SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6820, 26 September 1883, Page 4

SHIPPING.

Hioa Wirr.B. 2.22- 3.^ Mw'^T-Nwfoctoto 8 1 6 5 6 33 p.m. ABBrVALS. Waihora, e.s., 2003, J. Edie, from Melbourne, via Southern Ports. Passengers : Mr., _ Mrs., and Master O'Conner, Missea Biaa, Chisaold, KavanagU. Gill. Pollen, Eeece, Oraw, Mesdames Smith and family, Bisa, Sandford, Chisaold, Evans, ' Porter, Messrs. Smith,- McGlashan, Barker, Tucker, Barrows, Dyson, Beid, Henderson, Dargaville (M.H.8.), Pollard, Hayes, Broadhurst, Brown, Sandford, Evane, Foley, Hamlin, Newbury, Smith, and 25 in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Waiwera, schooner, 42, Anderson, from Whangarei.—Master, agent. - Buby, sohooner, 36, Lamb, from Whangarei. —F. Kissling, agcni. Fanny Kelly, ketch, 35, G. Williams, from 2£angonui.—Master, agent. Lizzie, cutter, 39, McGuiney, from Whangaroa;—Matter, agent. Sarah Pile, schooner, U5, KimerU, from Timaru. —Master, agent. CLEARED OUTWAKD3. Buby, Bchooner, 36, Lamb, for Whangarei. I?. Kissling, agent. . Golden Isle. Bchooner, 78, Carmichael, lor Suva via Tairna. —F. Kißsling, agent. Macgregor, e.s.,' for Whangareu—Northern B.S. Co., agents DEPARTURES.

Macgregor, b.u., for >Vhangarei. Matautm, Bchoonor, for Tougi. _ Buby, schooner, for Whangarei. Golden Isle, ichooner, for lairaa and bnVa. EXPECTED ASRIVALS. MH Xion, barque, sailed Jane,l6. hqdw. lalts, barque, sailed June 18, klhd. ■ Hermione, ship, sailed July 10. Ganymede, barque, sailed July E>. Otaki, ship, sailed August I. Triumph, b.b., to sail September 2a. Antares, barque, loading. Candidate, barque, loading. Piako, chip, loading. GLASGOW: . _ Embleton, barque, sailed Jane 2, via Dunedin, wiiJR. r Helen Denny, barque, sailed July 5. Akaroa, barque, sail'jd July 25. KBW YORK : Irene, bngnntine. sailed July IT. Amazon, barque, loading. BOSTON : Clara E. McGilllvray, barque, sailed Jane 19, JHFB. HOBAB.T : Alcestes, barque, early. NEWoistlf. : Albert the Good, brig, early. LYTTELTON : Devonport, birquentine, early. BOTTEH SEA ISLANDS : Sovereign, schooner, early. NORFOLK ISLAND : . Southern Cross, Missionary barquentine, early, WLHD. DUNEDIN : Jane Anderson, brigantine, early. TIMAKtr: Island Lily, schooner, Bailed September 20. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. NEWCASTLE : Grasmere, ship, early. DUKTKDIN : Zealandia, ship, early. THE UNION S.S. COMPANY. Th» following are tho movements of the steamships of the abovs oompany for tha present week :— To-DAY. —Omapere -arrives from Tauranga ia the evening j Waihora leaves for Russell at 5 p.m. Thoesdat.—Omapere loave3 for Danedin, via Westport, at noon. . FeidaY. — Waihora . arrives from Russell early, and leaves for Melbourne, via South, at noon.

