SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 7385, 3 December 1887, Page 3

SHIPPING.

High Water. To-mohrow. Talaroa Heads; 4.39 a.m., 453 p.m. Port Chalmers: 5.19 a.ra. t 6.38 p.m Dum .... ; 6.4 а. 6.23 p.m. Monday. Taiaroa Heads: 5.17 a.m., 5.37 p.m. Pott Chalmers: 5.57 a.m., 6.17 pm. Dunedin : б. a.m., 7.2 p.m. Port Chalmers. SAlLED.— December 2. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Stott, for Oamaru. December 3. Lizzie, cutter, 35 tons. Joss, for Owake and Gatlin River. The baique Rose U. has put out some 250 tons of coal at the Jetty street wharf. The barque Himalaya has discharged 400 tons cf cargo at the Rattray street wharf. Tne brig Astrea is nearly full of cargo. The Beautiful Star sailed last night for ber usual trip to Oamaru. The cutter Lizzie sailed this forenoon for Owake and Catlin River. The steamer Te Anau, on her arrival next trip, will be laid up for overhaul, and her place taken by that magnilicent the steamer Mararoa. The steamer Tarawera is again detailed to make the annual trip from Dunedin to the West Coast Sounds and hack. As usual she wid be specially fitted tor the occasion, and there is little doubt she will leave the port filled up with passengers. The steamer Omapere, from Auckland direct, arrived alongside the George street pier at 5.30 pm. yesterday, and was hauled into the graving dock this morning for cleaning, scraping, repainting. She left Auckland at 4 p.m. on the 28th ult., and rounded the East Cape at 4 p.m. on the 29th, blowing a hard gale from the south ; passed Portland Island at 7 a.m. on the 30th, and breasted Cape Turnagain at 6.30 p.m. same day and Akaroa at midnight of the Ist inst., and entered Talaroa Heads at 4.46 p.m. yesterday, arriving as above, having expetlnced light variable winds and smooth sea from the East Cape. We thank her purser for report. A cablegram in a late number of the ‘ Argus ’ sta'es that the Colonial-Union s.s. Selembria, 1,080 tons, bound from London to Sydney, has put in o Tentriffe, having lost her propeller. The much-argued question whether ship-owners can. by the exception stated in their bills of lading, contract themselves out of their liability for damage to goods carried by them, was decided by the Full Court at Brisbane in the case of Maxwell v. Lawson. The defendant is the master of the steamer Clonourry, and was sued by the plaintiff for LI 50, the value of a case of plate-glass which was damaged in transit, by the steamer named, from London to Brisbane. The Chief Justice and Mr Justice Mein held that the defendant was liable, and judgment was given lor the plaintiff, with costs. Mr Justice Harding dissented, and held that judgment should go lor the defendant. (THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The mail steamer Kalkoura was signalled from Wellington this af'ernoon, and was expected to teach an anchorage at five o’clock, Shipping Telegrams. Auckland, December 2.— Loongana, from Lyttelton. —Welcome, from Brisbane. Onbiiungi, December 2.— Herald, from Greymonth. —Wanaka, for the South. Passengers ; Miss Wilson, Mr Brownell. Lyttelton, December 2. —Rotorua and Ilauroto, for Wellington.—Annie Hill, for the Bluff. London, December I.—Ship Otago, from Lyttelton (September 2).