SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 10852, 9 February 1899, Page 3

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Taiaroa Head; 2.19 a.m., 2.44 p.m. Port; Chalmers : 2.59 a.m., 3.24 p.m. Dunedin; 3.44 a.m., 4.9 pm. ARRIVED.— February 9. Mildura, H.M.S., 2,575 tons, 8 guns, Captain Leah, from Wellington. .. Herald, s.s.. 352 tons. Rolls, from Greymouth. Passengers: Misses Goldsworthy and Apstcln, and four steerage. SAILED.- February 9. Monowai, s.s.. 2,137 tons. Chatfleld, for Svdney via Cook Strait. Passengers: Mesdames Woodcock, Edmonds, Mason, 0 Connor. Connor, Robinson, Mackay, Baker. Rutherford, S. J. Nathan, Chinn, Gregory, Kinder and son, G. Wilson, Caradus, Shields, Misses Edmonds, Jordan Rattigan, Clulee, Crane, Mowatt, Nelson, Anderson, Chinn. Messrs W. H. Lusk, M Lennan Gregory. Kinder, J. Roberts, J. Caradus, sen,, G, Wilson? Nixon, Roberts, Ward, O’Neill (2), Cotter ■2) Vince, N. Reid, E. Griffin, J. Boal, Goring,. Shields, Young, J. Blundell, Wilson, 0. Duncan, 5 J. Nathan, Chinn. Finniwood, J, Mitchell, Maggie Moore Company (28); and thirty-seven steerage. expected:arrivals. Flora, from Auckland 10th inst. Tarawera, from Sydney, 11th inst. Elingamite, from Sydney, 12th inst. Waikare, from Melbourne, 15th inst. Te Anau, from Auckland, ICth inst. Oonab, from Sydney, ISth inst. Mokoia, from Sydney, 19th inst. Rangatira, from London, 27th inst. Banffshire, from London, 3rd prox. Blenheim left Liverpool 19tb September. Margaret Galbraith left London Bth November. Westland left Liverpool Bth November. Orari left New York 13th December. Silvethow left Liverpool 30th December. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Herald, for Greymouth, 10th inst. Ohau, for Westport, 10th inst. Flora, for Auckland, 10th inst. _ Tarawera, for Melbourne, 13th inst. Elingamite, for Sydney, 14th inst. Taupo, for Westport, 16th inst. Waikare, for Sydney, I6th inst. Te Anau, for Auckland, 17th inst. Oonah, for Melbourne, 20th inst. Mokoia, for Sydney, 21st jnst. Talune, for Sydney, 33rd inst Banffshrie. for London, sth prox. Wait ora, for Sydney, 7th prox. The ship Hawksdale, which has just been wrecked at Long Sand, near the estuary of the Thames, only left Hamburg on the 23rd of last month for Melbourne. She was a steel vessel of 1.882 tons, and was built in 1890, her owners being the Hawksdale Ship Company, of Liverpool. The well-known Australian barque Veritas has been sold to Captain Holm, of the G. M. Tucker, for the New Zealand coal trade. This will probably be the vessel purchased on behalf of the Westport Coal Company to be used as a coal hulk at Auckland. She is to load coal at Newcastle for Auckland. , . . , The Ohau, having been cleaned and painted, was boated out of the graving dock this morning, md steamed up to town. She leaves to-morrow for Westport. H.M.S. Mildura, from Wellington, arrived at 7 a.m. to-day, and anchored off Carey Bay. She is under the command of Captain Leah. She left Wellington at 10 a m. on the 6th inst., and experienced heavy southerly winds down the coast. The Herald, from Greymouth arrived at 9 p.m. yesterday, and steamed alongside the Bowen pier. After discharging 200 tons of coal into the hulks she steamed up to Dunedin. She left Greymouth on the evening of the 4th inst., and experienced a southerly gale and heavy seas down the East Coast. Her departure on the return journey has been postponed until to-morrow. The Invercargill arrived at Invercargill at 11 a.m. to-day, and proceeds thence to Stewart Island to load for Timaru. There appears to be a revival in the Tasmanian timber trade with Africa. Within the last three or four months two shipments of railway sleepers, totalling 521,666 ft, have been sent, and the barque Ester, with a similar cargo, has left for East London. The barque Fortuna, which vessel has already taken in stiffening, will then be loaded, and she is to be followed by the barque Magnat, The vessels are chattered by Mr R. A. Robertson, who also ships the timber. The Magnat is a Norwegian vessel of 636 tons. She is to come from Delagoa Bay, and is expected to arrive at Hobart this month. The Tolosa has finished discharging her cargo from New York for this port and taken on board a quantity of bales of wool. The Monowai, having discharged and taken m cargo, left the Bowen pier this afternoon for Sydney via Lyttelton and Wellington. In the list of steamers exacted to arrive in Sydney appears the name of the old Orient liner Garonne, whose career in the Australian trade dates back about twenty years. Long since, however, this vessel, having outlived her usefulness as a mail carrier, was sold by the Orient Company for