SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5710, 18 December 1889, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NAPIER.

DEPARTURES., V December. v- .; ; 17—Ahuriri, a a., for Blackhead. Dalgety and Co., areata.

The s.s. Ahuriri left for Blackhead last night. She will briug a load of wool for the Soukar. The destination of the schooner Orpheus from here lias not yet been fixed. Tho ketch Comet is loading timber, and will probably proceed hence to Lyttelton. The barque Berwickshire will come up to the anchorage to-morrow night, if the wind is favorable.

Tho Kahu left Wellington at 7 p.m. yesterday, and is due here to-morrow morning. The Wairoa left Wairoa at 11.30 a.m., and is due at the Spit at 4 p.m. The following id a synopsis of the cargo shipped at this port by the Star of England :— £

Shipped by Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co.— 298 bales greasy wool, valued at .. 3.6G5 Shipped by Messrs Dalgety and Co. — 102 bales greusy wool, valued at .. 1,670 Shipped by Mes3rs Johnston and Co. per F. W. Williams and Kettle— 15 bales scoured wool, valued at ~ 291 257 bales greasy wool .. .. 3,989 Shipped by Messrs F. W. Williams and Kettle— 1072 bales greasy wool, valued at .. 14,165 30 casks pelts .. 331 884 cases tinned meats .. .. 1,211 18,552 carcasses frozen mutton .. 14,722 1348 carcasses frozen lamb .. .. 741 683 quarters frozen betf ~ .. 1,511 47 bags frozen kidneys .. .. 89 Shipped by the N.Z. Loan and M. A. Company— 120 quarters frozen beef, valued at.. 231 100 bales greasy wool ~ .. 1,769 3 bales scoured wool.. .. .. 49 Shipped by Messrs Richardson and Co.— 140 bales greasy wool, valued at ~ 2,279 85 bales greasy vool.. ~ .. 1,243 Shipped by Messrs Cranby and Prebble— 1 box effects, valued at .. .. 7 : Total value .. ..£47,963

Besides this, she had on board 3829 carcasses frozen mutton and 179 oarcasses frozen lamb from Gisborne, 364 tons Greymoutli coals, besides a quantity of wool, tallow, butter, end frozen meat from Rookhampton.

A late number of the Australian Shipping Guide contains the following :—The Norwegian barque Norge, bound from Grungeinouth to Buenos Ayres, took fire when 66 days out and had to be abandoned. The captain, his wife and daughter, and the whole of the crew after being 40 hours in the boat wore picked up by the barque Candida, which arrived from Hamburg yesterday. Two days after the rescue tho Star of Bengul, homeward bound, was fallen in with, nnd the captain, wife, child, two mates, steward and boy were transhipped to her the remaining seven coming on here. The late Captain F. S. Fielding, who had command of the Union Company's steamer Taupo and Fijian, died in Sydney last July, and left various legacies to charitable and religious institutions. The will was made in March, 1888, and a codicil on the 26th July last, the day of his death. He left £50 each to the Melbourne Blind Asylum, Roman Catholic Orphanage (South Melbourne), Melbourne Sick Children's Hospital, Magdalen Asylum (Abboteford), and the Little Sisters of the Poor; and £100 to St. Vincent's Hospital (Sydneyt. The amount of tho estate is £2,009. Probate was granted by.Mr Justice Hodges yesterday to the executors, Messrs E. H. P. Baylee and W. P. Buckhurst, jun., auctioneers.

The Tarawera arrived at Sydney from Auckland yesterday. A Chribtchurch. telegram last night says: —" The condition of the barque Beltana remains nearly the same, but it is supposed taut the fire is being gradually extinguished. The temperature amidships has decreased from 100 yesterday to 87 to-day. Over 450 gallons of chemicals were injected into the hold last night."