SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUN-SET ! This evening, 7.1 BTTNVRISE: To morrow naomlnj?, 5.29 HIGH WATER : This evening, 11.48 ; to-momra morning, 12.

ARRIVALS

Prima Donna, schooner, from Lyttelton Bella Mary, barque, from Hobart Town Alarm, cutter, from Wangarei

DEPARTURES.

Southern Cross, s s , for Tauranga

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

' Chile, ship, for London, early Clio, ketch, for Wangapoa Victoria, s s., from Sydney, Monday Taranaki, s.s., for Southern ports, Monday

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Alice Cameron, barque, from Sydney Anazi, barque, from London. Sailed October 81 Empreza, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed October 15 Hylton Castle, barque, from London. Excelsior, schooner, from Dunedin Queen of the Age, ship, from London Sailed Nov. 15 Queen.pf the South, barque, from Dunedin, early Ziqr, schooner, from Wellington. Sailed Feb 2

** The barque Mary arrived from Hobart Town on: Sunday afternoon, bringing several passengers and a cargo of fruits, jams, timber," &C.1 ■ Captain" Me Arthur re ports of the passage, aa follows:—Left Hobart Town on Thursday, the 15th ult., and had light easterly and S.E. winds for thej first part of the passage. The North Ci-pe Was rounded on Wednesday last. Down the- coast N.E. and E. winds prevailed. In consequence of the thick, dirty weather, was nove-to foi' six hours off Cape Brett on Sun day morning last. At daylight bore away again- for Captain McArthur re ports not having felt anything of the N.E. g'ale.~J : :

The f chooner Prima Donna, from Lyttel ton, arrived in harbour on Saturday after noon. Captain Norris reports leaving that port on the 29th ultimo. Had light airs and calma till Monday last. Rounded the East Cape on -Monday; thence light winds till arrival. , ... ~ . ,

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs/ Cochrane and Son sold to-day at their Fort-street Land Mart, in the estate of the late Mr J. M. Matthew, two allotments below corner of Napier-street, at 18s per foot ; .and the north-western portion of allot ment 68, parish of Waitakerei, containing 167 acres, at 2s 3d per acre. Also, in the estate of Richard Kelly, of Onehunga, that parcel of land containing 50 acres, situated in Pirongia, county of Rutland, being lot No. 221,^at &3 Gd.per acre ; and one acre of land, in Mangapiko, town of East Alexandra, i6r-£4!l2s 6d. The sale of the Hibernian Hotel, , r Coromandel, was withdrawn.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mjuxa will Close as Under :— For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p m, and to-morrow, at 10.30 a m For Coromandel, to-morrow, at 10.30 a m For the .undermentioned places, per Victoria, to morrow, as follows: — For India, China, Mediterranean Ports, and Continent of Europe, at noon. For the Australian Colonies, at 1 p m. For United Kingdom, via Suez and Southampton (for letters specially addressed), at 1 pm. For the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, and late letters for Sydney and Melbourne, at 1.30 p m For money orders, registered letters, and news papers, at 11 a m For New Plymouth, via Waitara, ,per Go-ahead, to-movrow, at 1 p m For the undermentioned places, per s.s. Mikado, on Monday, 16th instant, as under :— For Fiji.Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies, at 10.30 a.m. For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco, at 10.30 a.m. Letters bearinglate fee will be received until 11 a.m For money orders, registered letters, ana news papers, at 9.30 a.m. Postal Guides can now be obtained at this office Price, Bd. NB. —Post-offices have been opened at Cape Settlement and Queen's Eedoubt.

(Signed)

S. B. Bias. Chief Postmaster.

BIRTHS.

McComish —On February -7, at her residence Sjmonds-street, the wife of Bandmaster McComish of a son. Leahy— On Febiuary 7, it her residence, Hobsori street, Mrs George Leahy, of a son.

DEATH.

Eaynkr— On February 9, at the Provincial Hospital, Dr WJ'liam Payner; e ged 51 years. The funeral will leave the Pro\incial Hospital to-moix-ow (Tuesday) afternoon, at 3p.m.

The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1874.

For the cause that Is-sks assistance,' For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance, i And *•*>« cfiod that we can do

Any movement directed against the rotten vessels which are now permitted, to trade on our coast will no doubt receive strenuous opposition. These floating coffins have

owners, some of them men possessing in fluence in their way, and we may depend ■that they will not submit without a struggle to any measure' which must result in the condemnation of their property. This was the experience of Mr. Samuel Plimsoll in England, and it will, doubtless, be; the same in New Zealand. But attention to this important matter can no longer be deferred. Life and property are daily jeopardised by the greedy and unprincipled conduct of persons owning-yesselH^which, are rotten from stem to stern and utterly worthless, or which, while urgently requiring repair,; are per mitted to go voyage aftar voyage without a shilling, being spent to make them sea-

