SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 10851, 8 February 1899, Page 3

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATEB. To-morrow. Taiaroa Head : 1.25 a.m., 1.63 p.m. Port Chalmers : 2.5 a.m., 2.33 p.m. Dunedin: 2.50 a.m., 3.18 pm. ♦ ARRIVED February 8. Monowai, s.s., 2,137 tons, Chatfield, frr-m Melbourne via Hobart, Milford Sound, and tue Bluff. Passengers: Miss Quick, Miss Aldred, Mr and Mrs Nicholson, Mr M'Vean, Captain and Mrs Stanley Low, Miss M'Gaffia, Sir Henry Cuthbert, Mr and Mrs Elliott, Mr Johnson, Mr and Mrs Allen, Mr and Miss Botterell, Mr Ferguson, Mr H. W. Shaw, Misses Moulden (3), Mr Schwartz, Mr B. L. Witts. Mr S. Young, Miss Bushholz, Miss M'Harry, Mrs Peacock, Miss Riddell, Mr and Mrs Mason, Mr E. Henderson, Mrs Ormeeroo, Mr H. Idillett, Mrs M'Gregor and child, Mr Kemp, Mr and Mrs Robertson, Mrs Montieur, Miss Campbell, Master Nixon, Miss Miller, Mrs Robinson, Mrs Palmer; twenty-two in the steerage. SAILED.- February 8 Waihora, s.s., 1,269 tons, Smith, for Sydney via Auckland. Passengeis: Mesdames Petbie, Falconer, Waller, Nalder, M'Conuack, Brian, Ritchie, Edgar, Nimmo, Fordham, Roberts, Misses Chandler, Melville, M'Nee, Lamboume, Wilson, Salmond. Ritchie, Dudley, Cruicksbank, Minson, Nurse, Hall, Murdock, Ralph (2), Messrs Nalder, Heath, C. William?, C. Fultcn, Henderson, R. M'Kinlay, A. M'Kinlay, Le Suer, W. Macfarlane, J. M. Taylor, Nimmo, Fordham, Gardner, Pollard, J. Ferguson, Cooper, Waller, R. Elliot, Ovendale, Pownall, D. M'Lennan, Hilgendorf, Newson, Jeffries and son, Roberts, Dr Falconer ; and thirty-three steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Flora, from Auckland 10th inst. Tarawera, from Sydney, 11th inst. Elingamite, from Sydnev, 12th inst. Taupo, from HVestport, 14th inst. Waikare, from Melbourne, 15th inst. Te Anau, from Auckland, 16th inst. Oonah, from Sydney, ISth inst. Mokoia, from Sydnev, 19th inst. Rangatira, from London, 27th inst. Banffshire, from London, 3rd prox. Blenheim left l-iven«x>l ltttb September. Margaret Galbraith lift London Bth Novemhtr. Westland left Liverpool Bth November. Orari left New York 13th December. Silverhow left Liverpool 30th December. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Herald, for Greymouth, 9th inst. Monowai, for Sydney, 9th inst. Ohau, for Westport, 10th inst. Flora, for Auckland, 10th ir.st. Tarawera, for Melbourne, 13th inst. Elingamite, for Sydney, 14th iust. Taupo, for Greymouth. 16th inst. Waikare, for Sydney, 16th inst. Oonah, for Melbourne, 20th inst. I Mokoia, for Sydney, 21st inst. Banffshrie. for London, sth prox. The Waihora left the tongue wharf this afternoon for Sydney via Auckland and way ports. The Tclosa to-day commenced discharging her cargo Into the railway trucks at the George street pier. Captain Newton, of the Wakatlpu, Is to relieve Captain Crawshaw, of the Hauroto, the latter skipper staying ashore for a holiday. Mr James, second officer of the Wakatlpu, takes a similar position on the Talune, rice Mr A. Maxwell, who Is due for promotion as chief officer. The steamer Swan, referred to In yesterday's Sydney cables as being overdue, called in at Whangaroa (Auckland), short of coal, on the Ist Inst. She was supplied by the steamer Clansman, and left on the 2nd for Napier. Mr James Mills, managing director of the Union Company, has gone on a business visit to Australia. The Pukaki is to be docked at Auckland this week for cleaning and painting. The net tonnage of vessels built in the United Kingdom in 1897 for foreigners for war and mercantile purposes was: Steam, 139,459; sailing, 22,971' And the tonnage of ships sold to foreigners other thun that just mentioned was: Steam, 183,011; sailing, 95,913. This information is officially supplied by the. Board of Trade. Writing of the rescue of the seaman who fell overboard from the