SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8865, 29 April 1892, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland—7.ss n.ra.; 8.18 p.m. „ „ Mnnnkau—-10.SS a.m.; 10.08 p.m. Sun.—Rises, C.39 a.m.: sots, 6.15 p.m. Moon— First quarter, May 4, 0.25 a.m. ARRIVALS. Wellington, s.s., 279, E. Stephenson, from Whaugarei. Passengers : Mesdames Day, Marshall, Beale, Geard, Goring, Pitiless, Murray, Munro, Goodhue, Misses Roose, Paton, Stewart, Fitness, Jack, Inspector Broham, Detective Chrystai, and prisoner, Messrs. Bain, Day, Hill, Scott, Killen, Going, Harrison, Chessell, Maguire, Geard, Jackson, Stewart, Boyce, Galbraith, Weston. Northern S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Wairarapa, s.s , 1756, John Mcintosh, for Southern ports and Melbourne. Passengers —For Gisborne : Mesdames Druce, Davies and child, Misses Farmer, Cuff, Doran, Master Hird, Messrs. Druce, Davies, Kelly. For Napier : Mrs. Burnett and family, Misses lllock, Kingdon, Messrs. Heginan, C. J. Long. For Wellington : Messrs. E. T. Gillon, J. Hill. For Lyttelton : Messrs. Bowen, Bridgewatcr, Alloway. For Dunedin : Mesdames Lewis and family, Clayton, Elliott and child, Master Lewis, Rev. Mr. Lewis. For Melbourne: Mr. and Mrs. Davey and child, 2") in the steerage, and original passengers from Sydney.—Union S.S. Co., agents. lona. s.s., 179, F. Aniodeo, for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay. — Northern S.S. Co., agents. EXPECTED RIVALS. LONDON : Mataura, barque, sailed March 5. Tekoa, s.s. (via South), sailed March 8. Maori, s.s., via the South,sailed Mar. 23. Star of Victoria, s.s., to sail Feb. 25. Duke of Buckingham, s.s., sailed April 14. Ruapehu, s.s., loading. Helen Denny, barque, to sail April 15. RfcW Yi'KK : Annie Reed, barque (at Wellington). Crescent, barque, via Dunedin, sailed January 10. Mary Hasbrouck, barque,sailed Feb. 12. Abiul Abbot, liiuqiicntinc, onilud .Mm*. 1, H. J. Libbv, barque, to sail April 20 (via Dunedin and Lyttelton). Doris Eckhoff, barque, to s.iil April 25 (via Wellington). NEWCASTLE : Kiilarney, barque, early. SAMOA: Upolu, s.s., early. TONi: A : Upolu, s.s., early, WELLINGTON : St. Lucie, barque, sailed. PROJECTED DIS AI IT U RES. LONDON : Sardhana, barque, loading, NEW YOKK : Alice, barque, loading. Waimea, barque, loading. Motley, brigantine, to load. St. Lucie, barque, to arrive. CAN' FRANCISCO : Monowai, R.M.S., May 21. SYDN KY: Waihora, s.s., May 10. SAMOA : Richmond, s.s., about May 3. Monowai, R.M.s., May 21. TON" a : Richmond, s.s., about May 3. I'M i:a : Sai all Pile, schooner, loading. TAHITI : Richmond, s.s., about May 3. KAROTOXIi A : Richmond, s.s., about May 3. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. Tins Day.—Mahinapua leaves Manukau at 8 a. m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day.—Clansman arrives Russell early, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whrtngarei, Marsuen Point, Maiigapai, and Patua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Thame* Service.Rotoinahana or Argyle leaves for Thames daily, and s s. Ohineinuri leaves lor Paerou twice weekly. HAURAKI S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day.—Ruby, leaves for I'aeroa at 11 p.in ; .Maori, for Wade at 4 p.m. Saturday.—Paeroa, arrives from Paeroa; Maori, from Wade. Monday.—Ruby, arrives from Wade. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. (This hi. .lues nt include i^ierx.] Ringarooma, H.M.s., in Calliope Dock. Dubourdieu, French war cruiser, in stream. Arawata, s.*., m stream. Tiinaru, ship, in stream. Alice, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Waimea, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Sardhana, barque, at Queen-street \\ harf. Northern Chief, barque, in stream. Devonport, barque, at Hobson-street Wharf. Stanley, brigantine, in stream. Zeno, brigantine, in stream. Motley, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty. Sarah Pile, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Pitcairn, schooner, in stream. Silver Cloud, 3-masted schooner, at Breastwork Frank Guy, 3-inasted schooner, at Broastwork. Mary Wadley,3-inasted schooner, at Railway Wharf. DEPARTURES. Goldfinch, H M.S., for Chatham Islands. Wairarapa, s.s., for Southern ports and Melbourne. lona, s.s., for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay. Aratapu, brigantine, for Newcastle via Whangaroa. EXPORTS. Per Wairarapa for Southern ports and Melbourne : 85 bags lime, 79 bags cement, 7 cases whale oil, 16 bundles wire, 93 cases fish, 78 pieces timber, 7 cases and 8 bundles shelves, 11 bales and 7 dumps paper, lf>S hides, 1000 bags and 3 gunnies rice, 65 sacks oysters, 4 eases germina, 4 cases soup, 162 boxes and 1 case cornflour, '26 rods Muntz metal, '20 cases jam, 25 cases sardines. 5 bales and 2 packages leather, 8 coils rope, 7 bags kauri gum, 280 cases oranges, 3058 bags sugar. IUG cases 3yrup, and a large quantity of sundries. The Union Company's steamer Wairarapa left for Southern ports and Melbourne yesterday. Last night the s.s. lona left for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay. The brigantine Arntnpu has sailed for Whangaroa to complete her loading of timber for Newcastle. The three-masted schooner Frank Guy was shifted from the Hobson-street Wharf yesterday to the Breastwork, where she will be cleaned and overhauled. The schooner Awaroa will leave for Tairua to load timber for Gisborne to-day. She has been having some repairs done to her rudder. Yesterday the French war cruiser Dubourdieu was replenishing her coal bunkers from the brigantine Stanley's cargo. The coastal schooner Waiapn is taking in cargo at the Queen-street Wharf for East Coast ports. The American barque Alice, for New York,, is expected to sail about Wednesday next. The Agent-General