SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11657, 18 September 1901, Page 6

SHIPPING.

TELEGRAPHIC WEATHEJt REPORTS. The following weather report* from New Zealand stations were received this morning:— ■ ' * Auckland.—Wind, S.W., fresh b/eeze; b.iv.. 29.98; ther., 58; clouds; tide good. Gisborne.—Wind, N.W., fresh breeze; Ini;.. 29.75; ther., 66; blue sky; sea ~;m-,atiui. —Wind, W., fresh breeze; i> :.. 23.90; ther., 55; blue sky, clouds; U;\ ood, bar heavy. Wellington.—Wind, S., breeze; bar., 2'J.?u: ther., 59; blue sky, cloud's. ' l;l«on.—Wind, S.W., light; bar., 23.75; ther., 55; blue sky, clouds; tide nu> erate. Wrstport.—Wind, S.W., breeze; bar., .29.85; ther., 55; blue sky, clouds; tide low, bar moderate. lyttelton.—Wind, S.W., breeze; bar., 29.75; ther., 57; gloomy, drizzling rain; tide high. Timaru.—Wind, N., fresh breeze; bar., 29.74; ther., 55; blue sky; tide moderate, sea smooth. Oamaru.—Wind, W., light; bar., 29.70; ther., 46; blue sky; tide moderate, sea smooth. Port Chalmers.—Wind, S.W., fresh breeze- bar., 29.62; ther., 49; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, sea smooth. Clyde.—Calm; bar., 29.62; ther., 58; blue sky; river steady. ' . Queenstown. —Calm; bar., 29.72; ther., ;47; blue sky. ?■■ Invercargill.—Wind, N.W., fresh breeze; : bar„ 29.56; ther., 48; blue sky, clouds, squally. Bluff.—Wind, W., moderate gale ; bar., C 9.61; ther., 47; overcast, passing showers, ■vjually; tide moderate, sea rough. HIGH WATER. TO-HORROW. Taiaroa Head: 6.0 a.m., 6.17 p.m. Port Chalmers: 6.40 a.m.; 6.57 p.m. Dunedin: 7.25 a.m., 7.42 p.m. ARRlVED.—September 18. Burrumbeet, s.s.. 1.&61 tons, Waller, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluif. Passengers: Messrs Bennett, Miller, Linn, Howie, Scammell, Williams (2); Riedle, Misses White (3); and twelve steerage. Captain Smith, who was in charge of the Waikare, transfers to the Mararoa at Auckland, and Captain Phillips takes command of the Waikare at that port, Captain Smith bringing the Mararoa down the coast to Dunedin. ' Unloading operations at the barque Montrosa, from Hamburg via the Bluff, were started this morning, the vessel havin r b?en berthed at the Victoria wharf for that purpose. On discharge she will proceed to either Lyttelton or Timaru to load pro J uce for the United Kingdom. Many y» rs a<ro the Montrosa was a well-known ti i'.rr between London and the colony, and ii.. p spender accommodation at that time v.--- Inrcely availed of by those seeking t!. : ; fortune in the young colony. Her !: to New Zealand was about 1888, v ■■ , T-"_'fon on that occasion being her port i <""!). The Montrosa is now owned by ii inland firm. Captain Andersson is a s'r n er to these parts. Captain E. Jendahl, late of the brig is now in charge of the Norwegian barque Solverg. Mr W. H. Brown, of Customs street, Auckland, has now almost completed a substantial steamer for the Auckland Harbor Bcrd. The new boat is very strongly built on the diagonal principle, the boards, beine fastened on steel beams. Her measurements are as follow : —Length, 65ft; benm. 14ft; depth, Bft. She is to be fitted with a powerful steam engine, to be ordered from Home, and will be used to carry a fire engine and pump in the harbor, and al?o as a tow-boat. The same firm have also in hand a cutter measuring 48ft length, 14ft beam, 4ft 6in depth, for the Northern trade. After proceeding within three miles of Moeraki, the Oamaru Harbor, Board's dredge Progress, which left for Port Chalmers on Monday morning, had to return to port, being unable to face the southerly rale which sprang up a few hours after ihe sailed. Another start was to have been nade yesterday. A London cable announces that the steamer Fortunatus, built t" the order of Archibald Cnrrie and Co.. " 'bourne, for the Australian-India tra.... has been launched. ADDITION JO THE COASTAL FLEET. , A Sydney message intimates that the ' steamer Mokau, of 150 tons carrying capacity, built to the order of the Mokau Coal Company. Irs been launched at Drake's yards, Fi!*nain. She will be specially utilised for c.irryinsr coal from the company's mine to coastal ports. DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN SEA CAPTAIN. News has reached Australia from the Old Country of the death of Captain Peebles, commanding the steamer Lincolnshire, which visited New Zealand last year. He.also commanded the sailing ship Otago in the Home trade with New Zealand. WRECK OF A STEAMER. While the steamer Quirang was passing C'r,:- Moreton lighthouse she signalled the ];■•. ers that she bad aboard the crew of t!>" steamer Moonstone, wrecked on Ocean 1.-la-'tl. The Moonstone, which belonged to the Pacific Islands Company, went to Ocean Tsland from Noumea to load phosphatrs for Lyttelton. No details of the WTefk are yet to hand. [The Moonstone was a" screw steamer of 2,140 tons gross and 1,363 tons net, built in 1889 by Richardson, Duck, and Co., of Stockport, and stated in Lloyd's to be owned by Christie and Co., of London. Her engines were of the triple expansion type, the diameter of the cylinders being 21, 55, and 58 inches, -with a stroke of 36in.] AN OVERDUE VESSEL. . Sydney advices of September 10 state that .feats are entertained for the safety of .the schooner Toogoloo, which up to that date was thirteen days out from Cape Hawke to Sydney. It is feared that serious consequences have befell the sailer. Captain Hague was in charge, and his crew consisted of a mate, two seamen, and a cook. IMPORTANT SHIPPING JUDGMENT., Yesterday, Wellington, the case vi Joseph Nathan and Co. v. the master and owners of the steamship Bechuana, in which damages were claimed for loss on a shipment of kerosene in the course of the voyaee from New York, was continued >n the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice and a special jury of four. Judgment went for the plaintiff for the full amount of the claim, with costs. THE CAPSIZE OF THE OBAN. Speaking to a 'Times' representative, Captain Bonnor, owner of the scow Oban, which capsized in Pelorus Sound last week, said the vessel was valued at £7OO, and there was no insurance on her. Apart from the loss of the vessel, he had all his papers and personal effects and some money on board. At the time of the accident the vessel was proceeding from Wanganui to. Pelorus in ballast. Captain Bonnor states that had it not been for the timely assistance rendered by the fishermen off Ketu Bay all aboard would have perished. THE BURRUMBEET. In 1897 the Burrumbeet made the acquaintance of this port for one trip. Since that period she has beerl employed in the Sydney-Melbourne trade with the exception of about six months, when she was laid up in Melbourne to undergo an- extensive overhaul and be supplied with new - boilers, the outlay amounting to some-' thing like' £20,000. The Burrumbeet has come this time in place of the Westralia, the latter steamer undergoing a thorough overhaul preparatory to the summer months. She left Melbourne at 6.15 p.m. on the ■ 11th inst., called at Hobart, left there ai 6.30' p.m. on the 13th, arrived at the Bluff at,6.30 a-m- on the 17th, sailed at 5 p.m.

