SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7722, 21 August 1886, Page 7

SHIPPING.

*»■ w "" ttsgtsix-istsr-Son.—Rises, 6.40; sets, 5.26. Mooh.—.Cart Quarter, 23rd, 7.1 a.m. * ARRIVALS. „ , , Agnes Martin, ketch, 40„ F. Joseph, from WhaDK»rei.—Stone Brother*, agents. Chelmsford, a.. 70, J. Cowper, from Opotiki. Passengers: Messrs. E. Lay bourne, H» tr. Bluett.—Sharp and Co., agents. ' Peerless, brigantine, 292, H. H. Heay's, from Lvttelton.—Stone Brothers, agents. Clansman, 8.8., 331, Farquhar, from Northern oorts Passengers : Mesdames Holmden and Patterson, Miss Bruce, Messrs. Christie, Reid, Beaton, McLeod, Patterson, Armitage, McGlynn VI), Williams (2), Ralph, Foy, McHugh, Cameron, Fraser, Jones, Anderson, Curtis, Mitchell, Shanaghan, Pearce, McDonnell, West, and seven in the steerage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. „ Gienelg, s.s., 156, Stephenson, from Whanga> rei.— Northern S.S. Co,, agents; CLEARED OUTWARDS). Chelmsford, s.s., 70, J. Cowper, for Opotiki. Passengers ; Messrs. Penny, Forbes*— ana C °ReC« a ,' ketch, 64, Haultain, for Whangarei. —Master, agent. _ Clansman, s.s., 331, Farquhar, for Tauranja. —Northern S.S. Co., agents, lona, s.s., 156, Amodeo, for Mercury Bay.— Northern S.S. Co., agents. Macgregor, s.s., 159, Johnson, for Whftnga Northern S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Chelmsford, s.s., for Opotiki. Reliance, ketch, for WhangareL Clansman, *.8., for Tanranga. lona, e.s., for Mercury Bay. _ Macgregor, s.s., for Whangarei. EXPECTED arrivals. LONDON : ■ . „ Kimutaka, ». a,, toft July 3, via Southern ports; due Auckland August 25. Coptic, . j., sailed July 15, due August 29. Buapaha, s.s., sailed July 30, due Sep tember 14. ' _ Stracathro, barque, sailed May 13, QQDN. Waitangi, ship, sailed June 11, PPKL. Soukar, ship, early. Piako, ship, early. Euterpe, ship, early. SYDNEY : ' . „, . Aurora, brigantine, sailed August 10, MELBOURNE : Nelson, H.M.1., about November. SAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M. s.s., due. slasgow : , . _ Merope. ship, sailed May i y via Dune din. JPRT. Helen Denny, barque, loading, hmtd. NX* TORT.: Elinor.- Vernon, barque, sailed April 9, via Dunedin, JSFK. Nettle, brigantine, sailed May 16, via Duaedin. * . Mary A. Greenwood, barque, via Dunedm aud Lyttelton, jtfk. BOSTON : 1 .Hanaa, brlgantine, sailed May 17, via We lington, NI'LP. FOOCHOW : . Whampoa, b«s., duo about September 1. FIJI William Turner, barque, early, pvsc, J AT A: . Ehrensvord, barque, early. The Mia, barque, early. Niooya, ship, early, hptc. HAMBURG: Prinz Albert, barque, sailed May 7» BDFN via. Wellington. HOBART : Looia/jana, barque, early. FROM ISLANDS : Buircer, schooner, early. By no, brigantine, early, WLGV. AMantio, schooner, early. Jussis Nlccol, sohooner, early, WLJK. Maile, schooner, early. Julia Pryce, schooner, early* LONG island : Three Cheers, schooner, early, NEWCASTLE : Ensign, barqup, early. W. C. Went worth, barque, early. LYTTELTON : Presto, barque, early. . DCNEDIN : Alexa, barque, sailed August 4, BSBW. .■■ Caberfeidh. barque, sailed August 5. Camille, brigantine, early. Energy, schooner, early, qhtd. 01 MAM.D : ■< Darcy Pratt, schooner, early, BLMJ. TIM.! : ; J Eilk.li Donan, brigantine, early. WELLINGTON : Crusader, ship, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

LONDON : Lutterworth, loading. Alastor, barque, loading. Waitangi, ship, to load. Crusader, ship, to loadNSW YORK : Elinor Vernon, barque, to load, Nettie, brigantine, to load. SYDNEY : ■ , \ Alameda, R.M. s.i., to-day. SAMOA : Mohican, U.S. corvette, 28th init. UNION COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. To • day. — The Alameda is expected to j arrive from San Francisco and Honolulu, and liar« for Sydney. Sunday. — The Australia arrives from Southern ports. Monday.—The Hawea is due at Onehunga from Southern ports. The Arawata arrives from Dunedin. Tuesday.— Hawea leaves Onehunga at 3 p.m. for .Southern Forts. The Arawata leaves for Fiji at 5 p.m. The Australia leaves for South at 6 p*m. Wxdnisday.—-The Rotomahana arrives from Sydney. Thursday.—The Rotomahana leaves for Southern ports and Melbourne. The Waihora arrives from Southern ports and Melbourne and leaves for Sydney. NORTHERN S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. To - DAY. —The Gairloch arrives at Onehunga from Waitar a. The Argyle arrives from Mercury Bay about 8 p.m. The Clansman arrives from Tauranga on Sunday morning early. