SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9089, 28 April 1890, Page 4

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON, >r-, v ——— PHASES OF THE MOON. Calculated for New Zealand Mean Time. Mat.

■WEATHER AND TIDE. High Water, This Day (Monday): Morning, 11,7 ; afternoon, 11.30. Sun rises 6.51 s.m., sets 5.3 p.m. Moon rises 2.14 p.m., sets midnight. Time Ball drops at 13.30 Q.M. Time. Sunday, April 27. 9 a.m. 5 p.m. Barometer 30*30 30 r 32 Thermometer ... 63 60 ARRIVED. April 26—Herald, s.s., 355 tons, Jones, from Greymouth. Union Steamship Com* pany, agents. April 26 —■ Penguin, s.s., 442 tons, Borneoh, from Nelson, Pioton and Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agenig. Passengers Mieses Newman, Ball, Childs, Maxwell, Mrs Perry, Dr Bow, Hon B. Acland, Messrs Perry, Hamas, Burley, Peldwick. Babb, Connall, Lucas, Currie, Mugford, Hawkins, Hargreaves, Mauds, HaiznaQj Tapper, Alexander, and sixteen steerage. . April 26—Akaroa, s.s., 43 tons, Harris, from Akaroa. Kinsey and Co., agents. April 27 Brunner, s.s., 450 tons, E wan, from Dunedin and Timaru. Union Steamship Company, agents. April 27—Matatua, e.s., 3321 tons, M'Dougall. from Oamatu. National Mortgage and Agency Company, agents. SAILED. April 26—Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, for Greymouth. Union Steamship Company, agents. April 26—Penguin, s.s., 442 tons, Berneeb, for northern ports. Union Steamshin Company, agents. Passengers—Misses Walton, Duggan, Fisher, Mestlames Charwood, Stevens, Denton, Fitzgerald, Powell, Messrs Charwood, Stevens, Stringer, Gray, Corns, Halliburton, Marshall, Clarkson, Richardson, Wilson, Ward, White, Davis, Denton, Masters Powell, Bridge,Charwood, and Ward. IMPORTS. (A special charge is made for consignees’ announcements in this column.) Penguin : From Nelson—l6o hags bark, 7 pkgs ; from Welliugton—3 c?.: fe . lemons, 14 kegs nails, 30 pkgs. *Herald: From Greymouth—sSo tons coal. Jane Douglas: FromKaikoura—9sbales flax, 4 pkgs. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London Mataura, barque. H.N.8.F., sailed Feb. 22,55 days out. Lady Jocelyn, ship, K.Y.P.S., sailed Jan. 30, 87 days out. Otaki, ship. Tongariro, E.M.S.S.. due in Colony April 20. Nelson, ship. N.K.8.C., sailed, March 15, 44 days out. From Melbourne—Bromhall, N.J.M.V. Timaru, ship, W.T.8.5., sailed April 16,12 days out. City of Madras, ship, W.H.B.T. From New York, via Wellington—Carrie L. Tyler, barque, J.Q.K.G. From Fremantle (W.A.) Cooleen, P.N.J.S. PROJECTED DEPARTURE". For London—Loch Carton, four-masted ship. Greta, ship. Blenheim, ship. Taia▼era, four-masted ship. Stirlingshire, ship. Sierra Blanca, ship. Ivanhoe, barque. VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND.

Pays Out. Marlborough (Captain Herd) ... 107 FalklandHUl (Captain Gordon) ... 107 Carriaal (Captain. Jones) 101 Achievement (Captain Thomas) ... 9S Mioayhive (Captain Johnston) ... 01 Oberon (Captain Schumacher) ... SS Carlisle Castle (Captain Low) ... 83 City of Delhi (Captain Swan) ... 76 Santa (Captain Welch) 73 Beltana (Captain Bright) 6S Wellington (Captain Cowan) ... 54 British Princess (Captain Peterson) 51 Clackmannanshire (Captain Couper) 49' Glenearn (Captain Johnston) ... 4S Morialta (Captain Phillips) 46 flaloione (Captain Eelly) 33 Mv B. Watson (Captain Dunn) ... si Cape of Good Hope (Captain M'Leod 18 Salamanca (Captain Bryce) 13 Lady Cairns (Captain Morrisey) ... 10 Harold (Captain King) 9 VESSELS AT THE WHARVES, 1. Ivanhoe (Captain, George), Sierra Blanca (Captain Craigie), Greta (Captain Cassady)) Blenheim (Captain Colville). Western Belle (Captain Butman). 2. Brunner (Captain Ewan). 3. Stirlingshire (Captain Watt). 4. Tongatiro (Captain Bone). 5. Matatna (Captain M'Dougall). 6. Glencairn (Captain Burton). _ 7. Talavera (Captain Robson), Doric (Captain Jennings). The steamer Herald arrived from Greymouth on Saturday morning, and left on the return trip after having discharged her cargo of coal. The four-masted ship Talavera was floated out of the Graving Dock on Saturday after receiving a couple of coats of paint, for which she looks all the better. The Union Steamship Company’s steamer Penguin arrived from northern ports on Saturday morning, and left on the return trip in the evening. The steamer Akaroa arrived from Akaroa on Saturday evening. The four-masted ship Loch Carron was towed into the stream on Saturday with a large cargo of produce on board for London, loaded by the New Zealand Shipping Company. She will proceed to sea this morning. The next sailing vessel to leave for London will be the Blenheim, which is beihgloaded by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. She will be ready for sea in a few days, and will be followed by the Grets, loading on account of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a cable message informing us of the arrival in London of the barque Magnat and the ships Wendur and Miltiades from this port. The Magnat occupied 111 days on the voyage, the Wendur 91, and the Miltiades 75, this latter being the best voyage recorded from Lyttelton for some time past. By the list of vessels homeward bound printed above, it will be seen that the Marlborough and Falkland Hill have not yet been reported.