worthy. Those who have read Mr Plimsolls appeal on behalf of our seamen must have been struck with the applicability of numer ous passages in it to the shipping of this colony. We have before spoken of the rot' ten, jjtate of many vessels trading on the i coast,, and to the absence of any inspection, classification, or other precaution calculated to save life and property from being unsus pectingly - "exposed to serious danger! There is however another development of recklessness which those acquainted' with Bhipping are thoroughly familiar with— namely, overloading., Some of the vessels trading with Russell we may particularly instance as frequently coming into port so deeply laden as to .be quite unfit to encounter a gale and heayy sea. We might instance craft by name which have-entered and left this port with heavy a^id unsafe deck cargoes, but our object is to I rcall, attention to the general principle rather thf,n to individual instances, and it is sufficient t<) state r that overloading is by no means'an ■uhfrequent occurrence. Mr. Plimsoll lays y^ry great stress on the danger1 of overload ing. He says : " The Board of Trade's evi dence shbwS conclusively that more than half our losses are owing to unseaworthy and overladen vessels of the collier class ; but ther,e are.other ships beside; colljer;ships which are unseaworthy, and overloading is fiidt a practice confined^to .colliers. Com- SpUlsory survey, then, and prevention of over loading applied to ;all me.rch.ant ship£>would result in the saving of all. those lives .which are lost from those causes in the rest of the merchant navy." In the case of NewZealaM 'builtf vessels much >of the premature'decAy maybe ■directly traced: to a total .'wahp-,gf, at|;ention to the cutting of timber" at the prpper season. (Wood which was cut: when the sap was in.fullflpw is often' employed in the construction of vessels at some of our building yards,,andra ,very few years'expo sure is sufficient to rot this wood'through. Several vessels in Auckland illustrate (this" truth in! a jWay,. some of' \ their ;pl£Jnkihg,jbeing :j as soundj /as it.-was when first sawn, while other parts are- thoroughly* rotiteu. It must, therefore,' ultimately be; to" the interests of owners if a rigid inspec tion of vessels while on. the "stocks were made ; protection against careless builders being almost as much required as are precautions against the evils -chargeable on owpers. Until the Government take action in jthe matter no one having dealings, with \tjhe building yards should neglect to take advantage of the excellent "provisions of the "German and International Society for the Classification of Ships, "an agency of which, as we stated in a previous article, has been established in Auckland-.-' '

We find thatanapology is due to the "Cross," and wel therefore lose no time in making one as ample as possible. We stated on Saturday that the argumentsjiped' bjj'a Writer in that journal relative 'to|lne wateiv supply- were so manifestly^ahsurdAhat they must have'been <^f^v''^ J'tne wilful intention of kdfeceivffig \ th^tSq;. one with"'a grain of .common sense coxiXd;.conscientiously believe them. It is for*tins we have to apologise. .Our contemporary Xto-day makes such a heart-rending appeal that we cannot but [idr^ve him, and believe his position is more ,$& be pitied than - blamed ; if nature has '^3©r|im 4 so, me cannot fairly find fault with^^s incapacity to underatand what is self-evident to .any one else. In to-day's issue the writer,i:n;the "Cross" confesses his inability to see fhe fallacy of his arguments on capitalised working expenses; He, how ever, sees it so^far.that he .does not repeat the .«^odge,. l p| doutfing the conjp^nsatipn by accepting.alliMry'rMoriarity allQ^ s and then ad4-Pg on Councillor Hurst's a^rd estimate. mi v •-I ,a&;,ia& mni',l ■" . ■

The chief gi€ahd on which we took exception i to the " Cross's " style of capitalising interest ! hitherto was its application of the system to the working expenses of the Western Springs scheme, and its omission from the Nihotupu estimates. This -was pal pably unfair. If the "Cross" had merely capitalised the difference between the working expenses of the Nihotupu and the Waitakerei schemes in order to show their relative cost we should not have taken such special exception to the reasoning, although, as we shall presently show, working, expenses can in no case be taken as actual capital. In the first place there is all the difference between capital expended and working expenses that there t is between money actually spent and what may possibly be spent in a long series of years, which our contemporary, in order to sustain his argu argument, must prove to be one and the same thing. Admitting the "Cross's" premises that the expenditure of £3,G39 " will be an outlay that cannot be estimated at less than twenty years'purchase," it must benoted that under the " Cross' 5 system of capitalising the whole of the £3,039 working expenses of the Western Springs, water supply is made to take the place of interest on a capital large enough to require an annual payment of £3,639, or £72,000. What then, we would 'ask, is to get rid of this liability of £72,000 at the end of the twenty years : from the working expenses no contingent liability is created ; can this be said of the expenditure of borrowed capital. But we can best illustrate the true position of the question by taking the illustration so unfor tunately furnished by our contemporary to day, follows :— .

To prove our position we take an illustration. A person, let U3 sayj lias landed property within the city worth-we shaJl say L 2.000, as representing the mere value of the ground, lie borrows L 2,000 more, Bay at five per cent., to erect bu'ldings thereon. The interest of the borrowed money is LIOJ per annum. That, capitalised at twenty years' purchase, gives the 1,2,000 borrowed money, malrng the abso lute capital invested amount to at least L 4.000.

