SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 7505, 25 April 1888, Page 3

SHIPPING.

Ills'll Water, Tomorrow.— Taiaroa Heads : 2 2L a ni., 2.41 p.m. Pott Chalmers : 3.1 a.m., 3.21 p.m. Dunedin; a AH a in A fl n 111

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ARRIVED.—Ar-niL 25. Grafton, s s., 297 tons, Nordstrum, from Wcßtpoit via Timaru. Passengers : Siloon—Mr and Mra Maxwell, Meadamea M'Leod, Smith and child, Miss Aylmer, Me: Bra Bruce, Morfeild, Gooks; and six in tho steerage. Rotomahana. s.s., 086 tons, Carey, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast ports. Passengers : Saloon —Mr and Mra Ferguson, Mr and Mrs Coyne and two children, Mcsdamea Robe ti», Root, M'Fadycn, Misses Squires, Stevens, Mfickcrsey, Spiers, Totter, Maghar, Gallagher, Mcssrß Hilton, Uray, Cargill, W. Gray, T. P.itcrsnn, Richardson, .1. Mctz \V. Rcod, Simkin, Chiaroni, luvia, .Shaw ; and twolvc in the steerage. SAILED.—AntiL !!■!. Beautiful Star, s.s., 110 ionß, Fcnn, for Oantaru. AruiL " r >. Inicr'argill, s.s , 130 tons, tundstruni Vor KillIleiald, p.h., 306 t'insi, Jones, (or tho West Coa3t via Oamaru. Knkamii, s.s., oh" tons, Beat, for Waikawa. Wairarapa, s.e., 1,0_'3 tons, Chatfield, for Sydney via the East Coist. I'assengors : For Lyt'elton— Messrs Wood, Grcig, Holme, and Sosswoll. For Wellington— Mcsianies Fcrgnsoon, Rornasord, Miss Held, Hon. Captain and Mrs Fraser, Mr and Mrs Michie, child, and servant, Mr and Mra Young, child, and servant, Mr nnd Mrs and Miss Reunard, Hon. Mr Fergus, Messrs Masters, Oakey, and Brindley. For NapierMrs Fulton, Miss U-es. Messrs 11. Lee, J. Brugh. For Auckland—MiFaTomkin. For Sydney-Rev. M'Kndoc, Measra Begg, 11. T. Wright; one in the steerage.

The barque Bass Rock, Captain Maofarlano, left Glasgow for Dunedin on February !"8. The Wairarapa took in cargo snd ombarked pasaengers at the Rattray street wharf to-day, and left at 2 30 p m. for Sydney via the East Coast ports. Tho Mawhera took in cirgo to-day for tbo West Coaat porta, and is to leave Dunedin wharf at 10 p.m. The Invercargill lift tho Rattray atrcet whaif yesterday evening for Invercargill. The Wairarapa steamed up from Port Chalmers this forenoon, and was borthed at the Victoria wharf to di-chargn cargo. ~,... -j Tho Herald left tho Rattray street wharf at midniirht on Monday. . ~ The Kakanui sailed yesterday evening for Waikawa. The Beautiful Star took in cargo to-day at tho Rattray street wharf, and sails at 10 p.m. for The'oiieen's Island, which is the largest barque nfloat. arrived at Sydney from San Francisco on April 13. On tho paasago she sighted Palmorßton Is'and from which a boat put off, and it was ascertained that tho ilace was inhabited by William Marston, a runaway sailor, who deserted from his ship twenty-five years ago. Ho has a grown-up family by a Kanaka woman, and all are very happy and comfortable. Tho steamer Grafton, from Wcstport via Timaru, arrived at Port Chalmers at 7.30 a.m. to-day, and, after transhippinu 13 bales wool and 16 casks tallow, to the chip Kutc/po, she steamed up to Dunedin. „ne left, Wcstport on the 120 th mat. ; oiled at Nelson, WelliD"ton, I.vttclton, Akarou, and Timaru ; loft tho latter port at 7-SO p.m. yesterday, and arrived ag aio\e From Wcstport she experienced variable winds' with line weather to arrival at Lyttelton ; th-ncc fresh southerly win-to with head sea and h».:y weather to nriis al. We thank Mr Martin (purser) report,

