SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9241, 19 December 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland— a.m.; 7.31 p.m. „ „ Manukau— a.m.; 11.11 p.m. Sun.— 4.43 a.m.; sets, 7.17 p.m. Moon.—Last quarter, 26th December, 5.40 p.m. ARRIVALS. Opal, H.M.s., 2120 tons, 2190 h.p., Captain Day H. Bosanquet, from Noumea and New Hebrides. Lizard, H.M.s., 715 tons, 1000 h.p., Lieutenant Francis B. Pelly, commander, from Samoa. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Ringarooma, s.s., 1096, G. Allman, for Sydney. Passengers : Misses Ramsay and "Von der Heyde, Mesdames Williams, Von der Heyde, * Captain Seymour, Messrs. G. Butler, J. P. Ramsay, H. King, Willcox, T. M. Clarke, E. Yates. J. R. Chamberlain, A. Forrest, N. Harkcr, Morrison, J. Fanning, G. F. Bradley, 27 steerage (10 children). —Union S.S. Co., agents. Australia, s.s., 459, Kemp, for East Coast and Wellington. Passengers: Mrs. P. r»gata, Messrs. Moore, P. Ngata.H.YV Masters Talbot (2) and Bree, and 4 steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. _ .... Wellington, s.s., 279, Stephenson, for hangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Medora, schooner, 33, Subritzky, forOhora md A wanui.—Master, agent. DEPARTURES. Ringarooma, s.s., for Sydney. Australia, s.s., for East Coast. _ •Wellington, s.s., for \\ hangarei. Medora, schooner, for Oliora. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. tOXPON- : , -m Waitangi, ship, sailed September l-» , Dunediu, ship, sailed October_s. Salamanca, ship, sailed Nov. 5. Oamaru, ship, sailed Nov. 15. Brahmin, ship, sailed Nov. 20. Euterpe, ship, loading. KEW YORK: _ William Phillips, barque, sailed Oct. 14. Arnold Yon Bippen, barque, to sail November 20. Simeon, barque, sailed November 1. SYDNEY: Alameda, P.M.s.s., about Dec, 30. Rapid. H.M.s., sailed Dec. 15. Orlando, H.M.s., early. Calliope. H.M.s., early. WELL IN i; TON : Raven, H.M.s., early. KKWCASTLE : Daisy, schooner, sailed Dec. 15. KIMBEULEY: . ... , _ Clansman, brigantine, sailed August 3. BRISBANE : Abiel Abbott, barque, early. SAMOA : _ j Royalist, H.M.s., early. Orakar, barque, early. Maile, schooner, early. TAHITI, ETC.: Richmond, s.s,, about December 20. GISBOHNE : Waiapu, schooner, early.' Venus, cutter, early. LONG ISLAND : Jessie Nicoll, schooner, early. ' DUNEDIN : Natal Queen, barque, sailed Dec. 15* - j PROJECTED DEPARTURES. i LONDON: Zealandia, ship, to load. ; HEW YORK : „ j Ugglan, ship, to load. ... - I Abiel Abbott, barque, to load. _ . j Mary A. Greenwood, barque, loading. SAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s.s., about Dec. 30. SYDNEY: Lady Mabel, early. MELBOURNE : Handa Isle, barquentine, via Thames, early. KOBFOLK ISLAND : Coralie, cutter, early. HAROTON A : Ada C. Owen, early. IN YE RCA Rr. ILL : " Maud Graham, schooner, to load. ' UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. Thursday.—Te Anau arrives from Russell ; Wanaka arrives at Onehunga at S a.m.; Te Anau leaves for South at noon. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Gairloch arrives from Waitara. | Thursday.—lona leaves for Great Barrier At S a.m.: Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei about 6 p.m. Friday.—Clansman leaves for Tauranga, and lona for Mercury Bay, at 7 p.m., and Wellington for Whangarei, at S p.m. Saturday.—Gairloch arrives from Waitara, and lona from Mercury Bay. Sunday.—Clansman arrives from Tauranga early. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. (This list does not include coasters.) Opal. H.M.s., in stream. Lizard, H.M.s., in stream. Zealandia, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Ugglan, ship, in stream. Sharpshooter, barque, at Sugar Works. Belle Isle, barque, at Sugar Works. Marv A. Greenwood, barque, at Railway Wharf. Brunette, barque, in stream. Handa Isle, barquentine, at Railway Wharf. Jessie, barquentine, at Railway Wharf. AdaC. Owen, brigantine, at Queen-st. Wharf. Darcy Pratt, brigantine, in stream. - Magellan Cloud, brigantine, in stream. _ Fleetwmg, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Lady Mabel, brigantine, at Hobson-st. Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Maud Graham, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Torea, schooner, at Breastwork. EXPORTS. Per s.s. Ringarooma, for Sydney: 1303 Backs bran, 487 bales chaff, 200 sacks sharps, 900 sacks and 400 bags Hour, 154 sacks maize, fi3B packages butter, 40 cases gum, 96 sacks .ungus, and sundries.

