SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9047, 7 May 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High WATER at Ar.ckland-4.rea.rn.; 4.43 p.m. Manukau—7.sß a.m. , 8.2J p.m. Run.—Rises, 6.53 a.m.; sets, 5.7 p.m. MOON.—New moon, lltli, 1.4 p.m. arrivals. Oamaru ship, 1306, Maxwell, from London. Passengers: Mesdames Maxwell. J. W. Wood Messrs. J. Duncan, E. M. Hall, A Blackmail, J. W. Wood, E. H. Wood, Master Kerr, Misses Wood (2), and Marshall. —L. D. Nathan and Co., agents. Zephyr, brigantine, 135, Tippet, from Greymouth.—C. F. James and Co., agents. Gisborne, schooner, 08, Skinner, from Gisborne.—H. B. Morton, agent. Clansman, s.s., 336, Farqtihar, from Tauranga. Passengers : Mrs. Kelly and children, •Rev. Mr. Burrowes, Majors I 1 ox and Mail', Judge Puckey, Messrs. Kelly, A. F. Puckey, and Wigg.Northern S.S. Co., agents. lona,, s.s., 159, Amodeo, from Mercury Bay. —Northern S.S. Co., agents. Chelmsford, s.s., 70, Hopkins, from Opotiki and Bay of Plenty.— and Co., agents. „ Saucy Kate, schooner, 41, from Russell. Master, agent. Suva, 8.8., 233, Todd, from East Coast ports.—Union S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Kaikoura, R.M.s.s., 4744, W. S. Crutchley, for Napier.— Zealand Shipping Co., agents. ' DEPARTURES. Kaikoura, R.M.s.s.,for Napier.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : Worcester, s.s., due 7th inst. Mercia, ship, sailed March 2. Langstone, ship, loading. Killochan, ship, sailed 13th inst. Arawa, s.s., sailed 21st inst., duo Jline 3. GLASGOW: . . Trevelyan, ship, (jailed April 7, via Port Chalmers. NEW YORK : . . Essex, barque (via Sydney), duo in May. Elinor Vernon, barquentine, sailed January 8. Albert Russell, barque, via Wellington, loading. NEWCASTLE : = Clifton, barque, sailed 2ath April. Syren, brig, sailed 4th inst. Jessie, barquentine, to load. ISLANDS : Daisy, schooner, early. Richmond, s.s., early. ' BYDNEY: . John Knox, barque, sailed 18th April. Aratapu, brigantine, sailed Ist inst. GISBORNE— Gisborne, schooner, sailed 23rd April,

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London' : _ . Worcester, s.s., in May, via South. NEW YORK: ' Mathilde Hennings, barque, to-day. tTAPIER : Dunedin, schooner, loading. ITONGATAEU : H.M.S. Egeria, early. 'Usbon : Gazelle, brigantine, early. tTONGA, Ere.: Richmond, s.s., about 18th inst. GISBORNE : - - Waiapu, schooner, to-day. SYDNEY: Linda Weber, brigantine, early.

UNION 5.3. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. . To-day.—Turawera arrives from South. Tuesday.—Penguin leaves Onehunga at » a.m.; Suva leaves for East Coast at 6 p.m.; {Tarawera leaves for Russell. Thursday.—Wanaka arrives at Onehunga f,t 8 a.m. ; Ohau arrives from South and eaves for Dutiedin; Tarawera arrives from Russell at 6 a.m. and leaves for South at noon. Friday,—Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 8.30 a.m.

. NORTHERN S.S. CO.S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Gairloch leaves for New Ply- i mouth at 1 p.m.; lona, leaves for Mercury Bay, Tairua, and Tauranga, and the Douglas, for Opotiki, at 5 p.m.; Clansman leaves for jßus'sell at 7 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Zl'oesday.—Wellington leaves for Whanga'rei at 8 p.m.; Stana leaves for Raglan at —Gairloch arrives from Waitara. Thursday.—lona leaves for Great Barrier at 8 a.m.; Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; Glenelg, for Hokianga, at 3 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; lona leaves for Mercury Bay at 7 p.m., and Wellington, for Whangarei, at 8 p.m. Saturday.lona arrives from Mercury Bay and Gairloeh from Waitara, Sunday.Clansman arrives from Tauranga early.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR. [This list does not include coasters.) ; . Egeria, H.M.s., in stream. Oamaru, ship, in stream. _ _ Linda Weber, brigantine, at Railway Wharf. Daroy Pratt, brigantine. in stream. Zephyr, brigantine, at Sugar Works. Dunedin, schooner, at Hobsonville. Agnes Donald, schooner, on slip. Fleetwing, schooner, in stream. Torea, schooner, in stream. Sybil, schooner, in stream. Curlew, schooner, at Railway Wharf. W. C. Wentworth, barque, at Railway

Wharf. Coul-na-Kyle, barque, in stream. Gazelle, brigantine, in stream. Waiapu, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Gisborne, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf.

