SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9262, 16 January 1889, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at'Auckland—6.s3a.m.; 6.17 p.m. „ „ Manukau—9.S3 a.m.; 9.57 p.m. Sun-.—Rises, 5.1 a.m.; sets, 7.16 p.m. Moon.—Full moon, 17th, 5.17 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

Ringarooma, s.s., 1096, G. Allman, from Sydney. Passengers : Misses Richardson (2), Escott, and Sullivan; Mr. and Mrs. Allan, infant, and nurse; Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Lillington, Mr. and Mrs. Booty; Mesdames Jordan, Mellor, and Thurburn; Rev. Mr. Robjohns; Messrs. Evans, Vivian, Mansford, Braik, Stewart, Lini, Adams, Spencer, Darton, Young, Dagger, Thomson, Richmond, Peter, Stewart, Pouder, Jamieson, Roberts, Roche, Tullock, and Franks, and 19 steerage. — Union S.S. Co. agents. Waihora, s.s., 2003, T. Popham, from R-ussell.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Sandflv, schooner, SO, Harries, from Karotonga.—Donald and Edenborough agents.

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Australia, s.s., 459, Kemp, for East Coast and Wellington. Passengers : Mr. and Mrs. Lambert, Mr. B. Sweet, and six steerage.— Union S.S. Co., agents. Rosamond, s.s., 462, Manning, for Greymouth.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Wellington, s.s., '279, Stephenson, for Whangarei.— Northern S.S. Co., agents.

DEPARTURES. Australia, s.s., for East Coast. Rosamund, s.s., for Greymouth. Wellington, s.s., for Whangarei. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON* : Tainui, R.M.s.s., due to-day. Arawa, R.M.s.s., February. Tougariro. R.M.s.s., sailed January 12 (via Wellington). Salamanca, ship, sailed November 5. Brahmin, ship, sailed November 20. Pleiades, ship, sailed November 28. Oamaru, ship, sailed November 29. Euterpe, ship, loading. NEW YOKlv : ,'->,. William Phillips, barque, sailed Oct. 14. Arnold Von Bippen, barque, to sail November 20. Simeon, barque, sailed November 1. NEWCASTLE .- Grecian Bend, barquentine, early. Ryno, brigantiue, sailed January 9. BRISBANE : Abiel Abbott, barque, early. Countess of Rothes, barque, sailed Jan. 5. Defiance, brigantiue, sailed January 9. SYDNEY : Dart, H.M.S.. sailed January 13. Nayezdnik, H.1.R.M.5., sailed Jan. 8. 3UROTONGA : Agnes Donald, schooner, early. JAVA : Nicoya, barque, early. Virginia, barque, early. Rollo, ship, early. DTJNXDIX : Gleaner, brigantine, early. GISBORXE : Gisborne, schooner, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Waitangi, ship, to load. Dunedin, ship, via South, to load. NEW YORK : Abiel Abbott, barque, to load. SYDNEY : -Jessie, barquentine, loading. Hamburg, barque, early. EAROTONGA : Torea, schooner, early. Daisy, schooner, early. SAMOA : schooner, early. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day.— Ringarooma leaves for Sydney at 4 p.m. Thursday.—Wauaka arrives at Onehunga at 8 a.m. Waihora leaves for South at noon. Friday.—Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 9.30 a.m.

NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Gairloch arrives from Taranaki. Thursday.— lona leaves for Great Barrier at S a.m., Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth =a.t 1 p.m. Wellington arrives from \\ hangaTef. Friday.Clansman arrives from Rus3ell early, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. ; lona leaves for Mercury Bay, and Wellington for Whangarei. Saturday.—lona arrives from Mercury Bay-Sun-day. — Clansman arrives from Tauranga. VESSELS IN HARBOUR, [This list does not include coasters.] JDunedin, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Waitangi, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Northern Chief, barque, at Sugar Works. -Hamburg, barque, at Sugar Works. d-essie, barquentine, at Hobson-street Wharf. Ika Vuka, brigantine, at Hobson-st, Wharl. •Mariner, schooner, in stream. Fleetwing. schooner, in stream. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Torea, schooner, at North Shore. Daisy, schooner, at Breastwork. Christine, schooner, at Timber Mills. Saxon, schooner, in stream. Vindex, schooner, at Railway Wharf. IMPORTS. Per s.s. Ringarooma: 130 tons sugar and sundries. Per schooner Sandfly, from Rarotonga: 40 casks limejuice, 70 tons copra.