Yesterday afternoon about three o'clock the weekly mail service between this port and Sydney was resumed by the s.s. Ringarooma, which has been put into commission again to run specially between Auckland and Sydney, after being laid up for two years, taking her departure for the latter port. She took about a couple of score passengers, and had a full cargo of produce and breadstuff's. The ship Zealandia is now almost clear of her inward cargo, and the discharge of the remainder is only retarded by the difficulty of procuring suitable stiffening. _ A quantity of manganese is expected to arrive from the North daily, and the work of loading will then be prosecuted with despatch. The Zealandia has already a quantity of copra, gum. and other produce under hatches, and will probably be a full ship before the New Year. The brigantine Lady Mabel has been chartered, through Messrs. C. F. James and Co., to convey a load of timber to Sydney as soon as she has completed her discharge, but her port of loading has not yet been definitely decided upon. In a few days the cutter Coralie will take her departure for Norfolk Island, having %een chartered by Mr. M. Niccol to take a cargo of produce there. Yesterday morning the ship Ugglan was berthed at the Railway Wharf. She will begin to load gum for New York as soon as the Mary Greenwood is finished. Last night the s.s. Australia left harbour for her usual fortnightly trip to the East Coast and Wellington, with a number of (passengers and cargo of provisions and sundries. By a private cable, received yesterday, we learn that the schooner Sarah Pile, produce laden from this port, reached Sydney safely 011 the 17th. Her trip thus beats by two days that of the crack schooner Sybil, which, clearing hence four days earlier, only arrived on Saturday last. The coastal schooner Medora sailed yesterday for Ohora and Awauui with a full cargo of stores. It will be seen from our advertising columns that the p.s. Enterprise will make special trips from the Thames at 8 p.m. on Friday, the 21st, and at 10 p.m. on Sunday, the 23rd, returning from Auckland on Saturday and Monday at midnight. 1

THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

During the forthcoming holidays, as was anticipated, the harbour will be again graced by the majority of the warships of the Australian Squadron, if indeed the whole of the lleet, including H.M.s. Orlando, the flagship of Admiral Fairfax, does not rendezvous liere. Yesterday H.M.s. Opal, an old favourite with the Auckland public, arrived here from Noumea and the New Hebrides about ■half-past one, and some live hours later was followed into port by the new gunboat Lizard, which has recently been stationed at Samoa watching "British interests there during the native trouble which is at present convulsing that group. Our cable advices from Sydney state that H.M.s. Rapid is now on her way hither, and her departure was to be shortly followed by those of the Calliope and Orlando; indeed the officers of the two ships which came in vesterday were expecting to meet Admiral Fairfax at Auckland on December 22. The Royalist, which relieved the Lizard at Samoa, •will, it is anticipated, also make for this port in a fortnight or so, and the Raven, now in port at Wellington, will probably come here for orders, while H.M.s. Egeria, the surveying vessel, is.now about due from the Kermadec Islands, so that within the next week or ten days we may have six or eight war vessels at anchor Qn the waters of the Waitemata.

