EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1997, 17 December 1863, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wonga Wonga, s.s., from Wanganui, Taranaki, Raglan and Manukau, 18th inst. Lord Ashley, s.s., from South, with English Mail, 21st Bangatira, s.s., from Napier and Auckland, 26th. Phoebe, s.s., Kennedy, from Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau on the 29th inst Star of the South, s.s., from the South Stuvt, p.s., from Picton and Nelson Dart, brig, from Sydney Bride, from Gravesend, 125 days out Wild Duck, ship, from London, 88 days out PROJECTED DEFARTUttES. Storm Bird, s.s., for Lyttelton and Otago, on the 20th December. Wonga Wonga, s.s., for Wanganui, Taranaki, Baglan, and Manukau, 20th Dec. Lord Ashley, s.s., for Napier and Auckland, 23rd Bangatira, s.s., for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, a»d Manukau, 29th Phoebe, s.s., for Canterbury, JOtago, and tha Bluff, on the 30th. Stnrt, p.s., for Wanganui and Nelson

The N.Z.S.N. s.s. Storm Bird left "Wellington on Saturday, Dec sth, at 8 pm, experienced light S.E. winds until 5 pm on Sunday; wind shifted to S.W., with heavy rain, and blew a very heavy gale. 4am Monday morning, gale continuing with heavy sea, bore up for Amurl Bluff ; at 8 am, dropped anchor in 7 J fathoms. On Tuesday at noon, wind moderating, left for Port Cooper ; at 7pm strong winds from S.E. with heavy rain ; arrived at Port Cooper at lam on Wednesday. Left same day at 3 pm, had light southerly winds, with heavy swell. Arrived at Otago on Friday at 1 am. Left Otago on Saturday at 4 am had fresh N.E. winds all the way, and arrived at Port Cooper on Sunday at 10 am. Left Port Cooper on Monday at 3 pm, had light winds and fair weather throughout, and arrived in Wellington at G pm. EJTho barque Albert William, from Otago, arrived in this harbor, yesterday morning. /She is a fine new iron built vessel, belonging to the Wmte Star Line of Packets, and has come on here to lohUjwool for the London_Market. She is consigned to Mesjfe Johnston & Co., and we understand that there are 4QJ» ton^ of cargo already engaged to be shipped by this veirael. The Magna Bona. — This ship, with fifty-five passengers and a large general cargo for this port, arrived on November 21, after having occupied 109 dayß from land to land. She left the docks on the 29th July, discharged her pilot off Dover, on the Ist August, sighted the Lizard point on the 3rd, and was off Madeira ou the 19th. Had remarkably fine weather, and but little wind as far as the Cape, having been, at times, becalmed for days. The run from the Cape here was a remarkably quick one, and was done in half the time that was occupied between England and the Cape. The first land sighted in New Zealand was the Saddle Hill, that was seen oa the 20th November, at 10 am, the Magna Bona then- fetched Separation Point by Bix o'clock in the evening, lay to till the morning of the 21st, and then ran down to our harbour. The Magna Bona, which is eight years old, was built as an Australian liner, and is 1000 tons burden. The Chill, antfron clipper vessel bound to Otago, was frequently sighted by the Magna Bona. On the 3rd August, the latter hove to for the purpose of permitting the Chili to come up, they then kept in company for several days ; sighted each other again on the 30th August, and kept pretty much in company till the 3rd September. On the sth November, Mrs Bradshaw, a steerage passenger, was confined of a boy, who was subsequently christened Magna Bona Bradshaw. The carpenter made the little stranger a cradle, on which his name was painted, and a subscription was raised for him among those on board, while Captain Tysou very considerately gave up a chief cabin for the use of Mrs Bradshaw. — Nelson Examiner. The Napiek — This new iron vessel of 571 tons, commanded by Captain Petherbridge, was built by Pile, Speuce, & Co, of West Hartlepool, for Messrs Shaw, Saville, & Co, and Messrs Park Brothers, expressly for the New Zealand trade. Her model, her fittings, everything in fact, connected with her, betoken the great care to make her one of the fastest vessels in that trade. Her length, from figure head to taffrail, is 185 feet ; breadth, 27 feet 6 inches ; depth of hold, 17 feet 3 baches. She left the Downs on the 10th of September last, and was clear of the English Channel on the 14th. Favourable weather was enjoyed during the voyage, with the exception of one cyclone encountered to the westward of the meridian of Cape Levin, but In that the ship behaved admirably. Cape Farewell was sighted on the evening of Sunday, the 6th inst, and the Napier anchored in our harbour at noon of the Bth.— lbid. \ The Cashmere. — This vessel, which left Nelson on the morning of November 29, for New Plymouth, arrived there on Tuesday December 1. On Friday the 4th, she i had to put to sea, and did not return to her anchorage until Sunday, December 6. On Tuesday, the Bth, having discharged her cargo, and taken on board 28 bales of. I wool for London, she again put to sea on her return to Nelson, it then blowing strongly from the S. W. On Wednesday, December 9, at 2.15, am, while the jib was being stowed, the foot rope parted, and Thomas Lang Harry fell into the sea. The night was very dark, and a heavy sea was running, the life boat was lowered almost to the water's edge, but all entreaties failed to procure a crew for it ; the only persons who volunteered their services being Mr Berriman, second mate, and Edward Buckingham, A.B. After waiting for twenty-five minutes, and beI ing unable to induce a crew to leave the vessel in the life I boat, and the life boat having been stove in, consequent on beating against the side of the vessel, Captain Barnett reluctantly continued his course for Nelson, where he arrived on Friday afternoon, December 11. The brother of the man thus unfortunately drowned was lost from the Edward Thornhill, on her recent voyage from England to Nelson, he having fallen overboard. They were 8901} ftf ft Wcsleyftft MiaiSt^i At St lY?B.w#i*

