SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. /

TO-XOBBOW. Taiaroa Head.: 1.59/ a.m., 2.20 pan, Port Chalmers: 2.39 a.m., 3.0 pjn. Dunedin: aan.; 3-45 p.m. TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS. The following weather report* from New Zealand stations were' received this aw*naig:—• Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Wind, S-, fresh breeze; ther., 65; blue sky; tide high, sea moderate. Auckland.-—Wind, E., light; bar., 30.00; ther., 74; clouds; tide moderate. Gisborne.—Wind, S.E., fresh breeze; bar., 30.10; ther., 69; gloomy;, tide poor, sea slight swell Wanganui.—Wind, S.E., breeze; bat, 30.15; ther., 67; blue sky, clouds; tide moderate, bar smooth. \ Wellington-—Wind, S.E., light; bat, '30.14; ther., 73; blue sky, clouds. N.E., breeze; bar., 30.09; ther., 70; blue/ sky, clouds; tide good. Farewell Spit—Wind, K, light; bar., 30.10; ther., 66; blue sky; tide moderate, sea smooth. Westport—-Wind, S.W., light breeze; bar., 30.16; ther., 62; bhie sky; tide moderate, bar smooth. Hokitika.—Wind, W., light; bar., 30.12; ther., 54; blue sky, ckmds; bar considerable. v Bealey.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 30.25; ther., 56; overcast; river low. Lyttelton.—Wind, N.E., moderate gale; bar., 30.27; ther., 71; clouds; tide moderate.

Timara.—Wind, N.E. breeze; bar., 30.33; ther., 67; gloomy; tide moderate, sea smooth. Oamaru.—Calm; bar., 30.29; ther-, 56; blue sky, clouds; tide good, sea smooth. Port. Chalmers.—Wind, N.E., light; bar.. 30.24; ther., 61; blue sky, .tide moderate. Dunedin.—Wind, N.E., breeze; bar., 30.29; ther., 61; blue sky, tide moderate. Clyde.—Calm; bar., 30.03; ther., 74; blue sky, clouds; river steady. Queenstown.—Calm; bar., 30.19; ther., 64; blue sky. Balclutha.—Calm; bar., 30.22; ther., 56; blue sky; river steady, rain early part of the night. Nuggets.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., ' 30.24; ther., 57; blue sky; tide moderate, sea smooth. **" Invercargfll.—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 30.26; ther., 54: blue sky. Bluff.—Wind, N.W., light breeze; bar., 30.23; ther., 58; overcast; tide ordinary, sea smooth.

ARRlVED.—February 5. M.uy Moore, barque, 54 tons, Rodd, from Adelaide via the Bluff. February 6. Wanaka, s.s., 2,442 tons, Stott, from Newcastle via Timaru and the Bluff. Moura, s.s., 1,027 tons, Beaumont, from Auckland via East Coast ports. Passengers: Lieutenant Hecklar, Messrs Baker, Mitchell, Holt, Hamilton, Tuxford, Forbes, M'Uregor, Jones, Platts, Hudson, Unwin, Lieber, Bennett, Clapperton, Watsofl, Reid, Willis, Wilkinson, Child, Guthrie, Scott and two boys, Master Hecklar, Professor Scott, Mesdames Baker and two children, Svenson, Hunter, Clapperton, Misses Money, Griffin, Hercus, Simmons, Fear, Andrews, Neil, Mitchell, Nevffl, Tuxford, Penny. Wilson, Will (2), Cameron, Tapper (2), Tobin (2), M*Morran (2); and thirty steerage. SAlLED.—February 5.