IMPORTS. Per schooner Giaborne: 54 sacks wheat,_ 4 sacks fungus, 9 sacks hides, 39 loose hides, 79 pigs, 35 fowls, 4 bundles skins, 29 empties, 46 cases bottles, and sundries. •,» Per ship Oamaru : Plain cottons, £3to; coloured cottons, £100; flannels, £100; haberdashery, £2(0; apparel, £800; blankets, £'200; carpets and rugs, £100;. boots and shoes, £230; saddlery, £190; sheathing felt, £70; floorcloth, £240: vestas, £1030; blacking, £50; agricultural implements, ■ £60; agricultural machinery, £100; rails and general machinery, £1900; paper, 698cwt, stationery, £510; paperhangings. £90 upholstery, £410; iron bedsteads, £60; tinware, £10 : brushware, £200 ; plated goods, &c., £70; toys, £100; pianos, ■■£700; corks, £50; agricultural and garden needs, £140; clay pipes, £20; cartridges and dynamite, £30; fuse, £40; iron tanks, £30; hardware and cutlery, £2400; bar and rod iron, 43 tons : hoop iron, 4 tons ; sheet iron, 9 tons; pig iron, 5 tons ; galvanised iron, 45 tons ; yellow metal, 2 tons ; ingot tin, lOowt; iron nails, 28 tons; wire and wire rope, 28 tons ; zinc, 3 tons ; steel, 2 tons ; split peas, 16cwt; whito salt, 25 tons ; soda crystals, 10 tons; bicarb, soda, 20c wt; caustic tida, 6 tons ; silicate, 2 tons ; candles, 244cwt; soap, wt; dates, 40ewt; raisins, 142cwt; currants, 190cwt; almonds, 1 wt; French plums, 3cwt; liquorice, Bcwt; glucose, 60cwt; confectionery ' and peel, £190; apothecaryware, £100; saltpetre, scwt; tart, acid, £13 cream of tartar, £13; condensed milk, £320; cornflour, £80: total vahie, £21,100. Per s.s. Suva ; 10 boxes candles, 30 eases and 10 kegs nails, 474 sacks wheat, 10 cases vestas, 110 sacks grass seed, 237 sacks barley, 20 boxes soap, 5 empty casks, 24 packages sundries. Per brig an tine Zephyr : 200 tons coal.

EXPORTS. Per R.M.s.s. Kaikoura : 1500 cases kauri gum, 60 bales wool, and 10 tons sundries.

Inwards Coastwise. — Dungarvon, scow, from Omaha, with balk timber and SO cases fruit; Waterlily, cutter, from Barrier, with 22 sacks gum and firewood ; Lark and South Carolina, cutters, from the Barrier, with firewood ; Esk, cutter, from Cabbage Bay, with 35 tons firewood ; Jane, cutter, from Mahurangi, with 400 bushels lime and 200 bushels sand ; Mahurangi, cutter, from Barrier with 30 tons firewood; Ghost, scow, from Omaha, with GO tons firewood ; Gipsy, cutter, from Whangapoua, with 23,000 feet timber. „ Outwards Coastwise. —Kauri, scow, m ballast, for Waiara; Coralie, cutter, with maize, potatoes, and bran, for Mercury Bay ; Nellie, cutter, in ballast, for W hangapoua. At noon on Saturday the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s fine steamship Kaikoura sailed from the Queen-street VVnarf for Napier, She took no passengers, and her outward ir?i t rom Auckland consisted of about 1000 cases of kauri gum, 00 bales of wool, and 10 tons of sundries. Great credit is due to her agents and the stevedore, Captain JNearmg, lor the promptness with which the vessel .i^ 13 discharged and loaded, no less than 1400 cases of Kuin being shipped in the short space of four hours or Saturday. At Napier the Kaikoura will take in a quantity of cargo, and will then proceed to Lvttelton, where after being docked she will complete her loading and sail for London on the 31st Instant. On Saturday morning at 9 o'clock the wellknown trading schooner Gisborne arrived from the East Coast with a cargo of produce and live stock. Captain J. 11. Skinner reports that he left Gisborne on the 24th April and finished the East Coast ports and rounded the East Cape on the 27th instant. Called at several ports in the Bay of Plenty, leaving Te Kaha on the 3rd instant, with S. ft. winds and fine weather across the Bay to arrival.

