SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8063, 26 September 1887, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland—l.27 a.m.; 2.7 p.m. ' „ „ Manukaa-r5.7 a.m. ; 6.47 p.m. Sun.— 5.47 ; sets, 5.57. Moon—Full, October 2, 3.26 p.m.

ARRIVALS. SEPTEMBER 24.

Bellinger, 8.2,, 134, J. Benson, from Sydney, Via Newcastle.Jubilee S.S. Co., agents. Magellan Cloud, schooner, 94, Matthews, from Brisbane.—W. S. Laurie, agent. Sea Bird, brigantine, 155, H. D. Beazer, from Sydney. Passengers : Master F. Beazer,— ftlitchelson and Co., agents. Chelmsford, s.s., 70, C. Hopkins, from Opotiki. Passengers: Messrs. Rosenthal, ToDge, Butler, Gordon (2), Williams, Ross.— Sharp and Co., agents. September 25. Suva, 8.5., 233, Spinks, from East Coast ports. Passengers : Messrs. Johnston, Hyndes. •—Union S.S. Co., agents. Clansman, s.s., 336, Farquhar, from Tautens*.— Northern S.S. Co., agents. Icna, s.s., 156, Amodeo, from Mercury Bay ftnd Tairua.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Sharpshooter, barque, 488, M. C. Alagnussen, from B* River, Fiji. Passengers : Mrs. Magjoussen. Messrs. R. and G. Muir,—New Zealand Sugar Co., agents, CLEARED OUTWARDS. Waiwera, schooner, 42, Alexander, for Norfolk Island. Passengers: Messrs. D. Peacock And It. Webb. —Master, agent. Mariner, schooner, 62, Tribe, for Whangaroa. (—Master, agent. Grecian Bend, three-masted schooner. 216, Borstel, for Sydney, via Whangaroa,— Agent. Gleaner, schooner, 111, Ryflal, for Whangapoa.—Mister, agent. Zillah, ketch, 36, Collings, for Russell. ptone Brothers, agents. Ocean, schooner, 28, Rust, for Opotiki.— Master, agent. DEPARTURES. Skptimber 25. Mariner, schooner, for Whangaroa. Grecian Bend, schooner, for Sydney, via ityhangaroa. Zillah, ketch, for Russell. Gleaner, schooner, for Whangaroa. Ocean, schooner, for Opotiki. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. lON : Balcarris Brook, s.s., sailed September 8, via Sydney. Ashleigh Brook, s.s. (via Sydney), to sail October S. Piako, ship, sailed July 1. Zealandia, uhip, sailed July 23. Lurline, ship, sailed July 26. May Queen, ship, loading. Waikata, ship, loading. Selembria, s.s., to load. Canterbury, ship, loading. jbLASGOVV (VIA DUNKDIN) : Margaret Galbraith, ship, sailed July 1. tIVEKPOOL :

Himalaya, barque, loading. , SEW ttokk : Star of the East, barque, sailed Jane 7, QJKS Erie Heed, barque, sailed June 24. Mary A. Greenwood, barque, sailed July 27. Ada Stott, barque, sailed August 4, Rebecca Crowel), barque, loading. frAVA : ~. Kirkdale, barque, sailed about August 20. / FIJI :

