SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 7340, 12 October 1887, Page 3

SHIPPING.

Port Chalmers. ARRJVED.-Octobkr 11. ! Edith May, barquentine, 218 tons, J. Vog, from Port Mackay (Queensland), October 12. Kakanu l , 8.8., 66 torn, Beat, from Waikawa. Rotomabaria, §.«., 886 tons, Carey, from Sydney via Auokland and East Coast ports. Passengers : Sir' Robert andLadyStout.fourehildreD,and three servants Meidames Sraellie, M'Nfool, Nulter, White, Carter, Rowbottom, Joaohim and child, Blnnoy,,Pollock and child, Misses Logan (2), Walker, Messrs Cloland, Diwson, Johnson (2), Rowbottom, Charters, Joachim, Murley, .Langlln, Joynt, Baoon,. Walker, Captain Stott; and thirty-four in the steerage. - ' SAlLED.—October 11. ' Boautlful Star, a.*-, 116 tons. White, for Oatnaru. Mawbera, 6.8., 563, tons, Hill, for Qreymouth »ia Oamaru. OCTOBIK 12. - Manapouri, i.e., 1,020 tons, Stott, for Sydney via Auokland and East Coast ports. Pawenjters: For Lyttelton—Misses Biggins, Reeves, Messrs Donald, Rankin, Blythe. Tor Wellington-Mrs Johnson, Mr Faulkner. For Napier—Miss Meir, Mr .Meir. For Auokland—Mr and Mrs W. B. Forbes, Mrs Coubreugh, Misses Coubreugh, Tennent, Messrs Walker 1 , Farley, Hojao. For Sydney—Mr and Mrs Gibson, Mrs Loggie, MrHolder; and seven steerage. PElnveroargUl, s.s„ 186 tons, SuDdstrum, for Invercargiu\ '■".'.■..!-..!,■■ i •

The barquentine Edith May made preparations'for discharging cargo this afternoon at the Rattraystreet wharf. 1 .

