SHIPPING.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 117, 30 September 1895, Page 2

SHIPPING.

Port of Patea.

Monday 30th September. High Water—T T a.m.. ami 730 p.m. Sun —Pises 3 50 a.m. and G 10 p m. To-morrow. PPgh Water —7 50 am, and 8.10 pm. oun—Kises, 5 40 a.m.; sets, 0 11 p m.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Aorore from Wellington to-morrow. Wavcrloy from Nelson, Tuesday.

PROJECTED DEPARTURE. Waverley tor Greymouth Tuesday. Aorere fur Wellington Sunday.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS AT WELLINGTON. Rangatira left .London April 20. Star of New Zealand loft London 15 April. Chas G. Rice left New York Fob 14. River Hunter left Newcastle May 17. Ruapehu left Plymouth Sept 22.

A sailor of H.M.S. Wallaroo, named Brooks, mot with a painful accident during some recent night evolutions at Suva. The topsail yard was being sent down, when by some unaccountable means Brooks became jammed and had one of bis kneecaps fractured.

The s.s. Aotoa arrived in Wellington from P.ymouth and Capetown on Friday, at 5 p in. The lest Plymouth on August 10th at 5 p.m., and arrived at Capetown on September Ist, Left again next clay at 1 p.m. and arrived in Wellington as stated. In longitude 63 E., she passed an iceberg. Captain Mitchell, of tne barque Castor, on arrival at San Francisco from Newcastle, reported on Ist July, in lat. Ideg 40min S., long. lOOdeg -Imin W. ho passed the hull of a wooden vessel between 1000 and 1200 to is register. All thejj masts, |spars, and jibboom were gone, and there was no sign of life aboard.

When the ship Oamaru was about three woeka’ sail oft' the English Coast a deliberate interference with xho rigging, which directly endangered the lives of fvvo of the sailors, was detected in the nick of time. One of the officers found that the gear had been cut almost through, but with some assistance he was able to prevent one of the yards from crashing dnwn on top of two of the crew who were working just below it. Had the officer not made the discovery when he did the men would most eertaiuly have been crushed to a pulp. It was also found that other parts of the vessel’s rigging had been cut, and that

the patent log had been] tampered with. The matter has been reported to the police, and more is likely'- to be hoard of it in a few clays.—Post. An accident, which terminated fatally, occured on the voyage of the Aotea from London. On Sept,, 19th a youth named David Gillies, a seaman, was on the yard-' arm when he fell about 30ft to the dock on his head. His head was crushed, and besides other injuries he received a compound fracture of the forearm. All that was possible was done for the poor fellow by Dr Mackin, who was on board, but Gillies never regained consciousness, and died on September 21st of laceration of the brain. The body was buried at sea. — N.Z. Times.

The N.Z.S.S. Coy’s ship Waitangi arrived in Wellington on Friday from London, via Auckland. She left Northfleet on May 13th, with, moderate ■weather, which gave out on 20th July, when a heavy westerly gale accompanied by mountainous seas was encountered, which lasted for 24 hours. Everything movable was washed off deck, a lifeboat was smashed, a portion of the rail carried away, and the lazarette, saloon and cabins flooded. From July 28lh almost continuoua westerfj-Jg-ales were encountered till passing the Leu win on August 13th. Frequently the ship had to bo hove to, but the only damage done was the loss of the lower topsail. When a little to the westward of Tasmania another blow from the west was experienced during which a topsail was lost and another piece of jrail washed away, and also a number of loose fittings round the deck smashed.