SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5218, 7 August 1878, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF ..in OK LAND. HIOH WATBB, To-day: 0.1 morn., 6.30 even. HICH Water, Manukau:; 2.50 morn., 3.25 even. Thb 3DN : Kiues 6.45; "seta 5.8. Thb Moos : Full, 13th, H. 46 a;m. ARRIVALS. Rotorua, s.s., Carey, from Sydney.—Henderson and Macfarlane, agents.. Mana, cutter, Meguerney, from Tairua.— " Master, agent. Mercury, cutter, Butter, from Tairua.— Master, agent. Spitfire, cutter, Ohlseii, from Russell.— . Master, agent. Rowena, s.s., Sellars, from Tauranga and . Mercury Bay. Passengers — Messrs. Harding, Snowden, McLeod, and 3 others.—A. McGregor, agent. DEPARTURES. Hawea, s.s., Kennedy, for Dunedin.—rHenderson and Macfarlane, agents. Rotorua, s.s., C-irey, for Napier and Southern porta.—Henderson and MacftVrUne, agants. Kritmhilcb-, schooner, Bithurst, for Wangaloa. —Master, agent. Rovsr, schooner, Anderson, for Whangarei.— O. J. Hutchinson, agent. Champion, cutter, Xloyd, for Gisborne, via Sandspit.—Master, agent. Lizzie, cutter, Lawson, for Wangapoua.— Master, agent. Maid of the Mill, ketch, Lemon, for Russell. —Master, agent. : Argyle, 5.5.,. Stephenson, for Whangarei and Mangapai.—A. McGreijor, agent.. ENTERED INWARDS. Martha Fisher, barqua, 811 tons, P. Mutyark, from London. ' Lady Aberdonr, brig, 287 tons, H. O. Hutchinson, from Newcastle. Rotorua, 5.3., 076 tons, M. Carey, from Sydney. Mana, cutter, ,32 tons, Meguerney, from Tainia, with 26,00tt feet timber. ;Spitfire, cotter, 32 ton*, Ohlsen, from Russell, with 45 tons coaL CLEARED OUTWARDS. Rotorua, s.s., 57G tons, M. Carey, for Napier and the South. Rover, schooner, 33 tons, Anderson, for "Vrhangarei, with 7000 feet timber, 4 tons flour, 3- tons potatoes, and 2 tons sundries. Lizzie, cutter, 39 tons, Lawson, for Whanga"poua,- with stores. IMPORTS. , ~ LA sped*! charge is made for-consignees'names .in-. ■> sertetl in this colamn/1 Per Martha Fisher, from London :—69 cases vinegar, 1 case Seidietz powders, 10 cases cocoa, 12 case cornflour, 40 boxes pipes, 20 cases Tinegar, 6 cases cream of tartar, 5 casks saltpetre, 20 kegs carb. soda, 3 cases Miller's baking powder, 2 cases black lead, 1 case Holloway's pills, 2 cases almonds, 15 cases confectionery, 20 cases marmalade, 7 cases chocolate and cocoa, 5 cases Epos's cocoa, 6. cases mushroom ketsup (C. & B.), 20 cases Lucca oil, j3 cases patent barley, 35 cases vinegar, S cases Noa ve's food, 15 cases vestas, 1 bale cloves, 1 bale chillies, 5 casks carraway seeds, 2 cases rape, 10 barrels jplit peas,' 10 cases raspberry jam, 4 cases apricot jam", 4 bales bags, 2 bales paper, 5 cases confectionery, Brown, Barrett and Co. Per s.s. Rotorua, from Sydney : —6O cases and parcels suodries, 02 chests, 315 halfchests, 109 boxes and 25 packages tea, 25 cases, kerosene, 5 bales leather, 1 -jase wine, 1 case axles, 40 gunnies and 200 mats sugar, 6 bales paper, 10 cases syrup, 20 bags rice, 5 qr.casks brandy, 100 boxes candles, 4 trunks, 5 casks coffee, 2 cases and 1 box cigars, 1 parcel book.', 455 cases fruit, 1 package furniture, 1 case woollens. 101 oases fruit, R. Arthur. 2 cases paper, Wilsons and Horton. 1 case, 1 bale paper, H. Brett. 25 half-chests tea, 30 cases Light of the Age kerosene.—Brown, Barrett and Co. Pers.s. Rowena, from Tauranga : 370 sacks maize, 50 do. potatoes.

