SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9704, 17 April 1897, Page 9

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Kaipara Heads, April 15. Sailed —Devonport, barque.for Melbourne. . Aucklastd,. April 15. Arrived—Richmond, from Fiji. April 16. The Northern Company's Gairloch arrived at Onehunga yesterday afternoon some four hours behind her usual time, having broken her propeller shortly after leaving New Plymouth. She was taken on to the-beach after discharging her cargo, fitted with a new progeUe*,. and left for Now Plymouth

again to-day at her usual time. Passengers— Mesdames Hewitt, White, Brookfield and Hudson, Messrs Brookfield, Potts, John-ton, Griffiths and Harper. Marnari, for Napier and Southern Porta ; Upolu, for Raratongaand Tahiti. Wellington, April 15. Arrived—Rotomahana, from Sydney, via Auckland and the East Coast; Anglian, from the South; frotn Lyttelton ; Mawhera, from Nelson and the West Coast.

Sailed—Anglian, for Sydney and Auckland, via tho East Coast; Takapuna, for Taranaki and Onehunga; Tougariro, for London.

Rotomahana, for the South, with 160 excursionists; Penguin, for Lyttelton, with 150 excursionists.

April 16. The Rotomahana, which left about 1 this morning for the South, only cleared the Heads at 7 a.m. The weather is very thick at the Heads, and. it* is reported that tlie Anglian, bound for Sydney via Auckland aud Napier, aud the Hesketh, for Westport, are sheltering there. Iv auy case vessels in Cook Strait at.present must be having a most unenviable time. The Talune, from Lyttelton, had not reached hero by 7 to-night, and it is expected that owing to the thick weather at the Heads she has gone into Port Underwood for shelter. Port Chalmers, April 15. Arrived—Te Anau, from L3-ttelton. DoNEM-sr, April 15.

The barque Obed Baxter, from New York, arrived last night. Her cargo consists of 1510 tons, of which 800 are for this port, and the balance for Lyttelton and Napier. Sailed—Te Anau, for Lyttelton. Passengers—Misses McDiarmicl, Bell, L. Anderson, Fraser, Drinnan, Mesdames Dobbie,, D. K. Morrison, Patrick, Edie, Cuthbert, Lacy and 2 children, Messrs Little, Patrick, Edie, Farquahar, Downes, Harrowell, Fraser, Coaue, J. B. Morrison, Chamberlain, Mithell, Johnson, and 17 in the steerage.

Canterbury, ship, for London, with a carfi*o of grain and wool. Bluff, April 15. Sailed—Pukaki, for Wellington.

April 16. Sailed—Mary Wadley, barquentine, for Greymouth. »