SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 128, 8 June 1885, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WATEF, Auckland- This af tot neon, 2.20; to morrow, mor.iing, 3.6. Manukau Heads—'Hits cvoning, 5.9; to-roor mow morning. S.JC. , Kaii-ara Hbaimj—This evening. C.9; to-mor row morning, 0 10. Sunset.—This evening—l.ls. Sirs rise.—To-morrow morning—7.l3. Moon's Age.—Now Moon, 13th, 10.21 a.m. ARRIVALS. SATURDAY EVENING. lona, 5.3., Amodeo, from Great Barrier Suva, s.s.. Hutchinson, from Southern ports Fleetwiug, schooner. Couch, from Bus.oil Wellington, s.s„ Stephenson, from Whangarci YESTERDAY. Clansman, s.s., Farquhar, from Tauranga TO-DAY. Herald, 8.5., Savory, from Oroti Point IMPORTS. Par Suva-GO sheep. 3;0 sucks charcoal. 30 cases cranges, 23 sacks bones. The ss Waihora having boen detained at Oisborne, is not expected to arrivo here before noon to-morrow. The s.s. Clansman returned from Tauranga at 2 a.m. on SHmday. Passengers :-Mcssrs Wilson (2), Ceter, Good, and Chad wick. The s.s. Wellington arrived from Whangarei on Saturday evening. Passengers: Mrs Larkinu Mrs Fulloc and child, Mr Weston. Mr Wlison, Mr Fisher, Mrs and Mr Whitchoris. Somo small vessel collided with the cutter Dusty Miller while tho latter was at anchor near tlio wharf on Sunday night. Tho fore-rigging of the Dusty Millor was slightly damaged. The s s. Herald returned from Oreti point this morning Tho boilor for which sho went t'lithcr broko adrift on Saturday morning duriagstormy weather, and waß allowed lo drive ashore. Tho barque Altair left lr, ttelton for Auckland on Juno 3. with 2.221 sacks wheat, 503 do oats, 2 170 do potatoes. 31S do beans. 100 racks (lour, 230 do barley, 125 do bran, 17 crates bisouits. Tho brigantine Ocoola Is loading at Dunedin f jr this port. Tho brigantino Lizzio Guy having discharged at Devonport. has bten borthed nt tho Railway „ Wharf. Shipping business in port was almost at a standWU to-day, owing to tho heavy downpour ot rain. Tho s.B. Suva arrived from Wellington and intermediate ports at 10,30 m on Saturday. Passengers :-MiBS Jones. Mr A. Allen, Rc\. Father Kehoe, and 1 in tho steerage. The barque Pet. which arrived at Port Chalmers from Hobart on Saturday last, reports that on June 1 she encountered n heavy N.W. izule with terrific sen, which washed away pnrti'on of the port bulwarks. The vessol w;as hove to for « hours, and bad a terrific gale, with den» fog and constant rain. Tho Orient liner Anstral recently delivered a mail at Adelaide in 29 days from London, and at Melbourne in 31 days from tae English capitalan unprecedented achievement This trip was accomplished under no special circumstances, but by virtue ot steady steaming from port to port. The exceptional character of the ____. li .hown by a comparison with the Postomco record" for 1882, when the Rome, tho Ctedo, and the Itevenna, three P. and O. boats, which delivered their mat's in thirty-six days were the most successful boats. The Anstral has shown herßelf a grand vessel In tho American trade, but some of the'-groyhounds of the Atlantic.' 'such aa the Alaska, havo tho heels of h»r and when tho Suez Canal is permanently onlarged and deepened, the 'Sydney livening News" expects to find vessels of the Alaskas class coming out, and even tho Austral s time improved npon.