SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9249, 31 December 1888, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water, at Auckland—s.23 a.m.; 5.57 p.m. „ „ Manuian— a.m.; 9.37 p.m. .Sun.—Rises, 4.44 a.m.; sets, 7.10 p.m. * Moon;— moon Jon. 2, 8.48 p.m. ' ' ARRIVALS. Alameda, R.M.s.s., 3000, H. G. Morse, . From Sydney. Passengers:—For Auckland : f Mr. Parfett, Mrs. Ellis and son, Messrs. C. - C. Murray, Bernascom, W. T. Poole, Gatland, R. Leather, Mrs. Simpson, Messrs. Robert Robertson, George Hardy, H. Beaumont, James Bell and wife,Goodacre and wife, Miss Williams. For San Francisco: Mrs. E.A. Hood, Messrs. |H.S H. Williams, Geo. Campbell, Henry Franks, Mrs. Gilchrist, Mrs. J. E. Clark and three children, Mr. Watson and servant, Miss Watson and maid, Messrs. Brock, J. C. Peterson, T. Merry and wife, E. Curtice, A. G. Murray, Rev. Father Mooney, Mr. and Mrs. Burns and child, Mr. and Mrs, Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Joes, and 29 steerage.Union S.S. Co., agents. Natal Queen, barque, 230, J. W. Garth, from Dunedin.—Stone Brothers, agents. Omapere, s.s., 601, R. E. Smith, from Westport. Passengers: Dr. Brewer and attendant.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Australia, s.s., 459, Kemp, from East Coast and Wellington. Passengers : Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Hodge and child, Mr. Spence, Misses Gilford and Kemp, and 2 steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. lona, s.s., 159, Amodeo, from Tauranga and Mercury Bay.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Clansman, s.s., 336, Farquhar, from Russell and the North. Passengers: Mr. and Mrs Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Dickeson, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Latrobe, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, Mesdames Turner, Adamson, Nelder, Williams, Michie, Woolcock, Pukara, Messrs. Grierson, Overton, plough, Hagger, Pennington, Stevenson, Warne, Bennett, Wells, Lomas, P. Smith, Gordon, and 13 steerage.—Northern S S. Co. agents* CLEARED OUTWARDS. Glencairn, schooner, 62, Burton, for Thames.—Master, agent. Catlin, • ketch, 56, Norman, for South via —Master, agent. '• EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : Waitangi, ship, sailed September 12 Dunedin, ship, sailed October 5. Salamanca, ship, sailed Nov. 5. Oamaru, ship, sailed Nov. 15. j Brahmin, ship, sailed Nov. 20. Euterpe, ship, loading. MEW YORK : William Phillips, barque, sailed Oct. 14. Arnold Von Bippen, barque, to sail No- . . . • vember 20. , Simeon, barque, sailed November 1. SAN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.s.s., sailed Dec. 16. SYDNEY : Calliope, H.M.S.,to-day. WELLINGTON : . Raven, H.M.s., early. NEWCASTLE : 1 Northern Chi/jf, barque, early. lka \ uka, brigantine, early. 7 ' Grecian Bend, barquentine, early. Daisy, schooner, sailed Dec. 15. * BRISBANE: Abiel Abbott, barque, early. SAMOA : Royalist, H.M.s., early. Java : ' | . Hamburg, barque, sailed Nov. 15, .1 is lcoya, barque, early. J DUNEDIN : I ! Gleaner, brigantine, early. .]

'PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON: ; Zealandia, ship, loading. NEW YORK: , ' V Ugglan, skip, loading. Abiel Abbott, barque, to load. SAN FRANCISCO : . Alameda, R.M.s.s., to-day. SYDNEY : , ' Mariposa, R.M.s.s., about Jan. 5,1559. KAROTONOiA :..... Tor'ja, schooner, early. TAHITI: Richmond, s.s., about January 5. SAIIO.A : • 1 Maile, schooner, early. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. ■ To-day.—Rotorua arrives at Onehunga at 8 a.m., Alameda leaves for Honolulu at 2 p.m., Omapere leaves for Greymouth at noon. . Tuesday.— _ arrives from the South, Ringarooma arrives from Sydney, Rotorua leaves Manukau at 9.30 a.m., Australia leaves.for East Coast at 6 p.m. Wednesday.—Manapouri leaves for Russell at 5 p.m. _ Thursday.—*Arawata arrives from South, Wanaka arrives at Onehunga at 7 a.m., Ringarooma leaves for Sydney at 2 p.m. Friday.—Manapouri arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for South at noon. Saturday.Mariposa arrives from Honolulu and leaves for Sydney, Wanaka leaves Onehunga. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-dat.—Wellington arrives from Whangarei. lona leaves for Whangarei at 8 p.m. _ Tuesday.—Clansman leaves on an excursion to Waiwera at 10 a.m. Wellington leaves on an excursion to Mahurangi Heads at 10 a.m. Wednesday.—Wellington leaves on an excursion to Waiwera at 10 a m. - Thursday.—Gairloch leaves for Waitara at 1 p.m. Douglas leaves for Great Barrier at 8 a.m. Rowena leaves for • Raglan and Kawhia at 3 p.m. Clansman leaves for Russell, Whangaroa, and Mangonui at 7 p.m. lona arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—Douglas arrives from Great Barrier early, and leaves for Tauranga, Whangamata, Whakatane,andOpotiki at sp.m. lona leaves for Mercury Bay and Tauranga at 7 p.m. Wellington leaves for Whangarei, ftiarsden Point, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m.

"VESSELS IN HARBOUR. .■ *> ;.j < [This list does nob include coasters.] Orlando, !!.M.S., in stream. Rapid, H. M.a., in stream. Opal, H.M.s., in stream. Lizard, H.M.s., in stream. Zealandia, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Ugglan, ship, at Railway Wharf. Sharpshooter^ at Sugar Works.Brunette, balque, at Railway Wharf. Orskar^ barque, in stream. - NataJ v Queen, barque, in stream. ' barquentine, at Railway Wharf. "" l f rank Guy, barquentine, at Sugar Works. Darcy Pratt, brigantine, at Breastwork. Magellan Cloud, brigantine, at Breastwork. Fleetwing. schooner, in stream. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream, iJessie Niccol, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Waiapu, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. - Torea, schooner, at Breastwork. IMPORTS.

Per s.s. Omapere,"from Westport: 506 tons coal.

Per barque Natal Queen, from Dunedin : '110 tons sacks oatmeal, 850 sacks flour, 252 ■cases jams, 7 cases peel, 1 case confectionery, 100 cases cordials, 21 kegs ale, 800 boxes candies, 1569 sacks wheat and oats, and 100 sacks bran. Per s.s. Australia, from Wellington: 60 tons ex Coptic, 22 sacks flour, 100 boxes soap, 15 boxes candles, 16 empty casks, 2 tanks seed. Late on Saturday evening the Union S.S. Co.'s regular trader to the East Coast, the s.s. Australia, arrived from Wellington and way ports with passengers and general freight, including some transhipments ex the R.M. s.s. Coptic. Mr. Kendall, the purser, reports that the Australia left Wellington on December 24 at 7 p.m., and arrived at Napier on the 25th at 7 p.m.; she left on the 27th at 1 p.m., and arrived at Gisborne next day at 4 a.m.; sailed again three hours later, and she called at ; Tokomaru, Waipiro, and Awanui, and arrived at Auckland on the 20th at 9.30 p.m., having experienced fine weather throughout the passage. Oil Saturday afternoon a barque outside Tiri wis signalled from the North Shore. She proved to be the Natal Queen, grain laden, from Dunedin. Captain Garth reports that the barque sailed from Part Chalmers on December 15 with a fresh south-west breeze. Cape Palliser was passed on the 19th, and thence light baffling winds and Bqually weather were experienced till port was reached on Saturday night, and anchor dropped off the Queen-street Wharf. Yesterday morning early the Northern S.S. Co.'s ; Clansman arrived from Russell; Whangaroa, and Mangonui with a good number of ■ passengers and the following freight3oo sacks gum, 25 sacks fungus, 7 bales wool, and 3 tons sundries. >. The ; s.s. ; lona got in from Tauranga and Mercury Bay, with her freight and passenger accommodation well patronised. At the Railway Wharf the ship Ugglan is making good progress with her loading gum for. New York; while the Zcaiandia is rapidly filling up with a general assortment of coloD mi P uce at the Queen-street tee. -*-hG barque Northern Chief and brigantine Ne W ca U stlVfor Aucklnd blaCk diamonds " at Messrs. ? tone Brothers are advised by wire that their barque Laira - arrived at Dunedin on Saturday, the 29th instant, from Mauritius. with a cargo of sugar, after a fin*, run of sailte al \°r hat the brigantine Parncll .for lW?a L el , b °",?- e u n ! he '^ Jth instant, port. ■ .••••' to load timber for an Australian for th^South.^" 1 timber PtTairua