Sir Henry, schooner, 95 tons, Rennie, lor Collingwood. February 6. Janet Nicoll, s.s., 496 tons, Watson, for Northern ports and the West Coast. Westralia, s.s., 1,819 tons, Waller, for Sydney via Lyttelton and Wellington. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Misses Lewis, Morrison, Lawlor, Mesdames Berker, RanSRi, Baudhop, Bennett, Cornish, Messrs Bauchop, Hargreaves, Goodall, Rankin, Bennett, Blaikie, Churchill. For Wellington—Misses Taine, Taylor, Bell, Hooper, Thomson. Wood, Guthrie, Staunton, Morris (2), M'Kellar, Mesdames Muir, Kersey, Whelan, Messrs Telford, Morris, MurrelL For Australia —Misses Abbott, De Ravin (2), Donald, Anderson, Bayley, Brandt, Napier, Mesdames Thomas, Bayley, Napier, Messrs Napier, Ward, Friedrich, Thorpe, Sneddon, Bayley (2), Hurley; and fifteen steerage for all ports. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Invercargill, from Invercargill, February

Talune, fron\ Sydney via Cook Strait, February 8. Upoiu, from Northern porta, Februarys. Elingamite, from, Sydney via East Coast, February" 9. , Monowai, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, February 12. Whangape, from Calcutta, Singapore, and Northern ports, February 12. Te Anau, from Auckland via East Coast, February 13. Rakaia, from the North, February 14. Waikare, from Sydney via Cook Strait, February 15. Mararoa, from Sydney via East Coast, February 16. Mokoia, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluif, February 19. Zealandia, from Sydney via East Coast ports, February 23. Canterbury, ship, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow October 15. Wellington, ship, from Liverpool via Wellington, left Liverpool November 9. City of Pembroke, barque, from Glasgow, left December 4. Pakeha, s.s., from London, left January 4'.'

Reigate, s.s-T from New York via Australian and Northern ports, left New York January 3. Germanicus, g.s., from New York via Australian and Northern ports, left New York December 6. Ruthwell. barque, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow December 7. Santa Chiara, Italian barque, from Marseilles, left January 17 Pass of Bahama, ship, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow January 19. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Moura, for Auckland via East Coast, February 7. InvercargilL for InvercargiTL February 7. Talune, lor Melbourne via the Bluff and Mflford Sound, February 9. Upohi, for Northern ports, February 10. Elingamite, for Sydney via Bast Coast, „ February 11. Mooowai, for Sydney via Cook Strait, February 13. Waikare, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart, February 16. Mararoa, for Sydney via East Coast, February 18. Mokoia, for Sydney via Cook Strait, February 20. Zealandia, for Sydney via East Coast ports, February 26.

Mr J. Munefl, representative of the Huddart-Parker Company in this colony, who has been on a business trip to this City, left for Wellington by the Westralia this afternoon. It is understood that the present owners of the steamer Napier have had inquiries from two or three parties for the purchase of the vessel, and negotiations are likely to come to a successful issue in one case. The Uganda .leaves the Bluff at noon to-morrow for Newcastle. The Upolu left Wellington early- this vfternoon for Dunedln via coastal porta. She is due here on Sunday. The Corinna is due at Westport this evening from Westport. The Whangape, which is due at Wellington to-morrow from Auckland, should leave there to-morrow for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Poherua is due at Lyttelton to-night from Westport. The Kini is due at Napier to-morrow morning from Westport. The H&wea was doe at Oamaru this afternoon from .the Bluff. x Cable advices from Melbourne intimate thai the Mooowai sailed for Hobart, the