for the colony has accepted a tender at £3600 for a lantern for the new lighthouse at St Stephen's Island. During the voyage of the barque Cambrian Queen from Hamburg to Sydney, a heavy south-westerly gale was encountered, and everything moveable on the deck was washed overboard, and the lower fore-topsail yard carried away. The New Zealand Shipping Company advise us that the day of departure of their mail steamers has been altered from Saturday to Thursday, commencing with the Rimutaka, to sail from Lyttelton on the 9th June. The Thames steamer Rotomahana wont into dock yesterday morning for cleaning. She will come out this morning, and leaves for the Thames at half-past three o'clock this afternoon. H.M.S. Goldfinch left for the Chatham Islands yesterday morning. She will return in about ten days' time. The cargo steamer Duke of Sutherland, which left Port Chalmers for London on Tuesday, put back to Otago Heads yesterd iy morning, on account of an accident to the eccentric gear of the after refrigerating engine. The s.s. Wellington arrived from Whangarei last evening. She leaves again for the same place to-night. The charter of the Dunedin Harbour Boards dredge to the Lyttelton Board expires on May 2, and, as the vessel has to undergo an overhaul and be repainted, she will discontinue dredging at once. During her stay at Lyttelton splendid work has been done. The s.s. Rangatira arrived at London, on Wednesday, with her frozen meat in good condition. Passengers and shippers will please note that the s.s. Waiotahi leaves for Tauranga this evening, at 7 p.m. in place of the s.s. Clansman. The s.s. Mahinapua is to leave the Manukau for the South at 8 o'clock this m The's?s. Gairloch leaves the Manukan for New Plymouth at 8 o'clock this morning. At the Chamber of Shipping dinner, held in London last month, Sir Michael HicksBeach, in the course of his speech, took Mr. Samuel Plimsoll to.^"" 1 * "for. lit3_stateinents as to the las» '- * 11 y' >

he placed at 1 in 66, as against 1 in 271 in the case of foreign vessels. Sir Michael congratulated shipowners upon the fact that during the past live years there has been a "progressive and satisfactory improvement." and that the loss of life in British vessels in the the year just ended was not 1 in GG, but 1 in 256. He asserts that, while some of the reduced loss is due to legislation, " very much of it, indeed, is due to the voluntary efforts of shipowners, beyond and above anything that legislation could have done." As" to the bad shipowners, Sir Michael asserts that they get " fewer and fewer every year," and that '* the ereat mass of shipowners are known to the public as taking care of the interests of their passengers and seamen to an extent far beyond what may be found in any foreign country." He also lays it down as a cardinal point that in all matters of legislation affecting the shipping interest the best opinion of the shipowners should be consulted.

The Marine Board at Brisbane having considered the evidence taken before the shipping inspector in connection with the stranding of the schooner Bellinger on Stradbroke Island, decided that the master did everything that was possible to save life and cargo, and found that the stranding of the vessel was entirely due to stress of weather. A bottle containing a slip of paper with the following report written in pencil upon it, was picked up recently at St. George's River:—"This bottle was thrown into the sea at Honolulu to obtain the current. He who is fortunate enough to pick this up take to the Government astronomer of the country and obtain his reward. January 3, 1879. Signed G. Lascombk, fisherman, Apia." The person who found the bottle says it appeared to have been a long time in the water, but the paper inside is a scrap torn from an old map of New South Wales, and that fact is of itself peculiar. Though only very meagre success attended the voyages of the two pioneer American whalebackers, Messrs. Doxford and Sons, of Sunderland, have received an order to build a whalebacked steamer for an English ship owner. This novel vessel, which will be the first whaleback steamer built in England and sailing under the British flag, has been ordered by Mr. Walter Runciman. She is to have a deadweight carrying capacity of 4700 tons, on a draught of 20 feet 3 inches, and is to steam 10 knots loaded. She will be built on an improved design, for which letters patent have been taken out by Messrs. Dox ford and Sons, and while her main features will be on the lines of the American whaleback, in several important details it is expected she will show much improvement. The Newcastle owned barque Alice Mary had a very boisterous voyage from Amoy to Chefoo recently. In a heavy gale, which lasted for 30 hours, the vessel was a complete iceberg—a complete block of ice fore and aft and the captain says that he never saw such a thing before in his experience. The barque was loaded with sugar, and the water that came on deck actually froze as it fell on board, making it impossible to move about the decks. The pumps were frozen up. and before they would work, boiling water had to be poured down them. The barque Sterna, which arrived at Sydney from Laurvig, Norway, recently, fell in with the Norwegian barque Acne, on February 4, in a sinking Condition, and the crew of the Aene were taken on board the Steruo, and the sinking vessel set fire to. The Aene had 6 feet of water iu the hold when the crew abandoned her, and she was tilling fast. She was bound from Cardiff tc Buenos Ayres with a cargo of coal. The crew of the ill-fated vessel were landed at Bahia (Brazil), on February 16, and on leaving the Sterna, one and all thanked Captain Schumacher and his men for the kindness bestowed on them during their brief stay on board.