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. (This list does not Include coasters.) Steamer.—U.S. corvette Mohican, in stream. Babqoks.—Lutterworth, Alastor, Queen-street Whs.rf; Rebecca, stream. Brigantines.—Circe, Peerless, Qo sen-street Wharf; Defiance, Clansman, jtiuilway Wharf; Avatapu, in dock. Schooners.—Fanny Thornton, in stream. IMPORTS. Per brigantine Peerless, from Lyttelton : 680 sacks potatoes, 1300 sacks potatoos, 30 sacks oatmeal, 25 sacks oats, 1850 Backs wheat, SO sacks grass seed, 7 packages ranges. Per Alex a : 1000 sacks Duncan's flour, 200 half-sacks Duncan's flour, 200 quarter-sacks Duncan's flour, 10 sacks Duncan's flour, 25's; 150 sacks oatmeal, 33 sacks pearl barley, 370 Backs oats.— H. Hall and Co. EXPORTS. ■ ! Per Ohau: 360 sacks Canterbury potatoes, Geo. V. Jakins. Per Peerless: 45 sacks seed barley, 227 sacks Canterbury potatoes, 700 bags Wood's flour, Goo. V. Jakins, Inwards Coastwise.—Ghost, barge, from Tukikaka, with 23 logs ; Nellie, cutter, from Whangapoua with SO,oooft timber ; Mahorangi, cutter, from Barrier, with 15 tons firewood, 100 posts, 20 sheep. OOTWABD3 COASTWISE.—Ghost, barge, for Mangawai; Nellie, cutter, for Whangapoua; Moehau, barge, for Pakiri. i The N.Z.S. Co.'s s.s. Rimutuka left Lyttelton ' yesterday morning (having been delayed by bad weather for some 24 hours at that port) for J Wellington. The latter port is to be left on Monday for Auckland, where she will be due on Wednesday next, and after landing her home cargo, she will leave again on Saturday next on her voyage to London, calling en route at Southern ports. Up to the present time the following is a rough estimate of the cargo that has been booked for the Rimutaka 1200 cases kauri gum, 165 casks tallow, 200 bales wool, 36 tieroes beef, 100 tons quartz, and some 20 tons of sundries. The b,b. Chelmsford, from Opotikl, came into harbour early yesterday morning, with a cargo consisting of 319 sacks maize, 12 sacks potatoes, 20 sheepskins. The Chelmsford left again last evening for the same port, taking from hero as cargo 178 bales hay, and 42 packages sundries. Mr. McDowell, who has been for some years landing waiter of H.M. Customs at this port, is about to leave for Wellington, to which port he, has been transferred by the Government. Mr. Bowen, of Wellington, takes Mr. McDowell's place at this port. Yesterday, Mr. Thomas Hill, the Collector ot Customs, was engaged in making an official inquiry into the circumstances connected with the recent stranding and ultimate loss of the s.s. Hannah Mokau on the Whakatane bar. The evidence of the master who was in charge at the time, and of others of the crow of the vessel was taken, but no new light was thrown on the disaster. The evidence taken is to be forwarded on to Wellington. The ketch Agnes Martin, from Whangarei, arrived yesterday, with a cargo of 63 tons coal. The brigantine Peerless, from Lyttelton, came into harbour yesterday, after an uneventful passage. Captain Heays reports that Lyttelton was left on the 9th inst., and that fine weather with the exception of a slight blow of 24 hours' duration off Cape Palli.ser, prevailed ' throughout. The s.s. Clansman, from Russell and Northern ports, came into harbour yesterday morning with cargo and passengers, and left again last

evening bound for Tanranga. The a.i. lona (for Mercury Bay) and Macgregor (for Whan' garei) also left last evening. It will be noticed by telegram in another column that the Union Co.'s s.s. Waneka, which had been out from Dunedin to Lyttelton since Monday last, arrived safely at the latter port'yesterday morning. Her detention was occasioned by heavy and dirty weather. In oar yesterday's issue we had occasion to draw attention to the delay in the forwarding of the Auckland portion of the lonic's cargo from Wellington, and to the complaints made in consequence by the Auckland consignees. Yesterday Messrs. Cruickshank and Co., the Auckland agents of the steamer named, with most commendable promptitude wired to Wellington for information as to the cause of the delay. In response to this they received from Captain Babot a telegram, which gave the explanation that the delay was " unavoidable, steamer could not call Timarn consequence mutton has to be railed to Lyttelton." Thus it appears that the Auckland cargo has been delayed on board the lonic whilst she was kept waiting in