SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8960, 26 January 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland-4.39 a.m.; 5 9 P.O. 0 Manukau— 8.19 ajn.; 6.4!) p.m. Sv'it.— G.l i ***. - &9 - Moos.—full, 29th, 10.5S p.m. ARRIVALS. Daisy, schooner, 63, 11. Watt, from Ens, (Friendly Islands). Passengers: Messrs. T. Parsons. P. Langdale, E. Park, W. Atkin.— MoArthar and Co., agents. Julia Pryoo, schooner, 41, from East Cossfi portii.— Mister, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Mariner, sohooner, 63, Tribe, for Whangaroa. —Master, agent. DEPARTURES. Muriner, schooner, for Whangaroa. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Sydney : Alameda, R.U.8., January 29. LONDON : Selembria. s.s., sailed November 12. Dunedin, ship, sailed November 19. Timaru, ship, loading. May Queen, ship, loading. Wellington, ship, loading. Oamaru, ship, early. ! NEW YORK : ~«*.»' Rebecca Crowell, barque, sailed Sept. 8. Deutohland, barque, sailed October 2L Mathilda Hennings, barque, sailed Nov. 24FBOJJ ISLANDS : Olive, schooner, early. Torea, schooner, early. Richmond, s.s., early. Waiwera, schooner, early. QUEENSLAND (HKKBEhT RIVER) : Belleisle, barque,yearly. FIJI: Sharpshooter, barque, early. Brunette, barque, eaily. William Turner, barque, early. dunedin ; Lizzie Guy, schooner, sailed January 15. NHWt'ASTi.K : Silver Cloud, schooner, loading. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. SAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, 'January;3o. LONDON : Selembiia, s.s., early. UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. This day.—The Takapuna arrives at Onehurjga from Taranaki and South at 6 a.m.; the Much pour; leaves for Melbourne and South at Soon. Friday.—The Takapuna leaves Onehunga for Taranaki and South at 6 p.m. NORTHERN S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. This day.—The G.urloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m. The Ijna leaves for Great Barrier at 8 a.m % The Wellincton arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—The Clansman arrives from Russell and leaves lor Taurangii a: 7 p.m. The lona leaves for Mercury Bay at 7 p.m., Mid the Wellington for Whangarei at S p.m. Saturday.—The Gaulocq. arrives from Waitara, and the lon* from Mercury Bay. Sunday.—The Clansman arrives from Tauranga eariy. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. This list does net include coasters. Opal,'H.U.S., in stream. Swinger, H.M.s., in stresiEi. Canterbury, ship, wt Queen-street Wharf. Wait ngi, »hip, at Qa-.eu-street Wharf. Ada Stott, barque, at Railway Wharf. Mary A. Greenwood, barque, in stream. Darn Trial, barque, at Sugar Co.'s Works. Waria Laure, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Northern Chief, barque, at Railway Wharf. Dftrcr Pratt, brig*u:irjt\ in stream. Ika Yuka, brigantite, at Queen-street Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, la stream. Fleetwin?, schooner, ia stream. Louie, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Marion, schooner, in stream. Daisy, schooner, in stream. IMPORTS. Per Daisy, schooner, from Eua : 60 Bales vcol-

Inwards Coastwise. — Mahurangi, cutter, from Omaha, with 30 tons firewood; Pakapuka, scow, from Omaha, with 50 tons firewood. Ociwaeds Coastwise. —Mtna, cutter, for Tiirua, with sundries; M»huraugi, cutter, for Omaha, with 2000 feet timber, 700 bricks, and sundries. The schooner Daisy returned to port yesterday, after a cruise Among the Navigator and Friendly Groups. Of the round trip Captain "Watt reports : Laft Auckland on September lO.h last for Savage Island and Samoa, and experienced some very heavy weather during the passage, arriving at Same on October 6. Then proceeded to the Friendly group, where we hare been trading to and fro for some time. Tonga was left on 12th instant for Ena, which was reached the next day. Loaded up with wool, and left for Auckland on the 14:, with fresh easterly winds, which continued for two days, then hauling to the north-east and falling but remaining in that quarter till within 100 miles of the New Zealand coast, when it hauled into the south-west and south. Cape Brett was sighted at 6 a.m. on the 24th, where the vessel was becalmed for a few hours, when a light north-west wind came along and carried the Tejsel into port, anchoring off tho Queen-s-tree wharf as fcbove. The barque Cam Tual has entered outwards at the Ounotns for Newcastle. The schooner Three Cheers is loading timber here for Sydney. She has entered outwards at the Customs. A noon to-day the s.s. Manapouri leaves for Melbourne, via Southern ports. The burnt American barque J. T. Berry was sighted by the barque Windhover, which arrived at Melbourne yesterday. Only a portion of the bow was afloat, and that was still burning. Nothing was seen of the missing boat, although a good look-out was kept. The barque Ada Stott ia to leave for Vavau to-day. The steamer Pasadena, which burns oil instead of coal, has. Bays a late San Francisco despatch, made one trip up and down the coast, and her owners are highly pleased with the experiment. She burned about 45 gallons of crude oil every day, at 3i c°nts per gallon, and maintained a speed of eight knots an hour. Her engineers and firemen regard the apparatus as a signal success.