Inwards Coastwise.—Lake St. Clair, barge, from Orewa, with 300 posts, 300 rails, 90,000 shingles, 300 palings, 2 spars ; Ellen, schooner, from Sandspit, with 10,000 feet timber. ; Outwabds Coastwise.—LakeSt.Clair,barge, for Sandspit; Ellen, schooner, for Sandspit; Maid of the Mill, ketch, for Russell; Spitfire, . caster, for Russell. The S.S. Argyle sailsd yesterday evening, for Whangafei and Mangapai, with several passengers and a full cargo of general merchandise. Tho Union Company's s.s. Wanaka will sail from Onehunga at 1 o'clock this afternoon, for New Plymouth and: Southern ports. Latest train for passengers will leave Auckland station at 11.55 a.nx. The schooner Kovar sailed last night for Wnangarei, with a fall cargo of sundries. The schooner Kate McGregor sailed from the Thames on Saturday, with a full cargo of timber. The departure of the barque Dnnelm for Levuka has been postponed, in accordance with a telegram received from that port via Sydney. On the arrival of the schooner Winifred she will be the bearer of advices ordering the barque to carry down certain cargo. The s.s. Murray is advertised to sail from Onehunga at 1 p.m. to-morrow, for "Waitara and Nelson. The three-masted schooner Sea. Belle, 219 tons m aigfsieif .is„pi>eri o for freight or charter. Ap- ~ plications to "be" made to the master, on board. The.Union Company's s.s. Taupo will arrive from Russell this morning. She will sail South, rioTSast Coast, at 4 p.m. to-morrow. . The barque Martha Fisher, from London, entered in at the Customs yesterday, and will haul alongside the wharf an soon as the weather ntoderates. The S.S. Rowena arrived in harbour yesterday afternoon, from Tauranga and Mercury Bay, with passengers and cargo. She sails again this evening. The cutter Champion sailed yesterday at noon farthe Sandspit, where she will load with 27,000 feet of timber for Poverty Bay. The schooner Gael, f rom.Fi ji, may be looked for daily, and the Winifred in the course of a week. The barque Arkshaw, hence to Newcastle, intended.to take in at the latter port a cargo of coal for Auckland, hut from our Sydney files we find she is to return to "Wellington. The schooner Darcy Pratt is advertised to sail from Sydi.ey for this port in the first week of this montiL. ■ The following vesiels, hence to Newcastle, arrived ns follows :—Barque Arabella, 20th ; "Woodville, 24th; Sophia R. Luhrs, 25th; and the brig Transport, 27th ult.

The brigantine Omaha, hence to Mercury Bay, completed loading with timber on Monday, and sailed in the evening for the Chatham Islands.

The ietch Reliance, C 5 tons, belonging to Messrs. Stewart and Co., of "Wellington, and bound from Wangamri to the Kaipara, which our TEaiuku conespjndent reported yesterday having been driven ashore on Sunday morning on the "West Coast, is insured in the South British. Company for £1000, of which £500 was re-insured in the National.

The s.s. Hawea sailed last night direct for Dunedin, and will be convoyed as far as Cook's Straits by the s.s. Koiorna, when she will no doubt be met there by some other steamer of the company. She proceeds to sea witn her rndder fixed almost in the same way as when Captain Kennedy brought her into port from the late voyage. The tackle, however, is much stronger, and has met with the approval of the surveyors called in by the company's agents, viz., Captain Anderson, Captain Levack (of the barque Bchiehallion), and Mr. Sims (of Messrs. Sims aDd Brown, shipbuilders), who testify to the efficiency of the temporary steering apparatus.

_ Captain Sellars, of the s.s. Eowena, reports sighting a white topsail schooner working up the Gulf. She was at too great a distance to be recognised, but was apparently an Island and will no doubt be the schooner Gael, from Levuka. She will have made the harbour before this is perused by our readers.

The schooner Winifred, from Levuka, may be expected from Fiji in the course of a few days.

Information was received in town yesterday that the cutter Avon, hence to Grahamstown, is on shore at Brown's Island, badly damaged, and with several boles in her bottom. She had the mainsail carried away by a squall on Monday night, when the anchor was let go, but such was the violence of the squalls that the cable parted and the vessel went ashore. She is owred'by Messrs. McKenzie and Boss and Messrs. Sims and Brown, and, we understand, is uninsured.

