SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8423, 26 November 1890, Page 4

SHIPPING.

flion Watch at Auckland-6.16 a.m.; 6.41 p.m. „ „ Manukau— p.m.; 10.21 a.m. Sun.—Rises. 4.30 a.lll ; sets, 0.57 p.m. Moon.—Full, 27th, 1.3 a.m. WEATHER FORECAST. Captain Edwin wired at 1.26 p.m. yesterday as iollowsindications glass rising, with westerly winds. ARRIVALS. Te Anau, s.s., 1652, J. Mcintosh, from Melbourne and Southern Ports. Passengers : Mesdames White and 2 children, Harper, Brasaey and 3 children, Gordon, Miss Young, Rev. Father Kehoe, Rev. W. Ronaldson, Captain Ellis, Messrs. Atwater, W. Fulton, E. Paterson, J. C. Seebye, R. L. Garland, Coombs. E. S. Willcocks, M. Decble, Simmons, H. Thompson, J. W. Nolan and son, 11. J. Finn, 0. A. Delatour, Gordon, Millard, "Hog mar., Lawson, J. L. Toole and company (15), and lfi steerage. En route for Sydney: Mr. and Mrs. G. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. McConkey, Mr. and Mrs. Orpwood, Mrs. Warden, Miss Knox, Messrs. G. Roxburgh, A. J. Burgess, T. Chapman, and 3 steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Curacoa, H.M. screw cruiser, 2300 tons, 2540 h.p., Captain R. W. Stopford, from Wellington. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Wellington, s.s., 279, Stephenson, for hpnparei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. S» ithern Cross, s.s., 282, Black, for East Coi it and Wellington.—Union S.S. Co., agf its. DEPARTURES. Northern Chief, barque, for Ma,ngonui. Wellington, s.s., for Whangareh Southern Cross, s.s., for East Coast, EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : , „ , Mairi Bhan, ship, sailed September 5. Oamaru, ship, sailed October 3. SBW YORK : . . Prospect, barque, via Dunedin, sailed < July 25. . Mary S. Ames, barqne, via Wellington sailed July 23. Essex, barque, via Dunedin, sailed Sept 2°' . , ~ Elinor Vernon, barquentine, loading. ITDNKY : Orlando, 11.M.a., early. Newcastle: ~ . - „ Three Cheers, schooner, sailed Nov. 8, WQLLONtiOtiG J . , Eillan Donan, brigantine, loading. FIJI: , William Turner, barque, early. ROWLAND island: Notero, barque, early. RAKOTONGA : ' Little Agnes, s.s., early. POUT CHALMERS : Maclirihanish. ship, sailed. Leading Wind, ship, early. II'TTELTON ; Lurline, barque, sailed November 22. Glencairn, schooner, sailed November 22. Star of East, barque, early. SOUTH : Volta, French warship, early. WELLINGTON : Jessie Niccol, schooner, early.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES, '-OSDON ; Zealandia, ship, loading. _ Macrihauish, ship, to arrive. NKW YORK : Leading Wind, ship, to arrive. Star of East, barque, to arrive. boston : " Lurline, barque, to arrive. BAROTOKUA J Jessie Niccol, schooner, early, UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Wanaka arrives at Onehunga; {Te Anau leaves for Sydney at 5 p.m. Thursday,—Wairarapa arrives from Sydney ; Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 9.30 a.m. Saturday.—Wairarapa leaves for South at noon. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. Thursday.— leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; lona arrives from Kuaotunu early, and leaves again for Whitianga Mid Kuaotunu at 9 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. . , _ Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell early, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei at 10.30 p.m. . , . Saturday.—Gairloch arrives from Waitara, and lona from Kuaotunu. Thames Service.—Rotomahana or Argyle leaves for Thames daily. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. < • [This list does not include coaster*.] H.M.s. Curacoa, in stream. •' . Zealandia, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Hermione, ship, in stream. _ _ Lady Mabel, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty. Cuthona, barqucntine, at Railway Wharf.

IMPORTS. ~ , Per 8.8. Te Anau : —l2O sacks ground bark, 1447 sacks bark, 55 cases fruit, 100 sacks oats, 71 sacks hides, 40 bundles pelts, 56 hhds. beer, 38 bales paper, 394 packages 1 . r0n, ,5,i coils rope, 100 cases gin, 19 boxes raisins, 130 sacks barley, 50 sacks oatmeal, 12 baskets, 6 drums oil, 50 cases stout, 46 cases tea, 20 cases whisky, 10 cases rum, 100 sacks malt, £0 cases nails, 14 bags bones, 159 sacks maize, 3 cases glass, ana sundries. Per Te Anau and Southern Cross: — cases bacon and hams, 86 sacks potatoes, 160 i sacks bark.T. H. Hall and Go.

