SHIPPING

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9285, 12 February 1889, Page 4

SHIPPING

■HIGH WATER, at Auckland—3.sl p.m.; 4.15 p.m. t> M.-vuukau—7.3l a.m.; 7.55 p.m. 'SUN —Ri"e3, 5.28 a.m.; sets, 6.58 p.m. tMooN.— 10th, 9.67 a.m. • ARRIVALS. Salamanca, barque, 1202, R. Bryce, from '"London.— Zealand Shipping Company, agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, Stephenson, from ' Wlmngarei. Passengers : Messrs. Whitelaw, Gunson, Ormondy, Butterworth, George, Smith, Worskey, Laing, Peters, Thomas, •Clarke, Culpan, Jackson, Donaldson, Turner, MeKenzie, Mason, Spreckley, McLeod, Bell, Woodroffe, Heape and son, Jones, Brown, Hall, Drake, Woulds, McMuster, Hayward, llewitson, Mr. and Mrs. George, Rev. Mr. Hutson, Rev. Mr. Thomas. Masters Clarke, Henrickson, Mesdamea Woulds, Cain and family, Misses McDonald, Thomas, Forrest, Burrough, Jones, Sutherland (2), Garrett, Mrs. Hutson and 2 children.— Northern fcs.S. Co., agents. Mararoa, s.s., 2465, Edie, from Melbourne and the South. Passengers :—For Auckland : Mesdames Lindsay, Cumberlidge, I ox, Brown, Preeue, Watkis, Bridgeman, infant and nurse, Warren and maid. Beamish (2), Moore and family (2.1, Misses Naylor, Wood, Stewart, Wntkis, Beamish CD, Bradley, Kempthorne, Bees (2), Revs. G. Baird, Sidey, Taylor, McLennan, Irwin, Beattie, West, Monro, Barclay, Messrs. Twinem, De Faxe, Plan, Barclay, Gibson, Hemplull, i'inlay, Hood, Thorpe, Kaysier, Payne, Smythe, Bean, Kingsland, Roger, Adam, Gliomas, Nicholson, Brown, Preene, Gavin, Martin, Me Bean, Dickey, Ambury, I'earse, Caldwell, Beamish (-2)', Radford, Hannah, Prase'-, Wilson, finikin, Crombie, Good, iSweet, Bradley. Leyinsohn, Neil, Ferguson, Hallenstein, and 27 in steerage. For Sydney : Mr. and Mrs. De Saxe, Mr. and Mrs. tlorne, Messrs. Bishop, Wallace, Beeson, Turner, Murray, Fielder, Howlett, Cloyd, and four steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUT WARDS. Clansman, 5.5.,33G, Farquhar, for Russell and Northern ports.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. , lona, s.s., 159, Amodeo, for Taurauga and Mercury Bay.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Clansman, s.s., for Russell. lona, s.s., for Tauranga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : Arawa, R.M.s.s., about March 10. Tongariro, R.M.s.s., sailed January 12 (via Wellington). Pleiades, ship, sailed November 2S. Oiimiffu, ship, sailed November 29. Alastor, barque, loading. Largo Bay, ship, put back for repairs. STEW YORK : Arnold Von Bippen, barque, sailed November 30. Simeon, barque, sailed November 1. Elinor Vernon, barqucntine, to sail January 12.

