PORT OF NAPIER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6376, 11 February 1892, Page 2

PORT OF NAPIER.

Pun rises to-morrow at .. 5 8 a.m. Sun sets to-morrow at .. 6.45 p.m. High water slack to-morrow at 7.2 a.m and 7.2G p.m.

ARRIVALS. _»~-u _..._._,—

February. 10—Te Kapu, s.s., from Wairoa Smith and Provis, agents.

DEPARTURES

February. 10—Kiwi, s.s , for Wellington. Dulgety and Co., agents. 10—Venus, ketch, for Gisborne. Williams and Kettle (limited), agents. 10—Spray, topsail schooner, for Dunedin. Ellißon and Duncan, agents. 11—Te Kapu, s.s., for Wairoa. Smith and Provis, agents.

VESSELS IN PORT.

Hermione, ship Rangitiki, barque Inverurie, barque Senator, "_hip Dunedin, topsail schooner

The s.s. Kiwi, Captain Campbell, left for Wellington yeflterday afternoon at five o'olock. The topsail schooner Spray and the ketch VenU9 left yesterday evening for Dunedin and Gisborne respectively. The s.s. Te Kapu arrived in port last night from Wairoa, and after taking a number of paßsei.gers on board, steamed again for Wairoa at 12 15 this morning, and is telegraphed as having arrived to the wharf at that place shortly after ieven The topsail schooner Dunedin has finished loading timber, and is expected to take her departure this evening for Oamaru. The s.s. Fanny was to go out to-day to the barquo Inve'rurie at the ballast ground with a load of tallow, after transhipping which she will tow the barque to the inner anchorage this afternoon, when her loading for Home will be rapidly proceeded with. The Tyser Company's s.s. Indramayo has arrived at the Bluff, and can be expected to arrive hero on Monday next, when she will load 40,000 carcasses frozen Bheep from Messrs Nelson Bros, (limited). She will be followed by the S.S. and A Company's s.s. Tainui, which is due here on the 20th inst., whioh is to take 10,000 carcasses from the game firm. ' . TO . The ship Oamaru, from London vta Wellington, Bhould with this southerly weather arrive here during the afternoon. She brings a quantity of original cargo for here. The ship Senator, Captain Smith, is busy throwing out ballast, and will as soon as ready come up to her loading berth. She is a fine roomy ship, her registered tonnage being 1696 tons, and she is expected to take a large cargo away from here. The Mararoa left Sydney for New Zealand yesterday. . The Auckland bngantine Ryno, Captain A. Tribe, has been .vrecked at Flint's Island, where it went ashore during a gale. The crew and the only passenger on board, were landed safely, and the master, mate, and steward set out in an open boat, and reached Huahine, one of the Society group, whence they travelled to Papetu. The Ryno was under charter to Messrs Arundel and Co. in the guano trade. Owners, as well as shipmasters (says the New Zealand Herald), will be interested in the figures lately made public by the Marine Board of South Australia respecting Port Pirie and Port Augusta. The figures givbn by the Board indicate a large increase in the tonnage of vessels visiting Port Pine. During the past year the average size of each ship, exclusive of coasters, was about 1000 tors, as compared with 806 tons for the preceding year. The total shipping inwards and outwards was 265 vessels, of 265,245 tons. *• ighty -were steamships, and 185 were sailing vessels. Good work has been done in deepening wharf frontages by their owners, and opposite the Government wharf a swinging berth with a radius of 400 ft, and a channel depth of 12ft Gin, has been completed. To judge by reports received last year these improvements were sadly needed. . There is a decided disposition on the part of builders at present to stick to the rates per ton made a couple of months ago, when giving quotations for new vessels, but in more than one case where yards were scarce of work eaßier terms have been accepted A week or ten days ago ono firm had to refuse tho order for a paddle steamer in consequence of not being able to complete her in the time specified by the ownors, who had a somewhat severe penalty clause attached to their contract specifications. First-class ateel passenger steamers may now be contracted for at £23 to £28 per ton gross register, and steel cargo steamers from £11 to £13 per ton gross register, and steel sailing ships at from £7 7s Cd to £9 per ton. An Aberdeen-built brig, the John Wesley, formerly a South Sea Itland missionary chin is missing, Captain Bowers of the Loongana. reports that when he was at Butaritari on December 28th, there was in port the American schooner Equator, the master of which stated that on his voyage from the Carolines he passed a quantity of floating wreckage. It was too much submerged to positively describe it, but ap■narently consisted of the after part of a vessel also a topmast with the crosstrees hanging to it. He could not discover any name or anything that would give any idea as to the identity of the unlucky ship.