SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9445, 16 August 1889, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland—lo.34 a.m.; 10.58 p.ra, „ „ Mannkan—2.l4 p.m.; 2.3S a.m. Su.s.—Rises, 6.44 a.m.; sete, 6.25 p.m. 3loON—Last quarter, 18th, 10.82 p.m. ARRIVALS. Wellington, 5.3., 279, Stephenson, from Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Jubilee, s.s., 1010, A. Brothers, from Sydney. Passengers: Mesdames Jessing and Purcell; Messrs. Lowe, Churton, and Lilley, and 10 steerage. For South : 15 cabin ami 13 steerage. —Cγ. James and Co., agents. Hauroto, s.s., KISS, A. Kennedy, from Syd lacy. Passengers : Mcsdamcs jS'eilspn, Smith and Jessop, Miss Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Birley, Mr. and Mrs. George, Messrs. Thomas Boulton, Campbell, A. D. Campbell, Cameron, Patterson, J. B. Farqnharson, J. Bon, J. Holder, F. W.LLambertt t and Pendlebury, Detective Herbert and prisoner (F. C. Dean), and 39 steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. lona, S.R., 159. Amodeo, from Tauranga and Mercury Bay.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Gisborue, schooner, 68, Skinner, from Gisborno and East Coast. —H. B. Morton, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Waihora, s.s., 2003. M. Carey, for Melbourne and the South. Passengers:—For Gisborne : Miss H. J ones, Mrs. J. H. Bush, Mr. E. Pavitt. For Napier : Messrs. Simpkin, Norton, Fairs, Mitchell. For Wellington : Mosdamca O'Dolierty and family, Bouri, Messrs. O'Dohcrt.y. Moimtford, Moult, O'Doherty pi), C. "T. Ilewson, Balkin, H. W. Bat«, L. Baguall, Thorpe and son, J. H. Witheford, Rev. A. Wright, Constable Donovan and prisoner. For Lyttelton : Miss Gray. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Mr. J. C. Fi?ta, Miss Tout kin. For bunedin : Messrs. Fitzsinious, S. C. Hooper. For Melbourne : Dr. Wadtlingtou and 13 in steerage. —Union S.S. Co., agents. ioua, 8.8., lo'J. Amodeo, for Great Barrier. ■—Northern S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Waihora, s.s., for South. lona, s.s., for Great Barrier. EXPECTED ARRIVALS tONIKiX : Piako, ship, sailed May 24. Soukar, ship, sailed June 16. Raugitikei, ship, sailed July 7. Auckland, ship, to sail June Lurline, barque, loading. HEW YORK: Nettie, barque, sailed May 25. Clan McLeod, barque, to sail June 29. SAX FRAN CISCO : Alamedd, R.M.s.s., on August 17. FOOCHOW : Whampoa, 5.3-, sailed July 20. NJEWCIASTUS : Grecian Bend, brigantine. to sail. Silver Cloud, origantine. loading. Aratapu, brig;iutine, to load. E£ISBAXK : Magellan, Cloud, schooner, sailed July 24. Jessie Niccol, schooner, early. Darcy Pratt, schooner, early. Richmond, s.s,, about August 17. BABOTO>'OA : Daisy, schooner, to load. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Largo Bay, ship, to load. NEW YORK : Alice, barque, to load. srcwcsY: Alamcda, R.M.S.S., about August 17. BAMO.A AND TAHITI : Richmond, s.s., August 23. NOSJOLK ISLAND : Fleetwing, schooner, to sail early, KELSON : WaiwtrA. schooner, to load.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Arawata arrives from Oamaru : Hauroto leaves for South at "2 p.m. Saturday.— arrives from Honolulu and leaves for Sydney; Wauaka leaves Onehunga. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Clansman arrives from Russell at ii a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. ; lona arrives from Great Barrier early, and leaves for Mercury i'ay at 7 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Parna Bay at lO.iSOp.nx VESSELS IN HARBOUR. !Tlii-s list-does not inc!cci« coasters. I Lady Joeelyß, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Largo Bay, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Alice, barque, in stream. Cabarfeidh, barque, at Hobson-strecc Wharf. Sharpshooter, barque, at Sugar Works. Splendid, barque, at Railway Wharf. Feerless, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty. Clansman, brigantine, at Railway Wharf. "VVaiapu, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Gisbome, schooner, at No. '2 Jetty. "Waiwera, schooner, in stream.