SYDNEY : ] vonport, barquentine, sailed Jan. 30. Zealaudia, K.M.s.s., about February 24. - NEWCASTLE : Grecian Bend, bartiiientine, sailed January 23. Stanley, brigantine, loading. Oamaru, brigantine, loading. BRISBANE : Defiance, brigantine, sailed January 9. SOUTH : Orlando, H.M.s., early. Opal, H.M.s., early. Rapid, H.M.s., early. Lizard, H.M.s., early. JAVA : Nicoya, barque, early. Virginia, barque, early. Hollo, ship, early. ISLANDS : Kichmond, s.s., about February 17. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. XOJfDOX: Kingdom of Sweden, barque, to load. HEW YORK : William Phillips, barquentine, to load. SAX FRANCISCO : Zealandia, R.M.s.s., about February 25. LYTTKJLTON : Saxon, schooner, early. OJN'GA, TAHITI, ETC.: Richmond, s.s., about February 22. KLA>"DS ; Ryuo, brigantine, early, aji : Fleetwing, schooner, to-day. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day. — Rotomahana arrives from .Sydney; Rotorua leaves Manukau for South, 5 p.m. ; Mararoa leaves for Sydney and Russell, 5 p.m.; Australia leaves for East Coast, 6 p.m. Thuksday.—Wanaka arrives Manukau, 8 sum. ; Rotomahana leaves for Melbourne and South, noon. Friday.—Wanaka leaves Manukau, 6 p.m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Glenelg arrives from Hokianga; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Parua Bay, at S p.m. Wednesday.—Gairloch arrives from Waitara; Glenelg leaves for Opunake and Wanganui at 1 p.m. Thursday.— Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei; lona arrives from Taurunga early, and leaves for Great Barrier at 8 a.m. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; lona arrives from Great Barrier early, and leaves for Mercury Bay at 7 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Parua Bay, at 10.31) p.m. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. [This list does not include coasters.] Dart, H.M.s., in Calliope Dock. Salamanca, ship, in stream. Kingdom of Sweden, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Alaska, whaleship, in stream. William Phillips, barquentine, at Railway Wharf. •Anthons, brigantine, at Hobson-street Wharf. Gleaner, brigantine, at Queen-street Wharf. Kyno, brigantine, at Hobson-street Wharf. Olive, schooner, in stream. {Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Vindex, schooner, in stream. Agnes Donald, schooner, at Railway Wharf. IMPORTS. Per barque Salamanca, from London — Plain cottons, £3500; coloured cottons, £2100; printed cottons, £1800; woollens, £5000; flannels, £800; linens, £400 cottons and woollens, £400; shawls, £300; millinery, £100; stays, £200; hosiery, £1100; haberdashery, £3800; umbrellas, £400 handkerchiefs, £100; sheets, £600; apparel, ±13000; blankets, £1100; carpets, £500 ; table covers, £100; straw hats, £100; felt hats, £300; leather, £60; boots, £50; saddlery, £140; felt sheathing, £10; floorcloth, £210; table baize, £110; sewing machines, £100: •matches, £910; blacking, £70; agricultural implements, £290; rails and machinery, £1100; paper, 1460 cwt; stationery, i.2020; Tjaperhangings, £200; upholstery, £60; iron Bedsteads, £100; tinware, £40; brushware, £80; plated goods, £20; toys, £210; pianos, £30; corks, £50; perfumery, £10 ; jewellery, £30; tobacco pipes, £30; fuse, £40; lead shot, 16 tons; hardware, £1700; _ bar iron, 29 tons; hoop iron 1 ton ; sheet iron, 4 tons ; plate iron, 3 tons ; pig iron, 20 tons ; galvanised iron, 111 tons ; sheet lead, 5 tons ; tin plate, 154 boxes; nails, 22 tons ; wire and wire rope, 49 tons ; linseed oil, 450' gallons ; mineral oil, 3750 gallons ; whiting, 25 tons ; ; "jiiunts, £400; pitch, 26 barrels ; tliiit glass, : £80; foreign window glass, 137 cases ; earthenware, £800; Hour bags, £20; canvas, £660 ; cordage, £160 ; twines, £160; cement, 250 barrels; snuff, 801bs; brandy (case) 870 gallons ; rum, 2030 gallons; geneva, 500 gallons ; cordials, 20 gallons; British spirits (bulk), 320 gallons ; British spirits (case), 850 gallons; wine, 800 gallons; bottled beer, 81 barrels; preserved fish, £80; oilmen's stores, £440 ; vinegar, 1020 gallons; salad oil, 410 gallons; cocoa, 17c wt; gelatine, £40; mustard, r2O; starch, £190; blue, £50; split peas, 65cwt; vermicelli, 7cwt.; salt, 110 tons; bi-carbonate soda, 200cwt: caustic soda-, 8 tons ; candles, 122cwt; soap, 2cwt; raisins, 69cwt; almonds, scwt; liquorice, 2cwt: sugar, loewt; treacle, 50cwt; coffee, (jewt; confectionery, 30cwt; apothecary ware, £'600; tartaric acid, Bcwt; cream tartar, 15cwt; condensed milk, £180; cornflour, £70 : total value of cargo, £46,300. Per s.s. Mararoa —3 cases cigars, 40 boxes, 170 half chests, and 107 eases tea; 10 bales ,kapok, 1 quarter cask whisky, 400 sacks merchandise, 1140 bags rice, 435 sacks oats, S6 sacks wheat, 100 sacks grass seed, 255 sacks malt, 5 bales flax, 149 sacks cocksfoot, 136 boxes soap, 45 hogsheads ale, 5 packages machinery, 3 bundles shafts, 35 cases jams, 35 .cases tobacco, 20 casks vinegar, 25 cases pickles, 29 sacks flour and sundries.

