SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7975, 15 June 1887, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ifion WATER at Auckland— a.m.; 1.43 p.m. a ~ Manukau—4.s2 a.m.; 6.23 p.m. Sun.—Rises, 7.16 ; sets, 4.45. Moon—New, 21st, 10 32 p.m. ARRIVALS. *- Rotomahana, s.s., 1727, M. Carey, from Sydney. Passengers :—For Auckland : Miases Fennell and Dale, Mrs, and Miss Walker, Mr. and Mrs. A. Cavers, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Brown, Colonel WUbraham, Dr. Dundee, Messrs. J. J. Reid and servant. H. Hannay, G. McMillan, Woods, Baldwin, D. Thomson, B. W. Levy, G. Duke, W. Jenner, H. Temple, H. S. Goold, D. Nicholson, C. Menzies, and F. O. Fraser. For Napier: Mr. J. W. Kemp. For Nelson : Mr. J. Glow. For Dunedin : Mrs. Fogo and child, and 28 steerage for all ports.—Union S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Wellington, s.s., 279. Stephenson, for Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co. agents. Douglas, s.s., Austin, for East Coast ports.— Northern S.S. Co. agents. Medora, schooner, Subritzky, for Whangaroa and Awanui.—Master, agent. DEPARTURES. Wellington, s.s., for Whangarei. Douglas, s.s., for OpotikL EXPECTED ARRIVALS. »l v TP A VHTCPA # ' Zealandia, R.M. 8.8., sailed June 3, due June 23. LONDON" : Lutterworth, barque, stilled April J, Eangltikei, ship, sailed May 3. Wanganui, ship, loading. , Crusader, ship, loading. GLASGOW : 1 Eoutenbeck, barque, Bailed March 11, ntqs. SEW YORK : Elinor Vernon, barque, sailed February 5, via Dunedin, jsfk, C. W. Janes, barque, sailed Feb. 4. Arab, barque, sailed April 3, LKTF. Star of the East, barque, loading. HAMBURG! : , _ Victoria, barque, via Lyttelton and Dune* din, sailed March 29, NEWCASTLE : Richmond, s.s,, early, -JAVA : Dansj, barque, early. Ricardo, barque, early. DUNEDIN : Smaragd, brigantine, early Oceola, brigantine, early. ¥EOM islands : Ryno, brigantine, early. Oamaru, brigantine, early. "" ! Mariner, schooner, early. ] Ada C. Owen, schooner, early. LYTTELTON Caberfeldh, barque, early# Notero, barque, early. OAMARU: _ .. Peerless, brigantine, early." v PROJECTED DEPARTURES. GTDKET : , , „ Z»alandia, R.M. b.s., about Jane 20. SAN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M. s.s., June 20. London : Hermione, ship, loading. NSW tore : . . Nellie M. Slade, schooner, loading. Elinor Vernon, barque, early. BAKOTOKGA : Lome, schooner, to-day. NEWCASTLE : , Rio, schooner, early. UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. This Day. — The Arawata is due from Fiji and Te Anau from Southern ports ; the Austra« lift leaves for Gisborne and South. Thursday.—The Wanaka arrives at Onehunga at 8 a.m. from Southern ports ; the Rotomahana leaves for Southern ports at noon ; the Te Anau leaves for Sydney direct at 5 p.m. Friday.—The Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 4 p.m. for Southern ports. Saturday.—The Omapere arrives and leaves for Greymouth. 1 NORTHERN S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. Thursday.—The Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m. The Wellington arrives from Whangarei at midnight. _ Friday.—The Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. The lona leaves for Mercury Bay and Tairua, and the "Wellington for Whangarei at 7 p.m. Saturday.—The Gairloch arrives from Waitara, arid the lona from Mercury Bay. Sunday.—The Clansman arrives from Tauranga, early. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. This list doss not include coasters. SEIP3. —Hermione, at Railway Wharf; Centurion, Queen-street Wharf. Baeqde.—Rebecca, at Railway Wharf. Ebig.—Wild Wave. Schooners. — Niccol, Fanny Thornton, Fleetwing, Queen-street Wharf; Rio, Breastwork ; Nellie M. Slade, Marion, at Railway Wharf; Sybil, Glencairn, at Queen-street Wharf; Louie, in stream; Look-out. IMPORTS. Per brigantine Look-oat, from Newcastle : 160 tons coal. Per b.b. Rotomahana, from Sydney : 6 cases trees, 43 cases arrowroot, 6 cases plants, 12 bales gunnies, 10 trunks boots, 12 cases sewing machines, 2 cases drugs, 20 cases whisky, 21 pieces stone, 498 sacks bonedust, 2 cases watches, 245 cases fruit, 22 cases Chinese goods, 38 kegs and cases butter, 29 boxes tin plates, 89 packages sundries, and cargo for Southern ports. Per Centurion: 10 cases Albany Food.