DEPARTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 163, 12 July 1890, Page 7

DEPARTURES.

June 14.—Keuilworth, schooner, for riobart.

June 16.—Mariposa, P.M.S., for San Francisco, viu Tutviia and Honolulu.

June 17.—Clansman, topsnil schooner, J. H. Smith, for New Caledonia and Long Island.

June 19.—Torea, schooner, Dickson, for Rarotonga..

June 22.—Richmond, s.s., for Tonga; Siunca, Tahiti, and Rarofconga ; W. O. Wentworth, bq., for Kaipara and Sydney.

June 23.—Andrea Willielmina, Swedish barque, 855 tons, Captain Bergstedt, for Hull (Eng.), with 700,000 feet 3aivn kauri timber ; Welcome, echr., for Tairua and Adelaide.

June 24.—Arawata, s.s., for Fiji. July 2.—Wainui, s.s., for Tonga and Samoa.

July 4.—Nobero, bq., for Howland Island, in ballast, for cargo of guano for Auckland. , July 6.—Aratapu, bn., for Tairna and Melbourne; Catnillo, bn., for Melbourne, via Helensville ; Magelian Cloud, bn., for Tairna, Noumea (Now Caledonia), and Long Island.

July 10.—Madura, bq., for Mercury Bay and Melbourne.

Tho New Zealand Shipping Company are making some extensive alterations in the second cabin accommodation on board their steamers Tongariro, Tiimutaka, Ruapehu, Aorangi and Kaikoura. A large number of the berths have been removed to tho upper deck.wbioh will add greatly to the comfort of their occupants during the Homo voyage.

Several sailing vessels aye now overdue in the South from Home and New York. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's chartered barque Assaye is over 145 days ouc from London to Wellington, and there is no sign of her yet. The Now Zealand Shipping Company's ship Otaki is 116 days out from London to Wellington also, while the American barque Carrie L. Tyler (which is to come on to Auckland to load up for New York) is 132 days out from New York to Wellington to-day.

The Kauri Timber Company have despatched another cargo of sawn kauri from Auckland home to England by the Swedish barque Andrea Willielmina., Captain Bergstedb, this time to the port of Hull, on 'the east coast of England. - The barque took some 700,000 feet of sawn timber. The Kauri Company have now two other vessels loading for Homo, tho German barque Gotha, ab Te Kopuru (Kaipara) for Londcn, and the German barque Mentbne, at Whangaroa, for Glasgow, while they have another large vsesel, the ship Lumberman's Lassie, now at Kaipara, to load kauri for Glasgow.

The s.s. Duke of Sutherland is the latest of the newly-acquired large cargo, steamers of the New Zealand Shipping Company.and a considerable amount of intorest was manifested in her arrival in port from Homo on July 9th in ballast by shipping people and others. The Duke is one of a number of well-efluipped steamers of large tonnage lately acquired by tho New Zealand Shipping' Company with the view of providing sufficient carrying accommodation for the rapidly developing frozen meat and produce industries. The Duke of Sutherland left London on April 3rd with a cargo of eteel rails for the Cape. She ■took in part cargo of frozen mutton, and has left for the South to fill up.

There was a very full attendance of the seamen of the port of Auckland and other persons interested in the proposal to form a Coasoal Seamen's Union under the shield of the Knights ot Labour, in the Cook-street Hall on Saturday evening, July 5. MrC. S. Wright (master workman of the Pioneer Assembly of the Knights of Labour) presided. Some thirty men enrolled their names as members of the Coastal Seamen's Union, and paid their foes to enter the Knights' organisation, and were duly initiated and instructed in the forms, rules and ceremonies of the order. The necessary officers were appointed. A number of objectors to the Kniglitsof Labour organisation, numbering sonic forty or so in all, adjourned to Robson a Rooms, where they were joined by others, making a body of fifty pi sixty seamen in all. There they took Steps to form a Union fifty 'strong, under tbo title of the New Zealand Coastal peamen's Union, appointing officers and committee pro tern. • ■ *

The Bishop of Auckland, the Right Rev. Dr. Cowie, was in the chair ab fclid meeting of tbe subscribers, fco the Sailors' Home on June 16. Tho annual report stated that the house department had only a deficit of £74 to meet wiih regard to ifca expenses, and some charges? by boarder* were still due. Including £10 for insurance, the expenses for the coming year should not exceed £100, £25 of the sum being the rent of the allotment on which they had raised the new mission house. The annual income from subscriptions and the endowment fund would yield {.his year about £400. Increased sleeping room was necessary, and a new mission hall was. now in course of construction on the site leased from.-the Harbour Board. The cost would be about £1,000. Captain Anderson was reeleoted vice-chairman, and Mr MoMillan appointed to the Council in room of R. J. Hill", resigned." The auditors, Messrs Barber and Jonas, were re-appointed, and Dr. Lewis as honorary surgeon.

Captain Nearing has just shown us a very beautiful photograph by Mr Hanna of the grave of Mr Henry Talbofc, of the Porsian Empire, who was drowned in Auckland harbour on the 30bh of March, 1890, while attempting to save bhe lives of three persons who had capsized a pleasure boat. The circumstance created a profound feeling of sorrow amongsb Aucklanders , , and bo mark the appreciation of the poor fellow's bravery Captain Nearing and Mr Marshall got up a subscription list, the result of which is the beautiful white marble headstone and grave in the North Shore Cemetery. The inscription on the stone tells how tho brave gontlecnan losb his life, and bears the text, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down hi 9 life for his friends." An anchor is beautifully carved on tho top, and tho whole grave railed round handsomely with heavy iron mouldings on a marble base. The grave is on the side of the hill.

The three-masted schooner Southern Cross, 200 tons, which has for so many years done good service for the Melanesian Mission in tho work amongst the islands of the Western Pacific, in command of Captain Bongard, arrived in the Waitemata on July 9th from one of her periodical cruises in tne Soubh Seas. The little ship is still pretty staunch, but is hardly so well suited for the Island work as is desired, and accordingly, after the next trip of hers, ehe will be superseded by another larger vessol now building at Home. Bishop Sehvyn did not return in the schooner, but remained ab Norfolk Island. The Cross's cruise was an uneventful one, and things in the Islands were very quieb ab every locality ab ■ which she touched. Captain Bongard says that on leaving Auckland on April 18bh lasb, bhe Southern Cross made Norfolk Island, 4 days out, and lefb bhat island again on the 26th April on her island cruise up to the Melanesian Group, with a party of fifty Melanesians. and the Revs. Mr Plant, Britfcan, Palmer, Comins, Dr. Welch man, and Mr Forrest.