SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9050, 10 May 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ton WATER Sit Auckland-e.W a.m.; 6.88 p.m. Manukau—lo.o a.m.; 10.18 p.mi BUN.—Rises, 6.56 a.m.; sets, 6.4 p.m. MOON.— moon, llth, 1.4 p.m. V ARRIVALS. •" JolintKnox, barque, 247, Sopworth, from Sydney.—Master, agent. ...„.,. Ohau, 5.5.,740, Bernech, from the South.— Union S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS W. C. Wentworth, barque, 268, Peterson, for Sydney via Hokianga.—Master, agent. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. liONDOK : Mercia, ship, sailed March 2. Langstone, ship, loading. Killochan, ship, sailed 13th inst. „ ; Arawa, s.s., sailed 21st inst., due June 3. PLASGOW: ship, sailed April 7, via Trevelyan, ship, sailed April 7, via Port Chalmers. SAN FRANCISCO : sailed 5* inst. Zealandia, R.M.s.s., sailed sth mat. * EW E™™barque (via Sydney), due in May. Elinor Vernon, barquentine, sailed J amiAlbert"RutsSl! barque," via Wellington, loading. Clifton, barque, sailed 25th April. Syren, brig, sailed 4th inst. Jessie, barquentine, to load. ISLANDS : Daisy, schooner, early. Richmond, s.s., early. BYDN'ET : ~ , , , , Aratapu, brigantine, sailed Ist inst. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. KWDOX: . , Worcester, s.s., early, via boutn. KAPiKK: Dunedin, schooner, loading. roxcATABU : H.M.s. Egeria, early. LISBON : , Gazelle, brigantine, early. •TOXOA, ETC.: , . Richmond, s.s., about ISth inst. 6YDNKV: . Liuda Weber, brigantine, early. UNION S.S. CO. MOVEMENTS. This Day.— Wanaka arrives at Onehunga at S a.m. : Tarawera arrives from Kusscll at 6 a.m. and leaves for South at noon. Friday.—Wanaka leaves Onehunga at D.:X) a.m.; Ohau leaves for Dunedm at 10 a.m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.S MOVEMENTS. This —lona leaves for Great barrier ot S a m.; Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.: Ulcnelg, for Hokianga, at 3 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. FRlDAY.—Clansman arrives Ironi Russell, and leaves for Taurauga 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 Gairloch from Waitara, Sunday.—Clansman arrives from lauranga early.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR. [This list does not include coasters.] Egeria, H.M.8., in stream. Worcester, s.s., at Queen-street \\ harf. Oiimaru, ship, at Queen-street \\ hart. Linda Weber, brigautine, in stream. Darcy Pratt, brigantine, in stream. Magellan Cloud, brigantine, in stream. Zephyr, brigantine, at Sugar Works. Dunedin, schooner, at Hobsonville. Agnes Donald, schooner, on slip. Fleet-wing, schooner, in stream. Torea, schooner, in stream. Sybil, schooner, in stream. Curlew, schooner, at Railway Wharf. "W. C. Wentworth, barque, in stream. Coul-na-Kyle, barque, in stream. Gazelle, brigantine, in stream. "Wfiiapu, schooner, in stream. Giaborne, schooner, at Queen-street W nan. IMPORTS. Per s.s. Ohau :—1065 sacks flour, 280 qr.sacks ilour, 180 half-sacks flour, 1100 sacks wheat, -2356 sacks oats, 390 sacks oatmeal, 20 sacks pearl barley, 1036 sacks potatoes, 06 Sack 3 pollard, 45 sacks bran, and a quantity of sundries. Per Ohau and Examiner: 678 bags oats, 240 bags flour, 144 sacks potatoes.—William Gunson. The Union S.S. Co.'s Ohau arrived from her usual trip from the South yesterday evening with a large cargo of flour, grain, etc., after a fair-weather passage. She is to sail for Dunedin as soon as she is discharged, and will leave that port on her return trip, calling as usual at East Coast ports on the 14th inst. About 5 o'clock yesterday morning the barque John Knox, Captain Sopworth, arrived in ballast from Sydney, after a passage of three weeks. The John Knox is an old vessel, having been built 36 yeare ago. She was, when launched, rigged as a ship, and was engaged in the passenger trade between Australia and London. During the last 16 years she has, however, been engaged between New Zealand and Australia, mostly in the timber trade, for which line of business Bhe was purchased by her present owner, Mr. R. M. Houston, of Mangonui. She is to go into dock here, and will be thoroughly overhauled and recoppered. Of the trip across, Captain Sopworth reports that the barque left Sydney on the 18th April at 6 p.m., with light breezes and hazy weather, which