SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11512, 1 April 1901, Page 6

SHIPPING.

TELEGRAPHIC" WEATHER REPORTS.

The following weather reports from New Zealand stations were received this morning:—

Auckland.—Wind. E., light; bar. 30.03, ther. 69; misty; sea smooth. Gisborne.—Wind, E.S.E.. fresh breeze; bar. 30.05. ther. 62; clouds: sea smooth. _ New Plymouth.—Wind, W.. light; bar. 00.06, ther. 62; blue sky; sea smooth. ' VVanganui.—Wind, N., light j bar. 30.09, th°r\ 58 ; blue sky. clouds ; bar smooth. Wellington.—Calm ; bar. 30.13. ther. 62 ; blue sky, clouds ; earthquake 8.44 a.m. Nelson.—Calm ; bar. 30.13. ther. 57 ; blue sky : tide moderate..

Westport.—Wind, E.. light; bar. 30.58, ther. 60; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, bar smooth.

. Lyttelton.—Calm; bar. 30.23, ther. 64; gloomy, rain ; tide moderate. -Timaru.—Wind, E., breeze; bar. 30.29, ther. 60; blue skv, clouds; tide moderate, sea slightly easterly. Oamaru'.—Wind, N.E., light; bar. 30.25, ther. 56 ; overcast; tide good, sea smooth. _ Port Chalmers.—Wind. N.E., light; bar. .50.21. ther. 59; foggy; tide moderate, sea smooth.

Dunedin.—Wind. N.E., light breeze ; bar. 30.31, ther. 59 ; blue skv, clouds ; tide good. Clyde.—Calm; bar. 30.10, ther. 60; blue sky, clouds ; river low. Quecnstown. Wind, N., light; bar. 30.31, ther. 50; blue sky, clouds. Invercargill. Wind, K, breeze; bar. 30.23, ther. 58 ; overcast. Bhff.—Wind, N.W., light; bar. 30.21, ther. 56; overcast; tide moderate, sea smooth. ARRIVED.—March 31. Rangatira, s.s., 4,045 tons, "Nicol, from Northern ports. Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons, M'Gilvray, from Invercargill via way poTts. Mararoa, s.s.. 1,381 tons, Phillips, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast. Passengers : Misses Gordon, Parrish, Marthlav, Brophy. Moy (2). Brown. Bolt, Campbell, Lake, Green, Hislop, Long. Evans, Fuller, Fa j?k (2). Joyce, Suckling, Mesdames Maxwell, M'Evoy, M'Queen, Hislop. Campbell, -Morton, Heans, Webb, O'Reilly, Yorke, Suckling, Messrs Wafd, Leighton, Coates, Gordon, Fieldwick. Graham, Skerck, Evans, Logan, M'Queen, Stephens, Harris. Boult, Tyler (2). Dryden, Smith, Morton, Hancock, Walker, Dodd, Nicol, Barnett, Suckling (2), Mace, Jacobsen. Professor Black, Captain Patterson ; and twenty-five in the steerage. Waihora, s.s., 1,269 tons, Smith, from Sydney via Cook Strait. Passengers : Mesdames Spinks, Fretwell, Misses Mouat, Mostey, Bentley, Dr Hunter, Messrs Percrval, Fretwell; and sixteen in the steerage. SAILED.—ApriI 1. Whangape, s.s., 1,901 tons, Courbarron, for Lyttelton. Waihora, s.s., 1.269 tons. Smith, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart. Passengers: Misses M'Evoy (2), Mesdames Clifton, O'Reilly, Von Stuglitz, Bluett, M'Evoy, M'Kisson, O'Reilly, Messrs Street, Handicock, Bluett, Patterson, Clifton, Stewart, Black, M'Kisson, Poole, Parriosene; eight iu the steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Monowai, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, April 3. Corinna, from West Coast via Northern ports, April 3. Moura, from Auckland via East Coast, April 4. Wakanui, from London via Northern ports, April 5. Flora, from Northern ports. April 5. Elingamite. from Sydney via East Coast ports, April 7. Tahine, from Sydnev via Cook Strait, April 8. Upolu, from West Coast and Northern ports, April 11. Gladys left Glasgow December 24. Dunblane, 'barque, left Hongkong January 10. Lizzie Bell left Glasgow February 2. Everland, barquentine, left Sydney February 20.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Invercargil], for Invercargill, April 2. Mararoa, for Bydney via East Caaat, April 2. „ ' Kumara, for Northern ports, April 2. Monowai, for Sydney via Cook Strait, April 3.