The Shaw, Savill ship Hermione having completed the discharge of her English merchandise, has hauled out into the streamShe will probably be here until the ship Machrihaniah has loaded for London, when she will then take in a cargo of colonial produce for home. , At an early hour yesterday, the locallyowned barque Northern Chief sailed out of harbour for Mangonui, where she is to load timber for Sydney. _ T r, , i Yesterday the manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company received advices from Dunedin, to the effect that the chartered Bhip Machrihanish, from Algoa Bay, in ballast, had called at Port Chalmers for orders, Mid after receiving the instructions waiting, had proceeded on her way to this port, where she is iixed to load general cargo for London. The ship may bo expected here next week, and will have prompt despatch, l considerable portion of her space being already engaged. . _ , , , . The repairs to the bngantine Lady Mabel, which include the supplying of a new foremast, are to be executed by Messrs. Bailey and McCaul. _ , The American vessel Star of the East has sailed for this port, from Lyttelton. She brings a coastal cargo of grain, etc., and is to load here for New York with gum and flax. Last- night the s.s. Wellington sailed for Whangarei, with passengers and cargo. Of the local transhipments of cargo ex the barque Kingdom of Sweden, at Port Chalmers, a portion is now on its way per the s.s. Omapere, which left Dunedin on Monday last, and the balance is to be forwarded by the Wsiihora, to sail to-day. , The 8.8. Te Anau, Captain J. .Mcintosh, arrived here yesterday, at 2 p.m., with passengers and cargo. Mr. Nancarrow, the purser, states that she left Williamstown at 4 p.m. on the 13th instant, cleared Port Philip Heads at 7.10 p.m., and was abeam of Swan Island at 3.30 p.m. on the 14th. She arrived at Hobart at 5.15 p.m. on the. 15th, and sailed again at 1.15 a.m. on the 16th, reaching the Bluff at 2.30 p.m. on the 19th. She sailed the same day at 8 p.m., and called at Port Chalmers on the '20th, Lyttelton on the 21st, Wellington on the 22nd, Napier on the 23rd, and Gisborne on the 24th. Leaving tho latter port at noon on Monday, she rounded the East Cape at 6 p.m., reaching port as above. The Te Anau experienced One weather on her trip. On her voyage to Melbourne, where she arrived a couple of weeks ago from Port lowsend, Puget Sound, the barque Darra had a nasty experience oil' the Australian ■ toast When off Cape Howe, under lower topsail and foresails most of the time, the wind was from the S.E., going round to N. to W. and S. W. in a heavy gale and high cross sea. On the 26th October, at midnight, a heavy sea broke aboard over the port quarter, washing away the fore companion skylight, standard compass, bucket rack, hen coops, meat safe, anu bent all tho iron stanchions on the starboard side, breaking some of them. The quarter boat was stove in, and the davits bent, also the poop ladder. The water also jot into the cabin, spoiling part of tho provisions. Holes had to be cut to let the water get below, so that the pumps could lift it out. At the same time several of the seamen got hint through getting washed against the timber. The captain thinks that lie was in slioul water when the sea struck his ship, as he remembers the captain of the Maria Theresa, schooner, informed him some years ago that there was shoal water there, and that it was marked on some of the charts as Maria Theresa Shoal. hat makes the captain of the Darra think he was in shoal water at the time is that the sea was comparatively smooth before and after he shipped the sea.

H.M.S, CURACOA. Yesterday morning intelligence was received from Waiwera to the effect that a man-of-war had been cruising about outside Tiri for some time, and the stranger wasat once mrmised to be H.M.s. Curacou on her way from Wellington on her first visit to these waters. This cruiser entered the harbour nbout l.:» p.m., and took up an anchorage tit the usual man-of-war ground off the freezing Company's reclamation. She was

