SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8475, 28 January 1891, Page 4

SHIPPING.

/ , High Water at Auckland—9.l7 a.m.; 9.42 p.m. „ „ Manukau— a.m.; 1.22 a.m. —Rises, 5.13 a.m.; seta, 7.13 p.m. Moon—.Lasf' quarter, February 2, 4.22 p.m. ARRIVALS. Duke of Sutherland, s.s., 3113, Ball, from Capetown. —New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Mararoa, s.s , 2465, H. Chatfield, for Sydney. _ Passengers Mr. and Mrs. Smith -and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charrington and two servants, Mr. and Mrs. orris, Dr. and Mrs. Waylen, Sisters of the Poor (5), Mesdames Miles, Ripsen, Misses Hautrie, .Miles, Rutherford ('2), Green, Knock, Munro, Darby (2). Howard, Kinniard, Singleton, Norton, Messrs. Cookson, Herrald, Nott, Holt, Gillott, Laing, Watson, Hines, Pulford, Lock, Mudge, Conahere, Ripson, H. Flemming, Kitts, Chichester, Mills, Power, Shade, Fox, Darby (2), C. W. Craig, F. Fradley, Cnrrie, Pirie, 17 steerage and 32 in transit.Union S.S. Co., agents. Southern Cross, s.s., 282, Black, for East Coast Wellington.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, Stephenson, for Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Machrihanish, ship, for London. Mararoa, s s., for Sydney. Southern Cross, s.s., for East Coast, Wellington, s.s., for Whaugarei. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ioxnox: Persian Empire, shin, sailed November 3. Blenheim, ship, loading. Lady Jocelyn, ship, loading. Akaroa, ship, loading. HIW York : *

Essex, barque, via Dunedin, sailed Sept 20. Elinor Vernon, barquentine, sailed November 8. Alice, barque, loading. Saniar, barque, to load. lIOCKHAMPTON" : Scottish Admiral, barque, early. IDKLAIDE : Linda Weber, brigantinc, early. ttOBAKT : Orlando, H.M.s., early. Cordelia, H.M.s., early. Royalist, H.M.s., early. Lizard, H.M.s., early. Goldfinch, H.M.s., early. Newcastle : Northern Chief, barque, sailed Jan. 24. Waitemata, barquentine, sailed Jan. '24. Three Cheers, schooner, sailed an. "24. Clansman, schooner, to load. Aratapu, bri<;autiue, to load. Welcome, schooner, early. Madura, barque, to load. IYTTELTON : Loongana, barque, early. feoCTli : Curacoa, H.M.S., early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. fcOKDON": Hermione, ship, loading. Scottish Admiral, barque, to arrive. {JEW YORK : Leading Wind, ship. Prospect, barque, loading. Newcastle : Ganymede, barque, early. SIDNEY : Kenilwortb, schooner, loading. Silver Cloud, barquentine, via Kaipara. SOUTH: Duke of Sutherland, s.s., early. Oamaru, ship, early. , UNION S.S. CO.'B MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Wanaka arrives at Onehunga about noon. Thursday.—Wanaka leaves Onehunga at 11.30 a.m. Friday.—Taupo arrives from Wellington ; Te Anau leaves lor Melbourne and the South at noon. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.Gairloch arrives from Waitara; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Thursday.Glenelg leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; lona arrives foom Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay early; Clansman arrives from Russell early, and leaves on an excursion to Mahurangi Heajs at 10 a.m. ; Wellington leaves on an excursion to WaiWera at 10 a.m. Friday.—Clansman leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.: the Gairloch leaves for Opunake and Wauganui at 1 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Parna Bay at 10 30 p.m.; lona leaves for Mercury Bay and Kuaotunu at 9 p.m. Thames Service.—Rotomahana or Argyle leaves for Thames daily. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. I This list does not include coasters.) Arawata, s.s., in stream. Duke of Sutherland, s.s., at Railway Wharf Hermione. ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Leading Wind, ship, in stream. Oamaru, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Prospect, barque, at Queen street Wharf. Gazelle, barque, at No. '2 Jetty. Ganymede, barque, at No. '2 Jetty. Silver Cloud, barquentine, .at No. 2 Jetty. Jessie, barquentine, at Railway Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Kenilworth, schooner, at Breastwork. IMPORTS. Per Doric, from Stornaway : 3 kegs salt herrings, 100 cases fresh herrings, 20 cases kippered herrings.—John Reid and Co. EXPORTS. Per s.s. Mararoa : 35 cases sheep's tongues, 1363 sacks maize, 500 bundles box timber, 56 bales flax, 275 bags fungus, 28 pigs lead, 24 cases dried fish, 8 sacks copper, 20 sacks quartz, 20 kegs pork, 10 cases cider, 10 cases potatoes, 4 boxes bullion, 40 coils rope, and sundries.