Corinna, for Wesfcport and Northern ports April 4. '

Ringarooma, for Westport, Auckland, and Apia, April 4. Moura, for Auckland via East Coast, April

Flora, for Westport via Northern ports, April 6.

Talune, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, April 8. Elingamite. for Sydney via East Coast ports, April 9. Tarawera, for Sydney via Cook Strait, April 11. Upoln for Westport and Northern ports, April 12.

The Mararoa, from Sydney via East Coast ports, berthed at the tongue -wharf at 1.30 pm. yesterday. She left the Australian port on the 20th ult., arriving at Auckland on the 25th; left again on the 26th, and called at the usual way ports; left Lyttelton at 6.45 p.m. on Saturday, and arrived as above. Experienced fresh winds and smooth seas throughout. She has about 800 tons of cargo for this port. The Waihora, from Sydney via Wellington and Lyttelton, arrived at th'e cross wharf at 2.30 yesterday. She left Sydney at 5 p.m. on March 23 ; breasted Farewell Spit at 2.42 p.m. on the 27th; arrived at Wellington at 11.28 p.m. same day; sailed at 1.25 a.m. on the 30th ; reached Lyttelton at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday ; left again at 9.30 p.m. same day, and arrived as above. From Sydney to Wellington she had moderate to fresh S. and S.E. winds with heavy beam sea, and from that port light variable winds, with smooth sea and hazy weather to arrival. Messrs Bethell, Gwyn, ami Co., the wellknown firm of London shipbrokers, were to start recently a direct steamship line between Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney and Avomnmith, the vessels engaged being of 6,oootwns burthen. Bristohhas to thank its cold storage facilities for this new business.

The ship Canterbury has arrived safely at her destination. 'Her long run of twenty days from Wellington to Lyttelton was due to the contrariness of the winds. She ■was within sight of Lyttelton Heads no less than three times, but on each occasion was driven back by adverse winds. Being light she was especially at the mercy of the elements. The Canterbury is to load grain for the United Kingdom for orders on account of Messrs G. (x. Stead and Co. and Messrs Friedlander Bros.

Captain Clarkson, harbor-master at Timani, applied for an increase of salary; and the Harbor Board at their last meeting granted an increase of £25 a year on the previous salary of £275. A Lyttelton paper states that it is expected that eleven men-of-war will accompany the Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, to Lyttelton, .and it is understood that six of them will be berthed inside the moles. It is understood that during a recent trip of the steamer Mapourika to the West Coast a petition was presented to the managing director of the Union S.S. Company asking that as the convenience and comfort of the Mapourika is so superior to that of the usunl boats running on the.Coast she be retained on that line, fully believing that under the present command (Captain Worrall) the mk was no greater than of the average en thst coast. This petition has been forwarded to the head office at Dunedin, and it is suggested that this step should be followed *v another petition from the general travelling public on the West Coast, which might cam* the comforts and conveniences of a.'l to icceive some consideration.

. .Mr A. Tyree, an old Nelson boy, i 8 lltv . second officer of'the Adelaide, a passtngir steamer of 1,711 tons, running oh Ohe Akstrnliun coast.

Owing to the Easter holidays intervening the Talune, which left Sydney on Saturday will not arrive in Dunedin until Monday next, on which date she sails for, Melbourne via the Bluff and Hobart.-

The Monowai, from Melbourne, left Hobart at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and. is due in Dunedin on Wednesday moTning: On a<:o<uaal of th+, JUauiar. JtaUdUunt *lm will Ka

despatched for Sydney via Cook Strait one day earlier tnan time : table—viz., Wednesday instead of Thursday. The Corunna left Westport at 6 p.m. on Saturday for Timaru and Southern ports. The Moura left Auckland at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and comes by the usual route to Dunedin, where she is due on Thursday. She returns to the East Coast ports on the following Friday,

The Pukaki sailed from Napier at 11 a.m. on Saturday with sheep for Lyttelton. 'Mr B. Bendall, who was formerly connected with the Union Company as pnrser in their intercolonial steamers, and of the Moana when she took up the San Francisco trade, has re-entered" the service, and will join his old boat in the Vancouver running. Mr Bendall has lately acted as passenger clerk in the establishment of Messrs T. S. Morrins, of Auckland. Personally, he was one of the most popular pursers in the redfunnel fleet.

