SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 11677, 8 February 1902, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. To-jfowwnr. Taiaroa Head: 3.15 &.m., 3.32 p.m. Port Chalmers; 5.55 a-in., 4.12 pm. Dunedin: 4.30 ajrt, 4.57 p.m, MONDAY. Taiaroa Head: 3.50 a.m., 4.8 p.m. Fort Chalmers: 4.30 p.m., 4.48 p.m. Dunedin: 5.15 a.m., 5.33 pm. ARRlVED.—February 8. Invercargill, s.s~, 123 tons, MTSfivray, from Invercargill. SAlLED.—February 8. Invercargill, 8.5., 123 tons, M’Gilvtay, for Invercargill. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Invercargill, from Invercargill, February 11. Upolu, from Northern ports, February 9. Elingamite, from bydney via East Coast, February 1L Monowai, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, February 12. Whangape, from Calcutta, Singapore, Northern porta and Bluff, February 12. Corinna, from West Coast and Northern ports, February 12. Te Anau, from Auckland via East Coast, February 13. Rakaia, from the North, February 20. Waikare, from Sydney via Cook Strait, February 15. Mararoa, from Sydney via East Coast, February 16. Mokoia, from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, February 19. Moura, from Auckland via East Coast, February 20. 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., from Near York via Australian and Northern ports, left New York January 3. Germanicus, s.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, siup, from Glasgow via Wellington, left Glasgow January 19. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Talnne, for Melbourne via the Bluff and Milford Sound, February 9. Upolu, for Northern ports, February 10. Elingamite, for Sydney via East Coast, February 11. Invercargill, for Invercargill, February 11. Monowai. for Sydney via Cook Strait, February 15. Corinna. for Northern ports and West Const, February 15. Te Anau, for Auckland via East Coast ports, February 14. 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. Moura, for Auckland via East Coast, February 21. Zealandia, for Sydney via East Coast ports, February 25. The Invercargill, from Invercargill, arrived at the Port early this morning to load 150 tons of transhipments ex Waikato for Invercargill. She sailed this afternoon, and is expected back at the Port on Tuesday morning next. As the Elingamite, from Sydney via East Coast ports, has been delayed on her passage, presumably by bad weather, she will not reach here until Tuesday next—two days later than time-table. The Hud-dart-Parker liner will, however, return on the same day, as previously notified. The Corinna leaves Westport to-day for Dunedin via Timarn and Oamaru, and is due here on Wednesday next. The Poherua leaves Lyttelton to-day for Westport. Cable advices from Hobart intimate that the Monowai sailed for Dunedin via the Bluff at 5 pan, yesterday. She is due here on Wednesday next. The Hawea left Timaru last night for Napier. The Whangape was to leave Timaru to-day, coming to Dunedin by way of the Bluff. She may be looked for on Wednesday next. The Warrimoo left Gisborne to-day for Auckland and Sydney. The Kini was to leave Napier to-day for the West Coast. It is under the auspices of the New Zealand Shipping Company that the barque Silverstream will follow the Taranaki on the wool-loading berth at this port for London. She should be ready to leave for the Old Country a month hence. At the .Bluff the ship Zealandia had stowed 1,800 bales of wool up to yesterday. At seven o’clock on Thursday night the big steamer Rakaia arrived in the Timaru roadstead from Lyttelton, but owing to the sea being rather rough she did not go inside until early the following morning. She is to take 10,000 carcasses of meat from Timaru. The vessel is not expected lo reach the port until about the 20th inst. Some time to-day the Taranaki -will complete her loading for London, and, if possible, be despatched thence on Monday. Roughly, she will have about 6,600 bales of wool stowed in her holds, which stands as her record wool cargo since this well-known vessel has been trading between London and the colony. Mr Cheshire, late of the s.s. Waipori, who has been awaiting instructions, has now been ordered to Auckland to join the s.s. Hauxoto as second officer. Correspondence was read at this week’s meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board with reference to the complaint of the Union Steam Ship Company that the steamer Mokoia had been impeded, and claiming that steamers of the Mokoia class should have plenty of room to go out of the harbor. On a division, it was decided that the letter be received. According to an English exchange, the barque Gladys, Captain Foote, which visited this port last year, and subsequently loaded grain at Timaru for Home, sailed from Liverpool on January 25 for Dunedin via Wellington. When the mail left the barque Kinfauns was loading at Liverpool for the same ports. It is stated that January 28 was considered one of the heaviest days experienced at the Sydney Custom-house within the last thirty years, no less than seventeen vessels clearing, aggregating a total of 49,121 tons. The list included six oversea steamers, San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Liverpool, Manila, China, Japan, Hamburg, and Port Said all being represented on the ports of destination. The remainder of the vessels cleared for inter-St&te and New Zealand ports. The vessels which it is proposed to construct for the new Canadian mail service will have the distinction of exceeding in length any other ocean liners afloat. The new ships are not to be less than 826 ft in length, a size that will be better realised bv comparing it with the s.s. Oceanic, which measures 685 ft from stem to stern, and is at present the largest vessel afloat, being 7ft longer than her German rival, the Kaiser Wilhelm 11., which is 678 ft. It was stated at last Thursday’s meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board that un ” offer had been received for the charter of the steamer Maori. The chairman said matters were becoming serious in the port of Lyttelton, as it would be quite the end of May before they got their own tug out of the hands of the contractors. Members would see that this was an important matter, as the port was now altogether deprived of the services of a tug. Captain Clark, the harbor-master, said that the work of Hie port was seriously impeded by the want of a tug. It was necessary that the services of a tug should