At an early hoar yesterday morning the schooner Julia Pryce, Captain Ohlsen, arrived in port from Gisborne. She brought no cargo save a few barrels of tallow, being ballasted up to her sailing requirements. Some heavy winds and rough seas were experienced on the passage, and the vessel lay-to under shelter of Oreti Point for some hours.

The proposal for a ship c»nal between the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean has again been much talked of in France, and a company has been formed to make tho preliminary survey. The canal will, it is said, be 330 miles in length from sea to sea, and its total cost is estimated at £26,000.000. The distance saved by vessels comim: from tho western parts of France into the Mediterranean would be about 680 miles. Obviously such a canal would nev*r be a commercial success: and if ever constructed, it would only be by Government help, as it would practically double the French navy power for defence, rendering the fleet available for either the Atlantic or Mediterranean, and independent of the occupation by an enemy of the Straita of Gibraltar.—Nautical Magazine,

The Newcastle (N.S.W.) Herald says: — " There is tin unusual want of available tonnage at the present time, and all the tonnage arriving in the colonies in being snapped up to load wheat at South Australia and New Zealand, for London, consequently it is a matter of difficulty to get vessels for coal at this port. The ship Crummock Water, which was expected to come on here from Sydney, ha» been chartered to load wheat at South Australia for Home. Freights hence to California, the West Coast, and Sandwich Islands, are. hardening very much, and tonnage is being eagerly sought for those ports. The late depression in freights has caused owners at ht>me to be very cautious in sending vessels in this direction, which, of course, accounts for the scarcity of tonnage in the colonies at present. The only vessels expected here from Melbourne are the ships Soudan and Star of Austria, which are under charter to load coal for San Francisco."

THE FRENCH WAR STEAMER FABERT.

The following description, from a Southern exchange, of the French war steamer Fabert, now at Port Chalmers, will doubtless prove Interesting :—" The Fabert has during the present commission been cruising in the China seas whence she waß ordered on to New Caledonia. She made calls at various Islands in the Pacific, en route to Noumea. She is a wooden vessel, barque-rigged, and is termed in the French navy a cruiser of the second class. The hull Is very sharp of entrance, and the lines taper away aft to such an extent that she looks very much like a two-ended boat. The vessel was built at the naval yard at Rochefort in 1876, and the designers evidently intended that she ■hould be » very fleet vossel in so far as model was concerned. Hor displacement is 2106 tons, but the sharpness at either end takes away Materially from her size. Under canvas, t,l which she spreads a considerable area, the Fabert can sail liko a yacht. ' Her speed under ateam is 14 knots. The engines are of the ordinary compound pattern, and develop the rate of speed just mentioned. They are of 450 horse powor nominal, or 3000 horse power effective. She is armed with eight guns of large calibre. Six of these are broadside guns, and two are trained as bow and stern chasers. The guns are breech-loaders, steel-rifled, and are of 18 centimetre calibre. They are considered very effective pieces of ordnance, and muoh care is bestowed on them. The fore and aft guns have a range of 290 deg. The Fabert has also ft complement of machine guns of the Hotoh«

1 kin and mitrailleuse pattern. The tops in the ( rigging are fortified, and the machine Ran* I oan be used from the top with deadly effeot. The Bmall arms on board comprise magazine rifles after the Austrian Kropatohek prlnoiple. The magazine holds nine cartridges, and these oan be discharged in 30 seconds. Revolvers and side-arms also form a noticeable portion of the equipment. The complement of officers and men all told is 204. The Fabert during her stay in Sydney was docked, and had the coppar sheathing examined. Some neoeasary overhaul was alio effeoted. The Fabert is under the command of Captain E. Benier, who holds the rank of capltaine de frigate in the French nary. The offcers with him are M.M. George Batolot, lieutenant de vaisseau; and Alfred Larenlr, Fr»n<Jols Vertior, F. BeaanQon, Max Tiercelin, and Ernest Prat, enseignes des vaisseaux; M. Hereon surgeon; H. Serrant, chief engineer; and Albert Zimber, paymaster."