SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8881, 18 May 1892, Page 4

SHIPPING.

Bhjh VfArsn at Aitokiand—lo.23 «.m.; 10.49 p.m. „ „ Mmikaii— a.m.; 1.29 p.m. Sun.—Rises, 6.56 a.m.; sets, 4.69 p.m. MOON—Last quarter, 20th, 2.33 a.in.

ARRIVALS. Killarney, barque, 401, Hawkes, from Newcastle.—J. J. Craig, agent. Welcome, schooner, 112, D. R. Cooper, from Brisbane. —M. Niccol, agent. lona. s.s. 179, F. Amodeo, from Mercury Bay and Knaotunu. Passengers: Messrs. Richards, McCormick, Nicholson and son, —Northern S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Southern Cross, s.s., 263, Dawson, for Wellington via East Coast. — Union S.S. Co., agents. VVftiotahij 8.9., 286. Norbury, for Tauranga and Opotiki.— S.S. Co., agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, E. Stephenson, for Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. lona, s.s.. 179, F. Amodeo, for Great; Barrier.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Chelmsford, s.s., 70, C. Hopkins, for Whangamata and Whakataue.— Northern S.S. Co., agents.

DEPARTURES. Southern Cross, s.s., for ellington via East Coast. Waiotahi, s.s., for Tauranga and Opotiki. Wellington, s.s., for WhangareL lona, s.s., for Great Barrier. Chelmsford, b.s., for Whangamata and Whakatune.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : Mataarft, barqu«, sailed March 5. Tekoa, s.s. (via South), sailed March 8. Maori, s.s., via the South, sailed Mar. 23. Duke of Buckingham, s.s., sailed April 14. Ruapehu, s.s., loading. Helen Deuny, barque, to sail April 15. NEW YORK -. Crescent, barque, via Dunedin, sailed January 16 Mary Hasbrouck, barque, sailed Feb. 12. Abiel Abbot, barquentine, sailed Mar. 4. H. J. Libbv, barque, to sail April 20 (via Duueiiin and Lytteltoa). Doris Eckhoff, barque, to sail JAprilj 25 (via Wellington) lAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., due May 21. Ii'DNEY : Boomerang, H.M.S., early. Monowai, R.M.S., Friday. NEWCASTLE : Grasmere, barque, sailed May 4. I Wenona, barque, sailed May 14. tOWNSVILLE : Eliza Firth, brigantine, sailed. SAMOA : Alameda, R.M.s., May 21. Hapieb : Daroy Pratt, brigantine, early, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London- : iSardhana, barque, loading. JTEW YOKK ; Motley, brigantine, loading, St. Lucie, barque, to load. BAN FRANCISCO : Monowai, R.M.s., May 21. BYDNKY: Alameda, R.M.s., about May 21, Te Kapo, 8.3., May 24. tlJl: Ovalau, s.s., Saturday. JONGA : Upolu, s.a., June 7. Samoa : Monowai, R.M.s., May 21. Upolu, s.s,, June 7.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day.—Mahinapua arrives at Onehunga ac 1 p.m.; Manapouri arrives from South. Thursday.—Manapouri leaves for South ftt noon ; Mahinapua leaves Onehunga at 1 $.m.; Ovalau arrives from Westport. Friday.—Monowai arrives from Sydney. Saturday.—Alameda arrives from Honolulu and leaves for Sydney; Takapuna arrives at Onehunga at daylight, and leaves again at 3 p.m. ; Monowai leaves for Samoa, Honolulu, and San Francisco at 2 p.m.; Ovalau leaves for Fiji at 5 p.m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day. — lona arrives from Great Barrier; Gairloch arrives from Waitara. Thursday.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymonth at 1 p.m. ; lona leaves for Kuaotunu, Tairua, and Mercury Bay at 9 p.m. ; Wellington arrives from Whaugarei. Friday.Clansman arrives from Russell early, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.in ; Wellington leaves for Whaugarei, MLarsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Thames Service. — Rotomahanaor Chelmsford leaves for Thames daily, and s.s. Ohinemuri leaves for Paeroa twice weekly.

BAURAKI S.S. CO.'3. MOVEMENTS. This Day.—Paeroa arrives from Paeroa; Maori leaves for Wade at 6 p.m. Thcrsday.—Ruby arrives from MangaWfti; Maori arrives from Wade. Feiday.—Paeroa leaves for Paeroa at 3.30 a.m. ; Ruby leaves for Paeroa at 12 mid* night; Maori le.tves for Wade at 8 p.m. Satckday.—Paeroa arrives from Paeroa; Maori arrives from Wade. Monday.—Ruby arrives from Paeroa.

VESSKIiS IN lIAKHUUK. [Thin li.t • !<>—« net include -oaslw.) Ringarooma, H.M.s., in stream. Arawiita, s.s., in stream. Timaru, ship, in stream. Sardhana, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Northern Chief, barque, in stream. Devonport, barnue, in stream. Annie Reed, barque, at No. 2 Jetty. St. Lucie, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Killarney, barque, in stream. Zeno, brigantine, in stream. Motley, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty. _ Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Pitcairn, schooner, in stream. Silver Cloud, 3-maated schooner, at Breastwork. Frank Guy, 3-masted schooner, at Breastwork. Christine, whaling schooner, at Breastwork. Welcome, schooner, in stream.