H.M.S. OPAL. After a lengthy absence from our waters the well-known warship Opal arrived yesterday rem a cruise to Noumea and the New Hebrides Group, where she has been inflicting summary vengeance upon various native tribes for outrages committed upon Europeans. A detailed account of her cruise appears in our general news. The Opal came into port about half-past one, and anchored at her old position opposite the Railway Wharf. All her officers and men arc in good health, and well pleased to revisit Auckland, where they made themselves so popular during their stay last summer. Captain Day H. Bosanquet is still in charge of the vessel, and has with him the same gentlemen as officers who were in the vessel on her last visit to Auckland, 4a,ve that Mr. Field, first; lieutenant, lias been succeeded by Hon. H. Tyrwhitt, and Mr. S. Screceh is now assistant paymaster.

H.M.S. LIZARD.

When, about 4.30 p.m., intelligence was received at the Herald office of the approach of a second man-o'-war, it was conjectured that the surveying shipEgeria was returning from her cruise to the Kermadecs, but at six o'clock a vessel rounded the North Head which bore but little resemblance to that familiar vessel. The stranger turned out to be the gunboat Lizard, from Samoa, and as she rapidly came up the harbour she was seen to be a very handsome and fast vessel of the newest type. After passing alongside her senior cralt, the Opal, the Lizard was anchored oft' the Freezing Company's works. She is a composite screw gunboat of 715 tons and 1000 horse-power, and was launched in January, ISS7, from the yards of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast. She is fitted with the most modern variety of triple expansion engines and underforced draught, can steam 14 knots per hour, her mean rate of speed in ordinary cruising being 10 knots. She is capable of steaming 3500 miles on her present coal capacity without a halt. Her armament is a very heavy one for a vessel of her size, and comprises six 4-inch breechloading Armstrong guns with Vavasour mountings, and four Nordenfeldts of various sizes. The Lizard received her commission for the Pacific station at Dovonport, on the ISth of October, ISS7, and left England in January, 1888. She reached Svdney on May 14th last, and after visiting Melbourne at the opening of the Centennial Exhibition, she accompanied H.M. s. Calliope (with Admiral Fairfax on board), to Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, and then proceeded by way of Vavau and Pango Pango to Tonga tabu, since which time she lias been stationed at Apia, Samoa. She left that port on December 5, and calling at Fiji stayed at Suva from the Sft.h to the 12th. Resuming her passage to Auckland she had fine weather all the way till off the coast, where strong S.S.W. winds were encountered on the Kith inst. The Lizard's crew amount to 75 men and her officers are as follows :— Commander, Lieutenant Francis B. Felly; navigating lieutenant, Edward Winthrop; second lieutenant', Hon. D'Arcv Lambton; surgeon, J. L. Bagnall Oakley, M.D. ; assistant paymaster, Jas. H. F. Compton; chief engineer. R. Harding ; chief gunner, Samuel Gurowicn. As with H.M.s. Opal the Lizard's stay in port is not yet definitely fixed until despatches are received from Admiral Fairfax.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

DEPARTURES. Takapuna, s.s., Grant, for the South. Passengers : Misses Wood, Bowen, Kissling, Mesdames Bridgenian and nurse, Bowen, Gallagher, Messrs. Bowdell, Gallagher, J. Shane, A. E. Wilson, Rennie, J. J. Reid, Bridgeman, Marist Brothers (5), and 1,1 steerage. —Union S.S. Co., agents. EXPORTS. Per s.s. Takapuna: 113 sacks and St 3 bags potatoes, 50 nests and 200 loose pipes, 3 crates pottery, 17 cases and 36 trusses drapery. .'IS sacks onions, 6 cases boots, 10 cases mullet, 9 oases stationery, 13 cases pines, and 276 sundry packages. The Union Co.'s 3.5. Takapuna, Captain J. Grant, for the South, took nor departure at 7 oVlock yesterday evening with cargo and passengers.