Really, coming from one who speaks about the Mayor arguing "with a strange lack of logical accuracy," the above is a rich joke. What has become of the fourth form boy, made so much of by the " Cross " a little while ago, as a reviser of figures ? Surely he would have been able to point out that the sum should stand thus if it can be employed ab all : —Actual capital invested, (in land), £2000 ; in cash £2000, making a total of £4000 without capitalised interest, which, accepting our contemporary's es timate :of live pet cent, simple interest, would make the total £0000, and at compound interest very much more. If, however, the . illustration is .to be fairly stated./: as ' bearing on this: case'" it shou'd be put thus :—After spending £4000 forcity property with the view, say*' of carrying on a grocery business, our supposed owner finds that'ho will have to pay. £500 per annum working expenses in salaries of assistants. XT Seeing this,' he at once capital ises the whole amount for twenty years, and informs his-jfriends that he has invested £14,000 capital'in his" business' (omitting altogether the " Cross's" capitalised interest of £2000 on the money borrowed.) Need we say one word more to expose the fallacy of the'gfWer^a" 1 <%'lbgicW Sccuf acy*-" < A'dlie allowance for thfe difference in the working expenses of the rival water schemes must undoubtedly be made, but not after the "Cross's" fashion of capitalising..,:.!

An interesting cricket match was com menced'a^O'nehunga on Saturday between eleven of "Rice's colts" and an equal num ber of " T,om:Hamer's ,pups." ThY/former drove down in high feather, expecting an easy; victory:; and altogether -bore" the appear --' ance of " well-bred colts," though some showed signs of age. " The pupa," though small, proved their g00d... breeding, and showed that they were of the real bull-dog breed, and so far as cricket-bats were con cerned" could hold on to what they seized, for notwithstanding the, rain they succeeded in scoring 77 runs' in'spite of the scientific bowling of Philson and Connell. The "Jcolts then went to the'wickets, and after having^ four jvickets , lowered,, fsr,, -ten runs I (moat ?6f winch were' byes) declared' tliat the weather was against them, and therefore drew the stumps soon after four o'clock. During the match tjb,e .^rig.out" of some of the colts caused much1 'amusement, more especially that one elderly gentleman who appeared in a high '—bell-topper " and a long clerical coat down to his heels, which materially, affected ihis apeact hunting? It is to be hoped that the match ;w]jll be played out on a future occasion, when we anticipate an easy victory for "Tom Hamer's pups."

• The Auckland shipwrights,, met on Satur day evening*1 at the'Eagle'Hotel, Albert- Btreet, when Mr Ramsey was called to the chair. Th"6'imeetihg; #as very well attended and it was reported to the satisfaction of the men that, the 'le'mployersl had agreed to the terms demanded, namely, eleven shillings a day for^new work, and-twelve1 shillings for old. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the meeting to- a close.

We noticed by a recent .Queensland paper that a considerable ■number l! of small settlers ;in the Wide Bay district contemplate immi grating to the Province of Canterbury in 'March next. At public, meeting held to tbe matter^a letter^from1 a Canterbury farmer, setting forth, the excellence of the climate of K"ew Zealand,1 especially that of the Southern Island, was read, and the Chairman observed that it would be well if more of, the Queensland farmers would make up jfclleir minds to 'settle in New Zealand j which appeared to him to be the most ,/jproa -p'^rpus colony in the ' Southern hemisphere.' (uHTjhe pleasing art of the photographer has neatly rjeachec^perfection, and photographic pictures and portraits grace every city of importance in the world... There is scarcely a hbme, from the cottage to the palace* with outj itJ3 photographic album.- with its red dr green [ bindingf, containing a series of life-like portraits, riot perhaps'of persons eminent'in anyi .special walk of life, but nevertheT less' dear to the' hearts of the household, and .each associated .with1, .some: unwritten history. Most pleasant is it when far j away from-the old home to open^ the dainty volume and glance at familiar faces qf other-y£ars. -The art 'of photography,1 tn'ere-^ fore, has its interesting. uses,;, it ,assists memory, and keep's'- friendship 'alive 'in the heart, and aids in detecting others who may have deviated from the paths of virtue. Photography attracts the' attention of pedes trians along oixr public streets, occupies large spaces, and is an established feature of. Our every day life. ' We become aware-of these facts as we traverse the thoroughfares of Auckland, and whether or not photo graphy be a profitable business it is amply represented in this city by numerous skilled, artists. We ;have: looked through the; rooms of most of our photographers, Messrs Red fern, Clarke, Cater and Bartlett, and must i confess that generally speaking their art pro ductions possess great merit. On Saturday our attention was drawn to a number of photographic views of the Hot Springs, local scenery, and sketches of Auckland in the shop of Mrs Pulman, Shortland-street, most faith fully executed ; also, pictures of the public works at Britomart,, Government Hous^ the Supreme Court; Parn'ell, and other suburban scenes, which are well worthy a visit from , lovers of the beautiful, and picturesque,

The monthly inspection of the Artillery Volunteers will take place to-morrow even ing at the usual place and hour, under Cap tain E. H. Featon. Members are requested to aitend in full uniform.

Messrs Samuel Cochrane and Son announce a large book sale to-morrow at eleven o'clock, consisting of 500 volumes of various kinds of literature.

A grand concert will be given to-morrow evening in the Otahuhu Public Hall, for the purpose Of raising funds for the shingling of the Catholic Church of that district.

Mr Henry Hardington, of the Bazaar, Queen-street,: Auckland, is about to retire from the coaching and omnibus business and identify himself with the Licensed Victuallers' trade. Henceforth he will be "mine host" of the Manukau Hotel, Onehunga. The sale of the coaching plant will shortly be held, of which due notice will be given.