Lyttelton for her ' homeward' cargo of frozen meat, which by the way she was unable to call for at Timaru. So much for the consideration that is given to the Auckland consignees by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. Had this outward cargo of frozen meat been still in a state of unreadiness _it is fair to presume that the lonic would be still waiting at Lyttelton for " that mutton," and the Auckland merchants for their goods. It is evident from this trial that the resolve (if the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co. to ignore Auckland as a port of call by their steamers, and to make Wellington the distributing point will not answer— is, if the company are at all desirous to obtain a share of the trade of this port. It is unreasonable to expect merchants to submit to such inconvenience as will arise from ' such an arrangement, and the company will find that some better arrangements will have to be made as to the sending on of the Auckland portion of their cargo than holding it back in their vessels whilst they are loading frozen mutton at some outside port for their homeward journey. In connection with this matter it is, however, fair to say that Messrs. Cruickshank and Co. are entirely blameless, and we are confident that had the sending forward of the cargo for this port been dependent upon their management, the whole of it would have reached here long before this ; and in proof of this we have only to point to the prompt dispatch they obtain for all the steamers and cargo that come to Auckland as the first pert of call. Steamers have arrived in Auckland and the same day portions of the Southern cargo have been sent on, a promptness that wo cannot say has yet been shown at any of the Southern ports. The brigantine Lizzie Guy, which put into Mangonui some 12 days back, through stress of weather, . was damaged in that harbour by collision with the barque John Knox which dragged her anchors and came down upon the brigantine, causing damage to the extent of some £28. Since then it appears that the barque has been considered as unseaworthy, and a survey was ordered to be made of the barque; The survey was made by Mr. Lane, shipbuilder, of Whangaroa, who reports that repairs will have to be made to the extent of some £158, before she can proceed on her journey from Mangonui to Sydney. THE STRANGE STORY OF PRIVATEERING., . At the Clerkenwell Police Court recently Captain Robertson appeared to an adjourned summons, at the instance of Richard Murphy, an engineer, charging him with failing to give the complainant a certificate of disoharge from the ship Justitia. The complainant, in the course of his evidence, told a remarkable story of his services upon the ship. In a cruise of twenty-nine days round the Venezuela coast, a startling description was given of warlike operations— i vessel having arrived at a port which was occupied by rebels, and so encountering the fighting men by land and sea. It was alleged that the Venezuelan flag was substituted for the English flag by men on the vessel, and under that guise the Justitia was attacked at soa by a rebel war-boat, the latter being defeated. Since the last hearing ithad been discovered that in the Shipping Register the ship Justitia was registered in the name of "William Phillips but she was entered as ? having been sold on August 12, 1885, to "some foreigners in Venezuela, subjects of the United States of America." The man Phillips had been on board the ship during the whole of the voyage, acting as steward to a gentleman for whom he was supposed to have been merely a nominee as owner. Mr. Hosack asked whether it' had been ascertained who were the real owners—who paid for the fitting out of the vesselthat being a serious matter. The complainant's counsel replied that the Sir William Montagu mentioned as the proprietor and fitter-out of the vessel was now believed to be Sir William Montagu Cole. The complainant was recalled, and said that the person going by the name of Sir William Cole, acoompanied by a lady, came on board while they were at Antwerp. After the cases of.rifles were taken in, and the ship left, the captain, as far as he knew, still remained in command, as the stringers were not seafaring people. The defendant was in command when the seizure of the fishing-boats was made, and was also on the bridge when the fight took place with the foreign, gunboat, and was then " making a boast of it." He gave the , witness orders to work the engines as hard as they could go, to get out of the way of the gunboat; The complainant, in answer _to questions as to why he called it a privateering vessel, said they used to fire across the bows of passing ships, and sent out men in boats to them; and when they were boarded, the crew were taken prisoners and everything valuable that could be seized was taken away and the ships were cast adrift. Richard Aylwood, second mate, said that when the Justitia was at Antwerp, and they were taking the chests on board, three of the cases broke from the chains and opened, and on inspecting them he found they each contained 30 rifles with bayonets affixed. There were 370 of these cases in all. The defendant had told him they contained starch. In consequence of what he saw he left the Justitia and did not accompany her on the voyage sift subsequently . took. He went to the Consul at Antwerp and informed him of the circumstance, and the Consul arranged for his passage back to London. The captain entered into a long statement, and chiefly impressed upon the magistrate that his command ceased when the vessel left Antwerp. He admitted having been on the bridge of the ship giving orders when the rebel gun-boat came up, but said he acfted in defence of himself and the crew. The defendant wanted to give the name and addresii of the owner, and said be was & Sir W. Montagu Cole, whose address he had left at homo, but the agents for the ownur were Messrs Beere and Guthrie.' Mri Hosack said he considered the defendant had delayed giving the certificate, a.nd imposed a penalty of 40s upon the defendant, and allowed the complainant £2 costs.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA. I , ARRIVALS. Hinemoa, s*s., Fairchild, from Wellington. Passengers: Misses Dunn, Rochford, Geddes, Oarew, Tuke, and Russell, Mesdames Buokland. Lake, Horn, Owen, Tuke, and Russell, Sir F. Whitaker,Hon*.Capt.Fraser,Swanson,Chamberlin, Dr. Pollen, M.L.C.'s, Sir G. M. O'Rorke, Messrs. Buckland, Moss, Hobbs, Moat, Hamlin, Peacock. Ross, Lake, Thompson, Col. Fraser, M.H.R.'s, Pricton (Prison Department), Bo wen (Customs Department), Waylani, Geddes, Goodfellow, Brown, Cohan, Lowe, Berry, and Mooney. The Government steamer Hinemoa, Captain Falrohild, arrived from Wellington at 9.30 a.m. yesterday. ~ She left Wellington at 8 p.m. on the 18th; . called at Opunake, and arrived at New Plymouth at 1 p.m. on the 19th ; left for the Manukau at 3 p.m., crossed the bar at 8 a.m. on the 20th, arriving as above, having experienced fine weather until approaching the Manukau.i She leaves again with the Southern rortion of the inward San Francisco mail por Alameda, should the Wanaka not have arrived, BY TELEGRAPH. WELLINGTON. August 20.— Sailed : Hawea, s.s., for the North. Passengers: Mrs. Holmes and child, Miss Pillans, Messrs. Jones, Burns, Abbott. LYTTELTON. August 20.—Arrived: Wanaka, s.b., from Dunedin, after a passage of 91 hours, caused by thick weather; Alert, from Wanganui: Wakatu, from Kaikoura. Sailed: Kawatiri and Orowaiti for Westpors; Hauroto, s.s., for Dunedin ; Rimutaka, s.s., and Koranui, for Wellington. PORT CHALMERS. August 20.—Arrived : S.s. Wareatea, from Westport; s.s. Penguin, from the North; s.s. Te Kapo, from Lyttelton. Sailed : S.s. Tarawera, for Melbourne ; s.s. Arawata, for Fiji ; s.s. Go-Ahead, for the North ; s.s. Waihora, for Sydney, vis. the East Coast. Passengers For Wellington: Miss Matheson. For Napier : Misses Hewitt and Westal. For Auckland : Mr. Rothschild. For Sydney : Mr. Cowpßr, and 9 steerage. ____________________

The next of the series of fortnightly reunions of the Mount Eden Congregational Church Young Men's Association will be a concert, to bo held on Thursday evening. The committee have arranged a choice programme of vocal and instrumental music for thin occasion. The following tenders were opened yesterday at noon by Messrs. Paul and Fripp, architects, for painting, papering, repairing, and adding verandahs and balcony to the EUerslie Hotel, for Mr. Adam CairnsTaylor and Reading, £256; Brabazon. £274 ; Null and Collier, £282; Haynes, £284; Sandsbury, £295; Johnson and Hoi in an, £297; Bridgemai). £316; Grandison, £327 ; Leigh Brothers, £,53;); A. Williams, £389; Gedye and _ Culver. £340; Summerel, £379; Wooler, £384 ; Hancock, £388; Tucker, £3SB ; Stephenson, £-105; and Jones and Pollard, £437.