SHIPPING.

West Coast Times, Issue 93, 4 January 1866, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OK HOKITIKA.] HIUII-W.VTKIt. Thursday 1 ..." 11.48 a.m. ... 15.12 p.m. ' ' • Attuning January 3— Dancing Wave, Drown, from ©unedin. Fisher Bros. , pgonts. SXU.V.V. January 3 — Bruco, p.s., M'Neil, for Okirita. * OLKAUKI) VOIt SEA, January 3— Charlotte, for Felorus Sound. EKXKIIED IKWAUDS. . . " Gem, Dancing Wave. I'ROJKCTKI) HEPAIITVnES. Cullender, for Melbourne Colonist, for Sydney. Meteor, for Manukuu. lona, for Okarita. Dart, for Melbourne. Atlantic, for Sydney. Jane. Lockliart, for iSydney. VESSF.L3 IN POUT. Brig — Callendcr. Drigantines — Imbelln. Hector, Leonidas, Colonist, Dart. Jane Lockhart. Schooners— Dove, lona, Caroline, Meteor, Alma, Gem, Atlantic, Boscarn, Tiger, Mary Aune. Cutters— Charlotte, Star of Tasmania, Thames. Steamers— Ballarat, Yarro, Lioness, Kennedy. IMPORTS. The Dancing Wave : shippe I under bond : 30 hhds Iteer, Reeves and Co; 15 bn»s sugar, 20 cases genev.", Gumming and Pluinridgo ; 30 bags sugar, Hall and Finlay ; 2 cases tobacco, 1 qr ensk wine, Paterson ; 3 cases tobacco, Chesuey. Free and duty paid : 10 cases claret, 4 casks port, 3do peas, 174 bags flour, 5 chests tea, Pole and Co ; 1 case coffee, 2 do salmon, Paterson ; 1 case, 400 bngs flour, 32 do salt, 10 boxes pipes, 1 aiso tinware, 1 do drapery, 1 bale, Chesney ; 0 c'ises ironmongery, 4 kegs do, 1 bale camp ovens, Johnson ; 419 boards, 16 doois, 4 bundles, 14 shutters, S bundles, 1 box sundries, 4 bundles, 3 boxes, 1 case, 4 bundles wheelbarrows, 1 caso glass, 4 bundles, 94 sheets galvanised iron, 2 casks zinc, Gray ; 6 casks whiting ; Fish r.nd Co ; 4 cases glass, Harding ; 1 wharf dray, Lambton ; 201 bags flour, Gumming and Pluinridge ; 59 do do, Campbell and Linton ; 60 do do, 36 do oats, Boyle and Co ; 200 do flour, order ; 10 hhds ale, 15 barrels, 5 hhds' porter, Gregg and Co ; 5 bags oats, 2 ensc*. order ; 160 bags flour, 8 kegs butter, PWngle ; 70 bags flour, 9do peas, Anderson nndMoiuUt ; 7 bales corks, Mace and Dixon ; 1 crate bottles, Walker and Co.

Launch ov a Stkameii at Port Ciulsikhs, — On Dcoembor 21, a stoam vossoHVas lounchod at Port Oluilmors in tho presonco of n largo number of spectators. Sho is to be named tho Taiaroa, in oommomomtion " of tlio old Mnori chief of Otago. Sho is described as a handaomo vessel, and is constructed of wood, her timber being of Oregon pino, mid her decks of kauri, mid sho i 3 coppered and copper fastened. Sho will reooivo her engines and -outfit without delay, and will shortly be engaged in tho local trado.— Olugo Daily Times. Mr 0. E Price, shipwright, late of tho Royal Navy, now residing at Paterson's Inlet, Stewart's Island, lias complotcd tho requisite arrangements for tho construction of vessels, up to 1000 tons ; tho dopth of wntor alongeido the slips, 11 feet at low water, springs with 8 feet rise— permitting tho launch of ships of tho sizo wo havo-indicated. No is already engaged in building ono for Captain Proctor, of tho Boindcc, a craft specially adapted for tho Now Zealand coasting trade. Her dimensions aro 80ft. keol, 110 ft. over all, 22ft. boam, 6ft. Gin. depth of hold. It will thui bo seen that a light draught of water will be combined with largo carrying capacity — estimated iv this instanco at 220 tons burden. Captain Simpson, of the Storm Bird, has also, we understand, given instructions to Mr Prico to construct another vessol on tho ■amo lines; while a gentleman, who?o namo we have not ascertained lias ordered a cutter of 45 to 50 toii9. For tho framowork, rata or ironwood, as it is commonly called, is to bo t:scd. — O'ago Daily Times. Tho schoonor Dancing Wavojcft Otago Heads on tho 12th ultimo with strong S.W. breozes, wliieh tho next day fell light, and shifted into tho N.E. Up to the 20th, fine weather and light variable winds from south round by West to N.E. prevailed. On that day it blew up heavily from tho north, increasing in Bqualls— compelling her tho next day to bear up for Tory Ohannol, through which sho ran, and camo to in Dacro Buy. Horo sho remained until tho 25th, when, the weather moderating, sho again put to sea, arriving in our roadstead on tho 2nd instant, and was towed safely to tho wharf by tho Yorr%^ho day after. Tho Dancing Wavo, ono of tho Bmarto3t schooners that visit iw, lias thus nrndo tho vary long passage of twenty-one days from Dunedin, which iß°alone to bo attributed to tho exceedingly variable weather she has experienced, and her long detention in Dacro Bay. Sho brings a full general cargo to our port. Extbaoiidinary Fkat at Sea.— A remarkable exploit, exhibiting daring and presence of mind of no ordinary character, was performed recently on board tho ship Mindanao, homeward bound, from Inquiquo to this port. It appears that when tho ship was to tho south and eastward of Capo Horn, sho sprang a leak, and made to the extent pf six indies of water in an hour. Tho vessel was placed in considerable dangor, and it was only by constant pumping that tho leak could bo kept down. After tho pumping hud boon continued for about six weeks, tho vessel being then about two degrees north of tho equator, it was considered deßirablo to ascortain, if possible, tho position of tho leak. With this object, Mr William Howitt, tho chief officer, volunteered to go overboard and exaniino the vessel. Having dived into tho sea, ho looked along the hull of tho ship, and ultimately found that a water bolt on tho starboard side of tho upper rudder band had worked out, and this caused tho leak. On reaching tho surface, tho divor directed tho carpenter to nmko a stout wooden plu<», and having obtained it ho again dcscendcS. Having inserted the plug in tho bolt holo, whence tho leak originated, ho succeeded in striking it with lua hand, to fix it temporarily, and was obliged to como up immediately for respiration. A third time ho deßconclcd, taking with him a hummer, with which ho struck the plug, fixing it as firmly as circumstances would pormit. That his efforts wore successful wni proved by tho fact that tho leakago of tho ship consed, and sho made no more than the usual quantity of wator three-quar-ters of an inch, during tho remainder or the voyage Tho plug still remains in tho ship. The depth that ho reached in diving uudor thovosselwas about six or sovon feet, tho difficulty of tho owemtion boing increased by tho rising aud falling of the ship consequent on tho swell which prevailed at tho timo. Mr Howitt, is as may bo supposed, an excellent swimmer, and has boon instrumental in saving tho lives of several persons from drowning — r Liverpool Albion.