yachting purposes, but the rush to Clondyke, which soon afterwards set in, gave rise to an extraordinary demand for good passenger steamers, and the Garonne was resold by her new and lucky owners at a profit of several thousand pounds. Beyond the fact that the old vessel is now bound direct to Sydney from Seattle, little is apparently locally known of her present mission to the colonies. She was built by R. Napier and Sons, of Glasgow, in 1871, and is of 3,900 tons gross, her dimensions being as follows: —Length, 382 ft; breadth, 41ft; and depth, 35ft 7in. So thick was-the weather in Cook Strait on Sunday night that the Takapuna. which arrived at the Wellington Heads at eleven o’clock, could uot pick up the lights, and Captain Grant kept at sea until daylight on Monday. The Po\ietua, from Timaru, was, from the same cause, detained out-, side Wellington Harbor from about f p.m. on Sunday to 5.30 a.m. on Monday, , The Aberdeen liner Moravian, built for too Australian trade, has recently undergone her trial trip, when she attained a speed of 15} knots. The New Zealand Shipping Company's now steamer Fapanui, now on her maiden passage from London for New Zealand, is a handsome three-decked passenger' vessel of 4,000 tops register. The accommodation for first and second saloon passengers is in the central portion of the vessel, with a full promenade deck overhead. The dining saloons are on the upper decks, while the music and smokirg rooms ath on the promenade deck. She has state rooms for forty-one first and forty second saloon passengers. The equipment of the passengers' compartments are said to be in Messrs Denny Bros.’ best style, and from what we know of the Union Steam Ship Company's splendid fleet, constructed by the same firm, nothing better is Proportionate to the tonnage of the Papanui, her state rooms are very wide and lofty, and being all deck cabins, practically have peifect ventilation. A third cabin is aft on the poop of the vessel, and is fitted up with single berths for this class of passengers. The Papanui has been allotted the letters Q.M.J.G. in the commercial code. Her port of registry is Plymouth. . ■ In a case heard:in the Admiralty Court, says the ‘Liverpool Shipping Telegraph,’ on December 14. arising out of a collision between tho West Hartlepool steamer Atlas and the Glasgow cotton ■ laden steamer Lucerne, it was alleged that the latter was deceived by sejing no green light on the Atlas until they were doge on one another. _ The master and CMW of the latter swore positively that the light was burning brightly, but the Court held that it was a dim light, and the Trinity Masters pointed out that although lamps might he good ones they needed careful attention, and were liable to become dim after quining' a cdn'/iderabie tirae, as this one bad been, unless carefully attended to. For this inattention to their lamps the owners of the Atlas lost their suit for damages. AN OCEAN GREYHOUND, The 17,000-ton steamer Oceanic, recently launched by Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, tor the White Star line, is 704 ft long, and her engines are expected to develop 40,000 horse-power. It is anticipated that she will cross the Atlantic in four and a-nalf days, her coal consumption being 700 tons per day. The Oceanic is 19ft longer than the Great Eastern, but the latter was of about 2,000 tons greater burthen than the modern greyhound. EXPECTED STEAMER ARRIVALS TO-MORROW. The Flora, from Auckland, which was detained by rough weather, will arrive at Dunedin about 6 a.m. to'morrow, and leave again at 5 p.m. the same day on the return journey. ‘ THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Papanui left Cape Town on the 6th last, foi New Zealand via Hobart. The Waimate arrived at Gravesend on the 7th inst,, and leaves again for Auckland on March 20 TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD Arrivals. February 9i: Lyttelton, 7*40 a.m., Waihora, from Port Chalmers,—Bluff, 1,20 p.m., Rotokino, from Sydney* Departures. —r February 9: Timaru, 5 a.m., dredge Timaru, for Port Chalmers.—Lyttelton 12.6 p.m., Flora, for Fort Chalmers; 12.45 p.m., Otarama, for Wanganui, SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, February B.—Ovalau, from Raratonga.—Owing to a westerly gale the departure of the Gairloch for Mew Plymouth has been postponed. W Ellington, February 9.— The Rotomahana, which had anchored overnight inside the Heads owing to the heavy sea running in the Strait, got away for Lyttelton at 4.30 this morning, and the Foherua for}Vestport at 5.50. ■ • ! i Melbourne, February 9.— Yesterday, Waikare, for the Bluff. . Bluff, February 9. Rotokino, from Newcastle. i