Wakatu on Saturday "An Eye Witness" in the ' Press' says :—"One of the smartest pieces of seamanship in saving a life which one could experience was witnessed by the passengers on the s.s. Wakatu (Captain Wills) on her journey from Port Robinson last Saturday. One of the sailors went overboard from the forecastle, and a lifebuoy was thrown, but owing to the swell on the water the poor fellow, could not sight it. Captain Wills, with the assistance of his men, had a boat launched, manned by three, and the steamer making hard round as the skipper had power to do it. The man was on his back, then wheeled on his face and sank; but by the effort of those men in the small boat they reached him and got him by the head. A cheer went up from the passengers and sailors, and in less than five minutes from the yell of ' Man overboard !' the unlucky, or rather lucky, sailor was on board A shaking of hands and congratulations followed." The Monowai, from Melbourne via Hobart, Milford Sound, and the Bluff, arrived alongside the Bowen pier at 6 a.m. to-day. She left Melbourne at 5.15 a.m. ou # thelst inst., cleared Port Phillip Heads at 9.50 'p.m., and passed Swan Island at 2.27 p.m. on the 2nd; arrived at Hobart at 6.20 a.m. on the 3rd, and left again at 6.53 p.m. same day ; arrived at Milford Sound at 4. 5 p.m. on the 6th, transhipping excursionists to the s.s. Corinna, and left again at 6.25 p.m., reaching the Bluff on the morning of the 7th; left the Bluff at 6.45 p.m. same day, and arrived as above. From Melbourne to Hobart she experienced lighteasterly and northerly winds; thence to Milford Sound Btrong southerly wind with high confused sea and cloudy weather; after entering the Sound a splendid view was obtained on account of the clearness of the atmosphere, and from Milford Sound to the Bluff she met a fresh S.S.W. wind with heavy head swell, and from the Bluff strong S.S.W. wind with heavy sea and overcast weather to arrival.

The Ohau, having discharged coals into the hulks, was floated into thi_; {craving dock this morning for cleaning and painting. Mr H. Guthrie received a wire yesterday instructing hiiu to secure an outward charter for the barque Margarita, which comes here from Adelaide towards the end of this month with 850 tons of salt, consigned to the New Zealand Express Company. The Margarita is a new iron vessel, Auckland owned. The crew of the barque Inverlyon, which arrived at Melbourne last month from New York, are about the most remarkable medley of nationalities which ever visited the Victorian capital, comprising Austrians, Greeks, Scotch, Irish, Dagos, French, Dutch, and Germans. Captain Crombie, himself a Scotchman, pronounces them the most contented lot he ever Bailed with, and throughout the voyage not a Bingle quarrel occurred amongst them. The Mararoa is making a good name for herself by her smart passages in the Hobart-Sydney trade. She recently made a record run from Sydney to Hobat t of forty-one hours on the 26th of last month. The Mararoa returned to Sydney from the Tasmanian port after another remarkably quick passage, the distance from Hobart wharf to Sydney wharf being covered in 41h 9min. This performance would have been shortened but for some delay in Sydney harbor caused by yachts competing at a regatta. Captain Holm, of the barque G. M. Tucker, is in Sydney on business connected with the Westport Coal Company. The company are desirous of obtaining a suitable vessel for use as a coal hulk at Auckland, and Captain Holm is to inspect and report upon the vessels obtainable. _ An American paper reports that Captain H. Gathemani, of the North German Lloyd steamship Oldenburg, has juat made public the result a series of experiments with oil and soapsuds in uieting the sea in the vicinity of the ship daring & storm. He began his experiments in December,

