SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 8811, 28 April 1892, Page 3

SHIPPING.

SAILED.—ApriI 28.

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To-MORBOW. Talaroa Heads: 4 0 a.m., 4.21 pro, Port Chalmers: 4.20 a.m., 5.1 p.m. Dunedin: 5.5 a.m., 546 p.m.

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ARRIVED.— April 28.

Herald, 5.8., 356 tons, Jones, from Greymonth via coastal ports. Duke of Sutherland, 2.931 tons, Wymper (pnt back),

Enterprise, brigastlne, 84 tons, Bell, for Napier. Tekapo, s.s., 1,503 tons, Allman, for Melbourne via the Bluil and Hobart. Passengers; For Melbourne—Misses Nantes, Levch, Johnston, M'lntosb, Mesdames Chatfield, Kiddiford, Beotham, Fitzglbbin, Stevenson, Lee, Nantes, Hill, Messrs Hill, Cherry, K. Bird, Le Oren, Parker, Wilkin, Cullen, Gresham, Bainsford; and six steerage. To Amu, b.b., 1,659 tons, Ghatfield, for Auckland via Fast Const ports. Passengers : For Auckland—Missei Beany, Brown, Pullen, Mesdames Hay, Brown, Ritchie, Matheson, Farrell, Kettle, Dodson fend three children, Howard, Gilbert and child, Ashcroft, Oatway and child, Stables and two children, Pullen, Messrs Austin, Thirloway, R. E, Hayes, Brown, Oatway, Stevenson, D. Watson, G. Southern, Barnlngham, Kitohie, Howard, Master Kitohie; and twelve steerage.

The ihgs of all the vessels at ihe wharves were hoisted to-day in honor of the rmrriage of Mr S. Rennie, shipping olerk to Messrs Oalgety and Go. The Herald, from the West Coaat, arrived at Danedia whaif at 4 a.m. to-day. She left GreymouUi at 630 a.m. on the 23rd inst., parsed Gape Campbell at 3 p.m. on the 24th, and arrived at Timaru at 5 p.m. on the 25th ; left again next day, and arrived at Oamaru at 1 am. on the 27th; landed cargo, and left that port at 10 p.m., arriving here this morning. The German baique Elizabeth is to sail for Auckland to-morrow.

The brigantine Enterprise left Dunedin this morning for Napier. The mail steamers of the New Zealand Shipping Company's line will leave the colony every fourth Thursday, Instead of Saturdays as hitherto, commencing with the departure of the Rimutaka on Thursday, June 9.

A NEW WAY OF SUBDUING WAVES.

A novel and Ingenious Invention, with the object of deadening the height and force of storm waves, and to supersede the cumbrous and complicated method of floating quantities of oil as at present employed to the same end, has been brought under the notice of the Central Society for the Saving of Life in Shipwrecks, at Paris. It consists in covering the surfaoe of (he sea around an endangered vessel with a thin cotton or silken net, rendered Insubmersible and ever-floating by being dipped in a special ohemlcal preparation. The net opposes no resistance to the wind*, and afleur d'eau remains absolutely intaot as the layere of oil, and equally dimlnishej the damaging effects of high seas in forcing down the crest of the billows. The idea {says a 1 ondon paper) is evidently due to the fact that daring Atlantic storms, when crossing the traok of the Gulf Stream, distinguished by the vast spreading fields of floating seaweed that mark its westward course, the sea within the confines of the wrack, though upheaved by the swell, remain" glassy and smooth, and the same peculiarity has been noticed in certain northern latitude*. The net produced aota in the same manner as the seaweed, and Is offered as a substitute for the oil usually employed In similar circumstances. Experiments with a net measuring 1,000 square yards were lately made with perfeot suooess during a violent gale off the Bhores of Qalberon and Bellelsle.

AOOIDBNT TO THB DUKK OF SUTHERLAND.

The cargo steamer Duke of Sutherland, which left Port Chalmers on Tuesday afternoon, put back to the Heads this morning, and reported an aocldent to theecoentrlo gear of the after refrigerating engine. The ohamber, which is supplied by 000 l air from this engine, contains; we understand, some 9,000 carouse* of mutton. On the arrival of the 10 a.m. train at Port Chalmers, from Dunedln, Captain Boyd (the ship's agent), Mr J. Mill (stevedore), and others proceeded down to the steamer in the Golngdfown the harbor the tug met a boat containing Captain Wymper and Mr Neale (the chief engineer) with the damaged part of the machinery, the repairs to been entrusted to Uessra Morgan and Cable, Al<