THc Hotomahana, from Sydney vi» Amrtlau ami East Coast ports, arrived at Po.t ChalimrJ at I(UU a.m. today. She left Sjdmy at B.M» ''••J'. «>n tho 12th inst. with li«ht N.W. winds, wl.ioh sorted w xt day into tho S.W., and blow hard, raising » hush confused sea with heavy ho.m swell. The squalls or wind and rain were vcrv scve e, and this weatner lasted until Cape Maria Van Dlemen was passed on the 10th, at 3 a.m.; rounded North Capo at 4.20 a.m.; passed Cape Drett at 10 20 a.m.; experienced trong head winds along tho coast, and arrived at Auckland at 0 p.m. on the lflth. the run across having been no formed in the fulondld time of three rtajs twenty-three hours, and tho Rotomahana having averaged for three consecutive days no ices rnan «/ knots per diem. She left again for the boulh at noon on the lllth, recohed Gisbornc at 10 a.m. on the 2Ctn left a.'ainatfjp.m. Fame day, and reached Napier at midnight; sailed again at 3 a.m. on the22nd, arriving at Wellington at 0 p.m. same day; remained Micro until 1 p.m. on tho 2?rd, when the proceeded onto L\ Melton, at which port she arrived at 0 a m. on tho 24th. bavin' experienced nriablc winds with lino weather from Auckland ; left again at 4 p.m. on tho 24th; had strong S.E. winds with ho-.vy heart fc* (lom n tho coast, and arrived as above. >\e thank Mr J. Noes Keith (purser) for renort and exchangee. The baiquc Thurso should soon put in an apppear ance, being now thirty-nine days out from the Mauritius. . , . . The letters " WCIIQ" of tho commerci-d codo have bicn allotted by the liciistrar-Qcncral of Shipping to tho 8.9. Wallahi, of Wellington, New Zealand ; and the letters "VPCO" to tho barquo Bass Rock (formerly tho Rutland-mire), of Glasgow. The barque J 1). l'ettrs. Captain Lane, from New York, for this port and Lytfelton, was spoken on February 1!) in latitude itf>dcg N. The barque Antofwasta, from Liverpool for We • lington and Dunedin, was spoken on March 1 in latitude 48deg N., longitude Bdeg W. . The barque Se cnawns to leave London on Mvch lo forOtago. , The ship Crcssington, which cleared at Melbourne I for Falmouth oh the 10th inst., had on board 30,039 sacks of wheat. This is tho largest cargo of Ihe golden cereal that has ever left Port Philip. A really startling fact is set forth in tho report of Mr Thomas Gray, C.8., of the Marine Department of tho Board of Trade, London, lately published. This is in reference to tho color test. Mr Gray Btates that in no less than 107 cases out of 189 the standard green light, (x icMy tho samo as that used for a ship's starboard (side-light, was described as red. It crtawly secnn that, aft-r such a disclosure as thn, the color test ought really to be mvle compulsory for seamen, and also for all petty < Iticcts. It is really a cruel thing to station men. as is so often dono, on a ship s forecastle to rcpoit lights without an absolute certainty that none of the men are color blind. Shipowners wou'd bo vast gainers if only they would tako steps to mako tho color test universal. The most of Ihi pilot boards have instituted color tests for pilots. What is now urgently wanted is a further and final development of the principle, as thero is no doubt th»t many collisions and other serious accidents to ships are due to this prevalenco ol color-blindness. Tho ' Auckland Herald' of tho 10th inst., publishes the following letter:-" Much has We'y been written about the runs accomplished by the steamship Rotomahana, and it is, I think, freely conceded l hat she holds the 'bluo ribbon' of the Pacific As a pisFengcr by hor on this last trip from Sydney, her performances havo eo impressed ino that I am Impelled to record them in tho columns of your valued journa'. We cleared Sydney Heads on Thursday, the 12th inst., at 5 40 p.m., with fine weather and light N.W. winds. On Friday evoning tho wind wont into the S.W., and blew with great violence, and this lasted until making the New Zealand coast. Through all this tad weathor—and there was a very heavy galo, with high cross sea—the Rotomahama r.amo with credit, and showed herself not only fast, but a sea boit of tho highest class. Wo wero abreast Three Kines Mand3 on Monday, tho lflth, at 1 a m. ; rounded North Cape at 4.20, and wcro rff Capo Brett at 10.20 a.m., arriving in Auckland Harbor at 0.15 pm. Tho Rotomahana's daily runs for threo consecutive days averaged 827 knots, and ollowing for difference of time, the whole distance of 1,281 knots has been covered in the remarkably short period of three days 23 hours. But, good as the above record undoubtedly i», it is only when we understand that thee