From East Coast ports the Union S.S. Co.'s eteamer Suva arrived at about 9 o clock yesterday evening with a general cargo and. two steerage passengers. Mr. Dale, the purser, reports 01 the trip as follows : Ihe ouva left Wellington at 4.35 P.m. on the Ist mat. ; arrived at Napier at 2.30 p.m. on the 2nd ; left again at 5 p.m. on the 3rd; arrived in Gisborne at 3 a.m. on the 4th ; left at '2 p.m. ; called in at Tologa Bay, I uparoa, and Hicks Bay, and arrived in Auckland as above. Experienced fine weather from Wellington to Gisborne, the" J moderate N.E. weather to arrival. . , , On Saturday night the brigantme Zephyr, Captain Tippet, arrived from Greymouth with a cargo of coal, after a smart passage of nine days, moderate and fine Weather prevailing chiring the trip. The Zephyr went up to the Sugar Co.'s Wharf, where she is to discharge her cargo. At an early hour yesterday morning the s.s. Clansman came in from Tauranga with cargo and passengers. The schooner Gael has finished the discharge of her inward cargo at the Goods Wharf, Thames, and on Friday sailed up the river to Turua, where she is to load timber at Bagnall's mills for Lyttelton. About the time of the departure of the R.M.s.s. Kaikoura some little amusement was caused on the wharf by the antics of a couple of firemen belonging to the steamer who had been imbibing rather too freely, and consequently missed their passage. One was, however, equal to the occasion, and hastily jumping into a waterman's boat, caught the vessel as she swung round past the wharf. After some little trouble a comrade on board threw him a rope and he managed to scramble on board. The other was not so fortunate, and his disgust at losing his passage caused linn to act iii so boisterous a manner that he was taken into custody by the police and conveyed to the lock-up. - The lona came in from her usual trip to Mercury Bay late on Saturday night with passengers and gum. On the passage of the ship Oamaru down the coast the brigantine • Magellan Cloud, inward bound from Brisbane, and a barque (presumably the John Knox from Sydney) were passed on Saturday evening at eight o'clock. Both vessels should put in an appearance early this morning. The well-known Thames steamer Rotomahana is to be laid up for cleaning to-day and Tuesday, and her running will be temporarily taken up by the p.s. Enterprise, which has been recently improved and re-nttea. bno will leave for the Thames at 10 a.m. to-day. In order to meet the requirements of the ctumdiggers, the s.s. Gleaner will make an extra trip from the Lucas Creek and Dairy Flat gumfields to Auckland every Saturday afternoon, returning on Monday morning. The favourite Bay of Plenty trader, the s.s. Chelmsford, is announced to sail for Opotiki and Whakatane this evening.

