SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3901, 4 September 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

;oiqtL Wame it Port Nicholson To-Day. 0 " Morning, 12.47 ; evening, 1.32t jjf; " j-AB.BITED. $fi>" ■- x \> September. -" 3, Nil. '" SAILED. 3,-Manawatu, p.s, 103. tons, Griffiths, for .W.anganui. * ; .3; Napier, e.s, 44 tons, Doile, for Wanganui. # 3, Lytlelton, p.s., 86 tons, Scott, for Nelson. Passengers : Miss Oldham, Messrs Ray and Benjamin. EIPOETB. ,In the Lytteltbn, O. Hfartmann, agenfc — 4 cases, Benjamin ; 500 fire brick*, Mills ; 2 pkgs, Australian Mutual Provident Society ; 1 box, Telegraph Department ; 34 cases,' B bales. Hartmann. „ In the. Aspasia, Pearce, agent — A cargo of station etoreß. : , • ■ • . BXJJKOTKD ABBJVAIS. 4, Phosbe, from Picfcon, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau 4, Pater son, from the South 6, Manawatu, from Wanganui 6, Taranati, from Lyttelton and Port ChalBiers - ' 6, Wanganui, from Wanganui and Manuk&u 6, Albion, from Melbourne, via the South 10, Wellington, from the North BBOJJECTKD DBPARTI7BBB. 4,, Phcebe, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers 4, Manawatu, for Foxton 5, Paterson, for Napier, Tauranga, and Auckland 7, Wanganui, for .. Lyttelton and -Port Chalmers : -.6, Taranaki, for Manukau, Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton 6, Albion, for Melbourne, via the North 11, Wellington, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers According to a letter received from Captain Iflinn, it appears that he is not giving £70 or £80 for the run home. He says he has no difficulty in procuring men at the current rates, and that amongst the applicants are some of his old crew. We regret that we were erroneously .informed regarding this matter. The Napier and Manawatu, which had to .put back to the wharf owing to the heavy ' weather at the heads, sailed for their destinations yesterday afternoon. ' The ship Electra was brought up to the Wharf yesterday afternoon. She will be ready to discharge cargo in a day or two. Captain Saul, of the barque Catherine Jane (Victoria), has had his certificate, as exempt master, suspended for six months, for grounding on Point Cook. Portions of the ill-fated cutter Coquette, in which five lives were lost, have been found on the Ninety-mile Beach ; also portions of the wreck of a large vessel, supposed to be a brig or schooner. Last year the American whalers do not appear to have been more successful relatively than the Auokland Whaling Company's barque. The whole of their catchings for 1872 did not exoeed 45,479 barrels of sperm, 33,734 barrels whale oil, and 210,8761bs of bone. This is a great falling off from the average of former years. Captain Evans, in charge of the magnetic department of the Admiralty, who has rendered great service in connection with the uae of the compass dnring the transition stage between wood and iron ships, is to be made a C.B. The captain of the Ocean Bird ran his Teasel on a sand bank opposite Putiki while trying to get out of the way of the s.s. Rangatira, wbion. was coming up the river at the • time.— " Wanganui Herald." The barque Gemsbock was loading at New York when the mail left for Dunedin, Welling- ' - ton, and Auckland, and was advertised to sail on the 14th June. " Mitchell's , Maritime Register" gives an --account of the extraordinary sale of a ship and cargo. The wreck of the three-masted French vessel Emmanuel, lying stranded on the Horse Bans', at the mouth of the Ribble, was sold by auction at the wreck depot, Lytham The cargo (pitch) was first put up, and was eventually knocked down for 255. . ■ When. the vessel itself was offered, some per- ' Bon in the crowd made a bid of 10f, and the auctioneer, in disgust, begged for an offer of something more than that — say £30 ; but he j could not run the bidding higher than £2 sa, for which sum it was knocked down. The TMsel and cargo were thus disposed of for £3 10s. The salvage stores were afterwards sold. On the day after the Bale the buyer of the ship got out one of her masts, which alone was worth twice as nsuch as h*e had given for the vessel.