A stack of hay valued at £20, the property of Mr Morgan, and situated on land oppo site the Captain Cook hotel, Kyber Pass Road, was burnt to the ground about five o'clock this morning. The origin of the fire is unknown.

Owing to the inclement state of the weather yesterday it was deemed necessary to postpone the anniversary services iv con nection with the Px'esbyterian Sabbath-school of St. James', Wellington-street, until next Sunday. We regret to hear that the directors of the North Shore Ferry Company are unable to charter any steamer to supply the present service. The company have sustained great and severe damage during the gale, have taken immediate steps to repair steam ers. Carpenters were busy this morning in repairing the p.s. Takapuna and hope have her on the service in a few days. A temporary service has been provided for Woodside.

A serious accident occurred at the Auck land hotel a few minutes past eleven on Saturday night. Mr. James Collins, chief sseward of the Hindostan, and Mr. James Donovan, steward of the s.s. Taranaki, were coming out of the back door of the hotel when they fell over the balcony, a distance of twelve feet, olle stumbling and carrying the other with him. Donovan was picked up in an insensible state, with two deep cuts in the forehead. He was con veyed to the hospital where he still lit b unoonseious. Collins sustained a fracture of the arm. 'ihe limb was set by Dr. Hooper, and he is progressing favourable. Xhe men were not skylarking as stated in a morning contemporary. ...S.'. •As some anxiety has been expressed about the safety of the yacht Daphne, we may men tion that the vessel in question reached Auckland in safety with all on board well at one~p.ni. yesterday* ' ! Mr John Latnb has inaugurated a " Good iTeinplar Lodge" at Riverliead, called the "Abernethy Lodge," and !Jon Friday last it. was. duly opened/with music, recitations, and a few songs, and a pleasant evening was spent-. ; : I . ' -■• The Rev. D>. Waliia last evening preached almost able and discourse on" "the Perpetuity of the" Sabbatic Institution and the change-of the Sayl, Be occupied over ai hour in fully arguing the subject from every point of view, anil"5 hit reasoning was^close and logical throu>»houf7 sp much so. that we feel utterly unable to#educethe many points into a brief enough jfan t pasa fprj publication in our columns. ' "NoM^e sentence Qould be omitted without injuring the c6mpleteness of the reasoning v We, refrain,'therefore, from endeavouring if* report lit in' the-hope that the discourse will be: published dn pamphlet form. LaSt Monday the Cross, under the head of " Oiir Church-goer," pub lished a miserable repprtr—professing to, give the substance of a sermon, on the jadgnients of, God on Sabbath|brea&t|rs., ■We do not remember ever having seen anything called a report so oompletely destitute of any similitude to the address reported. Who our contemporary's '' Church Goer" is we have not the slightest conception, but he evidently lacks .common^ sense, no less than phono graphic skill. We should not have alluded to| this subject but for the fact that we,, notice our contemporary, the Thames Ad vertiser, , accepting the Cross's report, as correct, very unfairly criticises Dr Wallis's supposed opinions. Mj Edger seems to have fallen into,the. same,trap. Really a speaker is to be pitied who is placed,at the mercy of such: a scribe as the author of the production in question. Any,man holding the opinions which he places in^Dr'Wallis's mouth ought to be consigned; tq ran asylum for imbeciles as \ early as {[possible to keep him out of further mischief. We trust the Advertiser will.set its readersitight on the subject j.that journal can of course scarcely be blamed for accepting as 'correct a report 3, appjear^ng in;.a .ne^rspa^r;^ which has \ usually been conspicuQusfclfor the accuracy: "ot its reports.; We thaifeithe Cross would^tily be acting with ju|Bce by making1' similar amends, as it has^u)idoubfcedly done the "rev. speaker a greviojttSfwrong. ; j j [j[ •; /

THE GALE.

LOiSS OF LIFE^D'CJBEAT DESTRUC TION OF PROPERTY.

It js.nqw two yeajs since Auckland has been visjtediwith such hurricane as visited'the town rsfn&harbour on Saturday a little before midnight._ A sudden change in the-weather had r6ccqrred at three o'clock in the! afternoon,'at wHich hour"the sky became .cloudy, and severSl: rather heavy showers fell; accompanied^.-gusty squalls of windij (The wind ■ ,wa3 Jeering at ; the time be tween S.E. and S.W.,i"settling by seven or half-past seven* into qa steady south-west gale. In this quarter it continued gradually in creasing in force up to half-past nine o'clock, when it.'lulled ' for^ a moment, and then came down with intensified violence from exaptly the ,\ opposite direction—namely, north-east. The change produced an extraordinary. and most alarming effect in the] harbour. The shipping, which had been mostly under shelter while the wind blew from tjbi south, was now fully ex (posed to the fury ofthe blast, and disastrous r results followed too quickly for any remedial '"rdeasurea -to3 be taOteJni The whole "of the acciden'ta to which" ye shall presently allude in detail took plaisje within the two hours betj^eon half-past t||n and one o'clock. We believe we are < corDßot in Btating that never before in the history of Auckland has so much damage" been inflicted by the wind alone in ; such = a.shcirt space of time. It is supposed by scientificinen that th c hurricane of the night beforelastjitbgetherwiththatofMon dayimorning, which involved the destruction ,of the ilWateidrpgCtfter iFlora McDonald were1" traye.|ling cyclones, r detache,d portions, so to •speak, of the 'regular? monsppns which an nually ivisit the lo^latitudes at this period of t^ie year. ,-Tfi.eresla evidence to hand at any ..-Kite that sSyeilal parts of the Austra lian] colonies, not to mention the islands of the South Pacinc7"where such visitations are comparatively common, have been lately the scenes of storma of %"ind, accompanied by a similar shifting of direotion. When daylight broT4e;on> Sunday morning ;it was pitiful to gaze upon.the work..of destruction perpe trated in the neighbourhood/ of the Queen-' street wharf. Nearlj^Mrty vessels, of,, 4 . ferent sizes— from the skip of oloee upoa

