SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 8773, 14 March 1892, Page 3

SHIPPING.

Hiirte

To- morrow. Tataroa Heads ; 4 0 a,tn. 4.13 pm. Port Chalmers: 410 a.m., 4.53 p.m, Dunedin : 5.25 a.m., 5 138 p.m. fort CfcaSra«f«. ARRIVED.— March 13. Poherua, s.s., 749 tons, M'Beath, from Wellington. Opawa, barque, 1,131 tons, Martin, from London (December 1). Invercargill, s.s., 139 tons, Sundstrom, from Invercargill. March 14. Ohau, s.s., 411 tons, M'Donald, from Groymouth via Lyttelton and Timaru. Kopu'.al, p.s., 5(3 tons, Thomson, from Timaru. SAILED.— March 13. Morayshire, s.s,, 3,822 tons, CouP, for London. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Edmonds, Mr and Mrs Francis, Dr and Mrs Copland, Mesdames Banks, Jackson, Mis c er Goodman, Payne, Edmond 3 , M’Aalln, Messrs Kirkcaldy, Wilson, Christie, Touaey, Bawlins. March 14. Rotorua, s.s., 576 tons, Stott, for Northern ports. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Mesdames t-iof gitd, J. W. Kelly, Mr Uoggird. For Wellington Misses Banks, Bell, Holmes, Mrs O'apperton, Messrs Clapperton, C. Murphy; six steerage. Invercargill, s.s., 136 ton 3, Sundstrom, for Milford Sound via Bluff and Coal Harbors. During the week ended March 13 the following vessels have been at the Dunedin wharves: —Arrivals: Clyde 88 tons, Herald 356, Te Anau 1,028, Brunner 332, Napier 48, J. F, Marstors 632, Wahrarapa 1,023, Northern Star 327, Hauroto 1 276, Rotorua 576, Invercargill 123; total, 5,809 tons. Departures: Penguin 442 tons, Invercargill 123, Herald 356, Te Anau 1,028, Clyde 88, Wairarapa 1,023, Napier 48, Brum er 332; total, 3.420 ton?. The Rotorua left Dunedin this afternoon with cargo and passengers for Northern ports. The Invercargill, with cargo from the South, arrived at Dunedin early on Sunday morning. The Poherua, from the North, arrived at Port Chalmers at noon on Sunday. She left Wellington at 8.45 p.m. on the 11th Inst., and had variable winds throughout tho passage. The barque Northern Star has put out nearly half of her cargo of timber at Dunedin wharf.

The ferry steamer Pioneer is uudergolrg some alteration to her deokhousea at Port Chalmers.

The barque Umvoti was town to Port Chalmers this forenoon by the tug Plucky. While getting her anchor In board one of the blocks slipped, and the anchor struck a se moan named J. Raihan on the back. Messrs Lorng and Mearns, of the Ambulance Corps, were quickly in attendance, and were followed by Dr Lamb, who examined the mar, and found he had sustained no injury beyond being severely bruised.

