SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 6919, 4 June 1885, Page 3

SHIPPING.

High Water.

To-uobrow.—Talaroa Headß: 79 a.m., 734 p.m. Port Chalmers: 7.49 a.m., 8.14 p.m. Dunodln; 8 34 a.m., 8.59 p.m.

Port Chalmers.

ARRIVED.-June 3 Beautiful Star, e.s., 146 tons, White, from Oamaru. Eight passengers. . . JoneL Wakatipu, s.s., 1,158 tons, Wheeler, from Sydney via Wellington and Lyttelton. Passengers Hon. Georgo M'Lean, Captain Cameron, Mr Hume; and five In the steerage Wanganui, schooner, 78 tons, Graham, from Greymputh. ~ „ , Isabella Anderson, schooner, 79 tons, Martin, from Greynuuth. Janet Nterll. as, 459 tons, Hutton. from the Islands via tho North Passengers: Mr and Mies Edenborough. SAILED.-June 4.

Te Anau, s.s., 1,020 tons, M'Gee, for Melbourne via tho Bluff. Passengers: For Melbourne-Mr, Mrs, and Mies Lewis, Mißses Klein and Mitchell, Mrs Logie, Messrs Cuddie, Singer, Miles; and ten In tho 6 Walhora, s.g.. 1,289 tons, Edlo. for Auokland via East Coast porta. Passengers*. For Lytteljon -Miss Johnson, Messrs Ogle Morris, Purchase: and two in the stocrage. For Wellington-Mrs Doddam and child, M * M. Holmes, Rev. H. J. Davis, Mira Warren, Mrwrs Domett, Prow, llqwie, and Frar.cr. tor Auok. land—Ulsa L. Thomson, Rev. T. Fa)ham, Meewa Rothschild, Smith, Read; anJ twenty-five in the eteerage.

Tho Beautiful Star left OamarU at 8 Pitn yesterday. Experienced H<ht variable windl) and fine weather along tho coast, and reaohed Fort Chalmers at The' Wakatlpu, from Sydnoy via Wellington aid Lyttelton, arrived at 10 a.m. to-day. She left Sydney at f.5 p m on May 20; cleared the lUads at 6 p.m ; experienced strong S W. winds, with heavy southerly swtll, until the 25th ; thence light S K winds and flue weather; sighted Capo Farewell littht at 4 a.m. on the 31st; passed Stephen Island at 9.30 am , and reached Wellington at 6 p.m. same dav ; li ft at 5.30 p.m. on the Ist Inst ; had northerly winds and line wea'hir to Lyttelton, leaving there at 3 45 p.m yesterday; bad light ain along tho cuast. We thank her purser torrcpoit The barque Pet was to leave Hobart on the 23th ult, for Dimedin Letters from Apia of May 20 state that Meß' r < M'Artbur and Co.'s schooner Oliver, wrecked thi ro on the reef at Fi 8 loote, is expected to be got off She was insured in the south British for LI ,000, and the original cargo for L 1,200, two-thirds cf which is reinsured. The Victorian Navigation Board have adopted new regulations, devised by the Board of Trade, for tbp more satisfactory examination of candidates desiring to obtain masters' or mates' certificates. Hitherto it has I'cen taken for granted that if tho candidate gives correct answers to the paper questions the examiner has no power to reject him. After the 6th August, when the new regulations come into force, the candidates will be required to satisfy the examiners in a vi wi voce examina'ion. Particular ciro will be taken to test candidate! on tho subject of the deviation of tho compass. On Tuesday there ware at Lyttelton ten steamerß (exclusive of local steamers), of an aggregate tonnage of 19,330 grosa. This the 'Prcs4' bilievcs to be the larVeßt tonnage of steamers tint has ever been in Lj Helton harbor on any p.evjous occasion on the same day. „ . The Union Company's steamers will in futive call at Hobart every week in coming from Melbourne. For the information of navigators between here and the western portion of the south ooa9t of Australia tho Marine Board at Port Adelaide, South Australia, have given noMce of the existence of a dangerous rocky patch, wl ioh the master of the schooner Giace Darling discovered when on a voyage from treaky Bat to Venus Harbor. Breakers were first observed under the bow, and, on sounding, a depth of only 12ft was found for about half a cable's length, the bottom bclnit rocky and visible at the time. Cape Badstock bore N W., distant two mi'cs and a-quorter, which would place, tho danger in latitude S3deg 14min S., and longitude 134deg 21min E., approximately ; bearings The funeral tf tho late wife of Captain Peobleß, of the four-masted barquo Twoedsdale, took place yesterday. The remains were removed from the ship at the Williamsto*n railway pier at a quarter to 2 p in and convoyed to Sp ncer ttreet, Melbourne, by train There a number of friends, captains of vessels, and local relatives formod a wrtfge, and proceeded to tho Melbourne General Cemetery, whore the deceased was buried. Tho flags of allJho vessels in tho bay oognisanc of the faot wore hoisted half-mast as a mark of sympathy with Captain Peebles in his ead bereavement. Mrs Peebles was only twenty-six vears of ago at the timo of her dooth, and was the second daughter of tho late Captain John Robertson, of Port Chalmers.—Melbourne 'Telegraph,' May 21 The Merchant Shipping and Uuderwritere* Association have again placed themselves in communication with the Victorian Government relative to a reeurvoy of Banks's Straits. They admit the accuracy and completeness of tho surveys of Banks Strait made by Lieutenant Stanley in: W77, but point out that there is a'undant evidence to arTordwrandß if or apprehension that the sea bottom of that portion of tho Strait may have been so scriouHy altered andrJisplaced through the continuous earthquakes Of (be last