1,000 tons to the tiny yacht of one ton were seen lying round in various stages of dilapidation. For was the damage confined to vessels alone. The wharf in many places showed signs of violent collision between it and drifting cutters and other craft. The. watermen's steps, on the eastern side of the wharf, were not to be seen. The steps uspd for access to the North Shore ferry steamers were also numbered with the things that had been. Here and there brolcen piles and bruised planking told of a shock sustained from a floating wreck, and generally a mast projecting above the surface of the water at a few yards distance spoke more graphically "than words can express the fate of the unconscious aggressor. The booking office on the A. S.P. Go's T had its entire front destroyed and its roofing damaged ; while the shed marked C, adjoin ing Messrs Elliott and Anderson's store, was propped up by beams of wood to prevent it coming to the ground. Nor did the wharf afford the only scene of destruction. At the Breakwater tbe surface of the harbour was dotted with driftwood and debris of boats which had succumbed to the fury of the storm. Mr JTilrlitch, the bath-keeper, bad two boats smashed up in addition to a yacht breaking nway and coming to grief at the Queen-street. wharf. At midnight Hilditch and his wife and family removed from their residence at the baths, and shifted their movables into the boat-shed belonging to the Auckland Rowing Club, all being under the impression that the piles of the bath would."give way to the continual strain brought to bear upon them by the wind and waves. At the North Shore the effects of the storm were severely felt. Not much damage was done on shore ; but the Devonport wharf and the p.s. Takapuna were the principal sufferers. The steamer in question broke from her moorings and was driven clean through the wharf on to the beach beyond, where she now lies in a disabled condition, her smoking snloon being wnashed, and the padflle-box and sponsons injured. A few days ago we referred to the false feel ing of security which a spell of fine weather engenders. There is no doubt that to this may be attributed a great deal of the injury inflicted on the shipping of the harbour by Saturday's tttorm. Not a little may also be ascribed to the blow happening on Saturday night, when in some cases nearly the whole of ships' crews were taking a.ran on shore. It is certainly surprising when' we come to consider the not by any means excep tional character of violent .bursts at certain periods of the year that some steps are not taken by the authorities.-.to ensnre proper notice being given to jtnarinera pLtheir ap ;;;™Qa,ch. A code of storm signals is now use'in afm^t ? ve7T port in England, atidlt is a lamentable dnuv-^e kwt( >: a sP]end^ harbour like the Waitemata that a nIZI! ar code is not in use here. The want isbnewhich is especially felt in a port so near to the tropics, as is that of Auckland. There is sottiehow an' aversion evinced on the part of our'harbour authorities to entertain the bare idea of the harbour being at all dangerous, and it 18 in consequence of this that tell to otte more accidents occur than wouid ocfidr.if proper precautions were adopted. It is a. mistaken idea to suppose thatproviding against danger is air admission of the possibility; of /clanger 'injurious to • the reputation " the port. It is^ much more t injurious t for, .public calamities to occur from the \ t absence" of or-, dinary preventive measures.Vi^Our. limited.: space precludes the possibility'of our dilating at greater length upon the general character of the misfoi'tune. We will now. proceed.tp s detail the injuries sustained by the 'diflerent vessels. The p.s. Challenger lies stink'and irreparably damaged just inside the North Shorb Company's T. it appears that in this case Captain Hargreaves took every precau tion, and his vessel would have probably survived the storm had it not been for the Dauntless schooner and Otahuhu cutter breaking from their moorings and drifting down upon her. ' This occurred early in the night, and before the -wind was at its height. All three vessels came foul of the wharf, the Challengei* being, in the middle between the cutter and the schooner. In this position the steamer's side was stove in, and she filled and sank Bbortly after half past ten. The Dauntless herself, .sustained severe injuries, her starboard bow and quarter being smashed in. "Her rigging is also damaged. The Otahuhu cutter' sank after crushing her hull against the piles of the wharf. At about a quarter to eleven the barque Beatrice, moor edat; the eastern end of the outer T, broke adrift and fouled the ship Chile, which occupied the next berth. The Chile's cables/ unable: to"1 bear the double weight, parted, and both_yessels drifted past th<^ Victoria, s.s., up the harbour. In passing the fore-top-gallaht-mast of the Chile caught the rigging of the foremast of the Vic toria—the result being-that-both came to grief. The Beatrice-was brought up with out sustaining much injury about 200 yards from the end of the wharf, while the captain of the Chile, letting go both anchors, was enabled to arrest the erratic course of his vessel some little dis tance nearer' in Ashore and higher up the harbour. At low wa.ter the , ship took the ground, but the bottom being here nothing but soft mud to a considerable depth her bottom remained intact. We notice that our contemporary the Cross indulges in some very wild .flights of imagination as to the damage sastained by the Chile. In makiug 'his estimate the writer is evidently guided by what might have happened as well as'by what did happen. This is evidenced by the probability of the vessel being strained being so much harped upon. The amount" set dov^n by the Cross as covering the injury is five, hundred pounds, a • sum we are' assured on the best, authority at lfeast five times in excess of the actual loss sustained. Such random statements, mate rially affecting as they do the reputation of a vessel about to proceed, to sea, are highly reprehensible, and exhibit that very disregard for accuracy and reckless pandering to sensa tional effect which the Cross is ..very fond of ascribing to its neighbours. .The Beatrice and Chile have both- been re moved from their perilous positions to day At nearly the same minute that the i Beatrice broke loose, the headlines of the barque Lauderdale gave way, and she canted round with her stern fast to the wharf. The water space between the outer T and the A.S.P. Company's* T riot beint*1 sufficiently broad to allow her to swing right round her bow came in contact with the latter T just in front of the, A. S. P. Com pany's office, the jib-boom having previously inflicted a severe scraping to the roof of the office and torn down the front. Here the barque remained fixed, the cutw.ater.gradually forcing" its way through the planking of the T till the stem of the .vessel was nearly half way through the structure. The wharf comes in for the greatest share of harm sus tained in this case. The Lauderdale seems fco have escaped in a very remarkable man ner with a few scratches to her copper and some bruises on her cutwater and figurehead. Here again we see the Cross puts down I £1,000 as the modest estimate of damage,' We guarantee to say that any shipwright in Auckland would jump at taking the task of repairing at half that figure. .It was a good job for. the schooner Golden Isle that T the T prevented the ' Lauderdale swinging right 'rouridi 'Had it not done so.the~daya of the : Russell collier would have ibeen numb'erefi. She was inside between the; Lauderdale an<i the wharf, and in the other event must have

