THE MONTH'S SHIPPING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1891, Page 8

THE MONTH'S SHIPPING.

Affairs in local shipping have been fairly busy it; this port since last mail advices, and about the usual amount of foreign, intercolonial and coastal business is being kept up. The vessels at present in Auckland harbour, exclusive of coasters, comprise tho ships Blenheim, and Leading Wind, barques Valparaiso, Alccstis and Scottish Admiral, brigantines Linda Weber, Anthons and Prosperity, schooner Christine and Island steamer Littlo Agnes. Just at present, too, wo havo tho majority of the war-vessels of the British Naval Squadron on the Australian station lying in this port on their annual visit, comprising H.M. flagship Orlando (flying tho Hag of Roar-Admiral Lord Scott), and tho cruisers Rapid, Cordolia, Lizard, and Goldfinch. H.M.s. Curncoa left hero recently on a trip to tho Southern ports of the colon}-. The com-mander-in-chief of tho Squadron ovidently appreciates Auckland's Btiporior docking facilities, for the big flagship lias ,'jusb had a week's laying-up in tho Calliope Graving Dock for cleaning and sundry repairs, and H.M.s, Rapid docks nexb week. Our Home trade is being well kopt up ; indeed, the exports from hero to London direct during tho past month have been considerably over tho average. Tho clipper ship flcrmione left for London a fortnight ago with a full cargo of varied colonial and Island produco, including big shipments of wool, gum, copra, etc., and about bho same timo the Shaw, Savill andAlbiou Company's iino now cargo steamor Mamari, 3,500 tons, called horo and loft for London via Rio, taking from Auckland a part cargo of frozen meat, wool, gum, ilax, fruit, etc. Tho ship Blenheim has arrived from London with a general cargo, after a smart voyage oub of 85 days. Tho Bcrsian .Umpire, ship, has gone hence South to load Home. Tho next vessel to load horc for London direct is tho smart British iron barque Scottish Admiral, 900 tons, which lias just, como across from Queensland. Our direct trade with New York, too, is keeping up to the mark. Tho German barquo Valparaiso has como in from Now York with part cargo, and is now completing her reburn loading of kauri gum and llax for tho i-amo port. She should sail shortly, the major portion of her freighting being gum. Sho will bo followed hence by tho wellknown American barquentine Elinor Vernon, which has just nrrivod ab Wellington from New York. Tho fine American wooden ship Leading Wind, which recently acquired somo ' celebrity ' through her firing and scuttling in Auckland harbour, whilo loading for Now York, is now an Auckland oivned vessel, and will in future fly tho British Hag. At auction last week she was purchased by ("apt. S. B. Savory, of Auckland,for.£'2,lso. She is now boing repaired, and will in all probability tako up the Australian- ' Frisco and I'ugct Sound trade, under command of her now owner. Our trade with tho South Soa Islands is gradually extend* ing, and one has only to note bhe big cargoes of fruit and general Island produco brought into portrogularly by steamers and schooners, and to see tho immense quantity of stores and general provisions sent away by theso vcssols on their return trips to tho principal South Pacific centres, to get an idea of tho value which tho Island trado is to Auckland. Copra, cotton, pearlshell, oranges, bananas, limejuice, raw sugar are amongst the chief items of import, and they contribute greatly to tho amount of produco passing though local business hands. The stoamers Taupo and Fiona have boon in from Fiji during tho month ; tho s.s. Littlo Agnes, from New Caledonia and Norfolk Island; the schooner Christine from tho same localities, and tho steamer Wainui from Samoa and Tonga ; while bhe s.s. Richmond is due this week from Samoa, Tahiti, Rarotonga, and Tonga. Two trading schooners, the Jessio Niccol and Toroa, are now duo here from Rarotonga with fruit and general Island produce. Another Auckland vessel is to make a start shortly in tho Now Zealand-Karo-tonga fruit trade, the brigantine Linda Weber, Capt. Dickson, which is now fitting oub hero for the direct running bebweon bhe Hervey Group and Wellington for a firm in thab city. The s.s. Little Agne3 is still keeping up her running between here and New Caledonia, and should prospects be sufficiently encouraging, her owners, Messrs Donald and Edenborough, will retain her in the trade. The Auckland kauri timber trade is still keeping up well, and the quantity of kauri pino exported to Australia and other ports is increasing, shipping operations at the Kaipara, Hokianga, Whangaroa, Tairua, Mercury Bay, and elsowhero, besides Auckland, being especially brisk just now. Our shipbuilding is still going on, in a small way, it may be ; but in one way and another, a fair amount of work is offering shipvvrights. In a few days, Mr G. Niccol, of Devonport, will launch a fine little 50----ton schooner yacht, for the Islands, built for the native chiefs of Vavau (Tonga Group) ; and in a short timo he will also have completed a smart topsail schooner of 160 tons for himself, for the coastal and intercolonial trade. One or two small steamers for the coasting and river trade are also under way here now.