IMPORTS. Per s.s. Hauroto. from Sydney: 2 qr-casks wine. 2 cases oil, 1 cis* effects, 15 cases cards, 1 case rubber, 1 case bats, 5 case.? cigars, 1 case shoes, 366 sacks benedust, 1 case Hies, 3 casks and S pieces chain, 1 case stationery, 1 case gold lacquer, 25 caaes ca3tor oil, 98 cases oranges. 560 sacks bones. 1 ease books, 1 case pia.no, 22 packages sewing machines, 2(XJ baga salt, 1 sack skins, 2 cases plants. Per Hauroto : 2Uo" sacks Bell's fine bonedust. —W. J. Hurst and Co. Per B.s. Hauroto ;—IOO bags pure bonedust, Arthur Yatcs and Co. EXPORTS. Per s.s. Waihora : 352 cases gum, 2.3 tierces beef, 25 cases meats, 20 sacks lime, 32 casks treacle. 35 cases syrup, ITS bags sugar, 38 bars and lo bundles iron, 14 spars, 4 cases fruit salt, 10 ca.»es marmalade, 20 cases salad oil, 61 sacks oysters, 12 bales 'leather, 10 cases matches, 17 3acks and 9$ hides, 10 coils rope, 138 pieces timber, 28 cases fruit. 86 lengths pipe, 4 bales brooms, 13 sacks sulphur, 2 cases plants, and sundries. At noon yesterday the s.s. Waihora took llier departure for Melbourne and Southern ports, with a good number of passengers and a mixed freight. The s.s. iona. returned from her regular Itrip to Tauranga early yesterday morning, land as 3oon as her passengers and freight were landed sailed for the Great Barrier. When off the Three Kings inward bound from Sydney on the 14th instant, the s.s. Hauroto sjjoke the ship Hermione, formerly so well known in this port, outward bound :from Newcastle to Astoria, Oregon. Yesterday afternoon the well-known tradiing schooner Gisborne arrived from the East Coast, and beat up the harbour, berthing at ithe No. 2 jetty about 4 o'clock. Captain Skinner reports that the schooner moved out of the Gisborne river on July 26. but did not leave the roadstead owing to adverse winds uintil August 2. She had easterly winds up the East Coast, and called off Tologa Bay, Tokomaru, and Waipiro, but was unable to work the latter port because of the high seas running, and for the same reason she passed Hicks' Bay. Ka\yakawa and Te Kaha were visited, and the Gisborne left the latter port on Monday evening, with easterly breezes, but across the Bay of PJenty strong westerly winds were encountered, and some severe squalls were experienced. The Gisborne brings a cargo of 344 saoks maize, 24 sacks potatoes, 40 sacks seed, 6 sacks fungus, 2.3 packages hides, 26 pigs, 34 fowls, and sundries.

