SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 15

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

New PLTwoura, July 29th. The Außtralind is a total wreck. She has not broken up, and everything aloft is standing. Yesterday she drov'o farther ashore, and carried away the end of theharbour woika jftty. Her cable and anchors have gone. There is savon foot of water in the hold She had 500 casks of cement on board, and these are damaged. Lvttei/ton, July 30th. Isaac Erickson, a labourer, was drowned at Ehodes Bay last evening. He warled into the water after a boat, and whon about a chain from the shore was seized with cramp, and went down. The body was washed ashore this morning.

Tuesday.— The ship Wild Deer has etill about 450 t ins of' iron pipes to put out. The first instalment of her Homeward ctxtfo, in the shape of CO casks of ia low and 800 sacks of wheat, was taken in yestreday. r lhe barque Waimea has taken in 587 bales wool, 201 do rabbitskins, 1 do sheepskins, 75 do leather, 209 casks tallow, 4073 bags wheat, 968 do flour, 47 bales basils; 354 cases preserved meats, 2 casks black sand, 6 do beef, 200 bags antimony, and 53 pkgs of sun dries. Captain Buitows, of the steamer Eio Grande (says the Nhw York Ileiald), has accomplished a feat which seafaring men say is "ot only brilliant and unusual but unprecedented. 1 When his steamer was discovered to be on fire last Tuesday afternoon at sea, 90 miles beyond the Delaware Breakwater, he overhauled an Italian barque, the Beppino A, successfully and Bately, and without the slightest panic, transferred his 97 passengers to her, navigated tho burning veßsel to a shoal near the breakwater, and sank be to the deck beams. This was the only means of putting out the fire, which was in the hold of the ship among 800 bales of cotton. It was impossible to reach the fire on the Bio Grande, or to successfully battle with it in the usual way by pouriug water through the hatches To completely submerge all of the steamer below the mam deck hatchet was tho only recourse. To accomplish' this without wrious injury to the steamer was no easy task. But Captain Burrows managed it in 27 hours after the conflag'fttlon was first discovered ; and not only this, but in 24 hours more he had extinguished the flames, pumped out and raised tbe ship, and was once ugain favty 1 t9?tW»the enf?meß and steam i« NewYoxk,

At the Delaware Breakwater the Rio Grando again overhauled the Italian barque, retransferred the passengers to the steamer, and resumed the voyage to Now York with the steamer as sound as a dollar, and no other injury except that to the cargo. Wednesday.— The dredger No. 222 did good work between tin- Geonre street and Bo won Piers yesterday, and went outside the Heads in the afternoon to deposit tho load of spoil she had dredged. She returned toher moorings, and will, no doubt, in the course of a, few days effect n, groat improvement in the depth of water alongside" the piers. Jn threo hou/n yesterday she took up 1000 tons of spoil. The brigantine Ciunille has taken in over 3000 bags of uraiu at t-he ltnttray st'eet Pier for Auckland. The- dredge Vulcan, was busily working at tho,end of. the south side of! the ttowen Pier yesterday^ aud did remarkably well, keeping tbe steamer Peninsula fully omployed in towing away the punts filled with her spoil. It is proposed that the dues now charged on goods passing over 'Jimaru wharf Bhall be considerably increased. General merchandise, which is now taxed at the rate of 2s per ton, is to pay 3j ; the charge on wool and sheepskins in bales is to be raised from 4d to 8J<1; grain, chaff, road metal, copper ore, house blocks, and a host of dissimilar artic.es are to pay 2k per ton instead of Is Gd ; while tho charge on shingles and' palings is to bo increased from Gd to 9d. These changes are to bo effected at a special meeting of the Board convened for Thursday, tho 10th inst. The dredger No. 222 took up a full load of Bpoil be tween the railway piers yesterday, and made a trip outside the Heads to deposit it. The boats. belonging to the ship City of Perth reached Port Chalmers by railway from Timaru yqptorday. The ship Abeona only requires about 50 tons more ballast on board to render her ready for sea. ,