The Union Company's s.s. Eotorua, from Sydney, via Russell, arrived in harbour shortly after midday yesterday, with a full complement of passengers and a large general cargo of merchandise. Of the latter, so much was offering in Sydney that they had actually to refuse it, as it was found almost impossible to keep engagements with their regular customers. The steamer, as will be seen from the following report, ldo.d!y furnished by Mr. Pringle,. the purser, would have made an excellent through passage had she come direct to this port. Notwithstanding the heavy weather, the run would have been accomplished in five days. The steamer cleared Sydney Heads at 10.15 p.m. on the 31st, and experienced strong easterly gales and a high head sea unf.il Saturday last. Thence westerly, winds and a contused sea. The Three Kings were sighted at 4 ■ a.m. on Monday, and Russell reached at 3 p.m. Sailed from tho latter port at 10.20 tho same evening, and reached this harbour as above. The Kotorua sailed at 8 o'clock last night, for Napier ami Southern ports. ~.'•■

The following letler to the Sydney-Morning Herald from their Newcastle correspondent, gives the latest freights and movements of vessels in port : —"July 29 : Tcere has been a fair number of shipping arriyais during the past TBek, nearly'all of which, however, are engaged in the intercolonial trade. Business at the eraoes has not been of the briskest, the week's export having been 23,738 tons. The only foreign-going arrivals since the date of my last are the ships George Thompson, 1200, from Melbourne, and Mialeaden, 1500, from Antwerp, with railwaypjant, whilst the foreign departures i

for the same period were the barque Fort George, with 1000 tons coal, for Singapore, at 15s; barque Glami3,vwith 1500 tons coal, for Hongkong, on ' snip's account; and: American schooner Moses B. Tower, for Batavio, with 917 tons coal, chartered there. The barque Aikshaw has cancelled her Hongkong charter and fixed for Lyttelton, terms withheld. "Vessels'-now loading and to load for foreign ports not . previously reported are the Lady Kinnaird, barque, 6SO, for Hongkong, on ship's account; Garibaldi, barque, for Honolulu, on ship's account ; George Thompson, ship, 1200, for Yokohama, it 16s; and Maulesden, ship, 1500, for San Francisco, home charter. For foreign ports there is still nothing doing in the way of charters, but a good deal of business for medium-sized vessels has been done for New Zealand ports. The following are now- loading there :—Lapwing, schooner, 230, for Timaru, chartered thero ; Geerge Noble, schooner, 213, for Timaru, ship's account; Melrose, barque. 287, for Timaru, at 27s 6d ; Queen of the West, barque. 438, for Lyttelton, at ISs; Australian Sovereign, barque, 353, for Lyttelton, chartered there; linsperor, brig, 284, for Lyttelton, ship's account ; Raymond, brig, 400, for Wellington, at 17e; Sophia R. Luhrs, American barque, 661, for Wellington, ship's account; Woodville, barque, 302, for Bluff, at 14s 6J; AVoodbine, barque, 262, for Nelson, at 16s; Tasso, barque, 264, for Nelson, time charter; Silver Cloud, schooner, 292, for Napier, ship's account; and Mary S. Amys, barque, for Napier, at 16s. Freight quotations are — Foreign : For San Francisco, nominal; Hongkong, 15s ; Shanghai, 21s; Yokohama, 16s; Batavia, 9s ; Singapore, 163 ; Chee Foo, Manila, Bombay, Gallo, nominal. Intercolonial: Melbourne Bay, 12s 6d ; Melbourne Wharf, 13s 6d ; Adelaide, 14s; Nelson, 16s; Duuedin, 18s; Lyttelton, 18s ; Bluff, ISs 6d ; Auckland, ISs ; Wellington, 17s ; Timaru, 27a 6d.

At Tapu, on ilonday, two cutters—the Lady Rath, belonging to Air. R. Hawker., and the Tartar, the property of Mr. G. - Dower, were driven ashore, and a considerable amount of damage done to both of the vessels. The road to Tapu, both within the Borough and County boundaries, .is considerably the worse of the heavy surf which has been running for che past two or three days, the sea-wall being in some places quite destroyed. The sea-wall between Grahams town and Tararu is also damaged to the extent of, perhaps, £20 or £30.—Thames Star.

WRECK OF THE KETCH VENUS. s. Messrs. McKenzie and Ross received a telegram yesterday from Captain Kin?, of the above vessel, stating, " Tonus; ketch, on the rocks at Table Cape ; not yet broken up, but no hope of getting her off." The ketch was bound from Mercury Bay either to Gisborne or Naprei, and it is possible she has been caught 6 che violent N. W. gales which have recently prevailed on the coast. Table Bay is the N.E. point of the Mahia Peninsula, and the wreck could hardly have occurred in a worse place than the one in question. The Venus is almost a new vessel, of about 48 tons register, — one-half owned by Messrs'. McKenzie and Ross, and the other in equal proportions by Captain King, the master, and Messrs.- Sims and Brown, the builders. We leara that the policy of insurance had only lapsed a few days, and, in consequence of the absence of one of the partners, had not been renewed, which will prove a serious loss to the parties interested.