' The correct value of the cargo of kauri gum taken away last week by the barque Mary A. Greenwood was £20,536. About 1.30 p.m. on Saturday the Union Co.'s Omapere arrived from Westport with a full load of coal. She left on the 26th inst., and had moderate weather throughout. She discharged 130 tons of her freight into one of the U.S.S. Co.'s hulks, and transhipped a large quantity into the mail steamer Alameda yesterday. She will sail .for Westport this evening. The schooner Glencairn sailed yesterday for the Thames, with part of her original cargo of breadstuff's from Lyttelton. She will load back at the Thames to the Canterbury port. This morning the barquentine Jessie will begin to load timber at the Kauri Timber Co.'s mills for Sydney.

THE ALAMEDA. Shortly after midday yesterday the approach of the outgoing mail steamer Alameda, from Sydney, was signalled from the North Shore, and, rounding the North Head about .1.40, she was berthed at the Queen-street Wharf about 2.30 p.m. She brings about a score of passengers for this port, and has, besides, about 50 in transit for America and Europe. Mr. Sutton, the purser, to whom we are indebted for Australian files, supplies the following memoranda of the trip across :—The Alameda sailed from Sydney on December 26, discharging the Port Jackson pilot at 4.55 p.m. For the first 24 hours a strong N.N.E. gale was experienced with a rough sea, after which easterly and S.E. breezes with smooth water prevailed till picking up the local pilot, at 1.25 p.m. yesterday, the run being done in the excellent time of 3 days IS hours 56 minutes. The Alameda will resume her voyage to San Francisco, via Honolulu, at 2 p.m. to-day.

FREIGHTS. Messrs. C. F. James and Co. supply their monthly circular up to 31st December, 1888, as follows :— Our last report went forward on the 27th ultimo, since which there has been no material alteration to report in freights, ex cent for produce. These, owing to the break up of the drought in Sydney, are considerably weaker. The strike at Newcastle is at length finally settled, and vessels are meeting with free despatch from most ports. Demand for tonnage continues good, and we can fix vessels at rates as below for immediate loading : — Timber. fair amount of this has gone forward, both baulk and sawn. We quote rates as follows:—East Coast, sawn, Melbourne, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; Sydney, 2s 6d; Brisbane, 3s 9d (nom.); Kaipira, baulk, Melbourne, 4s 6d to ss; sawn, 3s 6d to 4s ; Sydney, 4s 3d ; sawn, 3s to 3s 6d; Adelaide, baulk, 6s; sawn, 4s 6d ; Dunedin, baulk, 4s 6d; sawn, 3s 6d. Recent fixtures are Yolande, Silver Cloud, and Grasmere, with baulk, for Melbourne ; Stanley, Vivid, and Presto, with sawn, for Sydney, and Camille, with baulk and sawn, for Dunedin, all from Kaipara. From East Coast, Natal Queen, Jessie, Lady Mabel, Belle Isle, and Lord of the Isles, with Look-out for Sydney, and Handa Isle for Melbourne, all with sawn. Coal.— Imports during period under review have been heavy, the Handa Isle, I Lady Mabel, Jessie, Brunette, Look-Out, | and Darcy Pratt (the latter with Brisbane coal) all arriving together. The only reported fixtures are the Northern Chief (by ourselves), and the Ilea Vuka. We quote freights at Bs. Produce.— demand for tonnage has fallen off owing to rainfall in Australia, the lka Vuka" and Ryno being the last two despotched at the beginning of the month. From South the Maud Graham and Glencairn have arrived ; while the Gleaner, Clansman, and Natal Queen are expected. Freights may be quoted at 10s. Sales.—The only sale we have to report is the Torea, belonging to Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane, which fetched £520 at public auction.