ARRIVAL OF THE OAMARU. After a somewhat lengthy passage of 98 days the ship Oamaru, of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co.'s line, arrived from London yesterday morning early, casting anchor at 9 a.m. at the powder ground. The Oamaru is a fine full-rigged ship, of 1306 tons burden, and has been trading to New Zealand ports for some years, having been in Auckland on her last trip in April and May last year. bho is fitted with a refrigerator and cool chambers for carrying frozen meat. Everything on board is in excellent order, and the condition of the vessel generally reflects great credit upon Captain Maxwell and his officers. The Oamaru brings a large general cargo, the details of which are given above, and eleven passengers, including Mrs. Maxwell, the Captain's wife. The voyage was on the whole an uneventful one, but on February 11th, when the ship was a fortnight out from London, one of the passengers, Mr. Frederick W. Wood, died of consumption, and was buried at sea. This morning the cartridges which are on board will be discharged at 6 o'clock from the vessel, and she will be brought up the harbour and berthed at the Queen-street wharf by Capt. Fisher, DeputyHarbourmaster. The following report of the voyage is furnished by Capt. Maxwell : The Oamaru left the East India Docks, London, at noon on January 28, and had a fresh northerly breeze down the Channel. The pilot was landed next day off 1 ortland Bill. A heavy westerly gale was experienced oil Land's End, which shifted to the N.W., carrying the vessel down as far as Madeira, which was sighted on February 14, 8 days out The NIE. trades were picked up in lat. 15- N. long. 21* W., but proving light they died out In lat. 4" N. Had variable winds across the doldrums until the S. ft. trade winds were fallen in with in ITS jN. These carried the ship to 23" b. Light baffling winds prevailed till 28* S., where a | heavy S.E. gale with head seas, which lasted | for' two da.ys, was experienced, the ship behaving admirably. Thence light winds prevailed to 38" S. The easting was run down about the 43rd parallel, the weather being remarkably fine, with dry northerfy breezes. In 90" E the wind blew strong from the S.W., increasing to hurricane force, and raising a nigh contused sea. The wind suddenly shifted toN.W., and then back to S.W. Sudden squalls were frequent, and on the loth April heavy seas broke on board, smashing the pinnace, flooding the second cabin and officers' quarters, and washing everything moveable off the deck. The heavy weather continued till of! Tasmania, which was passed on the 24th ult., whence light' N. and N.W. breezes prevailed across to off Cape Maria Van Diemen, where the wind shifted to the S.E. .the change being accompanied by rain and thick weather. On the 2nd inst. the Three Kings were sighted at midnight. _ Light S.E. winds were experienced to the Korth Cape, where they freshened into a south-easterly gale, which blew all Thursday. Against this the ship beat down as far as Cape Brett, which was sighted on Saturday, and the brigantine Magellan Cloud from Brisbane, and the barque John Knox, from Sydney, were passed. ' At 8 p.m. the same day the Mokohinau light was seen, and at 6 a.m. yesterday Tiritiri was abeam, and the ship anchored at 7 o'clock for the Health Officer. Mr. Parker, of H.M. Customs went down in the launch and boarded the vessel, and as there was no sickness aboard, telephoned to Dr. Lewis that his services were not required. During the trip, the ships Loch Katrine and Strathblane, from London to Australian ports, were spoken, also the four-masted ship Gilcrieux, bound for Calcutta. The officers of the Oamaru are Captain Maxwell, chief officer, G. M. Haramon ; second officer, A G. Rawlings ; third officer, G. P. Martin ; chief engineer, P. McKellar ; second engineer, A. Davidson. ' _ „ ~ The Oamaru'sagents, Messrs. L. D. .Nathan and Co., notify in another column that the vessel will begi* to discharge this forenoon, and that any goods impeding the output of the cargo will be stored at the expense of the consignees.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, from Waitara. i Passengers : Mesdames Green and Had don, Messrs. McKeevor, Cockerton, Muir, Purdv, Wood, Ingram, and three steerage.— A. Barnes, agent. | Penguin, s.s. Allman, from the South. Passengers : Misses Knight, and Scott, Mrs. Spiers and child. Messrs. Oxnam, Kirkpatrick, A. L. Smith, F. Shorlaiul, Corkc, Scott (2), Mackay, Hannah, Skinner, Bislev, Mathieson, and seven steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. IMPORTS. Per s.s. Gairloch: 70 71 sheen, 2 horses, 15 kegs and 4 boxes butter, and 10 packages. ... Per s.s- Penguin : 800 sacks barley, 100 cases jam, 4 sacks peas, 20 cases butter, and 50 packages. The Northern Co.'s S.S., Gairloch, from Waitara, arrived on Saturday, with cargo and passengers, as above. The Union Co.'s s.s. Penguin, Captain G. Allman, from the South, arrived at 7.45 a.m. yesterday. She left Dunedin at 3 p.m. on the ' Ist instant, and called at Lyttelton, Wellington, Pieton, find Nelson, and arrived at New Plymouth at noon on the sth ; sailed for the Manukau at 6 p.m., and crossed the bar at 6 a.m on the 6th, arriving as above. Experienced fine weather, with light northerly airs throughout the passage. BYTE L.E GRAPH. KAIPARA. May s.—Sailed to-day, from the Heads : Zodiac, barque, for Sydney. OMAPERE. May s.Sailed : Schooner Queen, for Auckland. _________________