group on the 6th inst., a shoal patch was sighted about six miles off its estimated position, being lat. 18 15 S., long. .168.23 W. There was a heavy swell running, but the position of the patch was clearly.defined by larger sized rollers ■which occasionally curled over "and broke. Captain Howe is of opinion that the size of the patch is not more than a quarter of a mile each way, and also that in calm weather there would be no break upon it. It is not marked on any chart. According to the position given, the patch would lie some 70 or 80 miles nearly due north of Beveridge Reef, and about the same distance to the E.N.K. of Savage Island.