Mr Thompson, of Messrs Gannaway and Thompson, stevedores-, of Wellington, and son-in-law of Captain Scotland, of the Kumara, is at present on a short visit to Dunedin. He goes North to-morrow. Mr Thompson visited the wreck of the yacht Ariadne. last week, and on that occasion the back of the vessel was broken, and the butt seams were started. The work of .dismantling the little vessel was proceeding, und a quantity of the gear had. been put ashore, Tne s.s. Royalist, which left San Francisco on the 7th ult. with a cargo of railway material for the Government, is -{tie in Auckland on Wednesday next. She Las ~2R packages of car material, totalling 755 tons, fcr Auckland; 790 packages, of 1,571 tons, for Wellington ; and 920 packages, of 2,232 tons, for Lyttelton. On discharge of the Auckland portion of her cargo the Royalist comes South.

The big lamp near the Westport Coal Company's office, and commanding the approach tothe wharves, is being kept alight on the dark evenings.

Last week's ' Gazette' contains a notification to pilots, exempt masters, and mariners generally that the usual method of observing and describing positions in connection with casualties, groundings, or other occurrences—namely, by compass bearings to fixed objects—being unreliable and often useless for accurately defining such positions, it is requested by the Marine Department that whenever possibfe all-round horizontal angular measurements to prominent fixed objects be also made from any such position, and that such angular measurements as well as the compass bearings be given in reports of occurrences. As a check that these horizontal angles have been correctly taken, it should be borne in mind that the sum of the angles ought to equal 360deg. Included in the cargo of the Rimutaka, which left Wellington for London on Thursday, were 12,000 boxes of butter sent from different parts of the colony and 2,600 cases of cheese made in the North Island.

Considerable surprise has been felt in shipping circles regarding the quarantining of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Wakanui at Wellington. When the vessel reached the Cape absolutely no communication was allowed with the shore; no mails were permitted to be taken, and nob even a' newspaper allowed on board. A tender certainly went off to the shin and took off a few passengers and their luggage, but no one from the tender was allowed to approach the vessel. As no other port but Hobart (a clean port) was touched, the hardship of the quarantining at Wellington is apparent. Owing to a special train connecting with the Takapuna one day last week, passengers from Wellington,were able to reach Blenheim in the quick time of 5h 18min. A SMART PASSAGE. SYDNEY, April I.—The Sierra made tie passage from Auckland in 3d 3hr 37min. A NEW SCOW. A new scow, the Waikouini, was launched last Saturday week by Messrs Cashmore Bros., of Auckland. She was ' bunt by Mr R. B. Martin, and should prove a stout and serviceable vessel when rigged and fitted out for sea. At a luncheon to celebrate the event several toasts were given and responded to. THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

The Kumara sails for Wellington direct from the Port about 11 a.m. to-morrow. The Rangatira arrived from the North at 10 aim. yesterday, and was berthed alongside the George street pier to load meat and general cargo,, and ship 1,000 tons of bunker coal prior to leaving for London via South Africa. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

KAIPARA, March 31.—Mary, brigantine, for Dtmedin.

NAPIER, March 30.—-Herotha, barque, from Newcastle. WELLINGTON. March 30.—Rotoraa. for Lyttelton.—Wesfcralia, for Sydney.—March 31: Te Anau, Upolu, and Rotomahana., from Lyttelton.

LYTTELTON, March 30.—Toroa, from Chatham Islands. March 31: Wakanui, from Wellington. SYDNEY, March 31.—Sierra, from San Francisco via Auckland.—H.M.S. Tauranga, from Auckland.—Saturday, Gntf of Tararito, for Wellington. Talune, for Wellington, Lyttekon, and Dunedin. "MELBOURNE, March 31.—Mokoia, from the Bluff. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)