continued for three days, when strong squalls, accompanied by heavy seas, set in. On the 24th ultimo the wind moderated, but rose again next day, and squally weather prevailed till the 29th April, when light winds and bright weather were experienced. On the 29th the Three Kings, S. by E. 23 miles distant, were sighted. Light baffling winds prevailed on the morning of the 31st, and on the 2nd instant the barque was off Doubtless Bay. On the 3rd she anchored off Mangomr, and called for orders. The breeze freshp/ned on the 4th, and squally, thick weather was had till off Cape Brett, at noon 00 the 7th instant. The Hen and Chickens wf.re abeam on Tuesday last, at noon, and the \ essel made this port and anchored as above. The American barquentine Elinor Vernon, •which left New York for tb' l 3 port and Wellington, and which a t the latter port about three weeks rx*cK, finished the discharge of her Wellington cargo about the Ist instant. After wai.tirjg for four days in the stream for a favoiirable wind to get out, she was enabled to do so on the sth instant, being towed out to an offtng by the steamer Mana. For this port the Elinor Vernon brings a part cargo of mj.xed American merchandise, the chief item, of which is 4400 cases of kerosene. A cable notice from London published in yesterday's TLlerald conveys the information that the rjc.ail steamer Zealandia sailed from San Frao cisco on Saturday last, the sth inat., three d/ v ys late. She may consequently be expected to arrive here on or about the 26th inst.

The following remarks upon Russian naval ope rations are extracted from a recent issue of the Broad Arrow :—" Russia continues bar activity in the Black Sea, and work in y the naval establishments goes on in relays, both night and day, without any intermission. Three armored barbette vessels are well in hand, namely, the Tchesme, which has already passed her first trials in a satisfactory manner ; the Catherine 11., now preparing for her engine trials ; and the Sinope, which should have been launched in May, but will now be ready in April. The armour of each ia 16-inch steel-faced plates, and they mount six 12-inch breech-loading guns in each barbette, with an auxiliary armament of 6-inch breechloading guns on the broadBide, and Hotchkias revolving cannon machine guns, and tubes for discharging Whitehead torpedoes. Each of these ships is of 10,150 tons burden, 314 feet in length, 69 feet beam, drawß 25 feet of water, and has compound horizontal engines of 12,000 horse power, capable of propelling the vessel at a speed of 16 knots an hour. The fleet of gunboats has just been completed by the launch of the sixth, named the Urelato. Half of these boats were built in the new naval yard of NicolaiefF, and the remainder at Sebastopol. These gunboats mount each two 8 - inch guns, to a powerful auxiliary armament, and all their engines are by Napier, of Glasgow. Since the Turkish war Russia has devoted much attention to torpedo armaments, and in addition to ships' boats for spar torpedoes, she has in the Black Sea twenty first-class boats and several fine torpedo cruisers built after French designs, one of which, the Captain Sacher, can accomplish 21 knots an hour."

ARRIVAL OF THE DORIC. Wei learn from Messrs. Cruickshank and J a iu- loc^ l agents of the Shaw, Saville, and Albion Company, that the direct steamer Doric, which left London on the 22nd March, £i?Z; yesterda eveniD S at Dunedin. The SiryJ?sJ pen # rß « l ? >o ' ted at London for M H m « : 7 Mr v> w - Austin, Mrs. Austin, t fwit ? arOn^P r - & K - Barton, Messrs. J. Cruickshank, r?' CuthWtson, Colonel Caldwell, Captain Connor, Mr Jas Gibb Mrs. Gibb Messrs. Thos. riowden N Kolpi E. Kolp, Jas. KeUy, Captain Lowe, Mrs L«wis, Mr. W. H. Lewis Mrs. Lewis, Miss Massen, Messrs. A. B. Moore, A Norlps Lady Orr-Ewing, Messrs. T. M. Reid, Jas' Robertson, Mrs. Robertson, Rev. Charlp* Shergold, Mr. J. N. Wilson, Miss Wvndham. Lewis, Messrs. A. J. Wethered, J. Yeoman Mrs. Yeoman. Third Class : Mr. J. Arnold' Miss E. J. Arthur, Mr. and Mrs. J. Agnew', Miss A. Agnew, Messrs, J. C. Bagnall. T. Burns, F. Broomhead, Miss M. Barry, Mr. E. Brierley, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bushell and family (4), Messrs. T. Black, C. Brown. C. Chandler,, J. Clarke, G. Cooper, A. Cotton, J.