i, Jennie B:, schooner, early. V Sharpshooter, barque, early. Newcastle : Stanley, brigantine, early. ffBOM islands : Richmond, s.s., about Sept. 30, 1 Olive, schooner, early. Torea, schooner, early. liyno, brigantine, early, Maile, schooner, early. Louie, schooner, early. JIYTTKLTON : j\ Notero, barquu, early, ' Lizzie Guy, schooner, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES, London : Kangitikei, ship, early. HEW YORK : Star of the East, barque. UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—The Wairarapa is due from Southern ports and Melbourne, and leaves for Russell at 5 p.m. Tuesday.The Rotorua leaves Onehunga tor Southern ports ; the Suva leaves for East Coast ports at 6 p.m. The Mawhera arrives from South r.nd leaves for Greymouth. Wednesday.—The Wairarapa returns from Russell. Thtusday.—The Wanaka arrives at Onehunga at 8 t-.m. from Southern ports; the Wairarapa leaves for Southern porta and Melbourne at noon, Friday.—The Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 5 p.m. for Southern ports. j NORTHERN S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. ' To-day.—The Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m. ; the Douglas leaves for Opotiki at 5 p.m., the Clansman for Russell at 7 p.m., and the lona for Mercury Bay, Tairua, and Tauranga at 8 p.m. Tuesday.—The Wellington leaves for WhaBgarei at 7 p.m. Wednesday.—The Gairloch arrives from Wai» tar a,. Thursday.—The lona leaves for Great Barrier at 8 a.m. ; the Gairloch leaves for New Ply« mouth at 1 p.m.; tho 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 Wellington leaves for Whangarei, and the lona for Mercury Biy, at 7 p.m. Saturday.—The Gairloch arrives from Wai« tara ; the lona arrives from Morcury Biy. Sunday. Clansman arrives from Tauranga early. VESSELS IN harbour. This list docs not Include coasters. Crusader, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Rangitikei, ship, in stream. Oamaru, brigantine, in stream. Ifleetwing, schooner, in stream. IMPORTS. Per barque Sharpshooter, from Ba River, Fiji: 7500 bags raw sugar. Per s.b. Bollinger, rom Sydney and New« castle : 70 tons rico, 60 tons coal, 109 paokages ■unti.rie3. Per schooner Sea Bird, from Sydney : 1050 tacks bonedust. Per schooner Magellan Cloud, from Brisbane : 120 tons bonedust. EXPORTS. Per schooner Waiwera, for Norfolk Island : ■75 bags rice, 10 packages tea, 15 cases kerosene, 2 ernes tohaoco, 124 bags sugar, 11 boxes candles, "5 cases treacle, 2 cases vestas, 10 colls wire. 9 case." drapery, 7 boxes ■soap, 10 bags salt, 88 bags flour, 5 coils rope, f4l pieces timber, 109 packages sundries.

. Inwards Coastwise.—Waipu, barge, from 'Muns.ia, with 14 logs. ' Outwards Coastwise. — Waipu, barge, for JVLinaia ; Ida, barge, for Pakiri ; Four Sisters, Sutter, for Thames, with 30 tons coal. The following vessels took their departure during Saturday night and early yesterday morning : Grecian Bend, three-masted schooner, for Whmigaroa, where she will take in a cargo ■of timber for Sydney ; the Gleaner, schooner, Jor Whangaroa; the Ocean, schooner, for Dpotiki; and the ketch Zillah, for Kuasell. Tho uhi|> ltangitikei was berthed at the -"Railway \V'h»rf on Saturday last, there she •Will commence her loading for London. From Brisbane the schooner Magellan Cloud (with a cargo of bone dust, came into port on Saturday last, and wis during the day berthed 'lit the Railway Wharf. Of the voyage Captain reports that the port of departure ■was left on the 9:h instant with W.N.W. -winds, which lasted until the 12th, when they gave place so easterly wind*, which on the 18th Increased to a strong gale, after which S. W. to westerly winds prevailed to the 23rd, when Cape Brett was passed, thence to arrival strong N. W. winds. On Saturday evening the schooner Seabird, tinder the charge of Captain Bezer, arrived from Sydney, she, like the Magellan Cloud, also bunging a cur;?o of bonedust. She left Sydney, N.S.W, at 4 p.m. on the 10th instant; fresh westerly and S.W. wind until the morning of the 13th, when the wind shifted into the S.E., ■with a heavy N.E. swell; 14th, fresh S.E.; 15th, lGth, 17th, 18th, and 19th, blowing a living gale, with heavy swell from N.E. and heavy sea from S.E. During the whole of the gale, which at times was very fierce, with heavy rains, the vessel was head reaching under closereefed topsail, mainsail, main and foretopmast ■tayrail, the cross swell causing her to labour and lurch very heavily, shipping large bodies of water overhaul, but no damage was done. On the 20lh the wind backed into S. W., bat the head sea was too hoavy to make much sail on the ▼essel; 21st, better weather, shaped a course for Three Kings,, tho vessel being then within 90 miles of Norfolk Island ; made Three Kings at 6 p.m. on the 22nd, and off the North Cape at 8 a.m. on the 23rd, with strong westerly wind, heavy and continued rain till passing Cape Brett at 5 p.m., doing the distance in 9 hours; passed Tiritiri at 4 p.m. on the 24tb, and took steamer off the reef at 7 p.m. The little vessel, considering the heavy 6 days gale, comes into port in very good condition, both alow and aloft. Owing to the late arrival of the s.s. Chelmsford, on Saturday, her sailing has been postponed until to-day at 2 o'clock. The barque Rose M. left Lyttelton for Brisbane, oa Saturday last.