—E. Mitchelson and Co. Inwards Coastwise.—lda, barge, from Mahurangi, with 13 logs ; Wear, cutter, from "Whangarei, with 30 tons coal; Morning Light, cutter, from Cabbage Bay, with 500 feet ship's timbers; Maria, cutter, from Tairua, with c tons gum, 25,000 feet timber; Elsie, ketch, from Thames ; Teviot, cutter, from Matakana ; Champion, cutter, from Waiheke; Opotiki, schooner, from Tairua; Waterlily, cutter, fron Barrier; Progress, barge, from Mangawai: Petrel, cutter, from Coromandel; Waipu, barge, from Coromandel. Outwabds Coastwise.—lda, barge, foi Mahu.rangi; Morning Light, cutter, for Cabbagf Bay. Mr. J. J. Craig is the agent for the schoonei Lookout, from Newcastle, and not Messrs. E. BU.tchelson and Co., as previously stated. The ship Rangitiki left Gravesend for Auckland on the 3rd May last with a full general cargo. By the arrival yesterday of the cutter Mana from Tairua, two of the crew of the bargi Olive returned to Auckland, and from them w< are glad to learn that the barge is not si seriously Injured as at first anticipated. Thi barge at the time, of her going on shore wa bound hence to Tairua in ballast, and on Frida; night last she encountered the full force o the thunderstorm off Slipper Island, and i ■was decided, owing to the threatening state o the night, to make for the island named fo shelter, and whilst doing this the barge rat ashore, the men, owing to the blinding light ' sing, being unable to make out the island. Thi Olive went ashore on a boulder beach, and i now high and dry, and so far almost wholl; jured. Mr. Graydon, one of the owners o the barge, proceeded to the scene of the wreel yes terday evening in the cutter Paku, taking with him men and the necessary appliances foi successfully floating her off again. The three-masted schooner Buster left New castle for Townsville on the Ist instant. The brigantine Louis Montgomery has beer chartered at Melbourne to load breadstufEs foi Cape Town at 22s 6d per ton. The following were the rates of freight rnlin at Newcastle on the Bfch instant:—To Adelaide 7s 6d ; Amboyna, 123; Amoy, 13*; Batavia 12s; Bombay, lis; Colombo, 10s; Guyamas, 15 6d ; Hongkong, 8a 6d; Honolulu, 10s ; 110 110, 9 6d; Iquique.lls; Java,lis; Manilla,l2s: Mauri tins, 12s ; Port Chalmers, 8s 6d ; Saigon, lis Samarang, lis ; San Diego, 133 6d ; San Fran cisco, 14s; Singapore, 8s 6d; Sourabaya, 10 6d ; Timaru, 9s ; Townsville, 13s to 20s ; Val paraiso, f.0.b., 8s 6d to lis 6d ; Wallaroo, 1C 6d; Wilmington, 12a; Yokohama, 8* 6d; Tahiti lis. The barque Phoenix left Sydney on the 9t instant for Whangaroa, there to load a retur cargo of timber. The Union Co. s.s. Rotomahana, from Syc ney, came into harbour at 7.30 o'clock yosterda morning with mails, passengers, and carg< The steamer proceeds on to Southern ports tc morrow, and on arrival at Dunedin she iB to b laid up for cleaning and her periodical overhau Of the voyage from Sydney, Captain Care reports that the Rotomahana left Sydney a 4.15 p.m. on the 9th instant; cleared Sydne Heads at 5 p.m.; breasted the Three Kings e 10 a.m. on the 13th ; rounded the North Oaf at 2.30 p.m. same day, and arrived as abovi Experienced light easterly winds and fine wet ther from Sydney to North Cape; thonc thick foggy weather with smooth seatonrriva On the Bth instant the alterations to Messri Donald and Edenborough's new steamer Ricl mond were completed at Messrs. Morts' docl Sydney, and on that day she was taken out < the dock. She was to leave Sydney on Satui day last for Newcastle, there to load coal f( Auckland. The barque Rebecca, on landing her inwai ! cargo of coal, is to go hence to LytteltoD, an there load grain, etc., for Launceaton. Owing to the unfavourable state of tt •weather yesterday, the departure of the b. Australia has been postponed until this afte: do on.

