SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9369, 20 May 1889, Page 4

SHIPPING.

iiGK Water at Auckland—ll.6 a.m.; 11.32 p.m. „ .. Manukau— a.m.; 3.12 p.m. <v."f —Rises, C.56 a.m.; sets, 4.57 p.m. Boon—Last quarter, 22nd, 9.33 p.m. ARRIVALS. Zealandia, R.M.s.s., :X)00, K. Van Otere dorp, from Sydnev. Passengers —For Auo land : Messrs. J. Mowlen, J. A. Hogue, 1 A. Frahm, T. M. Turley, H. Rogers, F. V Williams. For San Francisco : Mrs. E. Anderson, Miss M. Anderson. Mr. < Ashton and wife, Miss Alma, Messi F. T. Bridges, R. S. Benjamin, L. Be jamin, L. Brown and wife, H. Blacki lon, M. J. Brvden,- D. Urophy, Misses 1 Chester, Daisy Chester, Messrs. William Cc beck, C. H. ' Collins, A. C. Cameron ai wife, Rev. M. P. Carroll. Messrs. J. 1 Evans, A. Fould, Jos. Fishboum, A. . Eraser. Wra. Graham, Rev. Jos. Fitegeral Mrs. H. F. Garner. Miss K. Gurner, M Charles Gardner and wife, Messrs. J. B. Ga lord, R. Hart, Wm. Johnson, Fez Kcnric! Mesdames G. H. Hunt, T. J. Johnson, Re P. Kcarns. Messrs. G. B. Luke, P. Lea mouth and wife, Misses Learmouth, Isab Morris, Mr. C. O'Riciy, Mrs. J. Pritchari Mr. R. H. Russell, wife, child, and servan Messrs. G. Stuart. Robert Singleton, R. '1 Smith and wife, Mrs. George Samson, Mi Carl Simmct, Mr. Theobald. Mrs. M. Trevt ner, Messrs. Win. Woods, Max Wagnei Wm. Woolf, Wm. Wetter, H. Wain. Mis M. Yorke, and 73 steerage.—Union S.S. Co agenrs. Maitai, s.s.. "275, Dawson, from East Coas and Wellington. Passengers : 7 steerage. - Union S.S. Co., agents. Clansman, s.s.,' 338, Farquhar, from Tat; r&uga. Passengers : Mesdames Whelar Williams. Miss Hanson, Messrs. H. S. Mc Kellar, J. F. Maxwell, Blake, Kent, Neil Corbett.— Northern S.S. Co., agents. Torea, schooner, 78, J. B. Dickson, frot Rarotonga. Passengers: Mr. Lawrence am native.— and Edenborough, agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Pleiades, shin, 599, A. Morton, for Londor. Passenger : Mr. Corbett.—Cruickshank an< Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Pleiades, ship, for London. EX PECTeU ARRIVALS LONDON: Blair Drummond. ship, sailed March 21. Largo Bay, ship, sailed April 12. Lady Jocelyn, ship, loading. I'iako, ship, loading. SAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s.s., sailed May 5. NEW YORK : Elinor Vernon, bartpientine, sailed January 12. Alice, barque, via Duuediu, sailed March 12. Nettie, barque, to sail May 10. SYDNEY : Jubilee, s.s., early. Oamaru, brigantiue, sailed May 9. BRISBANE: Sovereign, schooner, sailed May IS. TAHITI : Nautilus, brigantine. early. JAVA : R-0110, ship, sailed about February 23. PORT CHALMEKS : Catlin, kerch, sailed May 4. LTTTKLTON : Gleaner, brigantine. early. _ Saucy Kate, schooner, loading, RABOTO>'GA : Daisy, schooner, to load. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Banffshire, barque, to load. SAN FRANCISCO: Zealandia, R.M.s.s., to-day. NEW YORK : Essex, barque, to load. _ Abiel Abbott, barquentine, to-day. SYDNEY : Alameda. KM.s.s., about May 25. Northern Chief, barque, loading. BRISBANE : Darcy Pratt, brigantine, early. SAMOA, ETC.: Richmond, s.s., about May 21. RAEOTONGA : Little Agnes, s.s., early. aitctaki : Araura, schooner, early. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day. — Rotorua arrives at Onehunga at noon ; Mararoa arrives from South ; Zealandia leaves for Honolulu at 2 p.m. Tuesday.—Rotorua leaves Onehunga at 1 p.m. ; Mr-area leaves for Sydney at 5 p.m. ; Maitai It.-- - for East Coast at 6 p.m. Wednesday.—Rotomahana arrives from Sydney. Thursday.— Mawhera arrives from Wellington; Ohau arrives from Newcastle; Wanaka arrives at Manukau at 7 a.m. ; Rotomahana leaves for South at noon. Friday.—Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 3 p.m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Glenelg leaves for Hokianga at 1 p.m. lona leaves for Mercury Bay and Tauranga at 5 p.m. ; Clansman leaves for Russell, Whangaroa, and Mangonui at 7 p.m. : Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Tuesday. — Douglas leaves for Tairua, Whangamata, Tauranga, Whakatane and Oootiki at 5 p.m. ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsdec Point and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Wednesday.— Glenelg arrives from Hokianga. Thursday.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m. : Wellington arrives from Whangarei ; lona arrives from Tauranga early, and leaves lor Great Barrier at 8 a.m.: Glenelg leaves for Opunake and Wanganui at 1 p.m. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell At 6 a.m.; lona arrives from Great Barrier early. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. [This list does not include coasters.] Dart, H.M.3., in Calliope Dock. Banffshire, barque, at Railway Wharf. Northern Chief, barque, Queen-st. Wharf. Essex, barque, at Hobson-street Wharf. Abiel Abbott, barquentine, at No. '2 Jetty. Darcy Pratt, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty. Eillan Donan, brigantiue, at Railway Wharf. Linda Weber, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty Grecian Bend, brigantine, at Sugar Works. Queen, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Sybil, schooner, at Breastwork. Sandfly, schooner, in stream. VLades, schooner, in stream. Araura, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Louie, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Torea, schooner, in stream. IMPORTS. Per s.e. Richmond, from Islands : 640 sacks and 16 casks pearl shell, 1200 bunches bananas, 2453 cases oranges, 4500 cocoanuts, 40 tins desiccated cocoanut, 5 cases shells, 1 case ' hats, 2 cases jelly, 10 packages sundries. Per s.s. Maitai : 182 bales flax (for San Francisco), 993 sacks potatoes (for Sydney and Newcastle), 20 sacks onions, 5 trusses drapery, 10£ barrels soap, 6 axle arms, 1 package leather, 6 eases stationery, 5 cases cocoa, J case starch, 1 rifle, 1 bedstead, 1 bundle laths, 1 spring mattress, 233 hides, 200 sheep, 53 kegs beef, 41 sacks bonedust, 14 sacks bones, 1 range, 3 empty hogsheads, 8 empty kilderkins, 7 packages sundries. Per schooner Torea, from Rarotonga: 90,0001b copra, 13 bales cotton, 130 casks limejuice, 4 cases sundries. EXPORTS. Per ship Pleiades, for London : 3159 cases gum, 173 tons manganese, 14 bales cotton, 51 cases honey, 135 cases and 20 casks pearlshell, 18 bales basils, 2 bales leather, 1 case wax, 50 cases meats, 10 tierces beef, 43 cases milk, 168 flitches timber, 334 bales wool, 1 bale hair, 7 bales sheepskins, 24 tons copra, 13 loads bark, 65 casks tallow oil, 31 barrels oleine, 126 bags zinc, 888 pigs dross, 183 sacks seeds, 42 bales hemp, GOO bales flax, 250 casks tallow, 100 bales tow. The fine ship Pleiades, having completed her loading for London, hauled out from the wharf on Saturday afternoon, and at daybreak yesterday took her departure from the harbour. She has under hatches a valuable freight of gum, flax, tallow, etc. Masters of vessels trading to Tauranga are warned that the buoy off Stony Point has drifted away from its usual position. It will be shortly replaced by the Government steamer Hiuemoa The barquentine Abiel Abbott has completed her loading of gum for New York and will probably clear at the Customs to-day and sail for the great American port. At the Sugar Works Wharf the brigantine Grecian Bend is discharging her Newcastle coal. Captain Borstel expects to be finished on Tuesday forenoon, when he will bring his vessel down the harbour to take in ballast for Mercury Bay, where she has been fixed to load for an Australian port with timber. Early yesterday morning the s.s. Clansman returned from her weekly trip to Tauranga with several passengers and a freight of 120 sacks chaff, 40 cases cheese, 10 cases onions, 14 sacks potatoes. The barque Essex, which was injured in the recent collision in Rangitoto Channel, will go into dock this morning to have the damages to her stem and jib-boom repaired. At the Railway Wharf on Saturday the s.s. Richmond was busily engaged in discharging her island cargo of fruit, etc. The Chilian brigantine Nautilus, which was here some months ago ; is expected to arrive shortly from the Tahitian Group with a load of oranges.