results have hi en obtained from four out of six bnilors, or in other words, from two-thirds ot her effective and available steam power, that we begin to see what a phenomenon this fine little boat really is. Built some yevs ago, it hai becomo tho fashion to speak of her as old, out of date, etc ; but foe's speak for themselvos, and this at. least is patent, that hnrs miißt havo 1 con a premature birth, as so many fino boats, built at much later ("ates, entirely fail to compete with her. It speaks volumes for the enterprise of tho Union Ccmpany that they should, so many years ago, havo built a ship of such good qualities that even now Pho Btands abreast—and more than abreast—of ad competitors. Ol the civility of the ship's company from Captain Carey downwards, of the cafceriinr and attendance, I hava no need to write. Sullicitthat I have enjoyed a trip that will long linger in my memory; that at mention of the Rotomaham, in'daysto come, will rise up before me a vision of great fins, of freedom and velocity, and of the good i hip d'iving before the gale and heeling to the blast, a tiue simple of one who only ' sto>ps to conquer.'" COMBINKD HHIPSCRUHIiKII AND SCRAPER. Captain V. ('•. Cros", of the British >liip Mylomcne, of Liverpool, now at Mellnurnc, has en board a new invention i f his own, a patent combined scrubber and scraper (lor cleani. g ships at sea or in a lidewaj). It is an applianco of viry simp'o construction and working, and is readily understood by nautical nicu at first inspecMo-i. The ecrapcr is composed of a wooden framework 4ft long >y 2)ft. wide, upon tho upper and lower sides of which are allixed si iff brushes encased on the outer edgeß with steel plates, the scrapers, arranged on the squcczagcprinciple, rivettcd to tho frame in sections with leather hinges, to permit a freedom of play in rising and sinking. The action f.f the machine is up and down from the waferlino lo keel, and from the keel to the water-line. Thj beauty of the invention is undoubtedly the motivo power, which is derived from the vessel pasi-i )g through the waUr, or tho water running past the vesfel, as would bo the case when tho vessel was at anchor in a tideway. A pair of lateral fins, working on pivots controlled on deck by two guys, regulate the upward and downward movement of tho soru'iber. The clobo application of tho brushos to the side of the vessel is assured by a wooden pressure-board working at an angle. MOVEMENTS OF THE UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY'S FLEET. WriINKSnAT, ArBIL ?. r J. Wkm.i.wiov.- Penguin arrived 11 a.m. from Nelson ; sailed 5 p.m. for 1 yttelton.—Hawea arrived noon from Lvttclton. Nklsom.—Mahinapua arrived 0 a.m. from Wellington ; sai'ed9am. for Weßtport. Nkw Plymouth. —Rotorna a'rived 7 a.m. from Manukau ; sailed 9 a.m. for Nelson. Weather Telcjcram. Tho Harbor Board received tho following telogram from tho Moteorological Department at Wellington : " Every indication froßt to-night, and low tides for twenty-four hours from next high water.--11. A. EljWin." (Received 1.12 p.m.) Shi i>n I up; Telegrams. AceiuAKD, April 21.—The Waihora, coming up tho harbor from Sydney, slowed down steam when off tho railway wharf and whistled for the Health Ollior; but, as Vt Lewis was not promptly forthcoming, tho Btcamer was trot under weUh and swept past the Queen street wharf to make the turn beforecoming into her berth. She, however, grounded on a sandbank off Hobson atreet wharf, and was stuck there for an hour. In tho intorval the Health Officer went on board, and, having given the ship a clean bill, tho pissengers wore landed in one of the ferry steamers. About 12.30. tho rioing tide allowed the steamor to get eft tho bank, and Bho was then berthed ft the Queen street wharf. She brings the following passengers :—For Auckland—Rev. J. Hendrio and Mrs Hendrie, Mr and Mrs Grears, Mrs Runceman, Mrs R. Smith and two children, Messrs A. King, D. Bailfy.C. J James, E. Pappel, G. F. Stuart and a nativo hoy, R. Lincoln, Loxley, 11. A. Horn, J. Higg, G. S. Jakins, Walker, S. Phillips; and fifteen steerage. For Napier —Mr and Mrs Clark and child, Messrs Brown and Lake. For Wellington-Mra Dawing, Mrs Fi'zhcrbert, Miss Burnett, MoFßrsLustanance, Easlon, Burnet (4) For Lyttelton—Mr Louisson. For Dunedin— Mrs, Miss, and Master Baldwin ; and five steerag • for Southern port?.—Ohau, from Oamaru.—Mararoa, from the. South. Onf.ucnqa, April 24.—Rotorua, for tho South. Passengers: Mrs Saxon and three children, Mr and Mrs Crouch,-Rev. 3. A.. Do-wio, Messrs Penny (21. BcEC, Marsh, Somcre, White, L W. J. Bartlet, It. Galvin.