SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8662, 3 September 1891, Page 4

SHIPPING.

Hjoii Water at Auckland—7.l7 a.m.; 7.83 p.m. _«i . » Maniikau—lo.s7 a.m.; 11.13 p.m. Sun.Rises, (3.20 a.m.; seta, 6.39 p.m. Moon—New, to day, 8.40 p.m. WEATHER FORECAST. Captain Edwin wired as follows yesterday at { p.m.i-Indicatious for frost and poor tides during 24 hours from now. Captain Edwin reports that there are now strong evidences of a heavy gale from the northward, changing by west to southwest between midnight of the 3rd and midnight of the oth. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Ovalau, s.s., 1300, A. W. . Cameron, for Sydney. Passengers Mr. and Mrs. Scion* dors, Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey, Mesdames Auroiui, Crossley, Stock, Misses Henderson, Abbott. F. Abbott, Crosslev, Kinsey. Messrs. Kinsey, Glen, Arthur, .1). Green, Mucky, Bailey, Lindsay, Aarons, H. C. Wick, Seville, Master Abbott, and 33 steerage.— Union S.S. Co., agents. Rotomahana, s.s.. 17-7, Kennedy, for DunOdin.—Union S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Oval an, s.s., for Sydney. Rotoinahana, s.s., for Dnnedin. EXPECT 15 ARRIVALS. LONDON ; Tckoa, s s., sailed July 25. Pattella, s.s., about September 11. Waiotaili, s.s., sailed July 20. Himalaya, barque, sailed May 22. S<nikar, ship, sailed June 22. Waitangi, ship, sailed July 4. Brussels, barque, sailed July 10. Duke of Buckingham, s.s., loading ilerinioue, ship, loading. fIEW YORK : Star of the East, barque, Juno 3, Essex, barque, sailed July 14. Flora, barque, loading. SAX J'RANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., sailed August 21SYDNEY ! . , , Anthons, brigantiue, sailed September 1. NEWCASTLE : Oauiarii. brigantine, to load. Edith May, 3-m. schooner, sailed Sept. I. Zephyr, brigantine, sailed Sept. 1. FIJI: Northern Star, barque, sailed Aug. IS. Pitcairn, schooner, early. LVTTKLTON: . Annie Hill, schooner, sailed August 20. CI MA lit' : Bells, barque, loading, KAPIKB : Enterprise, schooner, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. >ONI>ON : Camana, barque, to load. Helen Danny, barque, to load. Pakeha, s.s., to load. KEW yokk: Piako. ship, loading. B. Webster, barque, to arrive. Emma L. Shaw, brigantine, loading. SYDNEY: „ , Alameda, R.M.s., about September 11. Belle Isle, barque, loading. Clansman, schooner, to load. DUNKDis : Lily, schooner, to load. WELLINGTON : , Airties Donald, schooner, loading. EAST coast: Awmiui, schooner, early. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. Tsiis Day. — Australia leaves for East Coast at 5 p.m.: Mahinapua leaves Ouehunca at 11.30 in. Friday.—Tau;x> arrives from Fiji, and leaves for Wellington ; Watrarapa leave.3 for the South at noon. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; loaa leaves for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay at 9 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whausjarei; Glenelg arrives from Opunake and \\ unganui. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Pari; a Bay at 10.30 p.m. Thames Service.—Argylo or lon* leaves for Thames daily. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. [This list does net include coasters.) Arawata, s.s., in stream. Pinko, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Helen Denny, barque, in stream. Belle Isle, barque, at Railway Wharf. Grasmere, barque, at_ Queen-street Wharf. C'amana, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Emma L. Shaw, brigantine, at Queen-street Wharf. Gleaner, brigantine, at Railway Wharf. Christine, schooner, at Houson-street Wharf. Clansman, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Awanui, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. EXPORTS. Per s.s. Ovalau : 103 sacks cocoanuts, 20 packs peanuts, 307 sacks potatoes, 163 sacks fungus, 42 packages copper, 25 packages metal, IGSO sacks ore, 5 bales tussock grass, 1775 pieces timber, 23 bales hay, 204 cases cheese, 24 sacks and 124 hides, 61 sacks oysters, 60 bundles broom handles, 540 bunriles shooks, 8 cases eggs, 40 boxes soap, 41 cases soapene. 44 crises butter, 8 cases fish, 30 sack 3 seed, 189 bales flax.

