SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 10456, 28 October 1897, Page 3

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Ti\iarn<, Head • 4.21 i.ui,, 4.46 p.m. Firt Ohalme B: 6.1 a.m., 5.26 p.m. Dui - edir.: 5.4G i.m.. 6.11 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED.-OcroBER 28. Eotorua, s.s., 57G tons, aiunnlpß, from Wellington and Lyttelton. Passengers: Misse3 Gay, Hampton. Mesdames ' Robertson, Hampton; M Dougall, Hendry, Downie, Messrs Levy, Bannister, Durand, Ross, O'Connell, Morris, Booto, Connell, Poster, Pearson, Spragg; and twelve steerage. The Harbor Board's steamer lona was floated off Isbister slip yesterday. The tug Koputai was shifted from the George street pier to the -wharf nnder the sheer-legs this morninr, in readiness to ship her boiler. The Wakatipu was floated out of the graving dock yesterday afternoon, and sailed in the evening for Sydney via Lyttelton and Wellington. An official inquiry into the circumstances connected with the on the coasting schooner Aotea at Tokomaru .Bay" on August 3 was opened at Auckland yesterday. A few more day 3 will see the barque Auriga all clear of her cargo of guano. The Rotorua, from the North, arrived at Dunedin at 0.45 p.m. to-day. She left Wellington on the 26th inst. and reached Lyttelton at 11 a.m. next day; left at 9 p.m. same day, and had strong S.W. winds to arrival. H.M.S. Mildura will be in Lyttelton during Carnival Week in Christchurcb. The ship Agnes Lilian, from London for this port, is anchored outside the Heads. The barque Mary Moore, from Lady Elliott Island, with guano, was reported six miles off the Heads at 3 p.m. yesterday. At the time it was blowing a strong S.W. breeze, and at 5 p.m.' Captain M'Callum telephoned to Captain Lowden, signal-master at the Heads, who.reported that the barque had shortened sail and was standing in towards Waikouaiti, some distance further North than she was at 3 p.m. She, however, reached port to-day, and was towed up to Dunedin this afternoon. VISITS TO THE LIGHTHOUSES. The C.G.S. Hinemoa is expected to leave Wellington to-morrow (the 29th) for Southern ports and lighthouses, arriving here about the 2nd prox. The Hinemoa will visit all the lighthouses this trip, and also the West Coast Sounds and bays. MOVEMENTS OP UNION S.S. COMPANY'S FLEET, Thursday, October 28. Lytxeltox.— Te Auau arrived 7 a.m. from Wellington ; returns 10 p.m.—Wakatipu arrived 11 a.m. from Port Chalmers. Wjjllisgton.—Haupiri arrived 3^a.m.' from Nelson.—Talune arrived 5 a.m. from Sydney.— Takapuna arrive.- 1 , noon from Lyttelton. Nelson-.-Wainui sailed 7..'J0 p.m, for Westport. WESTPonT.-Corinna sailed 11 a.m. for Welling, ton.

New Plymouth.—Herald sailed noon for Grey, mouth. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. ARRivALS.-October isT "Wellington, 5.35 a.m., Talune, from Sydney-Port Chalmers, 11,20 a.m., Botorua, from Lyttelton.-Lyttelfon, 10.45 a.m., Wakatipu, from Port Chalmers. Departures.—October2B: Ihvercargill, 1 p.m., Tnvercargill, for Dunedin "via Cromarty.—Bluff, 3.00 p.m., Nairnshire, for Port Chalmers. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Delphic, from London (October 3), left Cape Town on the afternoon of the 85th inst. for New Zealand via Hobart. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Sydney, October 27.-Tarawera, from Welling • ton. " Auckland, October 27.—Tutanekai, for Lyttelton, with sleepers, Wellington, October 27.-Te Anau, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Misses Clark, Trueman, Ittchardson, Wray, Ryan, Mesdames Murray and two children, Tribe and child, Callendar and three children, Golding, Sir D. Bell, Messrs Beswick, Oatway, Smyth, Parsons, Golding, Leslie, Webster, Wightoh, Le Cren, Feilding, Johnson, Hingo; and eighteen steerage. The Kawatin, for Dunedin, passed Farewell Spit at 4.30 p.m. —October 28: Talune, from Sydney. Passengers: For Wellington—Twenty-six saloon and thirty-four steerage. For Lyttelton—Misses Canning, Bonmngton, Mesdames Preedy, MacFariane, Quilland child, Messrs Piggott, Corson, Gainsborough, MacFarlane. Smith; and fifteen in the steerage. For Dunedin—Miss.' Drummond, Mesdames Roberts, Perston, Tower and two children, Messrs Foorde, M'Naught; and five in the steerage.—The Union Company, recognising that the saloon accommodation: and speed of the Dlngadee are not sufficient for the Wellington-Auckland-Last Coast trade, have decided to replace that vessel by the Omapere. The Dingadee will take up her old running in the coal trade, and the OmapercY itinerary be taken by tho Brunner. - Lyttelton, October 27,-Rotorua, for Dunedin. - October £B, Wakatipu, from Dunedin.