The barque Star of the East bad only a Httlo looso cargo to put out to-day. She is taking in grain for Auckland, and m»y be expected to sail early next Th) ketch oyde was hauled over to the tonguo whatf, and will there be overhauled. Tho boati of the V; lon Steam Ship Company at Ihe Rattray .street wharf to day wee the Manapouri, Pukakl, and Kotomibaoa The Wcstl.ud is to be towed down to-morrow morning to Port Cha'mors. The Orari has about 100 tonß of cargo yet to put ouU , . The Kakanai, timbor-laden from Waikawa, arrived at Bi3o a.m. to-day, »>.d steamed alon'.'tido the expoifc pier to dieehargo partof hercargo. left Waikawa at 6 p.m. yesterday; had fresh N.E. winds along the Coast: ; . Thos'eatnorßotomahanaifrom Sydnoy wa Aueßj land and Bwt Csast ports, anlvcd at Port Chalmers at 11 am. tp-d iy. Sho left Sydney at 5.30 p.m. of tho 29th ult.; expetienoßdmcder.it? to fresh S.w. winds until she passed the Three Kings at 4 am. of the 3rd Inst; thence she hid strong 8. W. winds to arrival at Auokland at 10 pra. the same day ; ltft tbero at noon on the 6th, Oisborneat 7 p.m. same day, Napier at 5 a.m. on the oth, WeliingMn at 6 p.m., and Lyttelton at 7 p.m. yesterd iy Prom Auckland she experienced moderate variable winds. Another inetanoe of the great riek attendant upon the carriage of dangerous goods on sbipbe»rd was shown on the paspigo of the b rquo Kqorasan, which arrived Htgly at Melbourne ftom London'. She had \W deck'rvßo flvo halt-ton drums of sulphuric acid. These drums are of iron, and cylindrical, measuring Bft long by 2ft Sin in djame'o-, and have a wvn bung In the,mlddh of the side During soma hpavy wtatherthOße drums leaked at tho bungs, the packing having got !o*se, i it', the deoks being flooded at the time, the add wa-•<>. far diluted to be dangerous, though BtrODg cii u ;ii w destroy the boots and clothes of the men who ■■ >■ ■•!. work stopping tho leak. We are informed th.... lu.d it lieen possible tho drums would bavo been jettisoned bodily, but tho weight was too great, and this coiißtitues the great danger of suoh weighty and awkward paokagos. Tho tamo vessel carried, below hatches, a shipmont of gun powder! The steam yacht Now Thon, built by the famous blind designer, HorreEboff, of Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S., has made the pimage from Bristol to New York in.sevon hourß and Mx minutes, the speed averaging twenty-four miles an hour, and a p< rtlon of the trip was made at the unprecedented speed of twenty-eight miles an hour. The mo-it notioeahle feature of the steam yachts ft this buildor | 9 the use of a coil boiler capable of standing a working pressure of 2501b to the square inch The Now Then measures 81ft gn tho water-line, and 86ft over-all, 10ft beam, and 3fo Sin draught; she has a flu'h deck and fore and aft schooner rigging. The bow is made with a sharp clipper overhang, and the stern roeembloß the ram of a man-of-war, but with concave surfaces underneath for the purpose of preventing depression of thi stern whon running at a high rate of speed. The builder has designed many f4Bt steam yachts, but has not produced, any thing approaching this in speed.— ' Engineering.' It is not very flattering to the American national pride to have it recorded that the United St tes has sunk even below tho level of that Httlo kingdom Norway as a maritime power. In 1884 it would appear that Norway had 1,688,434 registered tonnage, while the United States could only muster up 1,404,222 registered tonnage, and this, too, in the faco of the fact that eiery possible endeavor had been made to restore tho Stars and Stripes to its former prestige, by removing the bu dene and disabilities imposed upon I heir shipping intensts by a system of restrictive legislation which has met with such small encouragement as to forbid tho exp>ctat ! on of an early change for the better in that " land of liborty " The batqucntine Edith May reach d the Heads yesterday afternoon, after a very stormy passage of twenty-Six days from Port Maokay, Queensland- Sho was tendered by the Pluoky, »'h'ch towed her across the bar at 8 pm , and all btiur well she continued her oourae to uunedin to discharge her cargo, which consists of 6,670 togs of sugar. Captain Vos reports leaving Port Mockay on Sootombcr 15 with a northerly breeze, wbieh was fallowed by fresh N. and N E. >• inds until sho breasted Sydney Heads on the 2otn u!t.; experienced a succession of hea* y gales from S.S.VV. to S.S.E , with tsrriflo eeas which broke on board and strained the. vessel heavily; this weather continued for three days, and several of her sails wcresp'it; was compelled to hcave-to on several ccJ-sions. On September 29 the weather moderated, and for twenty-four hours bad variable winds ; brea ted Stephens Island at noon of the sth inst.; bad lisfhtaiie until the oth, whenaN.W. breeze set in, aid the bra'cd Cape Campbell bamo evening when tho wind bau'ed to the N E , veering to S.E., freshening to a strong breeze, with foggv weather to arrival.

MOVEMENTS OF THE UNION STEAM S'HP COMPANY'S FLEET.

Wkdnksday, Octohkr 12. Lyttelton.—Hauroto arrived 11 a.m. from Oamaiu. Ww.iiiNGTON.—Hawea arrived 4 a.m. from Ne'son ; sailed 2.30 p.m. for Lyttelton. Nblhon.—Koranui arrived 0 30 p.m. fiom Wellington ; sailed 3.30 p.m. for Qreymoutb. Nkw Plymouth. Penguin arrived early from Manukau; sailed 8 p.m. for Nelson.

Shipping Telegrams.

Alcklanp, October 11.—Zuvi, for tho Soit'b. Wellington, Octobor 11.—Mahinaptla and Waeaka, from tho South.—Mimlha, e hooner, from Auckland. —Waoaka, for OnehuDpa. Lyttblton, October 11 -RotorUa and firnaru, for Wellington.—Grafton* for Timaru and Duncdin.— Rotomahana, for the South. Sydney, October 11. - Wakistlpu, for Wellington. Mblbournb, October 11. Wairarapi, from the Bluff.