been crushed like an egg. It is more than probable that weakened as the mam wharf ia in this part by the repairs now going on, both vessels would have crushed right through. The Golden Isle as it is is severely damaged in the stern. The Miranda cutter, lying near the siit basins, suffered roncli from bumping against the piles of the wharf. Her bulwarks and stern are considerably knocked about. Mr. Gao Henderson is a large loser by the gale. No less than five out of six cargo boats owned by that gentleman are more or less damaged. The Teaser had her mast and bowsprit oarried away by a cutter fouline her. The Triad and "Dee, two others of these, are both total wrecks, and lie sunk together close to where the watermen's steps were. This point seems to have proved singularly fatal. -"No less than seven or eight craft are here lying submerged, or mauled in such a man ner that it will cos<-. nearly as much to repair as it did to build them Among this class is the fine new cutter Corahe just come off the stocks at Tairiia. It His somewhat remarkable that this unfortunate vessel should have kept afloat. Her stern ia completely smashed and her bows and bulwarks battered to pieces. The cutter was owned by Mr Jackson, and has cost a large sum. Close to her is the cutter Avon, in a submerged condition, but ap parently not so broken up as to prevent her being lifted and put to rights in a very short time. The yacht Galntea, with her mast projecting above water, is lying close to the Avon. Another yacht, Mr Hilditch's Gleam, is sunk close by. The cutter Three Brothers, having firewood on board, broke from her anchorge and coming into collision with other vessels had her bulwarks stove in and mainboom and jib boom carried away. The Prima Donna, just arrived from Lyttelton, and hauled alongside the wharf, sustained little injury, but her two boats were smashed to pieces. The Gemini, twin-screw steamer, belonging to Capt. Casey, met with a very rough handling. She is so broken about that she will not be able to resume her trips for some time. We believe that the injuries are confined to the hull, and do not extend to the machi nery. The steamers Eowena, Eclipse, and the ship Hindustan escaped without^ injury. The cutter Janet Gray, which arrived on Saturday from the Great Barrier with a load of firewood, broke adrift from her anchorage above the wharf, and after sus taining great injuries to her port quarter -from collisions, was just enabled to bring 'up before fouling the wharf. The cutter "Volante, with a cargo of produce from her owner's, Mr Bush's place at Manaia, went down during the evening, and is a total wreck. The Mary Melville, schooner, and the barque- Lady Agnes, both on the point of sailing, dragged their anchors a considerable dis ■ both brought up in perfect safety, mi "' ~i,«.,, i 7« ~"*v aQd Winona both broke and the latter being successful^ Doa™ea arid brought up off Shelly Beach. xl! c North Shore Ferry Company's steamers next claim onr attention. We "have already referred to the-accident which befel, f the Takafriiita'. In ttfe 1 evening the Devbnportf' • was hauled alongside tii.e! I'erry T. " jtnthis position she encountered the gSle". Her paddle-box and wheel next the wharf were soon smashed to.atoms, and her side -much' damaged. The Enterprise No. 1 was coal ing when.the force of the gale struck her. Site came 'into/ collisfo^with the Company^ wharf, andther port wheel and paddle-box fSustaineti" some nasty knocks. Tne gale in fcrea!smg; fCapt; Glark 4ery courageously got "up steam and proceeded. to the breakwater, thus saving -the vessel. She was however enabled to make some trips backwards and forward to, the North Shore during Sunday. She travelled in a very lame condition. The Ferry Company will be among the heaviest losers by Saturday's catastrophe. Mr Jones's yacht, the Dart, and Mr Elder's yacht, Jessie, were swamped in O'Cdnnell's Bay. Neither are much injured. The Good Temp lar and the Venture, both new yachts, both dragged their anchors, but were brought up. in time to prevent mischief. The ketch- Tiri Tiri, so recently nearly wrecked, has been washed ashore near the Gasworks, and her injuries are said to be serious. One of the most melancholy incidents; of the gale was the loss of life which occurred in con nection'with the firewood boat: Challenge, which sailed on Saturday J afternoon for Manaia, near Coromandel. The boat lost her rudder while in Eangitoto Channel, and made signals of distress to the' Wave Queen at anchor there.* A waterman1 named Hawkes was'on board, and taking three of the . crew with him pnt : off' to the Challenges assistance. Coming up with • her they put two men on board with instruc tions to make the best of their way in the direction taken by the" waterman's boat. All went well till passing some rocks projecting from the reef, when the Challenge broached to,! and a wave threw her on to the rocks. The four men forming her crew were thrown outj and had to clins; on.to a rock for safety. The other boat was* unable to find the poor follows in the. dark, and the noise of the wind prevented their" cries being heard. Two of them by swimraina: managed to reach a' secure position on a higher rock, but the other two becoming exhausted were washed off by the sea. iOne of these, named Eichd. Knott, was a seaman belonging to the "Queen." He was about 25 years old and single. The other deceased was George Arnoff, one of the men who had left Auck land in the Challenge. A narrow escape from drowning took place early in the even ing jof the North Head. Five young lads were cruising about in a small half-deck boat, when the wind increasing made them determine to turn back. They brought, the little boat round,' but neglecting proper pre cautions in doing so'she wag caught by a sjusfc, while in stays, and capsized. For tunately the cutter Three Brothers was ■passing at the time, and was able to rescue the j whole of the lad'sl It is feared that another death has occurred from. the. the yacht Columbia, which was smashed against the breakwater. It is known that a man named Washington was od board, and nothing has been heard of himj since. There is a rumour alsopreva-. lenbj tlmt f.'iif M .iris perished in the gale. A Maori woman who wa3 rescued from the wredk of, a small buab off,the Wood wharf, declared there were four men -in the. boat with .her. Search has been'instituted for the j "bodies, but none have yet ; been recovered.. The steamer' Golden \-. Crown met; the full fury of the gale in coming up jfrom the Thames.. , Steam had to be got up in all-four boilers to enable her to get through the Sandspit. Captain Farquhar deemed it not" advisabla to come up to the wharf until 'dawn-on Sunday "morning. He anchored off the Nerth Head for some hours. The; passengers, who were' of course very much alarmed, speak' highly of Captain Farquhar and the behaviour of the vessel.