The three, masted schooner Cuthona is loading with coal at Newcastle for this port. Sydney cable ad vices announce the departure of the barqueutine Edith May with coal, the brigantine Anthons with general freight, and the brigantine Zephyr with coal for Auckland. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's new steel cargo steamer Pakeha i 3 due here from the South about the 14th instant, and will bring a large cargo of general merchandise from London. An alteration lias been made in the vessel's movements, and she will not make Auckland her final port in the colony as previously intended, having been fixed to ship a considerable portion of her home freight of frozen meat at Waitara. She will, therefore, after landing her cargo and taking in local shipments for home, proceed to the Taranaki roadstead, and thence go to Wellington, departing from that port for London about the 25th instant. About noon yesterday the Union S.S. Co.'« steamer Rotomahana left port for Port Chalmers, where she is to refit. The Harbour Board have chosen Captain Burgell to take command of the Dredger No. 121 on her voyage to Melbourne shortly ; Mr.

W. Lodder goes as engineer. Yesterday forenoon the East Coast steamer Australia went into the Auckland dock for an overhaul and cleaning. _ . Captain J. McLiver has finished the preparations for his whaling cruise in _ his schooner Christine, and yesterday took in a quantity of store' 3, etc., at -Hobson-strcet. The vessel will probably leave to-day for her hunting grounds via Russell. At the Customs the schooner Clansman lias been entered out, for Sydney via Whangaruru. She takes in timber at the latter place. Sydney exchanges of last week state : It i 3 questionable whether the past fortnight has been equalled for several years in the number of heavy weather reports from shipping arriving at this and neighbouring ports. Within a radius of a few hundred miles there eeerns to have been remarkably stormy weather. Every deep-sea craft that has arrived* has had its trying experiences, many of them being at times in imminent peril during hurricane .bursts. Three vessels, the barque Maiden City from Sharpness, the four-masted ship Drumclifl' from Liverpool, and the American barque Exporter, which arrived at Port Jackson just prior to August 27 (the last-named having to run in for repairs), report fatal casualties caused by rough weather while off the Australian coast. The Union S.S. Co.'s new steamer Ovalau, Captain Cameron, left last evening for Sydney, taking a good number of passengers and a general freight. She is to return here to take up the Fijian service, for which she was specially built. . The well-known Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co.'s clipper ship Hermiono, Captain Parker, was loading at London for here on July 24. WRECKAGE ON THE WEST COAST. Yesterday Mr. Gilbert Dobson, of Raglan, reported to the Customs the presence of some wreckage on the West Coast, which points to the loss of some vessel at present unidentified, to the westward of New Zealand. Mr. I)obscm states that on the Bth he was proceeding along the coast from Raglan to Port Waikato, and midway between the two places lie discovered on the beach, where they hail apparently been thrown up by the waves, a spar 40 feet long with two blocks attached, marked with the initials P. F. cut in them ; a wooden tank similarly inscribed, and the remains of a large boat which had been painted red ; several planks and other wreckage, all the latter being without any distinguishing marks.

THE SUGAR TRADE TO CALIFORNIA. A spirited competition is about to take place for the sugar trade from Honolulu to Han Francisco. The carrying trade is at •«» present largely done by steamers, though a ; ■ lew Mud are maintained. Three years ago an order was sent to the Clyde for an iron bum no of about 900 tons this particular trade, The vessel, the Andrew Welch, villi ted Sydney, and went on to her port of re/Utry,' Honolulu. Since then vessels of i/miHT toniWM have come upon the scene, Slid liV tho last English mail word was .JLlvtul that «■ four-masted steel barque of <m) um and another of 2500 tons tiro buildjL to(micro from tffcr. Francisco.and both IhfiM YCMoIH uro to cugH'o 1,1 t ' , ° Honolulu-

California trade. Thev are built for Americans resident in San Francisco; but being British bottoms they will be registered in Honolulu, and fly, not the Stars and Stripes, but the Hawaiian colours. A rather amusing report is given in the San Fraucisco exchanges of these vessels. Stress is laid on the fact that while the orders for the ships were placed in the hands of builders of high standing on the Clyde, the donkey engines for driving the winches are to be sent to Glasgow from San Francisco, the reason of this being that their coal consumption is onethird less, and their strength pist double that of the ships' donkeys supplied in Scotland.

PORT OF ONEHUINGA. ARRIVALS. , _ , Mahinapua, s.s., Spedding, from the South. Passengers: Mis3es King, fcowler, Mesdames iMarelli and infant, York and son, Messrs. Harder, Price, Ellison, Barber, Frankland, Crowther, Hewitt, Watt, Corkill, Iliggms and son, and 5 steerage.—Union o.S. Co., agents. ' Oak-loch, s.s., McArthur, from New Plymouth. Passengers: Messrs. Newman, McQueen, Thorman, and McGonagle. —A. Barnes, agent. ! The Union Co. s.s. Mahinapua, Captain T. Spcdding, from Southern ports, arrived at 12.50 p.m., yesterday, with freight and passengers. . , , . , The Northern Co.'s s.s. Gairloch arrived from New Plymouth at 12.45 yesterday, with a cargo of stock, and passengers as above.