QThe ,s.B. Te Anna left Gisborne at eleven o'clock yesterday morning for this port, and consequently she will be due here at about midday to-day. ~,,1. The schooner Annie Wilson, from Lyttelton, arrived at toe Kaipara on Monday last, and yesterday the schooners Northern Bella and Parnell both took their departure, the former for an Australian port, the Parnoll for Melbourne. _ . The schooner Handa Isle hence reached Bris« bane on the 6th inat. . , In 18S5, 25,000 tons of new shipping were ordered for the Royal Navy, and the Victoria (launched in April, and thus named In recoguition of this special year of her Majesty s reign) represents the first instalment, Sir William Armstrong said that she was the heaviest ship ever successfully launched in England, and so she will remain until the launch of the Sans Pareil, whloh will divide the honours of top weight with her. But the new fleet will include still heavier vessels. These are the turret ships Trafalgar and Nile, now building, the former at! Portsmouth and the latter at Pembroke. Each of these has a displacement, at load draught, of 11,9-10 tons, as against the 11,470 of the Victoria ! and the Sans Pareil: but all four of those [ colossal ships will have engines of 12,000 horse.- ! power, and are expected to make a speed of nearly 17 knots an hour. Their estimated cost, ship and armament complete, is also fairly equal, being £559.121 for the Nile. £544,318 for the Trafalgar, £829.979 for the Victoria, and £525,46S for the Sans Pareil. They are all turret ships, heavily armoured with steel plates, but they differ somewhat in their armament. The Trafalgar and Nile will each carry four 67-ton guns, eight 5-inob, and IS quick-firing; while the Victoria and the Sans Pareil will each ho armed with two 110-ton, ono 10-inch, 12 6-inch, and 21 quick-firing guns. The Victoria and the Sans Pareil are to be ready for commission by November, ISSS, and the Trafalgar and Nile by IS9I. The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope, amounts (says the Shipping Gazette of M»y 6) to 38,520 tons, and for Australia and Now Zealand to 47,360 tons. Outward freights eastwards are quiet; homeward freights for prompt boats are firm from Bombay and the Madras Coast; Calcutta and tho rice ports are dull. Homeward rates from Australia, New Zealand, and San Francisco, are very low, American freights are slightly batter, and a good deal is doing from the Black Sea, although at low rates. High speeds are being gradually attained in steam vessels by the use of enormously high horse-power compared with the size of the ships. The other day a torpedo boat for the Italian Government made the almost phenomenal mean speed of nearly 29 miles an hour in the river below Gravesend, and the Italian cruiser Dogali, in experimental trips at sea, made a mean of 22J miles an hour. The latter is probably the fastest cruiser afloat, and the high speed has been attained by the use of the triple-expansion engines and high » pressure steam. It will be noticed that both vessels are for the Italian Government. The death of Mr. Wm. Denny, of the wellknown shipbuilding firm of Messrs. Wm. Denny and Bros., of Dumbarton, has caused profound grief not only on the Clyde but in all the shipbuilding oentres in the country. Though a comparatively youne man, having just completed his 39th year, Mr. Denny had won a foremost position in the shipbuilding world, and was justly regarded as a leading authority on all questions connected with the industry of iron and steel shipbuilding. He was a man of unbounded capacity for work, and ha brought immense energy and ardour to bear on whatever he undertook. He possessed signal abilities as an industrialist, and under his management the Leven Ship Yard, Dumbarton, became a model shipbuilding establishment, every department being worked with almost mathematical exactness. He was also a master in the scientific