ACCIDENTS IN THE TOWN.

A variety 'of mishaps occurred in the city ; and suburbs, liut, fortunately (there were none of a serious nature, and no lives l were lost.- A number of trees were blown I down, peaches scattered,,and a few chimney pots dashed to the earth. Mrs Kavanagh's boarding-house,-8t t% corner of Albert and iWest "' Queen-streets, was entirely , blo;wn. ' down excepting a wall. The houaeirauoli aa it waa^.%ijis;«; disgrace ]tb?^ oity,

I and had recently been sold ~"*i 1 about to be removed. The at tar 1H f fore assisted the work •<»rS\W' ■ and acted as a rebuke to n *o!i^ii i delay. Mr. SharlanH, o f foey?S I his verandah carried away, its •'M | on its unexpected departure coH*>" I disconcerting the family, who borett ™i I ■ without a murmur. The storm La 1 immense amount of work'for-city ■^.'^■i making good the old proverb, 'OmSNe^ I wind that blows good to no-'pejgA^-ilj 1 dreds of panes of glass having W,^ I out and smashed, especially in tb.; 1 hotels in Upper Queen-street ■'amT*^ B streets in that ■ neighborhood % I Williams, chemist, near';, s th' e $''^ 1 House, had the greatest" diffi i*s in keeping his shutters up, whfehW] fe 1 were secured by props. Many of :tha V^1 i keepers experienced great <ijffiftSikX%.|i Saturday night in getting np their %hlu Cl and two belonging to Mr. Casg's d establishment were lifted into ths!ni|sS the street, to the consternatiott.&f:t)fi $ man. The storm passed swiftly ilpri^ mil street, and after levelling- sundry u^ attacked the chimney .of Mr. "James B*1 at the corner of Hobson and Cook st;? which Had lately been hei tf ht eno 7- )S few feet. The brick chimney 3,' fell with an immense crask., mi. ? two large holes through the slated*^ into the room below, doing a deal of 3am to a quantity of furniture. The acoidS has caused considerable loss to Mr Bmfr Mr McCiae, grocer and cheesetnonge^ft the corner of Wellington andHobaon stwjf was also a sufferer. The storm, which sit the house terribly, in a moment BhiS'! round the corner and lifted the■ Vewndiht! a considerable distance from the hotuse^f viewing the premises of Messrs MasefieliMj- Co.'s foundry we found that a large amount of loss has been sustained through the blow ing down of the eastern gable and considerable portion of the * roof, p 0 tunately, however, none of the m, chinery is injured. Workmen are bnsjli engaged in clearing away, ; the,^ot^ mortar that has fallen' upon --tte"i>m)T)«■:■'■ flooring. It will be recollected ffist'%L; years ago the other end of this samebuildiM ' succumbed to a storm, —{a few^ yai^^S one of similar construction and built m^, the same superiutendency in.Queen?(M fell suddenly into the street irife^ any storm) —- which indicateF^ftif the foundry is in a rotten and unß{^jQ ft dition, and the authorities shbuld^mni^ the owner (if he has the: jripSppji compelled to put the builSifigf«iil a sound condition in consideration o*^s'' lives of those who live in" "itHrtiJnnn<Nftfo locality. In this instance it is said tbt -tla; \ : builder was at fault again. -That =the jbcM. 1 tect's design was not of .a: charioted |;! ' face a storm like that of * Saturday 'night.'! But however well the..architect may design,: and the builder lay the bricks, :tti^eipi|«! lower part of the building is-geri^raUy rf»tf. their work will ..be rendered comprotmSy," unsafe, and a crash, and probably loss of Be, must sooner or-Jater~be-the~ißevitaJ>lt-w.: •

