SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Volume 8505, Issue 8505, 2 May 1891, Page 2

SHIPPING.

High Wkfli. TO-MOEBOW. Taiaroa Heads: 9.43 *.m„ 10 30 p.m. Port Chalmers : 10.23 a.m., 11.10 p.m. Dunedin; 11 8 s-m., 11 55 p.m Monday, —Talaroa Heads; ILIO a.m., 11,46 p.m. Port Chalmers: 1150 am.. 0.26 p.m. Dunedin: 0.35 a.m., 1.11 p.m. Part Gif aimers. ARRIVED.—Mat 1. Bonnie Doon, bar queo tine, 846 tons, Burgess, from New York (January 8).

Mat 2, Pukaki, as., 850 tons, Ewan, from Westport. Passengers: Miss Brebner, Messrs Brebner, Brook. Penguin, s.s., 442 tons, Berneoh, from the North. Passengers: Mesdames Miller, Hessey, Misses Mi Is (2), O’Keefe, Ronald, Messrs Cox, Rose, Ewing, Henderson, Mill; and two in the steerage. (fOnyx, barque, 421 tons, Paterson, from Newcastle. SAILED.-May 1. Mahinapna, s.s,, 205 toss, Spedding, for West Coast ports via Timarn. The Pukaki, with 1,500 tons coal from Westport, arrived at 7 a m. to-day, and steamed alongside the hulks at the Bowen pier to discharge She left Westport at 034 am. on April 29; inssrd Rock Point a* 6a.m. and Stephen Island at 5 a.m. on the 30th ; breasted the Ktikoura Peniusn’a at 0.30 p.m., and Ak-.r i 2 ;oa.m. on the Ist inn , arriving off rfe ■ F ;, 1 j r. t S p i; ~ owing to t1..; d.rty w .i’l;.'. she anchored until daylight this mornirg Her passage from Westport has been mirked i>y sTeng 8. and S.E. winds with heavy ■--a and cl udy weather. The barq entice Bonnie Doon was towed up from Port Gbalmera this morning and berthed at the cross wharf The Penguin arrived at Dunedin wharf at 10 am. to-day. She left Nelson at 0.80 p.m. on the 28dr April reached Picton at 8 p.m.; left again at 10 p.m., and arrived at Wellington at 230 p.m. on the 29th ult,; left that port at 3 p.m. on the 30 hj, called at Lyttelton at 830 a.m. on the Ist inst.; left again at 1p m , and arrived here this forenoon. She had fine weather from Nelson to Lyttelton, and thence stioog S. W. winds with heavy seas. THE WANAKA. The following letter, which explains Itself, has been forwarded to Captain James Meades by the managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company“ The directors have given very careful consideration to the circumstances attending the loss of the Wanaka while under your command on April 2. and regret they cannot see anything in your case to warrant a departure from the rule of the service, which provides that in the case of stranding the master will not be reinstated unless the accident is proved to have occurred under such exceptional circumstances as entirely exonerate him from blame. I regret very much that your conaect'on with the service should terminate in this way, as since you joined the onnpany in 1>79. as second officer of the Ladybird, you have always shown yourself to be an efficient aad careful officer.” We ate sure that the eno unium on Captain Meades contained in the c -ccludms paragraph of the letter will find a re,-p.*asive echo from the many hundreds of pa=s“ngers who have travelled with him since he fir<t took command of the Wanaka. Mr Me.vh s has always been noted for the attention h-„. J >vo to the comfort of his prssengers. ARRIVAL OF THE BJNNIB DODN. The birquentino which was reported from the Herds yesterday forenoon proved to be the Boiu-ie Loon, from New York. She was tendered by the tag Plucky and brought inside the Herds at 4.40 p.m , under the charge of Pilot M‘Donald, and was towed up as far as Deborah Biy, where she anchored until the morning, when she was towed up to Dunedin, inreadinew to discharge her cargo for this port The Bonnie Doon is a wooden vessel of 546 tons register, built at Machlas some fourteen years since by Hr John Shaw, and is owned by Captain Burgess and others, and has principally been employed trading between New York, the West Indies, and Braz’ds. She brings some SSO tons of cargo, about one-third being for this port, and the remainder for Wellington and Auckland. We are indebted to Captain Burgess for the following report of the passage Left New York on January 3 with a light southerly