SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8986, 25 February 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland — a.m.; 5.43 p.m, miuh ManukauS.s3 am.; 9.23 p.m. Sun —Rises, 5.33 a.m.; sets, 6.29 p.m. Moo.N.—Full, 27th, 11.38 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

Clansman, s.s., 336, Farquhar, from Pussell and Northern ports. Passengers : Mesdames Maughan, Flavell, Rigden. Misses Johnson, Henare, Rota, Horsley, Ruff (3), .Brook, Kidd, Messrs. Jobson, Johnson, Wilson, Carver, Rev. Father Mahoney, Messrs. Horsley, Jeffrey, Paxton, Brakeurigg, Rigden, Gilbert, Williams, JackBon, Collins, Grey, Donovan. —Northern b.o. Co., agents. _ lona, s.s., 159, Amodeo, from Great Barrier. Passengers : Mrs. Brown, Messrs. 1 aimer, C. Phillips, and two natives.—Northern S.S. Co., agents.

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Clansman, s.s., 336, Farquhar, for Tailfanga.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, Stephenson, for Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Stormbird, s.s., 217, Chambers, for \VhaUgarei.—Jubilee S.S. Co., agents. _ lona, s.s., 159, Amodeo, for Tairua and Mercury Northern S.S. Co., agents.

DEPARTURES. Clansman, s.s., for Tauranga. Wellington, s.s., for Whangarei. Stormbird, s.s.. for Whangarei. lona, s.s., for Tairua and Mercury Bay«

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London- : Timaru, ship, sailed December 24, Bayley, s.s., due, February 22. Coptic, s.s., sailed January 25.. Wellington, ship, loading. Oamaru, ship, sailed December 30. Sew YORK: Deutchland, barque, due 22nd inst. Mathilda Hennings, barque, sailed Nov. 24. Islands : Olive, schooner, early. Newcastle : Eillan Donan, sailed I4th inst.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. * tOKDON : Bay ley, s.s., early. Waitangi, snip, early. fcEW YORK: Mary A. Greenwood, barque, early.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS.

This Day.—Ohau arrives from South and leaves for Westport. Suva arrives from East Coast. Sunday.—Mariposa arrives from Sydney. Monday.— Hawea arrives at Onehunga from Taranaki; Manapouri arrives from South; Mariposa leaves for Honolulu and San Francisco, at 6 p.m. Tuesday.—Rotomahana arrives from Sydney ; Hawea leaves Onehunga, at 10 a.in; Manapouri leaves for Sydney, at 5 p.m.; Suva leaves for East Coast, at" 6 p.m. Thursday.—Wainui arrives from Wellington ; Wanaka arrives at Onehunga, at 8 H.m.; Rotomahana leaves for South, at noon. Friday.—Zealandia arrives from Honolulu imd leaves for Sydney; Wanaka leaves One; \unga, at noon, if mail has arrived; Wainui 'eaves for Fiji, at 5 p.m.

NORTHERN S.S. CO.S MOVEMENTS. v This Day. — The Gairloch arrives from VV'aitara.

Sunday. — The Clansman arrives from ITauranga.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR.

[This "list does not include coasters.) Kelson, H.M.s-, in stream. Calliope, H.M.s., in stream. diamond, H.M.s., in stream. VV aitan?,i, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Wary A. Greenwood, barque, at Railway _ Wharf. William Turner, barque, at Sugar Works. Sharpshooter, barque, at Sugar Works. Jjelle Isle, barque, at Sugar Works. Darcy Pratt, brigantine, in stream. lorest King, brigantine, at Sugar Works. ITorea, schooner, in stream. fouthern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream, leetwiarr, schooner, in stream. Daisy, schooner, in stream. Christina, schooner, at Railway Wharf. \Vaire\ia, three-masted schooner, at Queenstreet Wharf. Bvbil, schooner, in stream. Mail'?, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Dun edin, schooner, at Railway Wharf.

7-Nwards Coastwise.— cuttcr, from Mahurangi, with 700 bushels of lime. Outwards —Pukapuka, scow, In ballast, for Mangawai. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning the Clansman arrived from Russell and the North, with a good number of passengers, and a cargo comprising 387 sacks and 20 cases of gum and a large quantity of sundries. In the evening she cleared out for Tauranga. with both passenger and freight lists well filled.

At 7 o'clock yesterday evening the two regular traders to Whangarei, the Wellington Bud Stormbird, took their departure for that place, each being fairly patronised with passengers and poods. The Northern S.S. Co's s.s. lona arrived yesterday morning from her usual weekly trip to the 'Barrier. Captain Amodeo reports that when she left last night the warships Opal an/1 Swinger were anchored in Port 'Firzroy., the former having arrived at about 6 o'clock and the smaller vessel at 7.