Inwards Coastwise.Progress, scow, from the coast, with logs; Henry, cutter, from Waiheke, with firewood: Venus, cutter, with 09 tons coal, from Whangarei; Fawn, cutter, from Whangarei, with 50 tons fireclay : Jane, cutter, from Mahurangi, with 400 bushels lime and 400 bushels cement; Rose, cutter, from the Great Barrier, with firewood : Atalanca, schooner, from Hobsonville, with 18,000 bricks. About 3 p.m. yesterday the Union S.S. Co.'s Ringarooma reached port from Sydney, bringing mails and passengers and a small quantity of freight. She left the New South Wales port at 7.30 p.m. on the 10th inst.. and experienced fresh easterly winds till breasting the Three Kincs, at 4 p.m. on the 14th. She rounded the North Cape at 9.30 p.m. on the same date, and had fine weather down the coast. Tiritiri was passed at 1 p.m., and the steamer arrived alongside the Queen-street Wharf as above.

Yesterday forenoon a schooner inside Tiri was signalled from the North (Shore, and about half-past 1 o'clock the schooner Sandfly, Captain Harries, arrived in harbour. She comes from Raro tonga, which place she left on December 29. Light S.E. winds prevailed during the trip till the Little Barrier was made on Sunday last, and thence light airs and variables were experienced till arrival. The Sandfly brings in a full freight of limejuice and copra.

The barque Northern Chief moved up to the Sugar Works yesterday, to discharge her cargo of coal.

During to-day the Russian warship Nayezdnik may be expected to put in an appearance from Sydney, as she is now a week out. On December 27 the troopship Camel left Portsmouth with a relief crew for H.M.s. Dart, the British gunboat which is expected to arrive here this week.

When the Sandfly left B,arotonga the Agnes Donald was in port there loading, and almost ready to sail for Auckland. When the barque Hamburg has discharged about 1300 tons of her raw sugar at the Sugar Company's Wharf at Chelsea, she is to take in a quantity of produce at the Queenstreet Wharf for Sydney, whither the balance of her sugar is consigned. The s.s. Australia sailed about six o'clock yesterday evening for her usual round to the East Coast and Wellington, with a mixed reight and several passengers. Shortly after five p.m. the Rosamond left in ballast for Greymouth.

News to hand from Sydney states that the s.s. Mount Kemhla had succeeded in towing tlie three-masted schooner Buster into port from the place near Gabo where she was abandoned. On the 7th instant she was lying at anchor behind Garden Island, and will be discharged of her dynamite and other explosives. Then a complete survey will doubtless be made of her. As to the present condition of her hull, Captain J. Hall, marine surveyor, has a good word to say. Captain Hall is highly pleased with the little vessel, which, lie says, must have been very faithfully built to have withstood the knocking about she is reported to have had. Last night, shortly before ten o'clock, the Union S.S. Co.'s Waihora arrived from Russell after a smart run, having left the coaling station at noon. She brought one passenger. The Waihora is to proceed to Drunken Bay at an early hour this morning to have her compasses adjusted. . On her last trip" to Sydney the s.s. Ringarooma experienced some very heavy weather. While one of the crew was engaged securing an anchor on the forecastle a tremendous sea was shipped, knocking the man about and considerably injuring him. Medical assistance was procured for him on arrival at Sydney. . • The s.s. Wellington sailed last night at ten for Whangarei, with her freight and passenger list both well patronised. During "the forenoon to-day the splendid steamship Tainui, of the S.S. and A. Co.'s line, is expected to arrive from London direct.

EXTRAORDINARY ELECTRICAL * STORM.

The Guion Hue steamer Alaska, from New York, which arrived at Qneenstown last month, brought intelligence of the ship Edward, from Havre, with a cargo of iron ore, whose captain reported that the vessel encountered a terrible electric*! rt«h» in the Atlantic on the night of the 31 so November, when in lat. 41deg 42min north, long 54deg 42 min west, lasting for several hours. The vessel was continuously enveloped in lightning, which prostrated on deck eleven seamen,' and deprived them of sight for nearly half a day. The second officer and the boatswain were also dashed to the deck and received serious injury, and the " former was speechless for five hours." Three "balls of fire" exploded with a tremendous report over the main rigging, scattering flaming fragments over the ship, and driving the remaining members of the crew in terror into the forecastle. From 3 a.m. until 7 p.m. the captain and mate were the only persons on board capable of doing any work, and on them devolved the task of keeping the vessel before the easterly gale. The captain states that all on board the ship were trembling with fear daring the time that the storm lasted, which was the most terrible he ever witnessed, and he adds that no doubt the. iron ore with which the ship was laden acted as a magnet to attract the lightning.