THIS DAY.

, We 'Hear that smother yacht '-h^-ppffff' I pieces, viz;, the; 'Emily Ledger; tona ); oi I CoromandeL; ; She was in charge of her owner, ' Alfred.Ledger, -and was •moored-neirthe-Mri Break wateiT; Thejloss is lestimjitia at, £70. • Considerable anxiety was evincedyesterdjiy,; as to the fate of several vessels which, hid just left - port before the gale arase on; : The s.B. Southern Cross, it- haF beeb p ascertained, put into Waiheke Channel ,» : ' and•' remained there at anchor^ lul- thVj.';|l worst was over. Mr. -B. Waynwuiliti I took the yachb Pearl on Friday -OTt?^jf||sf§ Waiheke, and some alarm was felt.:^js™fT yesterday evening when it .was he&ntjthif -W;. a body had \ been picked up in'Rangitota 1 Channel, and identified as that of young Mr., j, , Waymouth. The rumour, turned" out" lip correct, the corpse being that of one of .tke> ill-fated vicbims from the Challenge. Mr Waymouth, senr., has to-day learned by the arrival of the Ida Zeigler that his son art™ safely at his destination. About fpurp.p,*' Saturday Mjr G. Henderston and some fnendi set sail in the yacht Spray for Motattw^i;- They reached there safely, and anchpwp, "■ yacht in Home Bay. During thei^i&f1 was thaown up high and dry on~tttPl>3*& It is uncertain at present what injury i* . |! been sustained. Mr William SommervillVj master of the steamer Eclipse, has called on | us to ask our correction of afepdrt circul»tad ■ ' by the Herald that it I w^B;:,Mr;LbgiW|'^K:j owner, who was washed "out of the swlp^ Mri , Sommerville points outi addition to Captain Casey being the owns \ instead of Mr Logan, he himself wast^^) p person washed overboard while '*a^^^S| R cautions for the safety ot his-^raifcS'-^jgo Another error (this time one o^*te"i^K^ii || which it is only fair to the personjconcMßW^i should be rectified, is the statementiSMiMP a leading article of that journal ;that the»^, I was only a boy on board the DauntleMfMgl she fouled the Challenger. The . BP^/?^»:^ has uo boys engaged on board; and «i«f;|) seaman was in charge. He paid out i!£3«s* i on the anchor already down, and put ¥$$£ jg before the schooner drifted to any^*?^a|,. The man's name is W.^ B.; Bailey, *nd."m}^^ k 47 years of age. Rather an old boyJ |

THE RUMOURED LOSS OF THE YACHT PEARL.

Just before going to press wehaverecefa* \. >" intelligence; which makes it fearfully F 0 * bable that Mr WaymoutW yacht VeulP» been lost with all on board, consisting off on* persons, Messrs B. Waymouth, E. J(' BeB'~j) I Matthews,'.and another name "unkno* n> Captain' Burgess' brother, Mr BMj gess, seeing- something sticking 'out o1 the water |near the reef early this mow . ing, put off in a pilot boat, and on -com- , ing|to the spot found theobject was;tn« •■ j mast of a yacht to all appearance the reari- ~ She was sunk in about six feet oi . w*W . | which was so'elear that every object •»• neath the surface could be made out tinctly. Everything about the veßsel, W shape, size, colour or deck, build,» andng* ging are said to exactly,- resemble Mi i mouth's boat. Another party has gone ton ■.;:. to examine the wreck, and; we may exp* " more and fuller particulars during tie cv ning. We should mentidu as '.tewnj to confirm the belief that the /ri has been lost, that the body foM»" x« • i night is still asserted to be that of W ' * Waymouth, while Mr.-Waymouth, «rj%: admitf the face to be like hif son'srbuti by s that the hands are not like his. VV? alsp that the tidings of the safe arrival oi v Pearl at Waiheke are founded -j on 7? i slender facts, ':

TELEGRAPHIC.

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