PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 4

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hermione, sh., for London, loading { Easterhill, bq., for London, early Nellie M, Slade, for, New York, early iManapouri, s!s., for Russell, Monday, 5

p.m. \ Rotoma (Onehunga), for South, Tuesday^ 9.30 a.m. Suva, for the South, Tuesday^, 6 p.m. Manapouri, for South, Thuliday, noon.

The schooner Lizzie Guy sailed yesterday for the Thames, where she will load timber foirLyttelton. - --. ;-• .-.<':■...-

The schooner Handa Isle berthed at the Railway Wharf to-day.

The steamer Janet Nicoll has been, chartered by Mr Craig to proceed; to Newcastle for a cargo of coal, and, .return here. *x A vessel of aboixt 300 tons was passed, bottomup,by thebarqueNomadon 11th tilt., in lat. 43 49 S.,lpn_,. 47 24 E. The_weabher /was .oof thick and stormy to permit of close inspection."'"' ''-'

It was the William Phillips that arrived; at New Y"ork from this port on the: 29th i nit., 'nob.the Abiel Abbot, as stated in a paragraph yesterday. The arrival of the ' latter vessel hatffat yet been reported. J The.s.s.. Suvajpcom East Coast ports, is I expected to put m an appearance this evening; ' The schooner Fanny Thornton is undergoing a general overhaul at the hands of Mr C. Bailey. She will leave for Freemantle early in charge of Captain Cleverley..- - —- - - '

Messrs Henderson and Spraggon ye sold the cutter Venus for Messrs Abbott and White to Mr W. Gray, of Gisborne. The Venus will leave for Gisborne shortly in charge of Captain Dowd.

There were twenty-three wrecks during the-year 1886 on the coast of New South Wales, representing a money loss of __122,720. The crews and passengers of seventeen vessels were saved, but thebalance of six lost the colony 111 lives. These were made up as follows :— Ly-ee-m00n,71; Falcon, 1 ; Prince o' Wales, 2; Condong, 2. Keilawarra, 31 Helen Niccoll, 4.

' Shipping arrrals during the past week have been umr .ally numerou_,and have included many vessels from Southern ports with gt __&_, potatoes, etc. The consequence is bhu. X ~ ;sb every berth at the Queenstree. ' iarf and all the available space ab the a way-Wharf has been taken up, yrffit ' diere arefrapseveral vessels, at the *.s_.jn-.._reet wharf arid.alongside of the reclamations. Business on the wharves is therefore very brisk.