'■ Inwards Coastwise. — Totara, barge, S£rom Waipu, with sheep; Eleanor, cutter, Sfrom Tauranga, with furniture; Morning ■"Light, cutter, from Cabbage Bay, with firewood and potatoes; Teviot, cutter, from Mangawai, with 76 bags gum, fruit, hides, etc.; Janet, cutter, from Malnirangi, with lime; Elizabeth, cutter, Waipu and Dun- ■ K»rvon, barges, fromVVhananaki, with timber; Progress, barge, Gipsy, Nellie, and Fannie, cutters, from Whaugapoua, with timber; Waterlily, cutter, from Great Barrier, with iirewood; Elsie, ketch, from Whangarei, via ''Xrhames, with coal; Wanderer, cutter, from

Coromandel, with ballast; Agnes Martin, ketch, and Norval, schooner, from Russell, with coal; Fawn and Leo, cutters, Saucy Kate and Saxon, schooners, fromWhangarei, with coal: Lizette, ketch, from Thames, with dynamite; Tay and Leah, cutters, and Frithjof, ketch, from Waiheke, with firewood ; Hauturu, scow, from Omaha, with timber; Moehau, scow, from Waiheke, with manganese; Kotuku, 5.3., from Upper Thames, Captain Fisher, of the whaleship Alaska, lost no time in making arrangements with the Harbour Board concerning the docking of his barque, and she is to go into the Calliope Dock at eight this morning. She will be towed across by the tug Awhina. From the Thames we are advised that the barque Killarney arrived there yesterday and proceeded up the Thames River to the Kauri Company's mill, where she will load about 300,000 feet of timber for Melbourne. Intending passengers to Whangarei will do well to note that the s.s. Wellington will leave this evening for that port at eight o'clock instead of half-past ten as recently.^ About half-past ten yesterday the Union S.S. Co.'s Mararoa reached port from Melbourne via Hobart and the South. As usual with this favourite vessel she brought a large number of passengers, over 120 beingon board. She had also a considerable quantity of general freight. The purser, to whom we are indebted for Southern tiles, reports of the trip that the Mararoa left Melbourne on the 29th ultimo, arriving at Hobart on the 31st. Sailing. on'the same date at noon, she reached Milford Sound on the 3rd instant, where the passengers thoroughly enjoyed the grand seenerv. She reached the Bluff on the 4th, and -after \calling at the usual East Coast ports, took her departure from Gisborne for Auekland on the 10th at 10.30 a.m. She rounded the East Cape at.4 p.m., and passed Tiri, Tiri t at 9.30 a.m. yesterday, and reached thevrnarf as above, having had moderate variable winds and line weather throughout the passage. At the Railway Wharf yesterday the Goverttjaicnt steamer Stella, which returned at midnight on Saturday from Cuvier Island, was making preparations for her periodical trip to the beacon stations and lighthouses round the Northern coast. H.M.'s Raven, now in port from Wellington, is to await here the arrival of the remainder of the squadron under Admiral Fairfax. The Raven is well known in the port, having spent a week here in January last year. She has the same officers and crew as were here when she visited Auckland last, save that Lieutenant John F. E. Green has succeeded Lieutenant Hawke in the vessel. Since she was here last the Raven has been cruising among the New Hebrides and adjacent groups, but during the past three months "she has been quartered at Sydney, Hobart, and Wellington. A splendid chance for shipowners to secure a serviceable and fast vessel for the intercolonial trade is now offered by the putting up for sale of the well-known Tasmanian clipper barque Loongana, which is announced elsewhere for the 21st instant. The Loongana has made a great reputation for herself as a grand sea boat and a speedy sailer, and there will doubtless be keen bidding for her. About eleven o'clock last night the s.s. Wellington arrived from Whangarei with a well-filled passenger list and a freight of gum and fruit.