be obtained as soon as possible. He did not think the Maori was suitable for the work. Several members affirmed that there was not a tug available for charter either in New Zealand or Australia. THE PAPAROA. The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company are advised that the b.B. Paparoa, which left the Old Country on February 1 for Port Chalmers via Teneriffe, Cape Town, Hobart, Wellington, and Lyttelton, has 2,400 tons of general cargo to put out at the Port, She is due at Wellington on March 21, and Port Chalmers about March 30. CHARGE AGAINST A SHIPMASTER. The roaster of the coastal vessel Toroa was before the Auckland stipendiary magistrate at the Police Court yesterday to answer a somewhat singular charge—viz., that on or about December 11 last, at Auckland, he, being the master of a for-eign-going ship, going to sea from the port of Auckland, did fraudulently engage one Alfred Harris, a duly-qualified engineer, to serve in the said ship for the purpose only of enabling the ship to clear, and not for the purpose of the whole voyage. The defendant pleaded guilty. It was stated that the case in question was the first one laid under section 28 of subsection 3 of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877. His Worship indicted a fine of £lO and costs GENEROUS TREATMENT. The master of the ketch Jane Morehead, which was partially dismasted in Bass Strait during the recent gales, has every reason to feel thankful to the Victorian Ports and Harbors Department. The ketch was picked up near the scene of the accident to the ship Port Patrick by the Lady Loch, and towed by her to a safe anchorage off Qneenscliff. For this timely and valuable service all that the department asked the master of the ketch to pay was the modest amount of £4, the cost of extra coal consumed by the Lady Loch in consequence of the towage. PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Coypright. MELBOURNE, February 7.—The Federal Postmaster-General approves of the Canadian mail steamers calling at Fiji. The Aorangi, next outward boat, and the Miowera (inward) will call there. TO-MORROW AND MONDAY’S STEAMERS. The Talnne, for Melbourne via. the Bluff, Milford Sound, and Hobart, leaves the Port on arrival of to-morrow afternoon’s 2.30 town train. The Upolu, from Northern ports, is expected at the Rattray street wharf early to-morrow morning, and returns by the same route at 5 p.m. on Monday next. LOCAL AND PORT SHIPPING. This week’s list of local and Port arrivals and departures is as follows: Arrivals: Rosamond 462 tons, Warriiuoo 1,897, Janet Nicoll 496, Westralia 1,819, Mary MoOre (barque) 644, Wanaka 1,572. Moura 1,027, Silverstream (barque) 1,160, Invercargill 123, Talune 1,370; total, 10,470 tons. Departures: Kobe 4,460 tons, Corinna 820, Uganda 3,451, Mokoia 2,154, Rosamond 462, Invercargill 123, (twice), Warrimoo 1,897, Sir Henry (schooner) 95, Janet Nicoll 496, Westralia 1,819, Waikato 3,071, Timaru (dredge) 70, Moura 1,027; total, 20,268 tons. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

ONEHUNGA, February 7.—Takapuna, for New Plymouth and Wellington. WELLINGTON, February 7.—Whangape, for Timaru. —Rotomahana, for Lyttelton. Passengers : Misses Knox, Arndt, Abbott, Stephens, Wilson (2), Seddon, Taylor, Gilchrist, Packard, Gifford, Weldon, Mesdames Treloar, Ritchie and child, Herman, Bedfield, Logmore, Russell, Bolt and child, Michaelis and maid, Hodges and child, Seddon, Rowe, Taylor, Reakes, Reed, Allan, Wvlie, Price, Webster (-j. Harper, White, De la Rey, Scott, Martin and child, Lady Ward, Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Sir J. G. Ward, Hons. T. Y. Duncan, W. C. Walker, and C. Louisson, Rev. Murray, Messrs Wilson (2), Williams, Cox, Brown, Brake, Watson, Sampson, Miller. Young, Witten, Mills, Cavitt, Martin, Wilson, Aoness, Howes, Jones, Rowan-, Macalister, Pearhouse, Hyde, Baker, Hislop, Kinsella, Lee, Gordon, Hill, Ritchie, Ramsay, Pilcher, Smith, Edgar, Milne, Kempthorne, Harding, Barnett, Merchant, Price, Gilpin, Wilsted, Rowley, Baker, Crawford, M'Gowan, Masters Wyllie, Ward, Lowe; and twelve in the steerage. LYTTELTON, February 7.—Talune, for Melbourne via the South. Passengers for Dunedin; Misses Clothier, Neil, Child, D’Oyley, Rowley, Mesdames Rice, Alexander, Forbes, Johnston, Hughes and two children, Captain Hughes, Messrs Warren, Kennedy, Tilly, Marshall, Dunlop, Milne. Alexander, Forbes, Johnston, Blackie. —Waikato, from Port Chalmers.— Westralia, for Wellington.—February 8: Moura, from Dunedin. BLUFF, February 7.—Uganda, for Newcastle.

SYDNEY, February B.—Zealandia, from Auckland. —Handa Isle, barquentine, from Kaipara. NEWCASTLE, February B.—Neptune, brigantine, for Wellington.—Timaru, barque, for Lyttelton. Quathlamba, barque, for Napier. ADELAIDE, February 8. Laira, barque, from Kaipara.

(For continuation see Late Shipping.'