SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8951, 16 January 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

Bmb Watbk at AuckJ»nd-8.4S aan.; p.m. SUnukau—o.2s »ja.; 0.13 p.m. Rii'«i.4.s4; sets, 7.6. Moos.—iflrst quarter, 2Ut, 4.29 p.m.

ARRIVALS. JANUARY 14. Ohau, ■•■., 740, J. Bernech, from Southern t>orU.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Op*l H.M.1., 2120 tons, 2190 h,p., Day H. Boeanquefc, from Tonga and Fiji. lona, e.e., 159, Amodeo, from Mercury Bay End Tairua.—Northorn 3.5. Co., agent*. Macgregor, e.g., Norbury, from West Coast ports.—Northern B.S. Co., agents. Jaxoast 15. Clansman, a. a., 336, Farquhar, from Tauranga, —Northern S.S. Co., agents. Douglas, 1.1., Austin, from Opotiki ana way ports,—Northern S.S. Co., agents.

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Jessie, schooner, Euxton, for Sydney vift M*ugoiiui.—O. F. James and Co., agents.

DEPARTURES, Jaxcabt 14. Jeuie, schooner, for MaDgomiL

HXrEOrSD ARRIVALS,

SYDNEY : Alameda, R.M.s., January 29. lON DON : Waitangi, ship, Bailed October 26. Selembria, s.i,, sailed November 12. Dunedin, ship, Bailed November 19. Timaru, ship, loading. May Queen, ship, loading. Wellington, ship, loading. Ounaru, ship, early. SKW YORK : Rebecca Crowell, b&rqne, sailed Sept. 8, D«utchlsind t barque, sailed October 21. Mathilda Henningi, barque, sailed Not, 24, FROM ISLANDS : Swinger, H.M. s., early, Olive, acnooner, eiriy. Torea, tchoo&er, early. Richmond, e.g., early. SEWCASTLS :

Northern Chief, barbae, tailed J&smaxj , 10, UOBAUt:

Marie Laure, barque, early. tJUES.NSLAND (HKILBSaT KIVKR) : Belleisle, barque, early, mi: Sharpshooter, barque, early. Brunette, barque, early. William Turner, barque, early.

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SAN JEAJS CISCO :

Alameda, E.M.a., Jar.nary 30, tOSDO.s :

Selembria, s.i., early.

UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. Tail Day.—The Sura arrives from Eut Gout ports; the Mexaroa, from Melbourne and Southern ports, about 9 a.m.; the Ob.au leaves at 4 p.m., for Dunedin direot. Tueaday.—The minora arrives from Sydney; the Hawea leaves Ouehnnga at ILSO A.m. for Southern ports; the Manure* il to leave for Sydney as 5 p.m.; the Suva Iβ to leave for E<u: Coast ports at 6 p.m. Thursday.— Tho Takapuna is due at Onetuns* at 5 a.as. from Southern ports; the Waibora leaves for Melbourne, via Southern ports, at noon. Friday.—The Takapuna is to leave Ouehunga at 1 p.m. for Southern ports.

NORTHEIIN S.S. COUPANT'3 MOVBMKST3. To-day.— Gairloch leavei for New Ply* mouth at 1 p.m.; the Douglas leaves for Opotiki, and the lona fox Mercury Bay, Talma, and Tauranea as 5 p.m.; the Glenelg leaves for Waogaum at 4 pan. and the Clac«man for Bussell at 7 p.m.; the Wellington Sinivea from Whangurei at 7 p.m. Tuesday.— Wellington, leave* for Whan* jrarei at 3 p.m. ; the Staff* leaves for Raglan at 3 p.m. Wednesday. — The Gairloch arrives from Wai tare.

