SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3531, 22 June 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Auckland. — Arrived, 215t— 10.40 a.m. Taranaki, from Taranaki. Sailed, 21sfc— 9 a.m. Phoebe, for Taranaki. Thb Spit, Napier, — Arrived, 21st — 145 p.m., Rangatira, from Wollington. LTTTBITON. — Arrived, 20fch— 10 p.m., Wellington, from Wellington. Sailed, 20th — 6.50 i pm., Tararua, for Timaru ; 21st — 1.10 p.m., ] Wellington, for Dunedin. i Port Ohaimebs. — Arrived, 21st — Early, Maori, from Lyttelton. , Gbeymouth. — Sailed, 20fch — 10 a.m , Ken- j nedy, for Westport. Hokitika.— Sailed, 20th— 8 p.m., Waipara, for Martin's Bay.

A lady passenger who went home in a ship from Auckland, the captain of which was known for his religious enthusiasm, writes a very bitter letter to a friend, which is published in the Southern Cross recently. She says the captain was " religious to a satiety ; had so much conscience that he had no occasion fco care what he did ; nnd was such a teetotaller thafc wher. fcho women were in actual want of stimulants as medicine not a drop conld be had." After an allusion to the hypocrisy of his religion, tbe writer says t — " He proved the quality and genuinone3S of his conscientiousness by packing us like pigs — 21 eouls in a space 26 feet long by 9 feefc wide by 6 feet 7i inches deep in which we had to sleep and eat, and in wet weather to live together ; by never once venturing down the ladder to see whether we were alive or dead, or fed or Btarved ; by short-provisioning the ship, so that afc the end of 90 days we were nearly ■without flour, sugar, oatmeal, potatoes, salt pork, preserved meat, and biscuit, and had to be put on short allowance of flour and sugar till we met with a ship that supplied us with sugar." This is what the passenger says of " the good captain." We will not attempt to take the good captain's parfc, although we cannot refrain from saying that the actual complaints can be vory much narrowed. The passenger appears to have been one of the third claBS, and as such would know the space and provisions she might expect. Thefcwenfcyone souls may in reality have represented only a fourth that number of adults, for whioh the space would be more than adequate in a sailing ship. She also takes care to insert the word nearly when alluding to the scarcity of provisions after ninety days sailing. We perceive thafc " fche good ship" Beth Shan occupied 126 days on her last fcrip from Auckland. A stringent dockyard order has been issued by the Admiralty with reference fco the future survey and inspeotion of ships, and apportioning amongafc various officials the responsibility for the vessels being in ali respeots fit for the Service which they may be required to perform.