SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 7181, 7 April 1887, Page 3

SHIPPING.

High Water. To-morrow. —Talama Heads : 2.25 a.m., 2.46 p.m. Port Chalmers; 3.5 a.m., 8.28 p.m. Dunodln : 3.50 -.m., 4.11 p.m. .Saturday, Taiaroa Heads: 3 9 a.m., 3.39 p.m. Port Chalmers; 3.49 a.m. 4.12 pm. Dunedin : 4.84 8.m., 4.57 p.m. Port Chalmers. ARRIVED.— April 6. Wanaka, 8.5., 220 tons, White, from Oamaru. SAILED April 7. Ohau, ss., 411 tons, Bernech, for Auckland via Auckland and intermediate ports. Kakanui, s.s , 69 tons, Best, lor Waikawa. Tho barque Caberfeidh left Kaipara for this port on March 28 Independent soundings of tho state of tho bar at Otago Heads were taken on tho 30th ult. by Mr D. O. Stephens and by Pilot Milne, with the result that they respectively found 19It lin and 19lt in the channel. A ship, with painted ports, was reported abreast of the Nuggets at 730 a.m. to day. She will probably bo tho Bencleugh, which left London on January 10, now eighty-seven days out. A large barque was also reported four miles south, the wind at the time being very light N E. . Tho Wanaka arrived yesterday evening from Oamaru, and steamed direct to Dunedin. In giving evidence before a Royal Commission at Melbourne aa to the working of the Companies Act in relation to banking, Mr E. S. Parkes (superintendent of the Bank of Australasia) suggested that for the safety of the public the Government should compel every bank to invest in Government seen Itics the amount of tho notes issued, and that tho noto Issue should be the first charge on tho assets. He also suggested that hanking and other returns should be made monthly instead of quarterly, and should supply fuller information than is accepted at present. MOVEMENTS OF THE UNION STEAMHII’B COMPANY’S FLEET. Thursday, April 7. Bluff. —Tekaoo arrived 8 a.m from Port Chalmers Lyttelton.— Uawea arrived 730 a.m. from Wellington ; sailed 3 p ra. for Poit Chalmers.—Rotomahana arrived 8 a.m. from Port Chalmers; sailed 5 p.m. for Wellington.— Wakatipu arrived 9 a.m. from Timaru; sailed 3 p.m. for Wellington. Greymouth. —Wainui sailed 9 a.m. for Nelson. Napier.- Southern Cross arrived 6 a.m. from Wellington ; sailed 5 p.m. for Gisborne. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Arawa arrived at Hobart at midnight on Wednesday,’and proceeds thence direct to Wellington. Shipping Telegrams. Auckland, April 6.—Janet Niccol, for Tonga, with a full general ca-go.-Turawera, for Sydney. Wellington, April o.— Hawea, for the South, Lyttelton, April 6. Rotorua, from Dunedin.— Gcrda, for Greymouth. Sydney, April 6.— Zcalandia, from Auckland —7th : Hauroto, from Wellington, last evening. Melbourne, April 7.—Te Anau, from the Bluff via Hobart