breeze, which held for twenty-four hours, and was followed by light northerly winds for six days, when it veered to the southward until the 15:h; thence S.E. and light variable winds un*il January 31, in latitude 8 leg N„ longitude 30 leg 20mln W., when she took the N.E. trade, which was only of short duration, and gave out on February 3 in latitude 3deg lOmin N., iocgitnde 23deg W., when the S.F. trade set in; crossed the Equator on February 5. in longitude 29deg 30mm W.; the S.E trade was light, and carried her to latitude 20deg 44mln B r. longitude 32deg W., on February 14; it was followed by light airs and calms for fourteen days, when a N.N.W. breeze sprang up, and crossed the meridian of Greenwich on March 10 in latitude 39deg 4omia 8. ; had l ; ght westerly winds for seven days, and retched the Cape of Good Hope on March 23 in latitude 43deg 30min _S. ; after rounding the Cape she had light winds from N. to S E. for eight days, and on April 2 she wok the fi'st of the passage wind* in latitude 42deg 50mia S., long tnde 74deg E. ; thence she had light winds with continued rain ' right across, ard passed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin on April 13 In latitude 43deg 33min 8 . s till keeping similar weather; she passed the i-dand of Tasmania on April 22 in latitude 48d- ff osmiu 8.; thence she had the wind from W. W,, with rain, not having had twentyfour hours’ dry weather from April 2 until making her first landfall, the Snares, on April 25. when the weather cleared, and she carried a light westerly breeze until she passed the at 2 a.m. on April 29, when the wind veeied to the south, and sighted Cape Saunders at 0.80 p.m. same day, when the breeze freshened to a heavy S.W. gale, which drove h«r the Heads as far as Moerskl. The gale metier'ted at 11 pm. on the 30th, which enable) her to work back, and she was taken in tow and brought into port as above. SHAV7. SAVILL AND ALBION LINE. The following are the movements of tbs mail steamers Coptic, left Lyttelton April 4 for To- ion • lonic, left Wellington May 2 for Lon-j-,n • Talnui, left Plymouth March 21 for Weln (due May 5); Doric, left Plymouth Awil 18 for Wellington (due June 1); Atawa, at London (arrived April 15). The movements of the cargo steamers are : Mam ad, left Auckland March 19 for London ; Maori, left Wellington May 1 for London , M itatua, left London March 26 for Auckland fdue May 15) > Rangatira, at London {aimed 30th March); Pakeha, at London (armed April 19). . THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The following passengers left Wellington for London in the lonic this afternoon:-Saloon: Misses Gorton, Campbell, Mackie 2). Sherman ro\ Beee, Mcore, Reid, Levin (2), Mesdames Ootton, Mackie, Sherman, Meyrick, Crombie, M‘Master, Maddock, Reid. Pawons. and Lev n, Colonel Gorton, Messrs W. H. Levin, N. Reid, Mackay Johnston, Cbisho I m, Sherman, MeyS. Bwwn. Low/ Crombie. M'Master. Coats, Maddock, Findlay. Strong, Bill. Cas eberg. Second saloon: Misses Ellwell, BeHwaue, MMntyre. Kinnewer (2), Mesdames Bo ton, MWe Johnson, Holfceche. Messrs Bolton, Peacock. MTntyre, Williams, Burchall. John--on Add-mbrooke, Scott (2), Lamb, Barbed Dalv Gatfield, Bayley, Winder, Dmggan, Bellwiife.Hetherlngton, Andrews, Walters ; and twenty-four stesrago* The National Mortgage and Agency Companv have been Informed that the Coptic, which left Lyttelton on April 4,' ailed fro “ Bio on Wednesday evening with her cargo of meat i n good condition. Shipping Telegrams. Wellington, May I.—Rotorua, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Misses Miln and Swanson, Mrs Lawry and two children, Messis Bertie, M-ek Malcolm, Lyons, and Master Irvine.— Maori (Moffatt), for London. London, May I.—Arrived, barque Firth of Dornoch, from Lyttelton (January 6).-Tura-kina ship, from Napier (January 24). Brisbane, May 2,—D’Arcy Pratt, for AnckMay 2.-Presto, for Auckland. SSSf May from ThamesCntbona, from MongonnL—Rio, from Napier. —Madeira, from Whangarba _ , , LYTTELTON. May 3-ohan. WestportIsabella Anderson, schooner, from Hoktttka. Hauroto, from Timarn-