SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 707, 25 September 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : Sept 25—8 a.m, wind N.E, light; weather clear, blue sky. Barometer, 30.24; thermometer 44. High Water : To-morrow (Tuesday)—Morning, 10.24; night, 10.50. ARRIVED. Sept 24 Blackwall, ketch, 26 tons, Watson, for Okain's Bay. Sept 25—Arawata, s.s, 623 tons, Underwood, from Wellington and Nelson. Passengers—From Coast—Saloon : Miss Davis, Messrs Ferguson, Beetham, Berrings, Raphael, Mason, Harper. Steerage :Mr J. Skinner, 22 for other ports. Sept 25—Wellington, s.s, 279 tons, Carey, from Southern Ports. Passengers—Saloon: Mr and Mrs Kiver, Captain Ayson. Steerage: Messrs Cumming, Hanill, Cassolly, McArtain, Perrett, Tondevold, Moore, 44 for South. CLEARED. Sept 25—Wellington, s.s., 279 tons, Carey, for Northern ports. Sept 25—Arawata, s.s., 623 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne, via South. Sept 25—Jannette, ketch, 41 tons, McDonald, for Heathcote River. Sept 25—Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, for Pigeon Bay. Sept 25—Catherine, ketch, 13 tons, Ware, for Okain's Bay. The s.s. Arawata arrived at 7 a.m. to-day, anb the Wellington at 8 a.m. The former sails South with outward Suez mail this evening; and the latter proceeds on her trip North. FOUNDEBING OF THE KETCH ELIZABETH ANN. We are sorry to have to record the loss of this useful little vessel, so wtll known in Lyttelton. As most of our nautical readers are aware, she was the property of Mr H. Hawkins, and 17 tons re--slster, and carried two men, one of whom, named ohnson, was in command. We are happy to state that neither of them were hurt. The news was brought to port by Mr Gardener, a fisherman, on Saturday evening. He reports that that same morning early, whilst lying in Little Akaloa Harbor, Messrs Kirk and Mcintosh, of Decanter Bay, hailed him from the shore, and told him the Elizabeth Ann had foundered off the Decanter Rocks, and that two men belonging to her were on the rocks. Kirk and Mcintosh then got into Gardener's boat, pulled round for Decanter Bay, and found the two men on the rocks, where tbey had been nearly all night. They landed them, and Mr Kirk took them up to his house, where every kindness was shown them. It appears that the Elizabeth Ann was lying in Decanter Bay on Friday, waiting to take in a cargo of posts and rails, when the S.W. gale sprang up, and at midnight the vessel commenced to drag, and shortly afterwards struck one of the rocks in the Bay, going down in about four fathoms of water. The crew scrambled on to one of the rocks, but were unable to reach the land, so had to remain exposed to the fury of the gale the whole night. They suffered severely from the cold, which was intense. Luckily one of Mr Kirk's boys, on going after the cows on Saturday morning, spied the castaways, and at once gave Information at the house, when Mr Kirk immediately proceeded to Little Akaloa, and obtained assistance as stated above. The men seem none the worse for their exposure.