SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9540, 5 December 1889, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water, at Auckland sum.; 5.18 p.m. ' M : ; ' ii ■ Manukw— p.m.; 8.68 a.m. . Rkes, 4.37 a.m.; sets, 7.5 p.m. MOON.—Full, 7th, 9.32 p.m. ARRIVALS. Warcatea, 5.8., 460, Lambert, from Westport.—Union S.S. Co., agents. . Stanley, brigantine, 345, McKcnzie, from Newcastle.—C. F. James and Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Southern Cross, s.s., 273, Black, for East Coast and Wellington. Passengers: 8 Maoris. —Union S.S. Co., agents. - DEPARTURES. * Southern Cross, s.s., for East Coast. • EXPECTED ARRIVALS London : , Canterbury, ship, to sail October 15. Waiinea, snip, sailed September 28. Persian Empire, loading. HAMBURG: Levuka, barque, sailed October 2. NEW YORK . Mary Sw Ames, barque, sailed Sep. 5. Essex, barque, Bailed about Nov. 10. SAN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, RM.s.s., sailed November 16. NEWCASTLE : Wenona, barque, sailed November 13. j Rebecca, barque, sailed November 23. Northern Chief, barque, loading. Grecian Bend, brigantine, sailed Nov. 29. Three Cheers, schooner, sailed Nov. 29. TOWNSVILLE: Sarah Pile, schooner, early. Fiji : Sharpshooter, barque, to load. WELLINGTON : Wakefield, barque, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. CONDON* : Morning Light, ship, to load. NEW YORK: Lurline, barque, loading. B. Webster, barque, to load. Wakefield, barque, to arrive. India, barque, to load. SYDNEY: Mariposa, R.M.s.s., about December 7. UOBABT : Acacia, barque, early. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. . This Day. — Wanaka arrives at One- <: iiunga; Omapere arrives from South and leaves for West Coast; Ringarooina leaves for South at noonFriday.—Mahinapua arrives at Onehunga ; Wanaka leaves Onehunga; Wareatea leaves For Westport and Greymouth at noon. Saturday.—Mariposa arrives from Honolulu and leaves for Sidney; Mahinapua leaves Manukau •with mail. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This 'Day.Gairloch leaves for Waitara at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei; lona arrives from Tauranga early, and leaves for Great Barrier at S a.m. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m.; lona arrives from Great Barrier early, and leaves for Mercury Bay at 5 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Saturday.Gairloch arrives from Waitara; lona from Mercury Bay. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. (This list does not include coaster*. 1 Invercargill, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Morning Light, ship, at No. 2 Jetty. Lurline, barque, at No. 2 Jetty. B. Webster, barque, in stream. Acacia, barque, at Railway Wharf. Clansman, brigantine, at Breastwork. Stanley, brigantine, in stream. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Lily, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. IMPORTS. ) Per s.s. Wareatea : 600 tons Westport coal. ; Per brigantine Stanley: 492 tons Newcastle coal. The s.s. Hinemoa leaves Onehunga to-day at 5 p.m. At dusk yesterday evening a square-rigged vessel was signalled outside Tiri, and she proved to be the well-known brigantine Stanley, Captain McKenzie, from Newcastle, bringing a full freighting of 492 tons coal. The master reports of the trip that tho Stanley sailed from Newcastle on the 16th November, and had fresh north-east winds till the : BOth, after which light northerly breezes and j calms prevailed for a week. The North Cape was passed on Monday, and unsettled wea- ' ther prevailed down the coast, the wind being hard from the north-east, with a low ' barometer. ] The Union S.S. Co.'s Wareatea, Captain Lambert,' arrived in port last night at 10p.m. . from Westport, whence she brings 600 tons coal. She left the coal port on November 30 ! at 4 p.m., and experienced strong east-north- J east winds and neavy seas throughout the ] passage. The ship Morning Light was putting out her cargo of grain, etc., at the No. 2 Jetty, yesterday. . , By the Union S.S. Co.'s Wareatea, which reached port last night, a quantity of West- ] port coal was brought to Auckland, the major portion of which will be transferred to the ship Invercargill for the use of her re- 1 frigerating engines on her voyage home with frozen mutton. The s.s. Ringarooma was shipping a quantity of phosphate and wool yesterday at the Railway Wharf for the South, whither she tails at noon to-day. I Last evening the s.s. Southern Cross took her departure for East Coast ports and ] Wellington with a freight oi stores, provisions, and sundries, besido about half-a-dozen passengers. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co.'s new Bteel cargo steamer Mamari left Capetown I for New Zealand on the Ist insfc.

THE UNION S.S. CO.'S CAIRNTOUL. The following particulars concerning the moat recent addition to the already-numer-ous " red-funnel" fleet—the 5.3. Cairntoul— •will be of interest. She is essentially a cargo boat, and has a capacity .of carrying fully 2600 tons of dead-weight cargo on a draught of abouc 18 feet of water. For this purpose she litis four large hatches fitted with patent steam winches for the rapid reception and discharge of cargoeither grain or coal. She is a shapely-looking vessel of the Pukaki type, is brigantincrigged, and has steel decks. : There is comfortable accommodation for her officers aft, and she can also carry a couple of passengers. The seamen and firemen are quartered forward. The Cairntoul is quite a new vessel, having been built some Bix months back on the Tyne by Messrs. Palmer and Co. to the order of Messrs. D. and L. Cairns, of Leith, who intended her for the Baltic trade; prior, however, to her entering on it she changed hands, and became the property of the Union Steamship Company, who sent her to Cardiff to load for Calcutta. Her dimensions are Length, 261 feet; breadth of beam, 37 feet, with 16 feet. 8 inches depth of hold. Her registered tonnage is 1668 gross and 1071 tons net, while she is capable of carrying 2630 tons of dead weight cargo on a draught of 18 feet of water. The engines are of the triple expansion type, and 155 nominal horse power—the diameters of the cylinders being 20 inches, 33 inches, and 54 inches respectively, with a length of stroke of 36 inches. Steam is supplied by multitubular steel boilers. In fine weather she ; steams about 10 knots an hour— ordinary rate being from 9 to 9£ knots, and her consumption of coal about 11 tons daily. She is fitted with steam steering gear, and all the latest labour-saving appliances. The Cairntoul is commanded by Captain J. Stott. The deck officers are:—Mr. Dunlop, chief; Mr. S. A. Reay, second; Mr. VV. H. Heard, third Mr. C. E. Siegel (late of the s.s. Pukaki) is purser. The engine room is in charge of Mr. Dalryrnple; Mr. J. F. Scott is second, and Mr. McGregor third.