■■ I ""■ -■' ■■'■■ -"'V '•. Bluff, and Itonedm at Bp.ny yesterday. She is doe here on Wednesday next The flags at Port were atahajfjoast today out of respect to the late" Jul 1 Andrew Melville, who. was a residtSht of many years' standing. The barque SHverstream arrived off the Heads last night for orders. The Wanaka, from Newcastle via Timaru and the Bluff, arrived at six this morning, and after landing 200 tons of cargo came up to the Jetty street wharf. She left the Bluff yesterday afternoon. The Wanaka returns to Fort to-morrow for cleaning and painting. A Timaru -paper mentions the fact that last year Timaru was the teith port in the colony, reckoning the ports in order of the amounts of Customs duties collected at each. This is because so much of the imported goods consumed in South Canterbury reaches Timaru via Dunedin warehouses, instead of by direct importations. Of interest to mariners is the* following notice in a late ' Gazette':—" Notice is hereby given that it is intended to commence blasting operations early in January, 1902, for the removal, to a depth of 37rt, of tSe rock obstructions under 31ft to 34ft at low water, in the fairway entrance to Port Philip, Victoria, at about nine cables S. Msec E. tram Point Lonsdale. A steamer flying. 4he red burgee a<? the main will be used-to attend on the divers' boats engaged in such work." Yesterday the barque Mary Moore, from Adelaide via the Bluff, berthed at the Rattray street wharf to discharge 576 tons of salt and gypsum. Particulars of her passage from Adelaide to the Bluff have already been stated. She left the latter port at noon on Tuesday last, and had W.S.W. winds along the coast. At the T.\uS she put out about 400 tons of salt and gypsum. Her future movements are yet uncertain. Captain Rodd took charge of the vessel at Adelaide, as Captain Lindfors went ashore through illness. The former's acquaintance with Dunedin dates as far back as 1877, when he was in command of the barque Woodville, then owned by Captain Hodge,' of the Port. Since 1877 Captain Kodd has been connected .with large deep-sea sailing vessels, and not unnaturally he sees a wonderful change during his twenty-five years' absence from this part of the colony. Owing to the Moura taking part in the marine send-off to the North Island battalion of the Eighth Contingent aboard the troopship Surrey at Aucklandon Saturday last, she did not get away from the Northern port until 6.30 of that evening? called at Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton; left the latter port early yesterday afternoon, and berthed at the tongue wharf at 5J50 this morning, very smooth seas and fine weather having been the prevailing conditions down the coast. Mr J. Low, formerly of the Taviuni, is now purser of the Moura. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's new twin-screw steamer* Athenic, 12,380 tons and 8,000 h.hp., constructed by Harland and Wolff, will make her maiden voyage to the colonies on 13th February. She is commanded by Captain C. H. Kempson, R.N.R., formerly commander of'the lonic, and will be followed by the, new sister steamers Corinthic and lonic.

During a. heavy south-easter on November 28, in San,, Francisco Bay, the tug Sea King came into collision with the British ship Pegasus, and lost her smokestack.

A report from Brisbane states that the A.U.S.N,. Company, Limited, have decided not to make any further attempt to raise the sunken steamer Leichardt, and the work of dismantling her is now proceeding prior to breaking Iter up with explosives at an early date. A private cable has been received stating • tnat the Norwegian barque Skjold, which was under engagement to. load 700 standards at Gothenburg for Melbourne, had gone ashore before taking in her cargo, and is likely to become, a total wreck. Another vessel will be chartered to take her place. , Captain Walker, of the steamer Ormazan, which nearly two years ago took remounts from this colony to South Africa, has resigned his position, and, together with his -wife, is now en route to Wellington to settle down. Captain Walker is going to Melbourne from New York in a sailing vessel named the Amultree. When last in Wellington Captain Walker became so enamored with the people and the climate that he made up his mind to live in the Northern City.

CONDEMNED. \ The Swedish barque Anna. Sofia, which put into Concepcion, Chili; on October 8, dismasted, while bound from New Caledonia to Philadelphia with ore, has been surveyed and condemned. All the cargo lias been discharged. The cost of thorough repairs is estimated at about £4,000. SMART SAILING FEATS. The British four-masted ship Glaucus arrived at San Francisco on the 27th November, 130 days from Antwerp, which is within two or three days of the record passage. The barque Santiago, Captain Engalls, arrived at Honolulu on the 14th November, eleven days from San Francisco. This is the fastest trip made by any sailing vessel for nearly a year, and is within about two days the record. KARAMEA AT HOBART. A Hobart message intimates that the S.S- and A. Company's Karamea, from London (December 19), Plymouth, Teneriffe, Cape Town, and Hobart, arrived at, seven last night, and was to sail at four this morning for Wellington. She had forty-seven passengers for Australia, and there are ninety-eight aboard for New Zealand ports. The Karamea may be looked for in Wellington on Monday evening.

