SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 9776, 5 August 1895, Page 3

SHIPPING.

At the Heads. Calburga, barque, 3,359 tons, from New York (April 3) via Adelaide (July 20). Port Cualmers. ARRIVED.— August 4. Yolande, barqncntine, 395 tons, M‘Donald, from the Clarence River. Invercargill, s.s.. Lit) tons, Sundstrom, from the South. Avgust 5. Napier, s.s.. 48 tons, Mathieson, from Fortrose. Herald, s.s„ 352 tons, Jones, from Cireymouth. SAILED.— August 5,

Corinna, s.s., 820 tons, Spence, fur Lyttelton and Wellington. Passengers; Miss Mac George, Mesdames E. Walker and M’Neill, Messrs John Hay, Kerr, M'Neill. J Bnshell, E. Falck, J. M’Ewen, Hepburn, W. and E. M'Ewcn, J. Baird, W. 11. Noel, Courier, J. and R. Allan, Cotton ; seven stecni^e. Napier, sfs, 48 tons, Mathieson, for Ownka and Waikawa. , Dingadee, s.s.. 393 tons, M‘Beath. for the North. Herald, s.s., 3C2 tons, Jones, for Westport.

The barquentine Yolande, with a full cargo of hardwood timber from Clarence River, arrived yesterday, and wvs brought up to the Bowen pier. Captain M‘Donald reports leaving Clarence River on July 8; on the 29th met a furious gale from the S.W., accompanied by terrific squalls of snow and hail, which conip.dled him to van underLyttelton Heads for shelter. The Napier, with a cargo of timber from Fortrose, arrived at the Rattray street wharf at 8 30 a.nr. to-day. Boat and lire drill were held on board tho Corinna this morning. She left the Rattray street wharf this afternoon with passengers and cargo for Lyttelton arrd Wellington. An excellent opportunity of visiting the Christchurch races this week is afforded by the Union Steam Ship Company, who announce iu this issue an excursion by the s.s. Flora from Dunedin wharf, on Wednesday next, at specially reduced fares. The Manapouri will remain at Lyttelton till Saturday evening in order to bring back returning passengers. The Herald, with a full cargo of coal from Greymouth, arrived at the Rattray street wharf at 0.40 p.m. to-day, and commenced discharging. The Dingadee, which sail-d on Saturday evening, took 798 bales wool and skins and one cask of pelts for transhipment to the Buteshire at Lyttelton.

MOVEMENTS OF UNION S.S. COMPANY’S FLEET.

' Monday. August 5. Bluuk.— Hauroto arrived 10 a.m. from Hobart. Lyttelton. -Dingadee sailed 1 p.m. for West-port.-Brunner sailed noon for Wellington.— Flora sailed noon for Dunedin. Nelson.— Mahinapua sails 6.30 p.m. for Now Plymouth. AN ILL-EQUIPPED VESSEL. Wellington, August 3. Ou behalf of the Customs Department Captain Allman and Mr Mowatt have inspected the barque George Thompson, which recently put in hero in a leaky condition. They found that the boats were not properly equipped, that the lifebuoys and belts were insufficient, and that the lime-juice was an extraordinary pea-soupy-looking compound. The lifebuoys would barely float, and sank when tho regulation weight was attached to them. The vessel is not to be allowed to leave the harbor till appliances and stores are brought into consonance with requirements. The excuse offered by the Kaipara harbor-master for letting her go is that the vessel was just out of clock, having been refitted at Sydney, her port of registry, and that he largely accepted the captain’s assurance that things were all right, as he concluded that she would not have been able to get out of Sydney otherwise.

EXPLOSION OF GAS ON A COLLIER, A Sydney cablegram, dated yesterday, is to this effect:—An explosion occurred this morning on board the barquentine Prosperity, loaded with the Metropolitan Coal Company's coal, and lying in Elizabeth Bay. The cook, named Pouaty, removed the riding light and carried it into the galley, when a tremendous explosion took place. The deck was torn up from end to end, and debris and coal scattered over the harbor. Pousty was found unconscious and seriously injured; John Thomas (a seaman) and Nelson (a waterman) were slightly injured. Two others of the crew were in the forward deckhouse when portion of it was blown away, but they escaped without injury. The explosion was caused by the generation of gas. The German barque Argo, which was laden with the same quality of coal, was destroyed in a similar manner in July, 1893. _ A message received to*day is to the enect that the statement of the mate of the Prosperity is that the gallev must have been full of gaseous vapors from the little fore-hatch, which was uncovered, and ignition followed the cook's entry with a lamp. One poor fellow was picked up nearly naked, his shirt having caught fire. The cook was lifted out of the coals, where be had fallen after being shot to a great height, his clothes being on fire. He suffered great agony. The waterman who brought off. one of the crew was also on fire and severely burned. The vessel looks like a punt into which coals had been dumped. THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

The Ruapehu left Monte Video on Thursday for London.

Shipping Telefrsmi< t r S ,i Ponto (Kaipara), August 3.—Kate Tatham, for Melbourne. • „ • , , ' b - Auckland, August 3,-Pohcrua., for the Bluff. —H.M.B. Rmgarooma, for Russell, en roulette the South. She is expected to go on to Dunedin, —The steamer Kiripaka floated off after discharging sixty tons of cargo, and is now beached safely. - August 5; Callao, from Adelaide. Hobart, August 5. —The Devonport has been refitted, and leaves for Auckland. Wellington; August 4. —Orpheus, schooner, for Bluff, August 4. —Buteshire, steamef, for Lyttelton. She takes 808 live sheep from here Rotokino, from Oamaru.r-August 5: The Hauroto, from Melbourne via Hobart, arrived at 9J6 a.m. Passengers; Mesdames Edie,. Jowitt, nurse, and child, Bales, Messrs Edie, Brydone, Wise, Beissell, Jjrean, Marshall i and three in the steerage. ''Melbourne, August i. waihora, for the Bluff, . t.-_ ■ , ~i . Sydney, August 4.— The barque Excelsior, which left Kaipara on June 15: has arrived, Lyttelton, August 9.—Flora, for Dunedin.