SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 6

SHIPPING.

TELIGRAJHIC WEA.THER REPORT. Trow Omsrtatioxs Taken at S a m.

Wmd.-C. calm; 1, light; br, br«tz« ; f fcr, irtm breeza; m jr, modetata gals ; g, whola or *H T ??'• : w > *»"• of exceptional ««y«nty. Bl.udi; D dnzrfmßrai n: F. foegy; G. eloomy, iaikwaathtr- H, hail; L, lishtnin";; M.rautv »ln, eoatinuad rain ; H, , no w; T. thuni«r; V, *VT> threatenJßc appearance.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOEROW. Taiaroa Head: 3.43 a.m., 4.4 p.m. Port Chalmers: 4.23 a.m., 4.44 p.m. Dunedin : D-8.-a.m. r .5.29 p.m. ARRlVED.—January 20. Maorvs.s. ? 118 tons, from Wellington. Talune, s.jl, 1,370 tons, Smith, from Sydney via Auckland. Passengers : Mesdames Jones and two children, Trequhair, Melican, Brosnahan, Morris, two children, and maid, Parker, Edmonds. M'Gregor, Dewar, Macdonald, Jones and two children, Ogier and infant, Cochrane, Misses M'Can, Gorrie, Brosnahan, Sommerville, Parker (2), Burke, Dewar, Laurie, Hutchinson, Thompson (2). Campbell. Norrie, Reynolds, M'Naughton (2), Isabella M'Donald, Burgess, Aiteheson, Messrs Cochrane, Turner, Mouat, Hussey, Gibson, SommerviUe, Whiting, Jacobs, Edmonds, Shepherd, Gray, Veitch, Norrie, Bruce, Farqiihar, Melville, Allen, Taylor, Allnutt. Gilmour, Evans, Scott, Moodie. Peake, Hopcr;rft, Yule, Snadden, M'Mullan, Bewley, Torrance, Buchanan, Corliss, Hogg, Kirby, Whale. McLaren, Morris, Moffatt, Slyfield. Machie, P"etre, Ogier, Tewsley, Johnston. Swan, Roberts, Stockfcld. Rev. Father Boyle, and Dix's Gaiety Company !15) ; and six in the steerage. SAILED. 19. Abbey Holme, 5.5.,. 1,996 tons, Brown, for Lyttelton.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Frank Guy, bnrquentine, from Kaipara. Corinna, from West Coast, 22nd. Invercargill, from Invercargill via Waikawa, 22nd. Monowai, from Melbourne, 25rd. Mbura, from Auckland, 24th. Janet Nicoll, from Greymouth, 28th. Mokoia, from Melbourne via Hobart, 30th-

Invercargill, from Liverpool, arrived Wei lington January 14.

Loch Tree, from Liverpool via Wellington, November 21. Wellington, ship, left Glasgow November

Otarama left London December 1. Gladys left London December 24. Rangatrra left Loudon January 8.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Talune, for Sydney via Auckland, 22nd. Corinna, for Westport, 24th. Monowai, for Sydnev via Wellington, 24th. * " • Moura, for Auckland via Lyttelton, 25th. Waikare, for Melbourne via Hobart, 28th. Janet Nicoll, for Greymouth, 30th. Mararoa, for Sydney 'via Auckland, February 5. Mokoia, for Sydney via Lyttelton, 31st. Corinna, for Westport via wnv ports, 24th. ' l Janet Nicoll, for Grevmouth via way ports, 50th. "

The tourist traffic on the Wanganui River this season is the largest on record. Messrs Hatrick and. Co., the pioneer steamboat owners on the Wanganui. have extended the steamer traffic some twenty miles beyond Pipiriki. ' J

Quite a smart steaming performance is credited to the Mararoa on her recent passage- from Gisborne to Auckland. She covered the distance in 19h 40min. Bad weather necessitated her sheltering under Nick's Head for some time while gob"- from Napier to Gisborne.

Good progress is being made by the crew of the French barque Max with the repairs to the vessel at Auckland. The yards are now being hoisted into place on the "new foremast.

