Shipping.

Colonist, Issue 73, 2 July 1858, Page 2

Shipping.

ARRIVALS. June 22.—Gipsy, schooner, 20, M'Nabb, from Wellington. Passengers—Messrs. Thomson, Thomas, and Brooke. June 30.—Tasmanian Maid, steamer, 90, Whitwell, from Wellington. Passengers—Captain Hays, Messrs. Cockram and Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Martin, Mrs. and Miss Sullivan, Mrs. Vollor, Mr. Leed. June 30.—Malay, barque, 249, Peters, from Sydney. , DEPARTURES. x June 29.—Auckland, cutter, 19, for Motupipi and Collingwood. Passengers—Messrs. Seymour l; jtluddleston, and.Ridings. . June 29.—Necromancer, schooner, 20, Short, for Motupipi and Waitapu. IMPORTS. Per Gipsy, from Wellington: 2 cases, 2 v tons cheese. . , Per Tasmanian Maid, from Wellington : ] 6 tins white lead,' 4 cases sauces, Hays; 8 kegs red lead, Curtis Brothers; 3 cases drapery, Order; 3 bales hops, Order; I case drapery, W. Wilson. Per Malay, from Sydney: 70 horses, Order.; 200 tons coal, Order. . ' The Malay came to anchor here on Thursday-;'last/ 'She was bound to Canterbury with a cargo 'of horses and coals, and had proceeded on'her voyage as far'as Cooks Straits when she encountered a heavy gale of wind for some time from the N.E. Finding it almost impossible to get through the, Straits against such tompestuous weather, and after losing two horses,;she' put in. here with the intention of sending her horses overland to their port of destination. '; The Buraiah finished discharging her cargo on Wednesday. • The consignees of the Ocean Queen are in somewhat of" a fix," owing to the arrival of large_shipments of merchandise, without either bills of lading or invoices. ■ :. The Emma was advertised in Sydney,to sail positively for Nelson on tlie 22nd June. ,' The Adolphus Yates, schooner, was. advertised to leave Sydney on the 23rd June, for Nelson and Wellington. . . Notice to Mariners.—Notice is. given;jn the Sydney Herald that on and after the evening of Monday, 21st June, a fixed red harbor light will be exhibited from the tower of Forfc Denison. On the sth May the port of Madras was visited by a heavy gale, doing much damage among the Bhipping riding in the Roads. The Godayery, Eplipse, Wales, and American were driven from, their anchors, and speedily stranded; and the following yeseels slipped their cables:—Countess of Winton, Roman Emperor, Rose Standish, Clara Novello, Druses, Maria, Frederika, Koh-i-noor, Malacca, Nonpareil, Melanie, Mary Catherine Augustine, Eliza, Warren Hastings, G. B. Carr, Minden, Victoria, Regina, Julia; Grenada, and Harbinger, steamer. Teh native vessels stranded, and one foundered.— Madras .Price Current, ; Bth May. The process of stowing a portion of the Atlantic telegraph cable on board the Agamemnon is now going on at Plymouth^ having commenced on the 19th March. The Niagara has also arrived in that port. . . , ••-...■" : . - ■ The Leviathan has been compared in magnitude to Great George-street, Weßtminster; .but that street is not wide enough to admit her, since she could only just fit into Portland-place, though of course not- so long. It is said that she would, not go into either Grosvenor or Belgrave-square, and that Berkeleysquare, lengthways, wou d only just' admit her. Being 69l1eetor 230 yards in length, she is ten yards over an eighth of a mile, and of course four turns up and down her deck will make a .mile; a possible walk, as her level deck is unencumbered with aught save the skylights of the saloons. The Leviathan is intended to carry 800 first-class passengers, 2000 second-class, and 1200 third-class. For ko large a freight of human beings,-the most extensive accommodation has been provided bottiiri saloons and sleeping cabins. The saloons are nine in number;, the largest is 100 feet long, 36 fe*et wide, and 13'Vfeet high. Above are two others, one above 60 feet .lltog, and another 24; both are 25 feet wide and 12 feet high. The smaller of these latter is used as a ladies' cabin. There are whole streets and squares of sleeping rooms, about 14 feet long by 7 or 8 feet wide, and above 7 feet high—in fact quite large rooms. If nothing else had influence,' this would make the Leviathan popular. In most large steamers it is the sleeping cabin that is the discomfort. — Home News, April 16.

The following was posted at. Lloyd's last week:— " Deal, March 26. The banking account book of Messrs. Hughes, Gobble, and Co., of Austrael, Upper Yarra, with the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, Melbourne, together with a small ledger, receipted bills, &c. all tied together in one bundle, were picked up off the South Foreland, yes 7 terday, by a boat belonging to this place. They had, apparently, not been many hours in the water, as the books were not wet through. -No name of any ship or passenger to whom they may have belonged can be found."— Home News, April 16. Within the last twelve years about twenty large mail packets have been lost. Seven of these have gone down in the North Atlantic, three in the Gulf of Mexico, three in the China and Indian seas, one in the Bay of Biscay, and three on the Portuguese and Spanish coast. The value of the seven packets lost in the North Atlantic, with their cargoes, is estimated at two millions sterling. Since 1853, 2000 persons have perished, and 10,000,000 dollars'worth of property has been destroyed, in the wreck of the United Ftates' coasting .mail packets. Out of the 20 ocean mail packets lost during the last dozen years, three, with all their crews and passengers, were lost,'and their fate never heard of. One was burnt while going at full speed, and a great many of the people on board perished in the flames. Another was "run down in the China Sea by a packet'going in the same direction, the lights of the former having been seen from the latter when miles a-head. , The most dreadful of all these shipwrecks, perhaps, .were the foundering in the Atlantic Ocean of- the President, the Pacific, and the City of Glasgow, from which not a soul survived to tell the tale. A most harrowing story, too, is that of the burning of the Amazon, and also that of tho striking of the Tweed on the Alacranes. Last year a mail packet was wrecked.in the Indian Sea We have just heard of the wreck of the mail packet Ava in the Bay of Bengal. The mail packet Tay went aslibre many years ago in the Westlndies, and the captain and crew abandoned her; an engineer, however, stuck to her and saved her, to be wrecked afterwards in the Gulf of Mexico. For seven years the Peninsular and Oriental Company never lost a'i ship;. they then lost seven ships in twelve-years, and during the last of those years they have .lost three .ships., The Royal.Mail Company began thgir.cap.eer. by1 "<• losing ships, but latterly they have had Better luck. Cunard's Company have been the m6st fortunate of all the mail packet companies as far as the loss of ships is concerned. The Peninsular arid Oriental and the Royal Mail Companies have each' lost about the same/number of ships. —Home News, Aprili6.