SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 8116, 16 January 1890, Page 3

SHIPPING

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Td-m-orrow. Taiaroa Heads: 10.4G a.m., 1122 p.m. Port Chalmers: 11.2G a.m., 0 2 p.m. Dunedin : 0,11 a.m., 0.47 p.m. Port Giialfiun. ARRlVED.— January IG. Fifeshive, s.k., 3 720 tons, Olsen, from London via the Gape of Good Hope, Hobart, and the North. Banks Peninsula, s.s., 177 tons, Keble, from Lyttelton via intermediate port.?. SAlLED.— January 15. Kawatiri, a.?., 288 tons, Apstein, for Westport. Oban, s.s., 411 tons, Richardson, for Auckland via Oamaru. Rimutaka, R.M.S., 4.474 tons, Greenstreet, for Lyttelton. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, G. H. Eichardsn, for Camara. ■ January 16. Wairarapa, s.s.; 1:028 tons, Ghatfield, for Melbourne via the Bluff. The barque Rakaia was towed up from P- rt Ohalr.rors this morning by the -Koputai and (plucky, anil bert-ho'd at the Victoria p'er, The New Zealand Shipping Company have received cable advice that the s.s. Duke of Rockingham will sail on February 1 for Ne-v Zealand via Cape of Good Hope; the s.s. Morayshire on February 15, via Fremantle; and the Duka of Sutherland on March 10, via Cape of Good Hope. Each steamer will have insulated chambers capable of carrying 35,000 carcasses frozen mutton and 100 tons dairy produce. Mrs Manson, widow of Captain Manson, of the sailing vessel Killocban, homeward bound from Lyttelton to London, which was sunk in a collision with the Nereid off Dungeness on February 3, was awarded a verdict for L 1.070 in tho London Sheriffs’ Court for the loss of her husband.

■The oldest steamer in the world is now lying in Bowling harbor, on the Clyde. The Industry, built in 1814, plied tor about sixty years on the Clyde, and was finally laid up where she now lies. Last year the engine, a side-lever one, with spur-wheel gearing, was taken out and placed .in the Kelvinside Park, Glasgow Th£ old boat is farff breaking up, and will ctouhtless soon disappear. The engine, however, will show to future engineers what a sidelever engine was like, and how it waa connect'd by gearing to the paddle-shaft, Tbe Industry ■was a curiosity worth preserving if only to show by contrast the wonderful advance that has been made in the construction of steamers on the Clyde, In her latter years it was something bordering on tho pathetic to see the old craft crawling up and down the Clyde past such leviathans as the Egypt. Servis, Umbria, or H.M.Ei. Nelson, all of which were built on the river, whore at one time the Industry could barely float.

ARRIVAL OF THE FIFEBHIRE, The Shire Line steamer Fifeshire, from London via the Cape of Good Hope, Hobart, and Northern ports, arrived at the Bowen pier, Port Chalmers, at 5 a.m. to-day. On this occasion she is commanded by Captain Olsen, a stranger to this port, who has taken command during tbe absence of Captain Millar, who remains o.t Home on leave. Captain Olsen has with him as officers Messrs Rob.on (chief), Hart (second), and Watson (third). Mr Small is chief engineer, and his assistants are Messrs J£elly» Butterworth, Davis, and Laird.

| Captain Olsen reports leaving Southampton on September 28; experienced fine weather across the Bay of Biscay, and made Cape Finisi terre on October 1; thcnco she met a very heavy i hcam swell, which caused her to roll and strain ! heavily; this weather continued until October 3, and on that day at 3 a.m. it was found she : had broken her shaft; temporary repairs were ! effected, and all sail was made on the ship, which reached Madeiia on November 5, and was detained there for thirteen days until a new shaft was sent out from England and fitted. During the time she lay in Madeira Captain Olsen experienced great anxiety on account of several entire horses and mares, and a bull, whith he had on board for Cape Town ; beyond a swelling of the legs, however, the animals were all we’l. She reached the Cape of Good Hope ou November G; discharged cargo, and left agam on the Stb, and, after calling at Algoa Bay and Fait London, reached Natal on November 20; had a long stay at that port owing to the scarcity of lighters and the heavy gales that prevailed along the coast, and left Nat 1 on December 12 ; experienced very heavy S.E. gales and high seas across the Southern Ocean, and arrived at Hobart on January 7 ; coaled, and leit ag..in on the same evening; had 8. W. winds, and croised Tairroa Heads on the 12th |nst., arriving at Timaru next morn ; ng; tookino .rgo, and left again on the evening of the 13th; reached Oamaur at G p.m. on the l‘Bh; embarked frozen mutton and wool, and left again at 7 p.m. on tho 15th, reaching For Chalmers this morning. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The following passengers booked for New Zealand ports per Coptic up till the 29ch November, ISSIh-Fir.-t Saloon; For Port Chalmers—Mr D. Crawford. For Wellington —Mr and Mrs L. Hadow, Mr and Miss Eagle Bolt, Mr Sydney Stanbury, Mr ar.d Mrs A. W, Ba:-ha!f. For Auckland—Miss Bull. Second saloon: For Auckland —Mr W. Richards. For Wellington -Mr C. V. Stevens, Miss A. M. Benbow. For New Plymouth—Mr James Hine. Steerage: For Wellington—Mr and Mrs F. Chceseman. For Auckland—Misses F, Lyons and J. Morrison. For Pott Cbaimers—Mr Jame • Morrison, For Wellington—Miss Lizzie Donald. For Port Chalmers—Mr Wm. M'Milan. For Wellington— Miss M. J. Johnson. For Port Chalmers—Mr Thomas Finlayson. For Auckland—Mr and Mrs Spriggs. For Lyttelton— Miss Fanny Marsh, Mratd Mrs Robert Kelly and party. For Auckland —Mr Nathanic-I Christian, Mr and Mrs E. J. Tollman and party. For Port Chalmers—Mr Michael Heron. For New Plymouth—Mr L. Kempthorne. For Wellington—Mr and Miss Smyth. For Auckland - Mr J. Biker, Shipping Telegrams. Wellington, January 15.—Penguin, for the South. Passengers : Misses Pay, Brown, Pope, Aitkcn, Lysaght, Collins, Lcask, Walk r, and Stevens, Mesdamcs Brown, Adams, Parkhouse and family (4), Mess'a Forsyth, Penney, Howson, Wilson, Hunting, Wilkes, Walker, Parkhouse, Adams, Brown (2), Aitktn, Reid, Burt. Reed, Gardiner, Peafold, Dr Kinder, and M ister Moore ; and eighteen steerage, Melbourne, January 15. Notero, from Hokianga.—Mentone, for Whangaroa. Sydney, January 15.—Magellan Cloud, for Auckland.—Vision, for Kaipara, Brisbane, January 1 ■ > —Anlc-, for Napier. Newcastle, January 15.—1 X fiance, for Auckland,