EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5494, 24 September 1879, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wanaia, s.s., from Southern ports Tararua, s.s , from Melbourne. Rotorua, s.s., from Northern ports Hinemoa, s.s., from Northern ports. Lady .Bird, s.s., from Southern ports Hawea, s.s., from Southern ports Ringarooma, s.s.j.from Sydney, via Southern

ports ..,..--. May Queen, barque, from London Telegraph, schooner, from Oamaru. Silver Cloud, sohooner, from Newcastle Result, 8.5., from Wairoa Clyde, 8.8., from Wairoa Penguin,;S.B, from Northern ports Bangatira, s.s., from Wellington Mary Wadley, schooner, from Greymouth

The Union Co.'s s.s. Hawea, Captain Kennedy, arrived in the bay yesterday at 3.30 p.m. She left Port Chalmers on Friday, the 13th inst., at 5 p.m., arriving at Akaroa on Saturday at 10.45 a.m?; sailed at 2 p.m., arriving at Lyttelton same day at 6 p.m.; sailed again on Sunday at 1.30 p.m., arriving in Wellington Bame night. ; left Wellington on Monday at 3.30 p.m., arriving hero as above. Experienced moderate weather to Wellington, from thence to arrival heavy sea and head wind the ■whole journey. The Hawea left again last night for the North. The s.s. Kiwi left on Monday for Wellington, via the Coast. The schooner Mary Wadley was towed out of port on Monday night by the Kiwi and Bailed for Greymouth at once. She proceeds to Greymouth to load coal for her owner, J. Vautier, Esq. The Isabella Pratt is discharging her cargo, and is turning the same out in excellent order. The Union Co.'s s.s. Penguin, Captain Malcolm, is due here to-morrow morning from Northern ports, and will leave for the South same day at 11 a.m. The s.s. Mohaka, Captain Dowl, is loading up for Mohaka, Wainui, and the Wairoa, and will leaveltheffirst opportunity. The-B.s. Southern Cross arrived early yesterday morning from Poverty Bay, and discharged her cargo at the outer wharf. From private intelligence we learn that the barque Adamant, Captain Bowling, • which loaded here last season, made the run from Napier to Cape Howe in 25 days, 80 days to the Western Islands, and 7 days from the Westernllslands to dock, thus making a good run home . in 87 . days. She turned out her cargo in excellent order, and was to leave again for Auckland on August 25.

The barque Avona, Captain Martin, which loaded here last season was not successful in making such a good run .Home as the Adamant, she being 132 days on her passage. The Avona left previous to the Adamant, and the latter vessel was home before hear, and partly discharged. We also learn that the Avona, after discharging her cargo, took in ballast for Quebec, there to load timber, but on her passage down the English Channel she got in collision with, a steamer, and sustained some serious damage, which compelled her to return to London. The barque Helen Denny, Captain- Ruth, was expected to leave Dunedin for Napier last Monday. Many singular stories have been told lately in regard to the magioal effect produced at sea by pouring oil upon the troubled waters dnring violent storms. Captain Jarman, of the ship Romßdale, having heard these stories, resolved to test the truth of them, he provided two curious bottle-shaped sacks, each filled with about three gallons of common whale oil. On her last voyage she encountered a violent storm in the middle of the Atlantic. The gale was terrific ; the waves broke over the stern, - threatening to sink the vessel. Then the captain thought of the oil, and puncturing the canvas bags he caused one to be towed over each quarter. The effect was marvellous ; the waves, although remaining the same heighth, no longer broke over the ship's stern, and wherever the oil had spread on the surface of the water there was apparently a calm. Captain Jarman considers that such a simple and inexpensive method of reducing the danger in storms at sea worthy of being adopted. — Home paper.