Dally, Mr. and Mrs. J. Dennis and f»raily(4), Mrs. Dodson, Mr. J. Dinnan, Mr. and Mn. W. Ferguson, Messrs. J. C. Franzmann, P. Galvan, W. H. Gardner. A. Haines. A. Heskett, P. Hyslop, M. Halloran, W. Ijzgleden, krs. U. C. (nghs Miss M. Inglis, Master W. Inglw, Mr. J. Keen, Mr. and Mrs. D. Keys and family (5), Messrs. J Kelly, J. Kilpatrick, R. M. Loverock, A. le Bas, J- Miss A. Learv Messrs. G. D. Landels, A. Martin, H. MeConnell, R. J. McConnell, A. McConneU, Miss K McConnell, Miss M. McGonnell, Miss R. Meggs, Messrs. W. G. Mackey, E. Morris, Mr and Mrs. B. Me Vicar, Messrs. S. F. Mumford, W. T Newton, P. O'Brien W. O'Neill F. C. W. Price, Miss I. Pickles, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Plaskett and family (4). Messrs. J. Pridmore, W. E. Reaby, T. Stuart, A. Suckling, A. Smith, F. Sellars, H. F. Spong, E. Spong, J. Simmons, A. W. Sykes, E. Trainor, D. Troby, W. Taylor, Mrs. Turner, Miss M. L. Turner, Miss A. Turner, Messrs. E. Unchurch, A. Wray, F. J. Walker, W. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. H. Walters, Master H. Walters, Miss N. Walters, Mr. A. Whitakor.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, from Waitara. Passengers : Messrs. McArthur, Mann, Scott, Randerson. Song Chong, Kcan, Sponer, Thorpe, Gladding, Mackay, Jones, Mesdames Scott, Kcan, Smith, Roche, Randerson and child, Misses Scott, W ylie, Tcasdale, and 5 steerage.—A. Barnes, agent IMPORTS. Per s.s. Gairloch : 72 pigs 26 hides, 84 head cattle, 290 sheep, 1 horse, 3 kegs nails, 50 kegs and 6 boxes butter, and 6 packages. The Northern Co.'s s.s. Gairloch, from Waitara, arrived yesterday with cargo and passengers as above. BY TELEGRAPH. NEW PLYMOUTH. May 9.—Sailed : S.s. Wanaka, for Manukau. Passengers : Mr. aud Mrs. F. Stewart, Messrs. Rochi'ort, Petty, and 4 steerage. WELLINGTON. May 9.—Arrived: S.s. Hawea, from Nelson and Picton; s.s. Rotorua, from the South ; s.s. Penguin, from Onehunga. Sailed : S.s. Hawea, for the South. PORT CHALMERS. May 9. —Arrived : S.s. Graf ton and s.s. Manapouri, from the North. Sailed : S.s. Te Anau, for Sydney, via the North. Passengers :—For Lyttelton : Mr. Shaw. For Wellington: Mr. and Mrs. Spragg, three children, and servant, Miss Aitken, Messrs. Solomon, Grey, Minnery, Fulton (M.H.R.), Dr. Lamb, Dr. Hodgkinson For Napier : Mrs. Tnrton. For Gisborae : Miss Evans. For Auckland : Messrs. G. T. Napier, Griede, Hevwood, Judson, Henley, Master Napier. For Sydney» Miss Alexander, ajui 5 in the steerage. THE MAY QUEEN. Christcuurch, Wednesday.—An unsuccessful attempt was made to-day to pump out the May Queen. After working for two hours and making no impression, the Dumps were stopped, and the working party returned to Lyttelton. It is intended to endeavour to get out the remainder of the cargo, so that the vessel can be throughly examined from the interior. A diver made an attempt to reach the place where the hull is pierced, but was enable to do so. A STEAMER DISABLED. Wellington, Wednesday. —The steamer Kiwi, which left last evening for the East Coast, met with au accident which obliged her to return. When about seven miles outside the lighthouse she broke her shaft, aoid was unable to proceed. Distress signals were sent up, and the pilot went off from the station, thinking his services were needed. The Stella, inward bound, hove in sight, ami Captain Fairchild took the disabled wssel in tow, and brought her round to the slip. It will probably be some days before sne is again ready for sea.