The Invercargill left Dunedin this afternoon for Milford Sound via the Bluff and Goal Harbor. The Ohau, with 295 tons coal and other cargo, arrived at 6 45 a. no. to-day, and steamed alongside tho Wairarapa to tranship coal She lift Greymouth at 6 am. on the 9th inst.; passed Cape Campbell at 1.15 p m. same day, and arrived at Lyttelton at 6 30 am. on the 11th; left again at 1 p.m. on tho 12th, with the barque Parsea in tow, for Timaru { breasted Akaroa at 7 p.m. same day, and arrived off Timaru at 1 p.m. on the 13.h; left again at 6 p.m. same day, arriving as above, having experienced moderate variable winds and f»ir weather throughout the passage. The construction of the battle ship the Royal Sovereign is a veritable triumph for onr navy yards. She was laid down on September SO, 1889, and when, on February 26.1891, she was launched by the Queen, she weighed as much as twenty of Colbert’s forty-ton frigates £he now probably weighs as mnch as thirty of them, and she is so near completion that it was expected she would nndergo her steam and gunnery trials at the end of February, 1892, To finish a 14,000-ton line of battle ship In two years and a-half Is a feat of which no country save England Is capable. The barque J. H. Masters is lauding her cargo in excellent order at Dunedin wharf. The tug Eopntal returned at 10.30 a.m. today from the wreck of the Elginshire. She left Timaru at 7.30 p.m. yesterday. The Pnherua was floated into the graving dock this morning for cleaning and repainting. The Morayshire, which sailed yesterday for London, took thefollowlngoargo:—From Auckland—96 bales wool, 145 sacks grain, 1,500 cases gum and shells, 5 cases sundries. From Wellington— 2,088 bales wool and skins, 299 sacks grain, 225 casks tallow, 1,187 cases of meats, 10 tons copper pipes, 18 cases sundries, 14,282 carcasses mutton, 1,370 lambs, 7,553 legs mutton, 280 forequarters, 578 hindquarters beef. From Lyttelton— 4 bales wool, 8.804 sacks grain, 29 casks, 4,896 carcasses mutton, 4,073 lambs. From Port Chalmers-139 bales wool and skins, 100 oases cheese. 150 bags antimony, 14 packages sundries, and 5,799 carcasses mutton. The Opawa transhipped her powder Into tho schooner Ark this morning, ana the ship will be towed ap to Dunedin on this evening s tide. ARRIVAL OF THE OPAWA. The New Zealand Shipping Company’!i barque Opawa. from London, was reported thirteen miles north of Talaroa Heads at 4 p.m. yesterday, and was promptly tendered by the tug, which brought her up to an anchorage In the powder ground at 6.30 p.m., whore she wad cleared by Dr Dryudale, the health officer, and passed Inwards by Osptain Gray, surveyor of

Ottitonw. Since the Opawa wia last here there has been a change of commanders, Captain t, Hamann being transferred to the company s ship Turaklna, and succeeded In the command of the Opawa by Captain Martin, who was last here with our old friend Captain Power as chief officer of the Turaklna. Since then he has commanded the barque Mataura for five years, and only joined the Opawa a few days before she left London. He brings Mr S. aB oWe officer. Mr M'Phail as second, and Mr Maunsell ss third. Mr Greenlands is refrigerating engineer. and Mr Woolley Is steward. The Opawa brings 1,376 tons of cargo, composed of 806 tons measurement and 570 tons dead weight, together with 516 packages gunpowder, which Is stowed In a properly-constructed magazine, and will be transhipped this morning into the schooner Ark. The Opawa’s passage from pilot to pilot has occupied 100 days, and was marked by seventeen days’ bad weather at the outset, very light trades and poor westerlies, so that taking all into consideration she has done remarkably well. Captain Martin reports leaving the South-west India Docks on December 1; proceeded to Gravesend, embarked powder, and left again at midnight on the 2ml; met a strong W.B.W. gale, and anchored again on the 3rd; the weather moderating slightly at 440 p.m. of that day she proceeded down channel, and oast off the tug at Beeohy Head at 5 a.m. on the sth December; passed the Isle of Wight on the following day, and then encountered the first of a succession of heavy gales, and on the 7th of December lost her lower foretopsaii. This weather continued till the 16th December, when It moderated, and she passed Oape Ushant at midnight j had very light easterly winds across the Bay of Biscay, and fell in with thn first cf iho N E. trade on December 31, in latitude 23 leg N. . , W * B very light, and gave out on January 7 m latitude 6deg N., thence she had doldrums until January 9, in latitude 4deg N., longitude 25deg W„ when light southerly winds set in which took her aoro-s the Equator onJanuaty 12, in longitude 29dog 30min W The S.K. trade was very light:, fend was lost in latltud© 25jpg 8., on January 23; thence she had a succession of light variable winds, and crossed the meridian of Greenwich on February 7, in latitude 42deg 8., where westerly winds wore taken, and she rounded the Oape of Good Hope on February 10, in latitude 42deg S.; light passage winds were experienced until she passed the meridian of Kergnelan Land; thence she had fresh westerly breezes with occasional gale?, and passed the meridian of Cape Lecuwin on February 29 m latitude 46deg S. j had strong with heavy seas, and crossed the meridian of Tasmania on March 6, and made her first landfall off the Scares at daylight on the 12th inst.; had a strong N.E. gale with heavy sea and torrents of rain until midnight, when it shifted to S.W.; she passed tho Nuggets at 3.45 a.m, yesterday. u..d rounded Oape Saunders at noon, towing in'.o port i t-stt-rd .y evening. No vessels were spoken duii the passage, nor were ice or wreckage aeon. Hli canting was made lu the mean parallel of 46deg S.