two or three years, and that such displacement, If It exist, may lead to most serious disasters and loss of life. Recent experiences emphasise these representations. . M , „ . The German ship Kepler, whioh arrived in Hobson Biy on the evening of the 24tb ult., after a paesage of ninety-five days from Glasgow, reports having experienced several severe storms on the way ont. She left Glasgow on the 14th February, and was three days in the Downs through adverse weather. When approaching Madeira, on the 9th March, the waves rose to a tremendous height, and three sailors, AB.s, were lost overboard while making a hazard fast to the jibboom. A heavy sea came unexpectedly to them and swept them away. Every effort was mals to save them, but without avail. They were Germans, named Moritz Hagilscein, Adolf Harmes, and Emil Mlldenstoin. The sehooners Wanganui and Isabella Anderson, coal-laden from Qroymoutb, arrived this forenoon. They left in company on the 23rd ult, with a moderate westerly breeze, which continued until the 25th; rounded Cape Farewell the same day, and Cape Campbell on the following day ; when abreast of Kalkoura experienced a hortvy S.W, gale, and rnn into Port Underwood for shelter; the galo moderated on the Ist Inst ; had light N. and N E. winds thence to arrival.

MOVEMENTS OF THE UNION STEAM BIIIP COMPANY'S FLEET. Thursday, Junk 4. Napier,—Suva sailed 11.46 a.m. tor Gisbornc Nklson -Tahroa sailed Ipm. for Picton. Lytteltont. Hawea arrived 7 am. from Wellington ; sailed 3 p.m. f> r Port Chalmers—Taupo sailed II a.m. for Wellington.—l'ekapo (jailed eight last night for We lingtonl

THE JANET NICOLL.

This steamer arrived this aftornoin, and steamed straight up to Dunedin. She left Lyttelton at 4p. in yesterday ; experienced light winds down the coast. She m a straight-stemmed vessel, rigged as a topsail schooner (her topsail ya ds ore at present on deck), aDd in genera) appearance somewhat resembles the Mawberaand Koranui. She has large hold accommodation, and seems to be specially adapted for tho carrying of fruit, as the cargo has, so far as can bo seen, arrived in splendid order, though the hatches had to be buttetud down for four days owing to bad weather t-oon after leaving the Islands The Janet Nicoll's officers are-Captain Hutton; chief officer, Mr Matheson ; second officer, Mr Patten; chief engineer, Mr Hutton; second engineer, Mr J. Hutton ; third engineer, Mr Sutherland. Captain Hutton kindly supplied a'l particulars as to the vessel and her trip. She was built at Jarrow-on-Tyne under the supervision of Captain Hutton, to tho order of her owner, Mr Nicoll, of Sydney, and was launched in August, 1884 She is classed 100 Al at Lloyd's. Her dimensions are - Length, 185 feet; beam, 29ft 2in ; depth of hold, 13ft Bin; net tonnage, 480 She is fitted with a pair ot compound surface-condensing engines of DO horse-power nominal, but capable of being worked up to 450 horse-power, with a pressure of 001b to tho square inch. The diameter of her cylinders is 23 : n and 44in respectively. Steam is generated in a multitubular steel boiler, fed by three furnaces; and she can btcam nine knots afr hour on an average consumption of nine tons of coal daily. Tho Janet Nicoll's saloon is not a large one - it can accommodate only about twenty passengers —but it is very neatly fitted up, the woodwork being of bird's eye maple, teak, and mahogany. We understand that, if required, provision can be made to accommodate a number of second-class pafsengers. The vessel comes cons'gned to Mr Keith Ramsay. Her cargo on this her first trip consist of about a thousand cases cf oranges and a fow coses of dried bananas. Tho steamer was berthed alongside tho wharf at 3 p.m., and five minutes later tho winch was at work getting cargo out of the aftarhold. Her draught, we may mention, is in hor present trim Bft forward and lift aft. She leaves to-morrow for tho Islands via Oiumru and Northern ports.

THE DIRECr STEAMERS.

Tho Tongariro was to leave Lyttolton wharf at eight o'clock thiß morning, (or Wellington. She takes from Lyttolton 8,000 bales of wool and a quantity of other produce. About soventy-flve passengers were b joked up to last night

Weather Telegram.

The riarbor Board rcooived the following telegram (com tho Meteorological Department at Wellington: —" Watoh barometer ; bod weather approaching between south-west and south and east. Glass further rise, and considerable sea, and weather very coki.— R. A. Edwin." (Received at 1.13 p m.)

Shipping Telegrams,

Auckland, Juno 8.-1.30 p.m., Tarawom, from Sydney. She left Sydney at 5 p.m. on tho i9th. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Richardson, Mrs and Master Wood, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Hay, Mrs Wilson, Oap'ain Peterson, Messrs Bloom, Dignan, Mason, Bennetts; and t went} -three in the stcevtge. Wbulinoton, Juno 3.-4.15 p.m., Hawea, from tho South. Passengers: Misses Dryburgh and Buokle, Mrs Wood, Messrs Brandon, Bother, Bell, Studholme, Gilchrist, and Roskruge. Lyttklton, June B—Altair, for London.-Tekapo, for Wellington.—Janet Nicoll, for Dunedin.— Mahinapua, for Wellington.—Wakatipu, for Dunedin.— Wareatea, for Westport. TiMAKir, Juno 3.—Niagara, from Newcastle.—Lapwing, from Auckland.—Matai, for Northern and West Coast ports.