IMPOBTANT to Makiners. — Cafrtain Labaste of the French Whaling ship Winstow, now lyiug in Akaroa, reports the discovery of a shoal having 7 fathoms of water on it in lat 24 deg, long 160 deg 15 sees, one having only 4 fathoms of water in lat 20 deg 44 sees, long 168 deg 43 sees ; one having 5 fathoms in lat 10 dsg 15 sees, long 108 deg 43 sees ; and another of great extent in lat 19 deg 15 sees, j long 158 deg 52 seca, with from 5 to 10 fathoms of I water. Breakers were discovered in lat 19 deg 28 sees, ' long 159 deg 38 sees. A reef 12 miles in extent, running N.N.E. and S.S.W., south end in lat 19 deg 28 sees, long 158 deg 50 sees. An island 45 feet in height, lat 19 deg 16 sees, long 158 deg 53 sees: N.E. end of Bampton shoal, lat 19 deg 3 sees, long 159 deg. A Bmall island with bushes on it. The whole of the above latitudes are south and longitudes Vfesk—Lyttelton Times. Triß Ship Buother's Pride. — On Tuesday last we briefly noticed the arrival of this vessel at the heads, and although we possessed the information since proved to be too true respecting the amount of sickness on hoard, for the sake of the friends on shore we refrained from publishing the melancholy intelligence that 44 deaths had occurred during the passage. We hear that Captain Sproul on board the vessel, was refused the charge of the ship, and the offer of the pilot to place his boat and crew at the service of the ship to obtain fresh supplies for the sick children was also refused. On Tuesday evening the anchor was raised, and sail made before half a gale of wind blowing from the S.W., and at daylight next moming the vessel was out of sight She returned yesterday morning when off Camp Bay, and was immediately ordered to hoist the Yellow Jack. This peremptory order of the Health Commissioner not appearing to suit this cavalier officer, in two or three hours the anchor was again up, and with the assistance of the light breeze from N.E., the Brother's Pride was brought up just astern of the. Lancashire Witch. We presume the authorities will not permit their orders to be set at defiance, and the law treated with oontempt. — Ibid. The letters received by last mail by the Steam Navigation Company, from their agent in Glasgow, contains the intelligence that their two steamers now building were being proceeded with in a satisfactoryjmanner, and with the chance of being soon completed.— OJasro Daily Times. It was expected, when the last English mail left, that the steamer Volunteer, a vessel of upwards 700 tons, specially adapted for the cattle trade, would be purchased by an Otago firm, with the intention of being despatched to New Zealand, to be employed in the intercolonial stock traffic.— lbid. In some of the home papers it appears that the iron ship Storm Cloud, which made two trips to Otago last year, one from Glasgow the other from Melbourne, is supposed to have foundered at sea in some part of the Indian Ocean with all hands. Captain Adams is understood to have previously proceeded home. — Ibid. A Brisbane telegram reports :— The captain and crew of the American whaler Hope hare arrived here in boats. The ship was wrecked on Brampton shoal on the 17th of October. They report the loss of the Sporting Lass on the same shoal. The crew left in company, but parted on Thurday last Supposed to have gone towards Sydney. — Ibid. The Lady Jocelyn, now on her way from Calcutta to this port, with that splendid corps the 43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry, is an auxiliary screw steamer, of 1,692 tons register, 350-horse power, belonging to London. A s she is reported to have sailed three days previously to the Himalaya, her arrival may be shortly anticipated.— N.Z. Herald. Wreck of the Jeavnie Deans.— The following narrative of a disastrous voyage and narrow escape from shipwreck in the flr3t instance , and starvation in the second, has been transmitted to us (Rockhampton Bulletin), by one of the sufferers :— The Jeannie Deans, schooner, Brace, master, the property of Mr Underwood, Aniteum, left that island bound for Torres Straits, in search for beche-le-mer on December sth, touched at Tana, Sandwich, and Mare, and arrived at the Capricorn Group on the 30th of the same month. Thence Bhe proceeded northwards, surveying the various]reefs on the route, until she arrived at Cape Grafton, when Captain Edwards, in the Woodlark, was spoken with, bound south. Not finding any inducement to remain, the voyage was proceeded with, and having searched the various reefs as far as Endeavour Straits without success, on the sth February the vessel set sail on i her return. Nothing particular occurred until in a heavy hurricane, on the 3rd of April the vessel was placed in imminent danger, having lost all her sails. As a last resource to prevent her drifting on shore, both anchors were | let go, and fortunately held ; one anchor and chain were 1 lost during the following night; but the.weather moderating, we were enabled to repair damages, and continued to beat towards the south against