Ihwaf.ds Coastwise.—Janet, Jane, and Evening Star, cutters, anil Gem, schooner, from Mahurangi, with lime; Dungarvon, scow, from Thames, in ballast; Paku, cutter, from Whangapoua, with sawn timber ; Margaret, scow, from Pakiri, with kauri logs ; Olive, scow, from Mercury Bay, with logs ; Irene, scow, from Whananaki, with logs ; Lark, cutter, from Waiheke, with firewood ; Catherine, cutter, from Great Barrier, with Brewood ; Lucy James, ketch, from Whaoanaki, with sawn kahikatea timber ; Progress, scow, from Mercury Bay, with logs ; Nellie and Fannie, cutters, from Whangapoua, with timber ; Wanderer and Watchman, cutters, and Mary, ketch, from Great Barrier, with firewood ; Saxon, Norval, and Atlantic, schooners, and Spitfire, cutter, from Whangarei, with coals. Yesterday evening the Union S.S. Co.'s fine steamer Mararoa, Captain Chatfield, took her departure for Sydney, with a quantity t)f general cargo and numerous passengers. As the 8.8. Te Anau did not get away from Sydney till midnight on Thursday, she will probably arrive early this morning. The three-masted schooner Silver Cloud has been chartered, through Mr. M. ISiceol, to run a series of trips between the Kaipara and Sydney. As she has now finished the discharge of her Southern grain at No. 2 Jetty, she will leave at once for the western port, where she fills up with timber for the New South Wales capital. Captain R. Mackay, owner of the brigantine Defiance, is in receipt of intelligence to the effect that his smart vessel has arrived at Sydney, after a quick passage of 10 days from Mangonui. The barques Ganymede and Gazelle are rapidly putting out their grain cargoes at No. 2 Jetty. Yesterday forenoon the fine clipper ship Machrihanish, which has been lying in the stream for several days loaded for London, took her departure from this port, being towed out by the s.s. Awhina. She anchored outside Rangitoto reef, and will await the shipment of the two or three hands necessary to complete her crew. The East Coast packet Southern Cross .shipped a mixed cargo yesterday, and in the evening sailed for her numerous places of call

Last night the Northern Steamship Company's Wellington left for Whangarei. She will return to port early on Thursday and run an excursion to Waiwera.

During the past month the Fijians have Buffered the loss of two of the finest nativeowned vessels. Bound for Levuka, the master of the Ra Adalaita cutter, on a dark, foggy night, mistook some fires on shore for the harbour lights, and ran his vessel on the reef about six miles north of the town, where she was speedily smashed up. The cutter was compiratively a new vessel, of 15 tons register. During the gale 011 the '29th ult. the cutter Clara, answering to the same description, capsized and sank in deep water off the island of Mokogai, 12 miles from Levuka. Both vessels were sailed by Fijian masters and crew. In neither case was life lost, though some of the Ra Adelaita's crew were badly cut and bruised in struggling through the breakers on the reef. An English exchange says Mr. William Milton, who has just been appointed engineer of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, is the officer who, during the time of trying anxiety when the Calliope was fighting her way inch by inch out of Apia Bay, stood by the lever which prevented the engines racing as the ship's stern lifted out of the water with every plunge of her bows. As the Lords of the Admiralty said in their letter to Captain Kane : "To the admirable manner in which the engines of the ship were worked may be attributed to a great extent the safety both

of the ship and of the lives of all on bowel," and it is doubtful if anything contributed more to this than the capable performance of Mr. Milton's most important autyin circumstances calculated to try to their 'utmost the nerves of any man.

THE S.S. DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. Yesterday afternoon a Helald telegram from Waiwera announced the presence of a large four-masted steamer off Tiritiri, aid this was at once put down to be the Duke if Sutherland, the third of the line of cargo steamers which are running to the colony under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company. The surmise proved correct, anc about 6.30 p.m. the steamer come into harbour, under charge of Pilot Sainty. The Customs officers, Harbourmaster, and Mr. C. V. Houghton, of the New Zealand Shipping, Company, boarded her off St. George's Bay, from the launch Despatch. They found " all well," and Captain Burgess took charge of the vessel and berthed her safely at the Railway Wharf. The Duke of Sutherland was here on her last _ trip iu April last, and is a splendid specimen of the modern cargo steamer. She lias large cooling chambers and freezing apparatus for the conveyance of meat cargoes to London. Captain Ball is still commander, and the following gentlemen sail with him as officers Chief, Sir. Nash; second, Mr. Topp; third, Mr. Clements; surgeon, Dr. Finegan; chief engineer, Mr. Neill. The steamer left London on November 15 last, with a mixed cargo for South Africa, and called at Santa Cruz (Teneriffe), Capetown, Simon's Town. Fort Elizabeth, and East London. The last named port was left on December 29, for Auckland direct, and the passage across the Southern Ocean was throughout marked by moderate weather. The Duke of Sutherland is to ship here about 6500 carcases, 130 tons gum, besides a quantity of wool and sundries. She will begin to take in cargo this morning, and it is expected that she will get away on Friday evening. She will proceed hence to Gisborne, Napier and Wellington, to till up for London.