MOVEMENTS OF THE UNION BTFAM SHIP COMPANY’S FLEET. Monday, March 14. Bluff. Waihora anived 6 a.m. from Hobart; sailed 330 p.m. for Pott Chalmers. Lyttelton. —Omapere arrived 7 p.m. yesterday from Wellington. Wellington.— Oreti arrived 7 a m. yesterday from Greymouth.— Mawhera arrived 9 a.m. yrsterday from Nelson —Penguin arrived 1 pm. yesterday from Lyttelton. Southern Cross arrived 5 p.m. yesterday from Napier.— Talune arrived 7 a.m. from Napier. Gbeymodth.— Rosamond sailed 11 a m. for Lyttelton. Gisborne.— To Anau arrived Ga m. from Napier ; sailed 9 a.m. for Auckland Auckland.— Ovalau arrived 1 30 p.m. yesterday frem Fiji.—Janet Nicoll anived 5 p.m. yc;torday from Greymouth. sbippinv Teleyraiao Wellington, Match 12.—Oraapere. for the South. —Mangana, for Nelson and Picton.— Te Anau, for Sydney via Fast Coast and Auckland.—March 14: ship, Cane?, from London, 100 days out. She encountered very seveie gaics in tho English Channel, and was driven b .ck four times to the Isle of Wight She spoke tho Dundonald from twansea to S»n Francisco, on December 31. Bluff, March 14.-Waihora, from Melbourne via Hobait bho left Melbourne on the B r .h in?t., WilHamstown at 6p m , and cleared Port Phillip Heads at 9.30 p ir. th« fame day ; arrived at Hobait at 10.30 a.m. on the 10th, Having again at 8 p ra. ; breasted Puysegur Po : nt on the 13th at 6.30 pm , anivlng at the Bluff at 6.30 a.m. to-day. Experienced variable westerly winds with fine weather on the run across. Passengers; For tho BluffMisses Myra Kemble, Lee, Lyons, Oorcotan, and Gallagber, Messrs Harris (2), Wilkinson, Pultoney, Macan, Buddely, West, Leopold, Diver, Walch, Lester, Leonard, Thompion, Kitts, White, Johnson, Revo. For Dunedin—Misses Mack and Cambridge, Mesdames Coats, Rigby, Hill, Ireland, and Reid, Messrs Parker, Moore, Hope, Gibson, Smith, Mack, Kershaw, Ireland, Barry, Johnston, Muir, and Hlno, Rev. Mr Mullona, For Lyttelton—Messrs Gillies and Row?, Mosdames Vivian, nurse, and child, Stiffe, Gillies, Messrs Watts, Floyd, Wingfield. Hennan, and Whyte. For Wellington—Miss Alexander, Mr Kent. For Napier Mr Prescott, For Auckland— Miss O’Sullivan, Rev, and Mrs M’Donnell, Messrs Dlddan, Hmes; and fifty-four in the steerage for oli poit j . Auckland, March 14. The Melanesian Mission Society’s new auxiliary screw barqnentine Southern Ores?, 390 tons, from London via Southampton (114 days out), arrive 1 on Saturday night. Mrs Bongard, the captain’s wife, was delivered of a child on the voyage out. Dr Welchman and Mr Hannoker came as passengers. The Southern Gross leaves next month on her first island cruise.—The Tyser steamer Hawke’s Bay, from London via Sydney, and the Kaikoura, from the South, arrived yesterday.