THE BARQUE SALAMANCA.

Yesterday evening, shortly after five o'clock, a '" barque outside Tin" was signalled, and some conjecture arose as to what vessel the approaching stranger might be. which was not solved until about an hour later, when the numbers of the Salamanca were run up, as the fact ot her having been recently converted from ship to barquerigged was not known here. The Salamanca was picked up by the tug about 6 o'clock, and about 11 p.m. cast anchor in the stream off the Queen-street wharf. _ She is a fine iron vessel of 1202 tons register, and is one of Mr. John Hardie's, of Glasgow, fleet. She has during the past decade been regularly trading to Lyttelton and Sydney under command of Captain Robert Bryce, her present master, who brings her into port on this her first visit to Auckland in firstclass condition both as regards her hull and gear. The Salamanca has on board a valuable freighting of general merchandise listed as worth £40,300, and comes to the port under charter to the New Zealand Snipping Company. The present voyage, which is rather a slow trip tor her, has occupied 93 days. Of the passage out, Captain Bryce reports : —The Salamanca was towed out of the East India Docks on November 5, but it was not till the 10th that she left the Downs. Moderate weather prevailed down the Channel, and W. and S.W. winds were then experienced till 40" N.,wheii the wind veered to the east and blew fresh, continuing in that direction till the barque was in 23" IN., when the N.E. trades were met with. These J proved moderately strong, and took the I vessel to rJSL, where the S.E. trades were I picked up. Under their influence the Salamanca made good headway, and crossed the line on Pecember 6th in 30" W., 20 days out. The trades continued fresh, and were accompanied with fine weather, but gave out in 40" 6., in which latitude the meridian of Greenwich was crossed. The easting was run down on a mean parallel of 45', fine weather, with winds ranging from the N.W. to the S.W., being experienced. The southmost point of Tasmania was rounded on January 24, and for two days after a N.W. gale accompanied by heavy squalls, was encountered. From January 26th to the 2nd inst. moderate breezes and line weather prevailed, but the succeeding three days brought a strong S.E. gale, after which a fiat calm prevailed till the 10th inst. The Three Kings had been rounded on the 3rd inst., and with light airs and calms the barque made her way down the coast. On Sunday evening wet and dirty weather was experienced, and at eight o'clock yesterday morning the Salamanca passed Mokohinau light. Tiritiri was sighted about noon, and the vessel brought into harbour by the s.s. Awhina as described above. The Salamanca will probably be berthed at the Queen-street wharf this morning.