Last night at 9 o'clock the s.s. Ma.it; arrived from the East Coast and Wellingtoi with passengers and freight. Mr. Larsei the purser, reports —The Maitai left We lington at 5.20 p.m. on the 14th, and arrive at Napier at 445 p.m. on the loth ; saile again at 7.30 p.m. on the 16th, and droppe anchor in Poverty Bay at 6.50 a.m. on tli n , 17th ; she hove up her anchor and proeeede j.. on at 9.30 a m., called at Tokomaru, and a j rived at Waipiro at 4.10 p.m. ; she remaine V '' there till 5 a.m. on the ISth, and made Tupi p" roa at 6.30 a.m., embarked 200 sheep, an j" proceeded at 11 a.m., calling at Awanui an . 8 " Dreti Point, leaving the latter place at 10.3 n I p.m. the same day; she arrived as abov< s . Daring the passage the steamer experience strong S.W. winds and seas to Cape ColvilW T_ thence fine weather to arrival. Tlte Maitoi' ic j cargo includes a shipment of flax for Am« ) rica, and one of potatoes for Sydney. 3' Last night the wellknown island" schoone V Tores, Captain J. B. .Dickson, arrived fron r * the Hervey Group, with a freight of islam v [ produce and a couple of passengers. Tin : : skipper reports :—" We left Rarotonga at ..' p.m. on Saturday, April 27th, with a ligh J," south wind, which continued for three o ,j four days. The wind then went round t< j the south-east and east, blowing a fresl i* breeze until the 9th of May. We were thei -' in latitude 31*31 $~ longitude 176*47 E '.' After a few hours' calm we got the wine ,' from the south and S.S.W., a strong breeze '. which continued until Thursday, the 14th g This day the wind fell light, and went intt ' the north-east, but continued light, althougl '' the barometer was falling low, until 8 p.m. c (our position was then latitude 30*40 S., long" _ tude 175"30 W.), when the wind freshened and went round to N.M.W. We continued . running under the square sail until 10 p.m.. when the increasing wind and sea made it ,' necessary to take in the square sail and heave-to under close-reefed sails. The bare ' meter was then standing at 29"60. The wind j continued to increase, and at 12 p.m. the j barometer had fallen to 2945. At 2 a.m. on Wednesday the barometer indicated 29*30. the wind still increasing in violence from tht N.N.W,; at 4 a.m. the barometer reached the lowest point, 29"5 ; ats a.m. the barometet '• had risen to 29"J0, and the wind had sud i deuly shifted in a heavy squall to S.W.; at 6 a.m. the barometer stood at 29"25, the wind bi-'" r *ig very strong, and the sea running very hiji.. Owing to the sndden shift of wind from N.>».W. to S.W., the vessel shipped many heavy seas, which caused the loss of our deck cargo of oranges. At 7 a.m. the barometer stood at 29'40 : at S a.m. 29*49, the wind still blowing very strong ; at 10 a.m. the barometer indicated 29'50, at noon 2P*6O : at 3 p.m. the barometer being at 29*72, and the wind having much moderated, we were able to make more sail; the barometer continued risiug all night, and at 8 a.m. on Thursday, the lt'th, stood at 29*91, the wind being from the S.S. W.; at 11 a.m. on Friday we sighted the Great Barrier, and arrived in port about It) p.m. on the 19th. P..M.S. ZEALANDIA. Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, the mail steamer Zealandia, Captain Van Otorendorp, arrived from Sydney, on her way to San Francisco with the outgoing mails for America and Europe. She brings half-a-dozen passengers for tnis port, and about 120 booked from Australia to San Francisco. The Zealandia has no freight for Auckland, but has a good quantity of general merchandise from Sydney. Mr. Geo. HcLane, to whom we are indebted for Australian files, reports that the steamer sailed from Sydney at 4.10 p.m. on the loth, and had line weather, with strong northerly winds, 011 the passage across. The Zealandia will take in about 150 tons of flax for America, and is expected to sail at 2 p.m. to-day. FREIGHTS. Messrs. C. F. James and Co. report as follows for the month ending 21st May :— Our last went forward on the ISth ult., since which there has been no material change. Freights generally show no prospects of improvement for some little time to come. Coat..—Arrivals at this port have been limited to the Northern Chief, Louie, Eillan Donan, and Grecian Bend, the three .latter into our care, while the Kiliarney arrived at the Thames with similar cargo. Freights remain firm at Bs, on which rale wc do not anticipate any advance at present. Our market being well supplied, the number of fixtures during the current month will be limited. Timber Freights.— is no improvement in rates since our last, and while there has been no further decline, the amount of business done has been exceptionally small, attributable to the fact of all the Australian markets being well supplied. A shipment of kauri has been made, per Blenda, to test the home market. We quote rates as follows:— East Coast to Melbourne, 3s to 3s 6d ; Sydney. 2a 6d ; Lyttelton and Dunedin, 2s 9d to 3s —all for sawn. From West Coast to Melbourne, 4s 3d to 4? fid for baulk, and 3s fid for sawn ; Sydney baulk, 4s : sawn. 3s ; Dunedin, 4s 3d to 4s 6d, sawn 3s 6d. We report the following fixtures : —Kaipara to Melbourne, Haudalsle, Linda Weber, Wietzmann, Omeo, and Howard ; Hokianga to Melbourne, Splendid ; Kaipara to Dunedin, Frank Guy : to Adelaide, Vision : to Sydney, Rose M. and Cabsrfeidh. From East Coast to Sydney, Rebecca and Grecian Bend; to Dunedin, Jessie Niccol. Nkw York. —Tonnage requirements are met by the Abiel Abbott now loading, to be followed by the Essex. Islands.Arrivals have _ been the s.s. Richmond and Mawhera, with Darcy Pratt, Sandfly and Orpheus, all bringing fruit and island produce. The Arnold von Bippen has been chartered locally to load copra from the islands for Europe. Produce.—The Three Cheers sailed early in the month for .Sydney with produce, for •which port we are loading the barque Northern Chief, now nearly a full ship. Since our last the Ellis line of steamers have taken up .the Sydney-New Zealand trade, which being run at a low rate, will absorb what freight would otherwise have gone by sailing vessels. The Darcy Pratt is on the berth for Brisbane. Arrivals from South are confined to the Agnes Donald, Jessie Niccol, and Linda Weber, with the Gleaner coining forward. We quote rates at Ss from South and 10s for Sydney. Kauri.—Market continues quiet, and rates remain as quoted in our last. We do not look for any material improvement until the spring. Sales.—We report the sale of the Mariner to a Sydney buyer. Messrs. King. Walker and Co. report that the Magellan Cloud finished her loading at 'Thames, and sailed on the 15th May with sawn timber for Melbourne The Handa Isle they are loading at Helensville with sawn timber for Adelaide. The Wenona is due, and will load baulk for Melbourne. Mr. Trapp, a large kauri buyer, has visited New Zealand, and arranged through them some large contracts for various; markets. Sailing freights are about the same as last month, say, 3s 6d sawn and 4s 6d baulk for Melbourne from Kaipara. with Od more for Adelaide and fid less for Svdney.