same day, and arrived ai the cross wharf at seven this morning. She experienced variable winds and fine weather from Melbourne to Hobart, thence heavy westerly winds, with high following seas to the Bluff, followed by fresh south-west winds to arrival. When leaving Melbourne she had aboard about 100 tons of cargo/ of which 170 tons, including 600 cases of fruit, were for this port. '..'•• Captain Waller, of the Westralia, is in command, s and he will rejoin his own vessel when the Burrumbeet arrives at Sydney. Mr Solly 1 is supernumerary chief officer, and Messrs M'Arthur and Platts are the i second and ; third officers. Mr Arkins is in charge of the engine department, and his assistants are Messrs Preddy (at one time connected with the Westralia), WaLker, and M'Donald. Mr Boadknight is purser, and his assistant is' Mr Whitely. Mr Miller is chief steward. Messrs Solly, Roadknight, Whitely, and Miller transferred from the Westralia,. and they will rejoin that vessel in Sydney. "' Captain G. T. Rose, commander of the Burrumbeet in Australian waters, has come to New Zealand with the vessel in the capacity of chief officer, for the purpose of obtaining his exemptions at the various ports of the colony. TRAWLING OPERATIONS. A Christchurch paper, writing of the visit of Mr R. Pitcaithley to Dunedin, and his having practically completed arrangements for the hire of the Dunedin trawler Express for a couple of months to further test the fishing grounds from Motanau Island to Akaroa Heads, says that from what Mr ..Pitcaithley gathered whilst m Dunedin trawling operations have not been altogether a success off the Otago coast, owing to,the large amount of foul ground met with and the bad weather so prevalent in the Southern district. A DERELICT IN MID-OCEAN. Captain Andersson, of the barque Montrosa, now in port, while in the North Atlantic on his way from Hamburg to the Bluff, passed a'vessel floating bottom upwards. There was a ught breeze blowing it the time, and the Montrosa sailed within a few hundred yards of the derelict, which was a wooden vessel •of apparently 800 or 900 tons. Evidently the unfortunate vessel had come to grief during a heavy gale, but how her crew fared is a mystery. The sighting of derelicts is said to be by no means uncommon in the North Atlantic. <i . SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, September 17.—Rotokino, for Fiji. . KAIPARA HEADS, September 17. Victoria, from Lyttelton. WELLINGTON, September 17.—H.M.S. Archer, from Auckland.—Te Anau, from Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers for Dunedin: Misses King, Gordon, Linton, Mesdames Wood, Wyatt and in E ant, Messrs White, Wood, Madge, Allen, Pennan, Miller. OAMARU, September .17.—Upolu, from Port Chalmers. LONDON, September 17.—Tongariro, for Lvttelton. SYDNEY, September 18.—Kate Tatham, barquriitine, from Napier. MELBOURNE, September 18.—Quathlamba, barque, from Napier. LYTTELTON. S ptember 18.—Waikare and Tutanekai, from Dunedin. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)