A v.arrow escape from what might have been a very serious accident occurred yesterday morning to a lumper engaged on board the ship Waitangi. While standing on the bulwarks of the vessel near the tee, by some ratans he slipped and fell between tne ship and the wharf. In doing so he got astride of a log lender which was suspended between ■the vessel and the wharf, and as he did so the ship just eased over to that side, and pinned him by the thigh. Assistance was quickly given, and he was extricated from his dangerous position, when it was found that although he had received a severe bruise no permanent damage was done, and he was able to limp away. We have received information by telegraph from New Plymouth that the Jubilee S.S. Co.'s Bellinger went aground on the bar at Waitara on Thursday morning, and was still stuck at a late hour in the evening, but was expected to get clear with the next tide. The following is a list of the passengers who left Onehunga by the s.s. Takapuna : — For Wellington : Messrs. H. G. Stamp and J. King. tor New Plymouth : Messrs. P. L. Uignan, J. C. Hanna, Larchin, J. Turner. For Lyttelton : Miss Buekland and Mr. Cull. Owing to a delay in procuring a shaft to replace the one which she lately broke the s.s. Chelmsford will not be able to resume her running to the Bay of Plenty before Monday' week. Yesterday forenoon one of the steam cutlers belonging to H.M.s. Diamond had the mitrailleuse bow gun shipped, and a crew went down to Rangitoto Channel, and spent a couple of hours in practice. , A simple little instrument which serves ! a very useful purpose as a danger detec- j tor, has lately been invented by Captain j ; W. R. Chatfield, of the Union "Steamship i Company's steamer Wairarapa, which is in- j tended to take bearings of objects and points ] of danger, and to ascertain the distance a ship will pass off such points some time before she reaches the vicinity. The instrument, which is made of solid brass, was constructed in accordance with Captain Chatfield's designs by Mr. D. M'Murray, the chief engineer of the Wairarapa, and that f;entleman is deserving of very great credit or _ the very real and perfect manner in i which he has turned out the work. It I is intended to fix the instrument, which ! bears the motto " Cavendo Tutus," into a teak bed, and this being portable, can be shifted to either side of the bridge deck at pleasure. The superiority of this invention 1 to us is very apparent, and it is immensely preferable to the old system of the "fourpoint bearing," and no doubt will shortly eupersede that system both in Her Majesty ' ships and those 'of the mercantile marine ; {more particularly, we hope, on our own coasts, wnich are very far from being perfectly surveyed, many points both of the North and South Islands which are extremely dangerous, being very imperfectly defined on the chart at present in use. The •merits of this little instrument are shortly these First, the position of the ship is enabled to be ascertained (when approaching a point of danger) much earlier than under the 1 present system, while the object and its adlacent dangers are fully from 5 to 5£ points before the beam, when a bearing is taken by it—i.e., that the observer can ascertain within a distance of a tenth of a mile, or less, at what distance the ship will pass off the danger fully from 10 to 15 miles before .reaching it. Now, in using the old fourpoint bearing the ship must be brought abreast of the danger before the observer can possibly determine its position. _ Again, the process of taking a four-point bearing occupies much more time than that of the present invention, and continues much later, coming behind to an extent equal to about two-thirds of the time occupied by the present discovery. [This saving of time in ascertaining the position of a ship is of vital importance in tnese days of high-class ships of great speed, and we have not the slightest doubt Captain Chatfield's invention will be gladly recognised by all ship masters. It is only fair to mention that Mr. McMurray has turned out the model in a manner quite equal to that of any mathematical intrument maker, which shows that he has worked con amort with his commander to make the new invention a success. •We hear that Captain Chatfield has already patented the instrument.. <

BY TELEGRAPH.

WELLINGTON. February 24.—Arrived : 5.3. lonic, from Plymouth; s.s. Manapouri, from the South. Sailed: S.s. Manapouri, for Sydney, via Auckland. Passengers :— Cabin : Misses Perry (3), Nicholson, and Hughes, Mesdames Walpole and Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Itev. Mr. Dullea, Messrs. Fowler, Smith, Holme, Moore, Solomon, Bradley, Finlay, Blackloek, and O'Connell, and 12 steerage. LYTTELTON. February Sailed : Waratea, for Westport - Annie Wilson, schooner, for Kaipara ; s.s. Rotorua, for Wellington. Passengers: Misses Rutherford, Browning, Dudort, Brown, Turlesse, Westenra, Mesdames Dudort, Alcorn, Fitzgerald, and Lyon, Hon, E. Mitchelson, Messrs. Webb, Kennedy, Pearson, Willcott, Pyne, Lawrence, Jas. Smith, Acland, Lyon, Angus, Murray, Hooton, Howie, Steel, Milne, McWhiney, Gilbert, Bates, Waterworth, Long, Hassin, Von Haast, Hannav.

PORT CHALMERS. February 24.Arrived : S.s. Mahinapua and ss. Penguin, from the North. Sailed : S.s. Omapere, for Auckland, via the coast.

THE BELLINGER AGROUND.

New Plymouth, Friday.—The steamer Bellinger, which got on the Waitara bar in attempting to enter the river on Tuesday, is still aground on the north spit. The tides are rising, but she is not expected to leave the river again until Monday, as there is only five feet six inches of water on the bar. The Gairloch is trading to the breakwater till there is more water in the river.