SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 12767, 21 March 1906, Page 6

SHIPPING.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOEBOW. Tsaama Head : 0.51 a-m., L2l pan. Pari Chalmers : 1.36 a-mL, 2.1 p.m. Dunedm: 2JZL aju., ZM p-m. EXPECTED AEETVALS., —Coastal. — I Tahme, from Auckland, March 22. —lntercolonial Moeraki, from Sydney via Wdrington, March 24. Mokoia, from Sydney via , Auckland, March 25. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Wimmera, for Sydney via Cook StcaiL, March 22. Poherua, for West Coast, March 22. Talune, for Auckland via way ports, March 23. Moeraki, for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobaxt, March 25. The Poberua sails to-morrow for Northern and West Coast ports. During the last run of the Wimmera from the Blnff to Hobart £5 8s was collected at a saloon concert in aid of the Royal Humane and Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales. Ab Captain Mayoss, of the Rnapeha, is still confined to his bed, Mr N. Cornwall, R.NJI., chief officer, is acting-mas-ter of the vessel during her etay in New Zealand. Captain Mayoss did not accompany the Ruapehn when she left Wellington on Saturday for the South. An exchange says that the steamer Toroa, which is to be of the Chatham Island Tun by the new steamer Ripple from the Ist April, will probably enter the East Coast trade with the Kahu. Mr Minnett, late purser of the Monowai, has been appointed purser of the Talune. It is stated that Captain Millman., of the Kittawa, is about to retire from the service of the Union Company. Mr Hendry, chief engineer of the Canopus, went ashore at Lyttelton last week, and his place is being filled for a month by Mr Inniss, second engineer of the vessel. Mr Borfchwick has joined the steamer as second. Another new Carrie liner has been built for the Calcutta teade. The Hymettus, built for Messrs A. Currie and Co. by the Palmer's Shipbuilding Company, from the designs of Mr F. J. Trewent, made successful trials on January 28 off the Tyne. The vessel has been built to run between Melbourne, Sydney, and Calcutta, and specially designed to carry horses, having accommodation for over 600. She hae also accommodation for about forty first class and thirty second class passengers, who are berthed in exceptionally large state rooms, especially well ventilated and righted. Her dimensions are 400 ft in length, by 52ft beam, by 35ft 6in moulded depth, her deadweight being over 7,000 tons. On her trials the speed exceeded thirteen knots, which was considered very satisfactory. At a meeting of the Auckland Harbor Board yesterday tenders were opened for the construction in ferro concrete of part of Queen street wharf, together with a new ferry jetty. Four tenders were received. The engineer's estimate was £BI.OOO, without allowing for the increased cost of steel. The following are the amounts of the tenders :—Gnmmow and Forrest, £118,331; M'Lean and- Sons, £84,487; Ferro Concrete Company, Newson and Colson, £79,774. The tenders were referred to the Works and Tariff Committee. Mail advices from Tampa repeat the siory told by one John F. Williams, who was landed there by the ship Helen Thomas. Williams said that the British schooner Sakata, of which he was mate, was on her way from Annapolis to Havana in ballast, when she was capsized by a big wave during a gale. Several of the crew climbed on to her afterwards, but they gradually lost consciousness, and dropped oft one by one. At last only Williams remained sitting on the keel. He says he kept himself alive for four days by chewing his oilskin. After that the Helen Thomas picked him up nearly dead. Captain Lanlon, who was drowned with the rest, was in command of the schooner. WRECK OF THE AGINCO.URr. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SYDNEY, March 21. (Received March 21, at 9.43 a.m.) A later cable srtates that the Agincourt was wrecked near the Pelew Group on March 1. There are no further details. REPORTED FERE AT SEA. A Napier message says that the postmaster at Opoutama reports that a large vessel, apparently on fire, passed the Mahia Penineula just after five o'clock last evening, but tho wire does not state whether the vessel was a steamer or sailing vessel, nor in what direction it was going. The Marine Department officer in Napier was asked to send a steamer in search, but no vessel was available, and the Waikare, which left for Gisborne and Auckland last night, will probably see something of the vessel. GISBORNE, March 21. The Waikare saw nothing of the vessel reported to be on fire. At about five o'clock last evening a vessel, apparently a warship, undergoing a speed trial, passed ten miles od the coast, issuing dense volumes of smoke. This probably gave rise to the repart-from Mania that a vessel was on fire. SCHOONER ASHORE. GISBORNE, March 21. The auxffiary schooner Aotea is ashore at Waipiro Bay. The schooner Haupiri will probably be sent to render assistance. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. ADCKLAND, March 20.—Taviuni, for Eastern Pacific—Wanaha, for the Bluff. KALPARA, March 20.—Kaitxma, for Sydney. WELLINGTON, March 20. Tahxne, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers for Danedin : Mrs Masscy, Rev. Mr MTkwgall, Messrs M*WilEam and party, White, Cork. —Rotomahana, for Lyttelton. BLUFF, March Niccol, from Campbell Islands. (For continuation see Late Shipoing).