Tho erection of a lighthouse on the Snares Group of islets, to the southward of New Zealand, which ia to be gone on with shortly by the joinb Governments of the colonies, is a much-needed work and will without doubt provo to be a great boon to shipmasters. Home vessels making New Zealand very frequently pass in close proximity to the Snares, which are aptly named, being very dangerous and treacherous for navigators. Besides New Zealand vessels, the fleets of sailing craft traversing the South Pacific from Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Brisbane and other ports in the Australian colonies constantly pass close to the southward of New Zealand. When the Government steamer Hinemoa was there last trip, on her search after the ill-fated

s.s. Kakanui, she sighted bwo largo home-ward-bound merchantmen close in. Several wrecks havo occurred ab these rock-bound islets. Tho site selected for the lighthouse is on the sou-west corner of the larger island. The New Zealand Government's smart steamer Hinemoa, Captain Fairchild, arrived at Napier lasb week from her crui.-" I round tho Macquaries, Antipodes, Auek f iand, Campbell, and Bounty Islands after bho unfortunabo steamer Kakanui, whoso ' loss is ono of tho saddest stories of the sea j yet chronicled. Capt. Fairchild is of; opinion that tln> Kakanui has without i doubt gone down long ago with all hands. The Austrian corvette Saida, 2,400 tons, 14 guns, Captnin Do Eldenbruck, arrived Wellington on the 22nd insb. from Sydney, and left again for Auckland noxtday. The Saida wa« expected to make Auckland her j first New Zealand portof call. Sho was com- j missioned ab lola in September last, and on the sth of that month started on a cruise round tho world. She callod ab Port Said, Aden, Diego, Garcia, Mauritius, Albany, Adelaide, Portland, Melbourne, Port Esperance, Hobart and Sydney, and left the latter port on the 7th inst. Tho R.M.s. Rimutaka called atHobarton March '21 and sailed again for New Zealand I at 6 p.m. tho same day. She left. London j on February sth and was detained in the j Channel for some two days by severe weather. Tho Rimutaka has made an unusually long passage. Nows has boon received ab Sydney stating that largo portions of wreckage of a vessel supposed to bo a barque, with a quantity of timber planks and logs, havo boon found washed ashore at Crescent Head, near Kompsoy. ah bhe mouth of the Macleay River (N.S. W.) The wreckage cannob at present be identified, but it is very probablo that it has belonged to the ill-fated barque Rose M., 599 tons, Capt. Wright, of Sydney, which left the Kaipara early in January lor Melbourne laden with timber, and was never heard of again. In connection with the recent re-arrange-ment of the Ocean mail service tho R.M.s.s. Coptic will be despatched on Saburday, 4th April, from Wellington for Home, and thereafter the boats of Shaw-Savill and Albion Company and New Zealand Shinping Company will be despatched at intervals of a fortnight. The iron clippershipßienheim, 1,077t0n5, now belonging to the fleet of the ShawSaville and Albion Company, arrived on March 3rd from London direct with a full general cargo of merchandise valued at some £-10,000. Sho has mado one of the best passages of the season oub to New Zealand from Home, being 85 days from London clocks, and only 76 from the Lizard. Tho ship left London on December sth lasb, and had an uneventful voyage out. She made tho ran to the Capo in the very good time of 49 days. Coming across the Southern Ocean sho had bhe usual experience of bad weather, washing her decks occasionally in the high sea running. The Coptic arrived at Wellington on March 16th at about 9.30 a.m., and got up to the wharf at 11 a.m. She had unsettled weather with fog, rain, and heavy N.E. swell on the way from Hobart. Sho brings 46 passengers and a full cargo. She is still commanded by Captain Kempson, but Mr Acheson, late second officer, is now chief officer, with Mr Whistler, P.N.R., as third, and Mr Northcote fourth, both coming from tho Atlantic service. Mr 8011, P.N.R., succeeds Hallyburton as chief engineer. Thero are also other changes. About noon yesterday the Melanesian Mission's well-known three-masted auxiliary screw schooner Southern Cross, Capt. M. Huggett, sailed out of port on her periodical cruise up amongst the islands of the Western Pacific on missionary work. She took away some half - dozen passengers and the usual full supply of stores, etc., for her three or four months' South Sea voyaging.

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