Thursday.— The Gairloch leavea for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; the Wellington arrives from vYh&ngarel. Friday.—The Clansman arrives from Buaseli early end leaves for Tar ranga at 7 p.m.; the lona leaves for Mercury Bay at 7 p.m., and the Wellington for Whaugarei at 8 p.m. Saturday.—The Gairloch arrives from Wai* tara and the lona from Mercury Bay. Sunday.—The Claniman arrives from Tan* ranjja e&rly.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Tola list does not Include coasten. Opal, ELM, 8,, in stream. Canterbury, ship, at Quean-street Wharf. Oregon, ship, at Sugar Works. Ada Stott, barque, at RaUway Wharf. Mary A. Greenwood, barque, In stream. Cain Ttul, barque, at Sugar Oo.'a Works, Darcy Pratt, origan in itream. Stanley, "origantine, at Railway Wharf, Lady Mabel, brigantine, in stream. Ada O. Owen, bripontine, Queen-street Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Fleet win;, schooner, in stream. Louie, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf, Isa Yuka, brigaatice, in stream.

IMPOETS. Per a.i. Ohau : 200 sack* Ireland'! lily white flour.—Thomsus Wilson, Grey-street.

The schooner Glencaira is to call at Whasg&rei, on her way round to the Kaipara, for a cargo of coal. She will, it is expected, sail day. The 8.2. Clansmaa and lona, the former from Tauxaiiga and the lona from Mercury Bay, both arrived during Saturday night. They leave again to-day, the Clansman for Russell and Northern perts, and the lona for Mercury Bay and Taurang*. The s.B. Micgregor arrived from the West Coast on Saturday evnr.ing last, and to-day the 8.5. Gienolg will leave lor Wellington and Wangacui for the purgor.e of taking up the West Coast trade, hitherto performed by the Mio» grcgor. The M&cy,regor is to go into dock for sighting, etc., preparatory to her being sent away to her new field of labour at New Caledonia.

After a fine weather passage, the Union Co.'s B.S. Ohau c-'.n-.e into harbour on Saturday night last from Dttnedin via the usual way ports. To-day gh r i will commence the landing of her cargo. Ibe a.9. Mararoa, from Melbourne and South* em porta, left Gisborne at 9 o'olock yesterday mornirg. she is consequently due here about the Bf.iab hour this morning. K«4r«Admiral Ammen has proposed to the Bee etary of tbe American Navy a plan for tbe rev cue of shipwrecked paasengers. It consists of the constructiou of what is called a balsa, or.- Boat. The Bear« Admiral proposes that in Aan&ching them: " The head sail should be hoisted so as to bring the wind quarterly; oil bags would be thrown over from each quarter. The railing at the stern fitted for unshipping would be let down and tbe launching ikids put in place and a balsa carried aft by eight men and lowered with fear on it. Then a rough car to fit in the skids would bo loaded with the helpless persons and lowered to the bale*, be received and placed, smd tho operation continued until the boat had. her load; then she would be cast 6 drift, make a drag of her mast and sail, throw overboard her oil bag, and the same operation would ba repeated until every one was embarked. Then they should fasten to each other in sections of fives." The Admiral in a letter to Secretary Whitney, asks that the department construct a balsa and subject it to practical testa ia all kinds of weatner. The balsa consists of two casks, upon which a platform is la.it!, In tho casks are scuttles for stowing provisions. A sufficient number of I them to ctrry a thousand people could, in the opinion of tbe Bear Admiral, be carried on a large steamer without inconvenience." From the above description Ilcar-Admiral Ammen's balsa ia a much more cumbersome and unwieldy affair than the life raft recently in* vonted &nd shown by Captain Allman, of the Union S.S. Co. .Scientific warfare (says the New York Maritime Keglater) is the expression to-day. Pro* gross in tbii direction is so constant and so rapid that instruments to annihilate armies, and torpedoa to blow up the strongest and best defended floats are promised with an assurance that leaves no doubt. Tbe logical conelusion is that under acch conditions war will simply mean the extinction of combatants. Peace lovers will say the soouer that point is retched the better, but then wars will be too bloody and expensive, and man will cease from fighting. Bat universal peace and the millennium will come together. Man is a savage despite tbe hichest cultivation. Until the implements of destruction are more powerful and destructive than those now invented an efficient navy ia a good thing for a maritime oountry to have. And this country needs each a navy more than it does an army.