THE S.S. MATATUA. At noon yesterday the second of Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s cargo steamers, the Matatua, arrived in port from Osmaru, and was moored alongside No. 5 wharf. She is a new boat, and in many respects similar to the Mamari, the first of the Company’s cargo boats, which visited this port a few weeks ago. During October of last year she was launched from the yards of Messrs Robert Stephenson and Go. at Hebburn, Newcaatle-on-Tyne, by whom she was built expressly as a cargo boat. She has two decks, two masts, and is sohoonerrigged, and is built, like all other modern cargo boats, on the "well-dock ” principle, with a short forecastle and short poop. Her deoks are of iron, and she has four large hatchways for the rapid loading and discharging of cargo. On deck steam winches of an improved type are erected at each hatchway, and additional derricks and other gear are supplied, by which to work cargo. Amongst other improvements on deck we noticed apatent self-adj usting accommodation ladder, the steps of which are adthe required angle as the ladder is being lowered over the side, and which should be found very convenient in a passenger boat. It is the invention of ono of the foremen in the yard of the builders, and was only patented last year. The officers are quartered in nice, airy rooms along the alleyway on the starboard side, which here runs the entire length of the upper deck. The engines, which are triple expansion, are by Thomas Richardson and Sons, of Hartlepool, and she is supplied with two steel boilers. Her nominal horse-power ia 300, and indicated 170 Q. Upon the very moderate consumption of tuduty-fivo tons of cool per day she can steam ten and a half knots, and

when, her canvas is called to aid in propelling her, as much as eleven knots has bean attained. She is ballasted with water, and has tanks to hold about 400 tons. Her gross tonnage is 3321 tons, register 2190, and tonnage under deck 2927 tons. She is provided with three of Haslam’s refrigerators, two being fitted forward and one aft. These are driven by steam from the main boiler, and some six tons of coal per day additional are required when they are kept constantly going. The forward chambers are 40,000 and 60,000 cubic feet measurement respectively, while the after is 70,000 cubic feet, and in all 40,000 frozen sheep can he stored. In addition to this, she has a cool chamber, where 230 tons of butter and cheece can be stowed, and space for general cargo equal to about 3000 bales of wool. At Oamarn, her first port of call in New Zealand, she loaded 600 bales of wool, 4000 cases meat, SO tons cheese, 150 tons barley, 150 tons wheat and 8000 carcases sheep and lambs. Here she loads 14,000 carcases sheep, and leaveson Wednesday for Napier, proceeding thence to Wellington, her final port of departure in the Colony. She is commanded by Captain M'Dougall, who was at one time in command of the ship Auckland. Mr Clarke is chief officer, Mr Lowden (late of the Tainni) second, and Mr Ward third. The chief engineer is Mr Allen, with Mr M'Caul second, Mr Stonehank third and Mr Pringle fourth, the refrigerating engineers being Messrs M'lntyi’e, Gillespie and Smart. The following arethe particulars of the passage:— She left the Tyne on Jan. 15,1890, in bal* last for Christiana, and arrived there on Jan. 19, having experienced thick, foggy weather across. Loaded a cargo of flooring boards, partly at Christiana and partly at Snaten. During her stay in these parts the weather was very cold, the thermometer being usually below 30deg Fab. She left Snaren on Feb. 4, for Melbourne; passed Dover on Feb. 6, where the pilot-was lauded, and took her departure from the Isle of Wight on Feb. 7. Experienced fresh North-east Trades with fine weather to Teneriffe, where she arrived on Feb. 1.3. Took in coal, and left again the sanity evening. Crossed the Equator on March 4, moderate easterly winds having be«m.-- experienced. Rounded the Cape of Good Hope in latitude 45 South, and ran down the Easting on the parallel of 46 South, fresh westerly winds, with moderate seas, prevailing. Entered Hobson’s "Bay on March 30. After having discharged cargo, she went into the Graving Dock and was cleaned and painted. Left for Oamarn on April 19, and had fine weather, with light Northwest winds, across to Poveaux Strait, which she entered on April 24, and arrived at Oamarn at midnight on April 24. Took in cargo and left for Lyttelton on Saturday, at B.3o'jwn,, arriving as above.

ENGLISH SHIPPING. The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, have received the following cable message from London, dated April 25 "Kangitiki arrived from Port Chalmers, all well. Duke of Westminster, s.s., arrived, all well; meat in good condition* JB.M.S. Aorangi sailed : £rom Cape of Good Hope to-day.” SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, April 27. The steamer Dingadee, which was recently running in the West Coast coal trade under charter to the Union Company, has now been purchased by that Company. The barques T. A. Goddard for Auckland. andAlastore and Loch Clive for London, sailed yesterday afternoon. Port Chalkees, April 27. Arrived, April 28—Rotorua, from Lyttelton ; Hauroto, from Lyttelton. Invercargill, from Invercargill. Banks Peninsula, from Oamaru. April 27—Beautiful Star, from Timaru. Sailed—Duke of Buckingham, Captain Groombridge, for London, vi. 4 Napier and Wellington, with 13,689 carcases of mutton and a quantity of wool, tallow, cheese and butter. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. Sydney, April 26. Arrived —Vision, from Kaipara. Sailed —Devonshire, for Auckland. Newcastle, April 26. Sailed —Peerless, for Manukau. Pout Pxhie, April 26. Arrived—Pactole, from Greymouth.

Days. Hrs. Mins. Full moon .. . 5 8 89 a.m. Last quarter . .. 13 3 52 a.m. New moon 19 7 49 a.m. First quarter .. 27 10 4 a.m.