1897, on a voyage from Baltimore to Bremen. He ■Uowei oil to drop from a series of buckets arranged in the bow of the ship. The wind at the time was west-north-west, with a very rough sea. The speed of the ship was about. 12J knots, the temperature of the air was 48deg Fahr., andl of the sea 67deg. Presently the waves, which had been breaking over the ship, became remarKably quiet, and the Bea within Beveral hundred yards of the ship became calm. The captain used about 2Jlb of oil in an hour during this experiment. He afterwards tried soapsuds, but found them to have no effect on the waves. - Owing to the squally weather, it was found lmPracticable to bring the Monowai to town to-day. he discharges and loads at Port Chalmers, and her passengers for Sydney will leave by the 2.d0 p.m. train to-morrow. A STEAMER ASHORE. New Plymouth, February B.—Word has been received that the steamer Douglas, trading to Mokau, is ashore at the mouth of the Mokau River. No particulars are to hand. STEAMERS DELAYED. The Flora, which was due here to-morrow from Auckland, having encountered heavy weather cm the coast, is not expected to reach Lyttelton until this evening: cons-quently she will not reach Dunedin until Friday now. but this will not interfere with her sailing the same afternoon on the return journey. „ , The Herald, which left Greymouth on Saturday night for here direct, had not put man appearance up to 3.30 p.m. to-day. She is Probably sheltering. Her departure for Greymouth has been postponed until to-morrow. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. Arrivals. -February B:Spit, 6 a.m. Queen Louise, from Lyttelton.-Gisborne 5 a.m.. Pakeha, from Auckland.-Auckland, 4.30 a.m., Ovalau, from Raratonga and Tahiti. A PROTRACTED VOYAGE. Napier, February 8. The trawling steamer Swan, about which fears were enteitained in Sydney, arrived yesterday after a passage of twenty-four days from Sydney. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. Welling ton, February 7.—Gothic, from London via way ports, after an uneventful voya' e. Passengers: For Dunedin—Saloon: Mrs Stronach and infant, Messrs Gillies and Potier. Steerage: Misses Stewart, Fergusson, Hawthorn, Rafferty, Messrs Douglas, Johnston. M'Grath. Scott (2). For Oamaru -Mr Beale. For the Bluff—Mr and Mrs Munro, Mr O'Brien. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, February 7.—Pakeha, for the South. Elingamite, for Southern ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Mesdames Noyd and Landesker, Misses Cameron, Sherry, Townshed, Messrs Allen aud Burrell. For Dunedin—Mesdames Webb and Lindsay and child, Misses Marshall. Hill, Clark, Rowley, Lawrence, Messrs Graham, M'Carne, Bunting, Willis; and ten in the steerage. Russell, February 6.—Hinemoa, Government 8.5., for Cape Maria Van Diemen. Wellington, February 7.—Rotorua, from Lyt-telton.-Flora, from Auckland via East Coast.— Warrircoo, for Sydney.—Te Anau, for Auckland via East Coast.-Flora, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers: Misses Inglis, Bing (2), Highlow, M'Tammy. Anderson, Stringer, Dobbie Penty, Conolly, Mesdames Dixon, Dobbie, Jones, ; Hamilton, three children, and maid, Revs. Messrs j Glasson and Hamilton and sod, Captain Anderson, Messrs Fisher, Jones, Potter, Manders, Cyper, j Blackmore, Begg, Felix, Bono, Jackson, Jones, Hardman, Dixon, Clark, Russell. February 8: 5.40 a.m., Rotoiti, from New Plymouth. —10.45 j a.m., Rotomahana, from Lyttelton. . Nelson, February 7.—H.M.S. Ringdove, from , Wellington. n , . , „ , Sydney, February 8.-Cloud, from Auckland.— Moana, from Whangaroa; Syduty Belle, from Mercury Bay. Newcastle, February B—Kathleen Hilda and Neptune, for Auckland.-Pendle Hill, for Kaipara.—Lady St. Aubyn, for Napier.—St. Kilda, for Wanganui.— Whangaroa, for Foxton. ; Melbourne, February 8.-Ganymede, from the Thames.