SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3611, 7 February 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NAPIER

ARRIVALS.

February. G—Boojum, s.s., from Wairoa. Passengers—Ben Allah, and Messrs Price and Gilford. 7 —Alary Ogilvio, topsail schooner, from Dunedin.

DEPARTURES February.

G—Taiaroa, s.s., from Dunedin, Lyttelton, aud Wellington. Passengers —Messrs AY. E. Taylor, and J. Hindmarsh.

The Union .Steamship Company's s.s. Taiaroa took her departure for AVelliugton, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers shortly before o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The steamer Manaia, Captain Bootham, i loading up for Mahia to-day, and will tret away about 9 o'clock to-night. " The Union Company's launch Boojum, Captain Maloney, returned from AVairoa last evening, bringing three passengers. The s.s. Maori, Captain Anderson, is to leave for Wairoa at 10 o'clock to-night, and will be calling at Mohaka on her way back. The Union Steamship Company's s.s. Southern Cross left AVelliugton for Northern ports at 1 o' clock yesterday afternoon, and is expected to arrive here during the early part of this afternoon. She is to be brought inside to discharge, and will resume her passage for Gisborne, Tologa Bay, and Auckland later on.

The s.s. Kiwi, wuich left here on Monday night, is telegraphed as having arrived at Wellington at 8 o'clock this morning. Tho topsail schooner Mary Ogilvie, Captain David Connor, brought up in the roadstead from Dunedin a. 10 o'clock this morning, and will be brought inside at about 2 o'clock this afternoon. She brings a cargo of gunpowder, flour, oatmeal, wheat, oats, soap, and a quantity of under bond goods to various consignees. Messrs Banner and Liddle are her local agents. The s.s. AVanaka, with the English 'Frisco mail, arrived at AVellington at 0.30 a.m. to-day.

Referring to the race between the steamers Manapouri and City of Sydney, from Auckland to Sydney, in which the vessels were said to have arrived within a few minutes of each other, the New Zealand Herald says : The Manapouri is reported to have left Auckland at 5.30 p.m. on the Oth, aud to have arrived at Sydney at 7.30 p.m. on the 13th. The City of Sydney is reported to have left Auckland at 8.25 p.m. on the oth, and to having arrived at Sydney at 10.48 p.m. on the 13th. These are the reports as supplied by the ships. It is a most significant fact that, in the introduction to the report of the passage of the City of Sydney, the Sydney Morning Herald of Monday, 15th instant, remarks :

—' The R.M.S. City of Sydney, with mails, passengers, aud cargo from San Francisco, arrived in port yesterday morning.' Again in a local, the same paper says:—' The P.M. Company's steamship City ofSydnuy reached this port soon after midnight on on Saturday.' From private letters received from passengers by the City of Sydney we find that the mail steamer's time, as given in their report, is when she took the pilot upon entering the Sydney Heads, whilst that of the Manapouri's is her arrival alongside the company's wharf. There is but little question but that the Manapouri won the race, and so far satisfied arc the backers of the City of Sydney that they have lost, that they have paid their wagers without further question."

[by cable.] Melbourne, February G. Sailed, this afternoon, steamship Arawata for the Bluff.

[by telegeaph.] Dunedin, This day

Arrived, Hauroto. s.s., from Melbourne. She left at 7 p.m. on the Ist instant, and cleared the heads at 11 p.m. ; had strong easterly winds with high seas till the sth, when a strong southerly gale set in, lasting till she entered Foveaux Straits on the Gth: had light winds along the coast, reaching the heads at midnight. Sailed, Union Company's s.s. Tarawera for West Coast Sounds.