During the voyage of the barquentine Valador from Port Stephens to Auckland with hardwood timber her fore-royal mast was sprung, and had to be cut away. The Union Company's Maori, from Wellington, arrived at the Port at 6.30 a.m yesterday, and steamed alongside the George street pier. She will lay up for overhaul She has been employed in the inter-island trade for a considerable time, and will be superseded by the Kia Ora, now completing an extensive overhaul at the Port. A NOTABLE SALVAGE CASE. On the 20th September last the steamship India, homeward bound from Java with a cargo of 8,000 tons of sugar, stranded on the East African coast, about thirty miles south of Cuandafri. She was abandoned by her crew and lay there until the middle of October, when an expedition, fitted out ot Aden, under Captain Pomeroy, underwriter's salvage officer, arrived on the snot and ousted the Natives, who in the meanwhile had swarmed over the vessel, lootino- and destroying everything available. Affer repeated failures she was finally floated and brought into Aden Harbor to refit. Some ot the scenes witnessed at the strandina place were so novel as to be almost in' credible. A mushroom village had sprung "t r?^ 0111 the &ttin of the shin, and about 2,000 tons of sugar had been conveyed ashore through the surf in a most ingenious manner. Goat and sheer, skins were filled three-quarters full with sugar, then blown up with air to give them buoyancy, and thus about 8,000 Natives were actively eneaeed enriching themselves for life, and a filet of dhows and hundreds of camels were constantly employed bearing off the spoil to unknown destinations. A curious feature of the affair was that IH3LS. Racoon, which had been sent down to protect the expedition lay alongside a dhow which was laden with some of the sugar, whilst hundreds of tens of it were within sight, on the beach; but the gunboat was unable to interfere the commanders instructions being merely to protect the lives of those engaged in the savage operations. As the SmtL of this SrifiA f ? bsldlsed "d ««kr treaty with the 31 F^?™ 60 * to P rotept ««> and property of British vessels in distress on his coasts, it seems extraordinary (remarks the IIS? Dad ' V Tele^Ph ') that some moro effective measures were not adopted in this instance to insist on the terms of the treaty being observed. Tho importance of the incident consists in the fact that there have been numerous strandmgs in the same vicinity, and this is the first instance of the vessel being recovered, although, alas ih-. was in a sadly denuded state after the depredations of the Somalis! 3.5. IKHONA, PROM CALCUTTA. The British-India Company's Tkhona, fl-hich arrived at Auckland on January 14 from Calcutta via Singapore with a car"o of Eastern produce, left the first-named port on December 9, called at Singapore and Thursday Island, leaving the latter port on Lbr - 1 -t inst. Gales were met with, cm the 1,.:....:..."--

way across to New Zealand, moderating as the coast was made. The Ikhona is a new vessel, this being her first vovage. She is 410 ft long/ 50.6 ft broad, and 32ft deep. Her gross tonnage is 5,252, and net 3,383, and her cargo-carrying capacity 8,000 tons. Captain Stone has associated with him the following officers :—Mr Drake, chief officer ; Mr A. Chalmers, second; Mr Haycock, third ; and Mr Muir fourth. Mr D. *MTntyre is chief engineer, Mr Ritchie second, Air Thompson third, Mr Kinlop fourth, and Mr Wellbourne fifth.

THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Tekoa sailed for London via Monte Video and Tcneriffe on Saturday with a fulf cargo of meat and -general. The passage is expected to occupy about fifty-two days. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. GISBORNE, January 19.—Fifeshire, from Wanganni. WELLINGTON, January 19.—Ikhona, from Auckland.—Westralia,* for Sydney.— January 20: Te Anau and Rotomah'ana, from Lyttelton.—Retnrna, brigantine, from Newcastle.—Tntanekai, for Lyttelton.

LYTTELTON, January *l9.—Delphic, from Wellington.—January 20: Abbey Holme, from Port Chalmers.—Tarawera, from Wellington. SYDNEY, January 20.—Waihora, for Wellington. Messrs"O'Meara, Allen, and M'Guire, M.H.R.s, are among the passengers.

MELBOURNE, January 21.—Mokoia, from the Bluff.

NEWCASTLE, January 21. Pareora, for Wellington.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)

rhtr. J Staties. Wind. Bar. in Weather Shad«J ; —.1- 1 1 1 Capo Mari& Van 1 IHemen .. E f br 30.05 09 C Auckland .. NE f br 30.25 71 0 T*up« ... .. E f br 30.16 63 U Uisborna .. NE I 30.25 66 G Spit INK 1 IK0.25I New Plymouth K 1 39.23 Cape Esmont_.lNot cornel — 1 68 63 (J EC , Wanganni .. SW 1 30.20 70 B~C Wellinjtoa . .. N 1 30.21 72 0 Blenheim Jwi 30.20 30.2(3 6li C Hape CampbelllSW 1 6S O Nelson ,.c 30.23 67 O Farewell Spit., ..El 30.20 6S c Westport .. N br 30.19 68 B C Creyroouti ., .. E1 30.17 67 O Holcitika ..El 30.20 61 0 Boaler ... .. NW 1 30.23 61 0 LTttelton .. NE 1 30.21 67 B Ohristchureh., .. NE 1 30.21 6S B C rimaru... .. NE br 30.22 65 OG Oamani... Port Uhalmarj, .. C ,. NE 30.20 30.14 &5 63 B U O Duntdin .. NEf 30.20 66 B C ciyd« ... .! c 29.28 70 B C Queenstown . .. NW 1 30.19 6S B O Invercargill . ..0 31.21 65 O Bluff ... Hanmer -El 1 30.12 1 .. Not come — 62 O