DEPARTURE OF ROTORUA.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2602, 20 August 1878, Page 2

DEPARTURE OF ROTORUA.

The s s Rotorua sailed this afternoon for Sydney. She takes a full cargo, the gretaer part of which was shipped at Southern ports, and the following passengers :—Mr and Mrs Coleman. Mr and Mrs Ruben and child. Mrs Hardwick, Misses JMoore, Hunter, Galland, Messrs. Cawlishard, VVaterhouse, Gallagher. J. Todd W. Augnar, M. Curtin. J, Blmdo, J. Kay, A. Hart, H. Adams, A. W. Fairie P. Cochrane, M. Matthews, Howard, Topham, Ware, W. S. Brown, E. Marks, Whitney, and 10 Chinamen.

Inwards Coastwise.—LakejlSt.Clair, barge, from the Sandspit, with 18,000 feet timber; Lizzie, cutter, from Whangapoua, with 27,000 feOo t-rw-ABi)3 Coastwise.—Ness, cutter, for Tairua, in "ballast; Ruby, schooner, forßussell, Inbffit; Lake St. Clair, barge, for Waiheke, m Captaaln McKenzie, of the steamer Hannah Mokau, informs us that he left Mokau on Sunday week, and arrived at the Waitara the same day. The Go-ahead could not therefore have sighted his vessel off Mokau. When in Raglan, on Friday, Rev. Mr Sohnackenberg came and roported a vessel running apparently forthe North beach. Capt. McKenzie manned his boat, and went to North Head, and saw m the distance a vessel ?^ering north-west under , canvas ond steam, with wind off the land. He came to the conclusion that it was a vessel which had byen knocking about during the b"d weather, and had now shaped its course for the Mfmukau. The bar was breaking too heavy for the Hannah Mokau to go out. She left however, next morning, and after being an hour at sea sighted a vessel steering for Kaglan under steam and canvas. The Hannah Mokau was at that time sailing through a lot of dead sheep, and Capt. Mckenzie concluded - the steamer was a vessel bound for Kaglan from the South with sheep from the station. The distance being too great,. eightLorrtnne miles he could distinguish no signals nor hear anyguns.lf he had thought the vessel required any assistance he would have been only too glS^B?Cteeionß arrived in the Manukau from Hokianga late last night. The brig Moa and barque Stag may be exOaotain Buike left Oamaru on the 9th instant for this port, with a Ca T fe SSSSSSSon, of the ss. Rotorua Inorfctime later. She -brought a general cargo and the following passengers :-For Auckland— Mesdames Jack, Waller Chisholm McKmnon, Wilson and 5 children, Martin, Me Williams and chi d Ryder. Dignan, Baggage, Misses Jack, Waller, Chisholm, Wilson, Sheehan, Hannay, Captain McConville. Messrs Jack, Leydon, Waller, McKinnon, Wilson, Mouk, Macandrew, Ryder, King, Dean. Dignan Elkuigton, Mann, Bagge Harding. King, and 4 steerage. For San Francisco-Dr. Deaner, Count and Countess and Miss De La Pastine, Mr and Miss Hamilton. •For Sydney—Mesdames Moore, and Coleman, Mi5S Hunter, Messrs Bell, Cowlisham Waterhouse? Coleman, Gallagher, and 24 steerage. We are indebted to Mr Pringle, purser, for late fil The brigantine Borough Belle, sailed from Lyttelton for Sydney on the 11th with a cargo of poThP°nphooner Fiery Cross, from the Manukan, arrived at Oamaru on the 19th inst. She put into Lyttelton. windbound, on her way down. The s.s.-Taranaki sailed for Russell last eyenine with passengers and cargo. She will return SrowmorW, and will sail South on TKcLfSltetro SS sanedfrom Lyttelton for this port on August 12th with a full cargo of P3The C topsail schooner Advance sailed from Gisborne on the 10th inst. for this port, but she haT\T ts r choonersedChri9tina and Minnie-Hare arrived at Giaborne from this port on the 12th. The schooner Mary King had a. very rough passage from this port to Lyttelton. Shortly after leaving experienced heavy weather carryi >ig away the jib-boom. She repaired damages in Tolago Bay. and after leaving experienced another westerly gale, which fortunately did D(The >sI^ UArglie takes the place of the lona this trip leaving for Russell thie evening. The practice that has recently been adopted in some of the ports of these colonies of stowing bale° of wool in deck-houses, empty cabins, and forecastles, in order to Dwell up the freight li»t as much as possible, is attracting notice in London and the surveyors who there superintend the discharge of wool cargoes, pronounce strongly against it. giving.it as their opinion that such lSadingio most objectionable, as tend*ne to Mer vfsscls cranky, and make them foursome. A question arises also put of this practice whic^ will probably lead to some Eattons^cm d the occasion for it arise, and thaUs the i- ■ aiity of the owner of the vessel for v lo^s or d ■>: aage sustained by wool so shipped, for insr ■ nee, when a deck-house full of wool f a washed overboard with its contents, or when cabins sc o stowed are flooded.-Australian ShippiThfHS Hawea sailed for the South from the Mnnukau to-day, with a general cargo, and the following passengers: Mr and Mrs Draper and fwo chUdVeh Mrs Shuttleworth, Messrs Allen, IJilja Napier, this day. The h s Southern Cross arrived from Auckland at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. Taukanga , thiß aay » The s.s. Rowena sailed for, Auckland at six o'clock last evening. RusSBIIL) this day. Thes.s. Taranaki arrived from Auckland at 7.30 a.m. to-day.