SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11661, 21 January 1902, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF IBIABD. Tin flagstaff at Tim am is aituated in East longitude 171 deg., 17min 20sec; Sooth latitude 44 deg., 2Qmin. ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Upo'u. s.s., oil Thursday. Janet Nicoll, s.s., on Friday. Hawea, s.s.. on Thursday. Maniari. s.s., about 22nd inst. Hawea, s.s., on Saturday. Devon port, barque, from Newcastle, carlv. . La Bella, barquentine, from Newcastle, early. \Vhan rr ape» s.s., at- end of month. ~ IX HARBOUR. Steamer —Papanui. Ship—Oamaru. ' The s.s. Hawea is due here on Thursday, not Friday, as before notified. The Karamea left Capetown on January 14th for New Zealand, in continuation of ■her voyage from London. If sufficient inducement offers (3ays the Wellington "Post') the Tyser steamer Hawfces Bay, at present in Sydney, will return to London from New Zealand via South Africa. The Lizzie Taylor took away 79j; tons of Sour and 16 of pollard for the Belford Mill; 143 sacks of wheat- for Friedlander Bros.: and 10 tons of flour for -Sicoll and Scott. The "Evening Post" also states that the Tokomaru, which recently visited Picton. was the largest vessel thak had ever been in that harbour. From the entrance to her moorings, flag buoys were used to mark off her course. The s.s. Papanui came inside the harbour at 9-50 yesterday morning, after having been in the roadstead since Sunday evening. She brought ten packages of a traction engine for W. Wood and Co., and uras busv all day loading frozen mutton, •wool, and tallow." Captain Forbes is still in command, and has under him the following officers :—Chief officer, Sir A. G. Jeffrevs; second, Mr A. W. Hnnt (late of the Waimate); third, Mr B. Piper (late of the' Tekoa); fourth, Mr H. C. Mayo; chief engineer, Mr P, Mackenzie (late of the Tekoa): second, Mr J. Thomas; third, Sir J. Silver; fonrth, Mr D. Nicholson; fifth. Mr F. W. "Weller (late of the Ruapehu); refrigerating engineers, Messrs W. Cameron and W. Moore; electrician, Mr C. B. Windsor. Mr S. V. H. Underhill, late of St. George's Hospital, London, is surgeon. The Papanui is expected to finish loading at about 2 o'clock this afternoon, and will then proceed to Lyttelton. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 20. Arrived —Uganda, from Auckland; Tekoa, from Auckland. Arrived —Surrey, troopship, from Sydney, at 7.30 p.m. , BLUFF, January 20. Arrived—Talune, from Hobart, with an English maiL THE BARQUE ALEXANDRA. SOME PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER. Yesterday our Westport telegrams contained brief reference to the stranding of the barque Alexandra, bound from Sydney to Westport, 30 miles south of Westport. Additional particulars to hand by telegram from Westport yesterday are as follows: The Alexandra is a Danish barque of 653 tons. She took a cargo to Port Elizabeth from Europe, and was chartered to carry coal to German order from Westport to the Islands. She called at Sydney for docking purposes on her way from South Africa." She left Sydney on Sunday, January 12th. The wreck is 25 miles sonth of Westport. The captain is repcrted to Have stated when he visited Charleston that on the morning of the disaster he imagined that he was about 30 miles off Cape Foulwind, when what happened to be a dense bank of fog appeared right ahead of the vessel. This turned out to be bush. He gave instructions to change the ship's course, but before this could be done she had run on to the rock.".. An examination showed that the vessel was making water fast, so a rope was carried ashore and bound round a tree, and all succeeded in getting ashore by I climbing along the rope. The crew camped oa the beach. The vessel is practically a total wreck. It is understood that she is issured in Denmark, where she is owned. The Alexandra is expected to break np a# any time. .The captain and crew are : standing by pending a survey of the ves- | sel by two master mariners, who left for ■ "the sesne yesterday.. The Alexandra struck on a rock at Hatters' Beach, three miles sonth of Brighton, at 3 o'elock on Saturday morning. The weather up till Friday afternoon was very fair. When the captain took his bearings he was 30 miles off the New Zealand coast, and he reckoned that he would pick u» the - Cape- Foulwind light during the night. I Subsequent events, however, showed that < the vessel was considerably out of hei course. About 3 o'clock on Saturday * Biomiag she struck on a rock at the place mentioned. A series of heavy bumps on the rocks followed, and as there was a strong sea running the captain decided, to i run the vessel There was no-other course to pursue, as there were several holes knocked in her bottom owing to the repeated bumping on the rocks. It was pitch dark at the time, and the cap- . ■tain and crew had to remain until day- ? light. Th:~ had no knowledge r.s to tbeir V' whereabouts at the time. At. dayiight E all hands left the vessel. An eld miner 1 > named Owen Rees, who works in the local- » ity, seeing the vessel on the beach, went : down, and the captain was immediately informed .of his whereabouts. The latter at «ncs proceeded to Charleston, to communicate the news cf the disaster to the owners f of the vessel and others interested. The crew, numbering 12. made themselves as eomfcrtab'.e as circumstances would permit c-r. the be.;ch- The vessel, which now lies oa the beach, is high and dry at low tide, and a number of people visited the scene of the disa-.ter on Sunday. The , place where she struck is ::ot altogether a iccgh scot, sr.d it is :r.iraculati& th:tf the accSient .occurred there. Hug it ha;>-pene-i iurther south, ic : .s :;'.s;ost certain, that cone or. board wru-d lu'.ve bean ":-vsL The exact ex 52t cf tL-j .i>v;ga is not I aijsndiiible. Mr..h *?zn\>ziky is extended to Csptain An 'e- en rad his crew in their mi-forttme. Captains Ewan and I'rhe, in respjnse to a recjucsi. frcm the master ti the br.rque Alexandra, -xsnt down yc- te:da~ to iake a rcr.rirc r.t" the poviaa the vessel. Tfcer retrr:; to Westport tn-.h-y. The Collector of Cti-'fcaw h;'>: b«s:i last acterl by the D-.fartraest t-, lioK a preliminary inquiry.