shortly after visited by Captain Burgess, the Harbourmaster, in the launch Despatch, and he was courteously received by Captain Stopford and officers. r lhe Curacoa is quite a stranger to these waters, having been only included in the Australian squadron during the present year. Previously the Curacoa had boen on service on the west coast of Africa, and the Cape for a couple of years, her commission dating from March 15, 1888, at Devonport. The vessel first place of call in Australia was reman tie, where she arrived from Capetown on June 18 last. Since then Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Launceston, Sydney, and Welling* ton have been visited in succession, a brief stay being made in each pork During her sojourn in Sydney, the Curacoa underwent an overhaul in dock, so that she will not require the use of the Calliope basin. Her officers are nearly all strangers to New Zealand, but two of them have been here before, Lieutenant Hughes and Mr. Brigstocke, assistant paymaster. The former was in the Cormorant, and tho latter in the Emerald anil Wolverine. Concerning the vessel herself, the Curacoa is a barque-rigged screw cruiser of 2380 tons, and 2540 h.p. The ship is constructed ot steel and iron, externally sheathed with wood and coppered, whi.'e the hull is divided into eight watertight compartments. The hull has a ram entrance for aggressive purposes, and the fore part of the vessel is specially strengthened for such work. The engines by which the Curacoa is driven are on the horizontal tandem double cylinder principle. Tho diameters of the cylinders are 42 inches and 66 inches, and the piston stroke is 33 inches. The boilers, six in number, are 8 feet in diameter, and each is heated by two furnaces. On a consumption of SO tons of coal the Curacoa can develop a speed of 13 knots. The engines are of 2300 horse-power effective, and do their work well. '1 he screw is of bronze, and is two bladed. Steam is used on board for condensing and other purposes; and the electric light is also installed. There are two very powerful search lights, one forward and the other aft. The complement of boats is complete. It includes two steam cutters, a largo pinnace, jolly boats, gigs, etc. The armament of the Curacoa is on a liberal scale, and both heavy and light ordnance is the best of its description. Of tho 12 large guns, four are of 6-inch and eight are of 5-ineli calibre. The former are mounted in barbette;)—two forward and two aft—and can be used as bow and stern chasers, while the latter or broadside guns are ranged four on each side. They are all brecchloading, and are mounted on Vavasseur carriages. The 0-inch guns have a wide trajectory, and can be trained round 60 degrees fore-and-aft of her normal pointing. The larger guns carry 1001b conical shot, and the others 501b. Tho guns and their mechanical appliances for firing and working are kept in faultless order. Besides the heavy artillery, there are ten machiue and quick-firing guns, seven being Nordenfeldts, one Hotchkiss, and two Gardiners ; two are Nordenfeldts, and the others are Gardiners. The latter can discharge 500 rounds a minute. The Nordenfeldts are right forward in the bows of the vessel. In addition to these there are small guns for field work or boat expeditions. The rifle in use on board is of the Martini-Henry pattern. The Whitehead torpedo has also a place on Ixiard, and there are two steam launches for torpedo and other work. The population on board numbers 296 officers and men.all told. Of this total 40 are marine artillery "and infantry. All are in excellent health, and have that brisk, breezy look characteristic of the British men-of-war's man. There is no superfluous space on board the Curacoa. Every foot is utilised, and although she appears to be crowded on deck and below, there is the utmost order and regularity everywhere. The cruiser is commanded by Captain Robert W. Stopford, with whom the following gentlemen sail as officers : Lieutenants, Valentine D. Hughes, Jan R. Grant, C. G. Treherne, Vernon Maud, Albert S. Lafone; captain of marines, Fitzroy T. H. Scott; chaplain: Rev. J. J. Smith; staff-surgeon, Charles J. Vasey; staff paymaster, Ang. H. Brigitocke ; engineer, Sidney G. Haddock; assistant-engineer, A. E. Collings ; gunner, Geo. R. Frew; boatswain, Edward Coveney, J. H. Partridge; Carpenter, Robert G. Withell; midshipmen, John P. Shipton, W. A. Carleton, ft. H. Parker, H. A. P. Glossop, A. W. Richmond, M. C. Allen by. The Curacoa's stay in our waters is not to be a very lengthy one, at least according to the present movements projected for her. By these she is to leave this port on December 2 for the Bay of Islands, and return here on the sth. After a week here the cruiser is to leave for Lyttelton, where she will sojourn during Christmas and New Year. Port Chalmers is to be visited early in January, and the warship will then proceed via the Bluff to the West Coast Sounds, of which Preservation Inlet, Dusky Sound, and Bligh Sound are to be called at. Returning north by way of the West Coast, the Curacoa will touch off Taranaki and call at tho Manukau. being due there about January 30. She will sail for the Kaipara, and after a brief stay there, circumnavigate the North Cape, and make a visit to the picturesque and historic harbour of Whangaroa, thence returning to Auckland, where she is timed to arrive about February 17 th. Of the trip up the coast, we learn that the Curacoa left Wellington on Friday forenoon, and had northerly winds until rounding the East Cape, with showery weather. On the passage up the crew were exercised with biggun firing, while yesterday forenoon the machine and quick-firing weapons were practised with outside liritiri.

BY TELEGRAPH. RUSSELL. November 25. —Arrived: Clansman, s.s., at 7 a.m. She sailed for Northern ports at 1 p.m. The s.s. Sullolk sailed this evening for Melbourne. KAIPARA. November 25.—Arrived : The brig Vision, from New Caledonia. HOKIANGA. November 25. —The schooner Queen arrived to-day from Onehunga; yesterday afternoon, the barque Brunette, from Sydney. LYTTELTON. November 25. —Sailed: Star of East, barque, for Auckland; Rosamond, for Greymouth ; s.s. Penguin, for Wellington s.s. Manapouri, for Dunedin.