TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 143, 18 June 1891, Page 8

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Napier, May 29.—Arrived: S.a. Balmoral Castle, from London via Rockbampton. Wellington, May 23.—Sailed, noon: Cable steamer Recorder, for Singapore. Wellington , , May 24.—Sailed, at noon : Tyser s.e. Celtic King, Captain O'Toole, for London. Wellington, May 29. —Sailed : Duke of Westminster, s.s., for London, with a full cargo. Wellington, June I.—Arrived: R.M.s. Doric, from London via the Cape and Hobart. Wellington', June 3. — Arrived: Linda Weber, brigantine, McKenzie, from Rarotonga, with a cargo of copra, limejuice and cotton. Wellington, Juno 13.—Arrived : R.M.a. Tongariro, from London.

Omapeee, June 3.—Sailed : Barque Wenona, for Melbourne. Lyttelton, May 2S.—Arrived : Ship Bramblebye, from Newcastle. Port Chalmkks, May 29.—Arrived: Crusader, ship, Captain Perriam, 89 days from Glasgow. Bluff, May 25.—Sailed : Banca, barque, Forbrods, for London, with a cargo of 14,315 sacks of oats and a quantity of wool, skins, flax, and tallow.

Messrs Donald and Edenborough, of Auckland, have jusfc sold their well-known Iflland eteamer Little Agnes, 84 tons, bo a Noumea (New Caledonia) syndicate. Her Majesty's screw corvette cruiser Curacoa, 2,380 tons, 10 guns, Capcain R. Stopford, which arrived here on June 15 from Lyttelton, after a smart run of three days, made a very short stay in Auckland waters, ac she left here again on the 17th for Sydney.

The Union Company's cargo-steamer Pukaki, Captain Ewan, which left Auckland for Wesbport via the North Cape route on June 4th, broke her propeller shaft on the Bfch, off the Pandora Bank, North Cape. Ab the time ifc was blowing a strong S.W. gale, with heavy seas. She is now being towed from Russell. Tho men working: on the s.s. Wanaka, stranded at Waitara, will not be able to take advantage of. the present-spring bides. to float off the vessel, as the work of putting a wooden bottom into her is not far enough advanced to allow of the weight of the steamer being pub upon ib. The attempt has now been postponed till next spring tides, which will come in about ten days' time. When all is ready a steamer will be sent to tow the Wanaka oub of her present position.

Wβ learn that the negotiations which have been going on lately between the rival Kaipara Shipping Companies, the Northern River Steam Navigation Company, and Messrs Douglas Brothers, of Helensville, with regard to an amalgamation of trade on the Kaipara, have been broken off, and that no amalgamation therefore will take place. The Northern River Steam Navigation Company have decided to push their trade on the Kaipara, and with this object in view fchey are ordering a new river steamer to be built, and have also cabled to London for a new boiler for the s.s. Durham.

On June 2nd the French corvette cruiser Le Champlain, Capt. Gourdon, which has been a familiar objecb in the port for the last few weeke, left here for South America. She arrived here in April last from Tahiti direco, for repairs, having injured her keel while cruising amongst the coral islands in the Eastern Pacific. She was placed in the Calliope Dock and lay there a month undergoing extensive repairs, which were very satisfactorily executed. She is now taking up her place again on the French naval stabion in the Eastern Pacific, having still nearly eighteen months to serve before she can be relieved and return to France.

Sydney, Melbourne, Hobarfc, all the New Zealand ports, and back to Sydney, is the circlo tho Union Steamship Company has secured by buying oub the Taamauian Steam Navigation Company. On his recent visit to Hobart Mr James Mills, managing director of the Union line, is reported as saying: "We look upon the amalgamation with Tasmania as a natural alliance, seeing that it is on the direct roube between New Zealand and Australia, and we already have a share of the trade by means of our through vessels. A further inducement was the fact that, by the development of the silver fields, it is expected that there will be a very large demand for New Zealand coal and coke. In regard to these particular products New Zealand is looked upon as unequalled in the colonies, and the Company already does a considerable carrying tirade of this nature from the west coast coal ports of New Zealand to Port Pirio for use in the Broken Hill smelting works, and we expect to develop a similar trade with Hobart and the west coast of Tasmania. The Company also look forward to the necessity for specially building an express steamer for this particular trade, with the view of considerably reducing the eea voyage from Heads to Heads. The Union Company, having now possession of the link between Hobarb and Sydney, will make a special feature next year, issuing round tickets from all New Zealand porbs to porbs in the other colonies, and vice versa." The Union Company has at present a fleet of 46 steamers, of 40,000 total tonnage. With the addition of the Tasrcanian fleet the number will be increased to 54, and the aggregate tonnage to 50,000.