A BRAZILIAN IRONCLAD.

The Brazilian ironclad Almirante Barroso, commanded by the Chief of Division, Custodio Jose de Mello, left Rio do Janiero last month on a two years' cruise round the world. The route proposed to be taken was via the Straits of Magellan to Australia, possibly calling at New Zealand, and on up to Japan. She would then coast along to India, and through the Canal and Mediterranean and so back to Brazil. One of the second lieutenants on board is the Emperor's grandson, viz., Don Augusto Leopold, son of the Princess Lcopoldine, who married Prince Augustus, of Saxe-Coburg. A feature of interest about the Almirante Barroso is that it was constructed entirely of _ Brazilian materials. She is a composite ship of 1930 tons displacement, and carries eight five-inch muzzle-loading guns. The indicated horsepower is set down at 2-200 horse, and gives, it is said, a speed of 12 knots.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

DEPARTURES.

Penguin, s.s., Bernech, for the South. Passengers : Messrs. Wylie, R. S. Martin, Jones, Mitchell, J. H. Owen, George Simpkin, W. Emerson, Rev. A. Roid, G. M. Reed, Berry, L. A. Levy.Union S.S. Co., agents. Glenelg, s.s.. Norbury, for Wanganui. Passengers : Miss Fowler, Messrs. alley, MeGonnell, Finlay. Mesdames Ward, Nettle, Wilson, Carson, Miss Sheddon. —A. Barnes, agent.

EXPORTS. Per s.s. Penguin : 4 sacks hops, 2 cases bees, 2 bales leather, 50 sacks potatoes, 11 sacks onions, 55 bundles twine, 5 cases tobacco, 4 cases boots, 10 cases syrup, 75 pipes, &4 bags sugar, 10 kegs butter, 15 cases tea, 10 boxes candles, and 116 packages sundries.

Per s.s. Glenelg : 59 bundles twine, 2 cases tin, 4 crates boxes, 1455 bags sugar, 4 casks beef, 3 sacks potatoes, 41 nests pipes, 40 sacks lime, 15 cases fruit, S packages sewingmachines, 34 cases drapery, 7 cases and 4 casks crockery, 2 cases chairs, and 174 packages.

The Union Company's s.s. Penguin, Capt. Bernech, for the South, took her departure yesterday with cargo and passengers as above.

The Northern Company's s.s. Glenelg, for Wanganui and Wellington, sailed at 5.30 yesterday evening, having on board a large freight and several passengers. The s.s. Herald, for Greymouth, did not leave yesterday evening, owing to there being a limited supply of railway trucks to take her cargo of coal. The balance will be discharged this morning, and she will leave according to advertisement in another column.

BY TELEGRAPH.

RUSSELL, January 15. — Arrivals : Cutters Tcrarawa and Champion : s.s. Waihora and Clansman. Sailed : Cutter Champion, s.s. Clansman and Waihora, for Auckland, and the whaleship California, for a cruise. Captain Brightman, of the California-reports having taken '260 barrels whale oil, Subarrels sperm oil, and '25001b whalebone. The whalers Alaska, Petrel, Niger, and Milton have all taken oil since leaving Russell. LYTTELTON. January 15. —Sailed: Mararoa, s.s., for Southern ports and Melbourne. Passengers : Misses Fosberry. Cunningham, Warrc, Mesdames Hazel, Tair, Ellingford, Roberts, Hutchinson and two children, Cunningham, Watson, Cool, Carrick, McCracken, Gibb, Haddon, Brown, Captain Sinclair, Messrs. Stewart, Tehaffe, Clinain, Brown, Gilliyer, Hyslop, Cunningham, Madden, Carrick, Bassel, Richardson, Penrill, McCracken, Cameron, Gibbs, Palmer, and Ling. Rotorua, s.s., for Wellington. Passengers : Misses Masey, Stewart, Cother, Stanley, Norberg, Mesdames Cother, Norberg, Watson and two children, Messrs. Norberg, Scott, McDonald, and Postlethwaite. Mahinapua, s.s., for Timaru and Dunedin ; IWareatea, s.s., for Westport; Glen Huntley, for United Kingdom ; Wakatu, for Wellington. __________________