The schooner Mariner having been thoroughly repaired from her recent stranding on the coast near Whangarei Heads, has again been pat into commission, and tinder the charge of Captain Tribe, left early yesterday morning for Whangaroa, between which port and Auckland she la for the future to be kept regularly employed. At last one of the steamers that have been chartered to run in opposition to the Northern Company has reached this port, and during Saturday morning was berthed at the Queen-street Wharf, where during the day she was inspeoted, but the opinions formed of her as compared with the steamships she will hare to compete against were not all in her favour. The Bellinger is an iron steamer of 45 horse power, her tonnage being 134 tons nett and 224 tons gross. She was built at Paisley in 1884 for the Belfast and Koroit Steam Go. She was chartered from Mr, B. B. Nichell by a Mr. Young, of Sydney, who it is understood became responsible for the oharter on behalf of the Seamen's Union. The Bellinger, owing to her limited horse power, is not a very fast traveller, she having to be content with taking a place amongst the B'knotters, at which speed she oan be driven under favourable circumstances. As a cargo carrier no doubt the Bellinger proves herself to be a very good vessel, but in the matter of passenger accommodation she is wholly de« ficlent. Her saloon is a most cramped/up quarteriin the after part of the vessel, which part, in these modern days, i* usually assigned to the steerage— fact, an inspection of the Bellinger's saloon would tempt one to believe that euoh was the intention when that part of the steamer was designed. The saloon as given to the Bellinger may have proved sufficient for the trade for which she was built; but seeing that, on the New Zealand coast, the travelling pub« lie have been used to even better quarters for the steerage than her saloon can provide, we are afraid she will not become that favourite with the travelling public which those who have engaged her had hoped. From her register we learn that she is " authorised to carry 16 passengers at sea ; if proper accommodation is provided," so that the authorities have net evidently a very good opinion of the suitability of the steamer's passenger accommodation. A coat of paint and some upholstering work is to be given to the saloon, bat that will hardly bring up the standard, or make it inviting ; and is speed she will, as we have indicated, prove a laggard when running side by side with such steamships an the Clansman, Wellington, lona, and Gairloch, and which are owned by the company the Bellinger has come into New Zea» land waters to wrest the trade from. As a cattle carrier the steamer, we should anticipate, will not prove so satisfactory as the boats now engaged in the trade. However, the Seamen's Union, or the Jubilee Steamship Co., in their work of starting this opposition have had to be content with whatever boats they could procure. Newcastle was left at 3 p.m. on the 17th inßt., ( and fine weather with moderate southerly and south-easterly winds prevailed throughout the trip. The steamer is expected to be ready to take up her running on the West Coast towards the end of th« present week. The new schooner Gauloise is to go out for a trial spin this afternoon» Her departure for Tahiti has been set down for about Wednesday. The Union Company's s.s. Suva, from Wellington and East Coaßt ports, came into harbour yesterday morning at five o'clock with a general cargo and two passengers. Of the voyage we learn that the Suva left Wellington at 4.15 p.m. on the 20th, arrived at Napier at 6.15 p.m. on2lat; left for Gisborne at 6 p.m. on 22nd, and arrived at 520 a.m. on 23rd ; left again at 9.30 on same day, called in at Tologa Bay, Top*roa, and Hicks' Bay, and arrived in Auckland as above. Experienced variable winds and moderate sea from Wellington to East Cape, thence fresh westerly wind and heavy head sea to arrival. The Union Co. s.s. Wairarapa left Gisborne at 10 o'clock yesterday morning for this port, and consequently should arrive here to-day at about the same hour.

The Chelmsford arrived from Opotiki and Tauranga on Saturday last, with a number of passengers, and as cargo 560 sacks maize, 2 tons sundries.

The s.s. Clansman and lona arrived during Saturday night and yesterday morning. The former came from Tauranga and the lona from Mercury Bay and Tairua. To day they are to leave again, the former for Russell and other Northern ports and the lona for Mercury Bay and Tauranga. Once again the barque Sharpshooter pays a visit to this port; she is still under the command of Captain Magnussen. The barque is from Fiji, bringing a cargo of raw sugar from the Ba Kiver. Of the voyage of the barque we learn she sailed from the river named on the 9th inst., and cleared the Malolo passage on 13th with strong S.E. winds, which soon gave place to strong westerly winds, and increased to a very hard gale on the 18 th, during which the cargo shifted and heavy bodies of water found their way on board, in fact the decks were constantly flooded. Cape Brett was rounded on Saturday last, and down the coast moderate westerly winds prevailed. The tug boat Awhina took the barque in tow off Tiritiri, arriving with her in harbour at about 9 o'clock.