a strong south-easter and northerly current. The weather again becoming threatening we anchored under the lee of one of the Bernard Group, having vainly attempted to reach Dunk Island. Ihe weather stiil getting worse, and the anchor dragging we determined to run back to Fitzroy Island, which was accordingly done, and there took in ballast, firewood and water, waiting until the breeze moderated. However, on the morning of the 14th, the gale increased to a regular hurricane, and having dragged from under the lee of the island, to prevent the vessel being swamped slipped our remaining anchor, and run on the reef surrounding Green Island. Immediately on the vessel striking, the maintopmast went over the side, and boats with everything on deck washod overboard. After great difficulty we managed to scramble over the reef on the island, and landed, naked and bleeding, but thankful to Providence for the unexpected preservation of our lives. The next day we were enabled to secure a few casks of rice which were floating about, but nothing else, the vessel having rapidly broken up. The rice was saturated with salt water, but having been washed in the rain, which continued to pour in torrents, it served as a means of subsistence. The island is small, and afforded nothing in the shape of food except ehell-flsh ; water was obtained by scraping a hole hole in the sand. On May 4th a steamer waa obsei-ved, and signals having been made, a boat was sent on shore ; He appeared to commiserate our condition, and promised to send ub on shore supplies of clothing, food, and ammunition. The boat then left us, and arriving alongside the steamer, she was hoisted on board, the vessel wore round, the courses let fall, the studding sails set, and away she went, leaving us in a state bordering on despair. On May 14th, a vessel was observed on a reef about seven miles to the eastward, and in the course of the forenoon, a boat, evidently from the wreck, came close to the island. We made signals and ran down to welcome them on the beach, but it appears we were taken for natives, and the boat went away without commnnieating with us. The weather continuing boisterous, we finished a canoe, on which we had been labouring for some time ; and on the first flue day went off to the vessel, which proved to be the Antagonist from Sydney, bound to India with horses, five of which had died previous to our going off. The hay on boardjhad taken fire through spontaneous combustion, but this was soon extinguished, and the remainder thrown overboard. Provisions in abundance were obtained, and all fear of death from starvation were put an end to. About a month afterwards Captain Edwards touched with the Woodlark on the island, from whom we received every assistance until the arrival of the Uncle Tom, Captain Leonard, from Sydney, with stores for Captain Edwards. Wo aaked a passage to Sydney by him, but he refused without a guarantee for the passage money ; but aftei 1 a conference with Captain Edwards, he agreed to allow us to work our passage to Port Danison, stating that ho would run the risk of offending his owners, Messrs Towns & Co, to that extent After a pleasant run of threo days, we arrived there on the 21st October, the master proceeding to Sydney, and Captain Champion, of the steamer Samson, with his usual kindness, offering a passage to the others to Kockhampton. Thus terminated a voyage disastrous throughout, and where for a time the lives of all were placed in imminent jeopardy, more particularly through the inhumanity of a commander in one of Her Majesty's vessels. The European Timas has the following paragraph relative to the missing ship Lord Raglan :— The ship Lord Baglan, one of the splendid fleet of emigrant ships belonging to Messrs Wilson & Co, sailed from the Mersey on the 26th of February last, with above 300 . passengers. On the 23rd March she was in lat 2 N long 22 W and from that period to the present nothing has been heard of her. When the last mail left Australia, the Lord Baglan had been out 107 days. The following telegram was posted in the Liverpool Underwriters' Booms a few days since: — "Tbe captain of the ship Imperatrice Eugenic, arrived in London from Natal, reports seeing a large ship on fire, burnt to the water's edge, on the 26th and 27th of March, in lat 1 N, 26 W. The captain endeavored to reach the burning vessel, and if possible to render asgistance, but he was unable to do so owing to calms." The position of the burning wreck and that which the Lord Eaglan would have occupied some two or three days after Bhe was sighted, are sufficiently near to suggest grave fears for the safety of the missing vessel. The Ocean Mail, a fourteen years' classed ship at Lloyd's 800 tons register, commanded by Captain Liuklater, has been lost in the China seas. She was bound to England from Shanghai with a valuable cargo of teas and silk, roughly valued at £100,000, appears to have foundered six miles off the entrance of the river Woosnng. No mention is made of the crew. The ship and cargo are stated to be insured in London and China. The Alabama off the English Coast.— The captain of the Express (American), fromCallao for Antwerp, reports his vessel was destroyed in the Channel by the Confederate steamer Alabama. The Anna F. Schmidt, from Boston for San Francisco, was also burnt by the Alabama. The crews of both vessels have arrived in London. The blockading squadron has dostroyed the British steamer Hebe, off New Inlet Two blockade runnera entered Charleston on the 23rd Aug ust.