A MUTINOUS CREW. m News to hand at Auckland by the mail steamer Ventura states that toe crew of the schooner Alice M'Donald, which recently put into Samoa leaking, have mutinied. The vessel left Newcastle for San Francisco, as already telegraphed, and bad weather was met with, the vessel putting into Apia, her top-sides in a leaky condition. It was the authorities at Apia who ordered 200 tons of coal to be discharged, as they considered the boat was overloaded. The schooner was still at Apia when the Ventura left the group, and her crew refused to continue the voyage because, as they stated, she was not seaworthy. The Alice M'Donald will remain at Apia until advice has been received from the owners.

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. ,

The steamship Duke of Devonshire, which recently grounded on the Hunter Reef ,off the north-east coast of Queensland, was successfully floated into the Dry Dock at South Brisbane recently to undergo an inspection for the purpose of ascertaining what damage the vessel sustained whilst, stranded on the reef. On a casual inspection of the hull of the steamer being made nothing in the shape of recent injury to the plates of the ship wasf discernible. The shoe enveloping the stem-plate showed a small dent, and there was also a small indentation of one of the bottom plates about 30ft from the stem.' These, however, were of no consequence, and, in fact, they appeared to have been in existence for / some considerable time. An official inspection by the surveyors was made, and as it was found that no injury had been done the ship was floated out of dock, AN .EXCITING TIME. Fuller particulars concernihg the recent rough experience of the steamer Brisbane on her way from Port Kembla to Melbourne' have come to hand. Her trials were of a startling nature, as, apart from the smashing of her " working " boat, three of the crew were severely shaken and bruised in the encounters with storm and sea. The Brisbane had a. fine-weather trip to Cape Everard, where the wind, which had up to this point been zephyrlike, suddenly gathered great strength, and gradually raged with appalling vigor from the westward. With her head to the iaunensa seas which ran, the steamer sud*

hardly any progress, but shipped very little water until the direction of the, storm veered to the sonth-west The seas then grew very dangerous; and immense volumes of water thundered on the decks, tie vessel laboring and fearfully under the pressure put upon her. A sensational incident occurred. A prodigious wave broke on board with overwhelming force. It struck ths ship's boat and completely wrecked it, whilst the boatswain land two of the; sailors were carried off their feet and injured, as already mentioned. Throughout the whole of the night the.gale continued to roar without abatement, and, all on board spent a very trying time. Luckily, however, no further iH effects resulted, and a gradual lull in the elements gave master, officers, and crew a welcome space. The Brisbane had aboard 1,400 tons of coal. THE PORT PATRICK'S CAPTAIN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 6, at 10J2 a.m.) MELBOURNE, February 6.—The captain of the Port Patrick has been exonerated for abandoning his vessel, but he was found guilty of an error of judgment in not landing from the Abergeldie at the Promontory in order to watch the vessel from the shore. \ TO-MORROW'S STEAMERS. The Moura, for Auckland via East Coast ports, leaves the tongue wharf at. 1 p-m. to-morrow.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

ONEHUNGA, February* I **.—Rotoiti, S.S., for New Plymouth and Wellington. WELLINGTON, February s.—Rotomabana, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Misses Van Asche, Foster, Fleming, Watt, Grigg, KeDoch, Gaulter, Spoan (2), Blacken, Cower, Mesdames Vanbrug, Ames, Wiseman and child, Johnston, Lawson, Blow, Russell and child, Young, Turrell, Williamson and child, Handcock and child, Scott, Howell and two children, Martin, Martindale, General Babington, Major Owen, Captain Campbell, Messrs Kirby, Martin, Vanbrug, Moore} Johnston, Blow, Howell, Frost, Kingan, Souter, Robertson, Jamieson, Chisholm', Lacham, Moss, Turnbull, Cox, Sise, Mile, Marshall, Cliffs, Scott, Marks, Simpson, Martin, Martindale;. and fourteen in the steerage.—February 6: Tahrae, from Sydney. Passengers for Dunedin: Messrs*Munro, Stephen, Mackie, Rev. Michelsen, Mesdames Maxwell and Hutchison, Miss Neill. BLUFF, February s.—Hawea, for Oamaru.

MELBOURNE. February 6.—Monowai, for Hobart, the Bluff, and Dunedin.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.)