About 8 o'clock yesterday morning the Union S.S. Co.'s s.s. Hauroto reached port from Sydney with a good number of passengers and general cargo. She left the company's wharf, .Sydney, at 2.50 p.m. on the 10th instant, clearing the heads at 3.30 p.m. On the evening of the 11th the s.s. Tβ Anau, bound to New South Wales, was spoken, and at G p.m. on the following day the s.s. Ringaroorna was also passed. The Three Kings were abeam at noon on the 14th, Tiritiri was abeam at 6.80 a.m. yesterday, and the steamer moored at the Queen - street Wharf as above. Throughout the trip moderate westerly winds and fine weather prevailed. The tug Awhind hauled the brigantine Peerless alongside the IS'o. 2 Jetty yesterday to discharge her Newcastle coals there. In our shipping telegrams will be found the news that, the three-masted schooner Waircka, which had grounded in the Hokianga river, near Rawene, hns got off without damage. Captain Brothers, well known-in this port from his connection and disputes with the defunct North Shore Ferry Co., has been appointed- to the command of the Ellis steamer Jubilee in place of the late Captain Hansby. . By London advices of June 28th, to hand &rl e u a-*- Hauroto from Sydney, we learn that the following passengers had booked for Auckland :-Per k.M.s. Quetta, to sail July 23rd, Messrs Monekton and H. Lascellesper R.M.B. Orient, to sail July sth, Mr D' Somerville. At the Railway Wharf, the barque Splendid was putting out her coal yesterday. Yesterday evening the s.s. Wellington arrived from VVhangarei with a number of passengers and general cargo. • Shortly after 10 o'clock lust night the Ellis I Steamer Jubilee (Captain A. Brothers), which made , her last voyage under her old name of Dupleix, arrived from Sydney with a good .number of passengers for Auckland and Southern ports and general cargo. Mr. F. G. Armstrong, the purser, reports that the steamer left Sydney on the 10th instant, at 2.20 p.m., clear Port Jackson Heads at 3.15 p.m. She had strong westerly and south-westerly winds, with frequent squalls, overcast sky. and moderate aea. The Throe

Kings were sighted at 10.30 p.m. on the 14th, and Cape Bretfc passed at 10 o'clock on the morning of the loth. Moderate westerly weather prevailed down tho coast, till arrival as above.

SHIPBUILDING AT HOME.

Referring to tho shipbuilding industry in Great Britain, a lato speech of the chairman of direotors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company is noticeable. He said that tho progress was at the present moment a good deal more rapid than those who had an interest in existing ships would desire to see. He found by returns made out everv quarter at Lloyd's that, whereas on Marcli 31 last year there were under construction in this country only 594,000 tons of shipping of all J sorts, at the same date this year there were under construction 920,000 tons. Tho general prosperity of the country, coupled with the fact of the existence of cheap money, to a very large extent enabled additional tonnage to be constructed with extraordinary facility. During the last twenty years their company, and all similar concerns existing during that time, had had to meet a series of revolutionary events of the most extraordinary kind—tho opening of tho Suez Canal, the introduction ot the compound engine, a further development of the triple expansion engine, and the employment of steel instead of iron in shipbuilding. Combined with those improvements they had lftid great economy in connection with them through tho fact of their being able to work at the present time steam at a pressure of 1601b to the square inch with greater safety than they could work boilers with 301b pressure 20 years ago. He certainly would not set any limit to the ingenuity of engineers and shipbuilders, but it did not seem to him at all probable that the inventiveness of the last twenty years was likely to be repeated iu the next twenty years.' Therefore, the prospects of the shipping; trade, especially of existing organisations like their own. wero not likely to be so powerfully ail'ected by inventiveness as they had been in the last few years. The P. and 0. Company pay the Suez Canal Company ±'200,000 per annum, or l-12tli of the latter's entire income.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS. Wanaka, s.s., Meads, from Wellington. Passengers: Messrs. F. N. Biss, Vernon, Anderson, Glover, and eight steerage.— Union S.S. Co., ageuts. Handa Isle, barquentine, Robertson, from Adelaide,—Master, agent. DEPARTURES. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, for Waitara. Passengers : Mr. and Mrs. Jones, two servants, "and two children ; Messrs. French, Cook, F. J. Jones, Wilson. Goodwin, and three steerage. —A. Barnes, a^ent. The Northern Co.'s s.s. Gairloch, for Waitara, sailed at 1 o'clock yesterday with cargo and passengers. The barquentine Handa Isle, Captain Robertson, from Adelaide, laden with ore, came into harbour yesterday afternoon. She left Adelaide on the 2.3rd ultimo, and made a fair passage across, being only 100 miles off the b»r on the sth instant, when she encountered a heavy easterly gale, which impeded her progress. The Union Co.'s s.s. Wanaka, Captain Meads, left Wellington at 7.00 p.m. on the 13th, arrived off Taranaki at 3.15 p.m. on the 14th, landed maile and passengers by boat; moved on to Manukau at 7 p.m., crossed Manukau bar at 5.40 a.m., and arrived at Onehunga wharf at 10 a.m. Strong north-west gale and heavy sea throughout the voyage.