SWEAT DAMAGE IN SHIP?>

The old and at times warmly-debated question of sweat damage in ship's holds has been recently attracting considerable attention at home. The circumstances which have caused the revival of discussion upon the subject are that one of the dock companies is stated to have certified that a certain cargo ot rice which was alleged to be " sea-damaged" proved on evidence to be merely " mouldy and sweated.'"' As it had been the practice, however, to class mildew, or mould, and sweating which occurred on ships as ' seadamage, the underwriters considered that by so doing a substantial wrong was inflicted upon them, for though sweating was frequently caused by the presence of sea-water in the hold, it just as often resulted from other causes, such as damp condition of cargo at the time of stowage, or insufficient ventilation. The dock companies, however, refused to accept this limited definition of sea-damage put forward by the underwriters, and, as the Londo i Gazette remarked upon the subject, "it required no special gift of prophecy to foretell that so long as rice continues to be insured for ' all risks,' importers are not likely to cry aloud for any change." But this sweating is not confined to rice, grain, or seeds, and an indication of this fact is evidenced by the stir recently made by underwriters in the Australasian trade regarding the loss sustained upon shipments of copra by sweating. This damage it has been pointed out is likely to be progressive rather than ro diminish, as wooden vessels give place to iron and steel craft; for, owing to the conducting qualities of iron it must follow that to "a considerable degree the heat of the external atmosphere is communicated to the hold "through the plating, with the result that if , the" cargo be of a kind to sweat the hold becomes tilled with aqueous vapour, which, on condensing against the roof and sides, drops upon the cargo stowed beneath. While the ship remains on an even keel the damage clone mostly to the top layers, but while heeling over the moisture collects on the leeside and runs to the bottom, where its ill'eifects are frequently mistaken for those caused by sea water. The only remedy for tbisjsjy.eating and condensation is a better and extended system of ventilation, or the making of adequate provision for the drainage of the condensed water, which is a question worthy the serious consideration of the owners aud builders of steel and iron vessels.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

DEPARTURES. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, for Waitara. Passengers : —Mr. and Mrs. Everett, Messrs. Bobbett, G. Hope, Woodroffe, J. Gallagher, Hatton, Adams, Andrews, and 7 steerage.— A. Barnes, agent. EXPORTS. Per s.s. Gairloch : 500 feet timber, 2 bales leather, 2 bundles ridging, 4 cases iron, 13 bars and 7 bundles iron, 2 chests tea, 1 engine, 6 cases fruit, 3 horses, 168 puriri sleepers, 3 perambulators, and 96 packages.

The Northern Co.'s s.s. Gairloch, for Waitara, took her departure at 1 o'clock yesterday, with cargo and passengers.

BY TELEGRAPH.

KAIPARA. February 11.—The four-masted schooner P. J. Wietzman arrived from Sydney this day. HOKIANGA. February 11. — The s.s. Glenelg arrived yesterday morning from Manukau ; the schooner Queen, from Auckland, this morn-

in" ; and the barquentine W. C. Wentwortli, from Melbourne, this afternoon. The last has gone up the river to load. The Glenelg sailed this afternoon for the Manukau.

LYTTELTON. February }\. —Arrived : Paula, barquentine from Dunedin. Sailed : Wanaka, Grafton 'and Wakatu, for Wellington ; Mahinapua for Timaru and Dunedin. TORT CHALMERS. February 11.—Sailed: Barque Mathilde Hennings, for Lyttelton. S.s. Wakatipu, for Sydney, «*«• the North. Passengers : Misses Smitln Finlay, Mr. Turnbull. For Sydney : Mrs. Robertson, and 6 steerage. S.s. Takapuna, for the North. Passengers:—For Lyttelton: Mr. and Mrs. Martin, Mr. Stokes. For Wellington : Lady Fox Young, Miss Fox Young, Mrs. Leckie, Mr. Davidson. For Nelson : Rev. and Mrs. Watson, and 3 steerage. A barque passed north at 10.30 a.m. It is believed to be the Clifton, for Oamaru.

THE DIRECT STEAMERS.

Dunedin, Monday. — For the next six months the steamers of Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.'s line will make Port Chalmers and Lyttelton the first ports of arrival, commencing with the Arawa, for Port Chalmers. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s steamers will take the Northern ports for arrival during the same period.

THE SQUADRON.

Lyttelton, Monday. — H.M.s. Orlando arrived at Akaroa to-day. H.M.s. Rapid joins her there at the end of the week. DoVedis, Monday.—H.M.s. Opal leaves for the Sounds to-morrow.