branch of his profession, and the share he took in the proceedings of the Institution of Naval Architects, the Iron and Steel Institute, and other kindred societies, showed how ably he could grapple with the many difficult problems that engage the attention "of the naval architect and the marine engineer. Mr. Denny is entitled to much credit for early championing the use of mild steel as a shipbuilding material. _ His faith in steel was so grreat that, since 1879, he refused to build ships of iron. Some years ago Mr. Denny had a severe attack of typhoid fever, and he has never since enjoyed robust health. About eight months ago he went to Buenos Ayres, partly for the purpose of attending to the affairs of the La Plateuse Company, which was recently acquired by a number of Scotch Shipowners, and partly with the view of benefiting his health. He did not, however, allow himself sufficient rest, the result being that his enfeebled health broke down, and his brain gave way- On Mirch 18 he terminated with his own hand a life of much usefulness, and cut short a career that promised still greater things. Such a melancholy end to a valuable life must be keenly felt far beyond the circle of the deceased's personal friends. PORT OP ONEHUNGA. The agents of the Oreti have received a telegram from Captain Robertson, stating that the repairs to the Oreti would not be completed until last evening. She will arrive at Onehunga on Saturday morning, and leave again at 3 p.m. same day for Hokianga, Whangape, and Ahipara. ENGLISH SHIPPING. The following passengers had booked a London for New Zealand ports up to the 6th May last : — N.Z.S. Co.—Per s.s. Ruapehu, from London May 5, for New Zealand ports direct First saloon : Messrs Wm. J. Saint, Wm. Johnston, Miss I. K. Couper, Messrs P. Vernon, A. H, Postlethwaite, E. H. Bond, J. W, Matthews, Mrs. G- M. Reed, Misses Reed (2), Mr. V. H, Reed, Mrs. Walter Johnston, Misses L. and E. Johnston, Masters Sydney and Oswald ohjistoa, Second saloon : Mrs, Young, Messrs. D. Young, C. H. Lance, Mr. and Mrs. W. Aicken, Misses Aicken (5), Messrs. R. Aickin and J. Aickin, Master Jas. L. Aickin, Mrs. L. and Mistei Tippler, Messrs. F. S. Goldingham and J, C, Sly, Miss C. A. Way, Mrs. E. Blakeley, Misset N. Blakeley and M. Wainwright. Messrs. J. G, i Gibson, A. S. Moffat, and J. M. Richards, Miss , E. Nicoll, Mr. D. Melville, Misses Melville (3) Master D. Melville, Messrs. C. H. Jones i Alfred Sharpe, E. Wiseman, and A. Baird ! Mrs. Wm. Hopkins, Mr. R. Morgan, Misi , Agnes McKay, Mr. A. M. Bernard, and 8C ; third-class passengers. P. AND O. Co. —Per s.s. Parramatta, aailec t May 6 For Auckland : Mr. E. Shorthouse. ; For Dunedin : Messrs. Murray and C. Combs Per 8.8. Carthage, sailed May 20 For Auck land; Messrs. Lawrence, A. Baylis, W. and R . Bruce, Mr, and Mrs. Bruce. For Wellington s Miss Elder. Per Valetta, to sail June 17 For Lyttelton : Miss BateObient Line.—Per s.s, Chimborazo, Bailee r May 12: —For Auckland : Messrs. J. Lowe am F. Whitacre. For Wellington : Rev. J. Gibaoi Smith, and Mrs. Gibson Smith, [ BY TELEGRAPH, 1 RUSSELL. 3 June 14.—The Arawata arrived from Fij 3 this morning at 8 o'clock. Passengers: Mr 3 Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Miss Pontney 8 Messrs. Eyre, Witham, Grey, Page. Captaii 7 Anderson, Sir J. B. Thurston, Mesdame f Anderson, Commer. She coaled to-day, am 41 left for Auckland at 5 o'clock. Passenger f from here: Messrs. McGovern, Nield. i WELLINGTON. June 14.—Arrived : S.s. Mthinapna and s.s B Wanaka, from the South. Sailed : S.s. Coptic s for Napier; s.s. Suva, for Auckland via thi 7 East Coast; b.s. Wanaka, for the Norih. { LYTTELTON". * June 14.—Sailed: S.s. Rimutaka and s.s ' Wairarapa, for Dunedin; u.s. Mawhero, foi r Wellington; Gerda, for Greymouth; s.s Hawea, for the North. Passengers: —Fo " Wellington: Miss Radcllffe, Messrs. Wood Bevan. For Nelson : Messrs. Thomas. 1 PORT CHALMERS. r June 14.—Arrived: S.b. Mararoa, fron Melbourne; Orawhati and Ohau, from th 8 North. >, ' .