IMPORTS. Par s.s. Waihora, from Melbourne, via Southern ports: 250 sacks bonedust, 303 packages tea, 10 bundles timber, 20 gas stoves, 2 casks port wino, 4 casks wine, 1 cask sherry, 750 mats sugar, 20 cases 2 casks brandy, 200 sacks rice, 25 cases geneva, 42 reels wire, _ 5 barrels seed, 30 cases bi.tters, 380 cases fruit, 47 bags onions, 30 bags bran, 14 bags pollard, 60 bags oats, 43 cases cheese, 5 boxes tobacco, 200 sacks flour, 937 sacks wheat, 1003 sacks potatoes, 15 cases bacon, 45 packages tin plates, 5 (sacks wheat, 2 tramway engines, 40 cases ginger ale, 200 sheep, and 381 packages sundries. Per Waihora, from Melbourne : 250 sacks bonedust, Coupland and 00. Per Waihora, from Danedin: 20 cases (21bs.) boiled beef, Coupland and Co. Per Omapere, from Timaru : 20 cases (21bs.) boiled mutton, Coupland and Co. Per Sarah Pile, from Oamara: 420 sacks potatoes, Adam Ijaybourn and' Co. EXPORTS. Per schooner Golden Isle, for Suva (to be loaded at Tairua): 75,000 feet timber. Inwards Coastwise.—Lizzie, cutter, from "Whingaroa, with 32,000 feet timber; Waiwera, schooner, from Whangarei, with 69 tons coal; Rata, barge, from. Waiaro, with 31,175 feet timber; Fanny Kelly, ketch, from Mangonui, with 32,463 feet timber; Ruby, schooner, from Whangarei, with 60 tons coal. OOTWABD3 Coastwise. —Rata, barge, for Waiaro; Ruby, schooner, for Whangarei. The schooner Elsinore will sail for Sydney in a few days with a cargo of timber. The schooner Atlantic will sail again in a few days for Rarotong*. Two 110-mile races took place during last month, between the Auckland schooner Fairy Queen and the Flora (the schooner that sailed against the Rita in this harbour and was beaten). The first race was won by the Flora, the wind being light, and a doad run. The nest race was won by the Fairy Queen, the wind being fresh, and ti close haul. The <£rst race was only won by a few ship's lengths, whilst in the nert race the Fairy Queen simply ran away from her antagonist. i The s.a. Waitaki, recently purchased for the trade between Auckland and Whangarei, is at the present time being fitted up at Dunedin, to make her all tho more suitable for the trade in which she is for the future to be engaged. The steamer will leave there in about ten days hence. The brigantine Nightingale left Newcastle for this port on Sunday last. She is to be followed by the brigantine Marie Virginia and brig Albert the Good (loading). Tho schooner Sarah Pile, from Timaru, arrived in harbour yesterday evening, with a full cargo of produce. Her trip up was an uneventfull one.

The s.s. Macgregor took her departure yesterday evening for Whangarei witn passengers and cargo. - The schooner Annio Wilson left Lyttelton for the Kaipara on tho 18th instant. The brig Aunabell, 348 tons, Captain Home, left Lyttelton for this port on the 20th instant, with 1280 sackß oats, 454 Backß - wheat, 2392 sacks potatoes, 9 cases bacon, 309 cheese, 410 sicks flour.

The schooner Golden Isle cleared outwards at the Customs, and sailed yesterday for Tairua, there to load 75.000 feet timber, for Suva (Fiji). The schooner, sinoe her arrival here, has had a thorough overhaul and re-coppered, so that she now leaves here in "good order and condition."

Tho New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cablegram, announcing that their steamer lonic left Plymouth on Saturday, the 22nd instant, for New Zealand.

There is some doubt prevalent as to the respective rights of the owners and crews of steam vessels when other ships, generally more or less damaged, aro brought into port by such steamers. We refer specially to those cases where the owners of the two vessels nettle between themselves the amount to be paid for the services rendered without the intervention of the Courts of law. The questions asked ate, first, whether in these cases, the crews of the assisting vessels are entitled to any special payment on account of the services ; and, secondly, if Buch payment, be, in th« particular circumstances, due to them, what should bo its extent. As regards the Brat of tho question?, we may premise 1 1 once that it cm make no possible difference*to the righto of tho seamen whether j the owners of the two vessels choose to suttle without recourse to legal pioceedings,. or whether the Law Courts are appealed to. Tho matter depends solely on tho nature of the service. la. it salvage, or merely towngo! If salvage, the crew.havea just right to be recompensed for their share in effecting it; If towage only, the transaction is one in which they have no concern; it is then a matter simply between the owners of the vessels. Fortunately, the distinction between salvage and towage is in general pretty well defined. One oriterion of salvage is, we beliovo, universally admitted. ■Where tho vessel in which assistance is given is damaged, not necessarily disabled, but to any material extent injured, the service must be Salvage., , .. The harbour at tbo present time is very bare, consequently there is little business moving. The only vessels discharging aro tho ships Z»alar:dia and Grasmere from London. Tho advent of tho barques Asterion and Laira from London are both no* arudously looked for by tho owners 6f. cargo on board, and by stevedores and others wjiose duties take them down amongst the shipping. It is a strange fact ththo demand for wharfagesspace comes either in a feast or a famine kind of -way. At one time tho worthy IVputy Harbour Master in at his wit's ends to meet the great dev.manri for berths,'as the.iequests come .tumbling "•iif' iiyin him ! ffis(iaodfurious-! Good tact and an -easy tempei iu the qreater number of instances tide" the worthy official Bafely over his troubles. Afc another time he has berths by the dozen to -allot, but no demand. As instance the present -time. Two square rigged vessels at the Queenstreet Wharf, and a tike number of barques at