IMPORTS. Per Killarney,from Newcastle: 600 tons coal. Per Welcome, from Brisbane: 180 tons bonedust and bones. Yesterday evening the barque Killarney, Captain Hawkes, arrived in harbour from Newcastle, after a passage of 17 days, with a full cargo of coal. The master reports that he left Newcastle on April 30. and westerly winds were experienced for the first three days, when the wind backed into the southeast and blew a terrific gale, with a high mountainous sea, during which the vessel laboured very heavily, but sustained no damage. The weather then moderated, and the wind was from S. to W. until making the Three Kings on Sunday last. Down the coast S.W. winds were experienced until arrival.

The schooner _ Welcome, Captain D. R. Cooper, arrived in harbour yesterday evening after a passage of 16 days from Brisbane, bringing a cargo of bonedust and bones. Captain Cooper reports havinsr sailed from Brisbane on the Ist. Litrht airs and calms were met with for the first four days. A heavy southerly Rale, with high sea, was then encountered, and lasted for 24 hours. Light variable winds then continued until sighting the Three Kings on Sunday morning last. The North Cape was rounded the same afternoon, and light S.W. winds prevailed until arrival.

Last night the Union Co.'3 steamer Southern Cross left for Wellington via the East Coast.

The Northern Co.'s steamers Waiotahi, for Tauranga and Opotiki; Wellington, for YVhangarei, and Chelmsford for Whakataue and Whangarnata, all lett last evening. Yesterday the steam launch Despatch towed the barque Devonport to an anchorage in the stream, where she will complete her overhauling. The three-masted schooner Frank Guy will go into the stream this morning. The brigantine Eliza Firth is daily expected from Townsville with a cargo of bonedust, etc. The Union Co.'s steamer Manaponri may be expected to arrive this morning, she having left Gisborne at 10 a.m. yesterday. H.M.s. Goldfinch has arrived at Lyttc-ltcn from the Chatham Islands. Last night the s.s. lona arrived from Mercury Bay and Kuaotunu with several passengers and a quantity of gum and sundries. She left for the Great Harrier shortly afterwards, and returns this evening. The ship Colutnba. which left this port on January 19, has arrived at London, after a passage of 118 days. The barques Flora and Lottie Moore have arrived at New York from this port, after respective passages of 107 and 97 days. At Newcastle (N.S.YV.) recently the officials whose duty it is to look after tha trim of vessels leaving that port loaded with coal have been exercising great caution as to the matter of overloading. In one case the inspector proceeded on board a vessel which was anchored in the stream ready for sea, and told the captain that his vessel was loaded down two inches too deep, and ordered the discharge oJ$) tuns of coal. The captain complained against this, asserting that the vessel had her usual cargo 011 board at the time, and that vessels are more buoyant by five inches in salt water than they are in fresh ; so that, allowing for the fresh in the harbour at the time, his vessel .would be about riding oa the Phmsoll mark

ft the time. The inspector, however, contends that the vessel was lying at a buoy in the channel in saltwater; but shipmasters flitter, an ° say that the water in Newcastle xiarbour is a mix to re of salt and fresh, and that they should therefore load to average salt and fresh water draught. At Melbourne recently the certificate of Captain Duder, of the steamer Nemesis, was suspended for a month, the Marine Board contending that he had been guilty of negligent navigation whereby his vessel went aground in the South Channel. The Melbourne Argus takes the Board to task for their verdict, asserting that the evidence clearly showed that the Nemesis was led into a trap by the placing of a new green light, unknown to the captain, on No. 11 buoy, where it was mistaken for the green light on No. 15. Tiie most important Feature of the case was the disclosure of a most perfunctory method of notifying changes of lights and beacons. The official notice was a newspaper advertisement published once, a few days before the light was placed, and a notice posted at the shipping office, where it was onvered over by other notices almost immediately. "In the face of these facts the Court made a scapegoat of Captain Duder bv exaggerating a minor point to cover the conspicuous incompetence of the Marine Board's arrangements. The complaint that the captain failed to verify his position when he got into the warning white light from Arthur's Seat was answered by the fact that navigation was still safe while he was on the right side of No. 15 buoy, w ich the newly lit beacon was takea to be, and having no knowledge that the beacons were altered, the captain had no motive to so verify his course. The verdict also stultifies itself by suspending the certificate, and then gravely announcing that the establishment of the new light which sent the Nemesis ashore was not sufficiently published." Captain Duder will be remembered as having been in the employ of the Union S.S. Co. for some years. The iron steamer Westport was wrecked last month at Rockfort, California. Both engineers, a steward, one fireman, and one sailor were drowned. The vessel was lying under cable waiting for daylight to load. The captain made several attempts to reach the bow of the vessel to cut the cable. Once the sea carried him into the galley and again I threw him against the poop, nearly breaking his back. Finally the tremendous sea power caused the cable to lift and carry across the vessel's deek the 43001b anchor, 30 fathoms of 2-inch chain and the '20-foot log buoy. Then the vessel dragged the 37001b anchor by the head line and struck South point, a steep rooky promontory. Orders were given to launch the life-raft. As soon as the raft was in the water the second engineer and first mate were washed iuto the sea. The engineer was carried out to s»a, but the mate succeeded by superhuman efforts in reaching the vessel. By this time the raft had broken away and gouo to sea. The captain stood upon the bridge when the vessel struck. The rail being against the bluff and the house being loose, the captain left the house and the vessel, stepping from the rail upon the perpendicular face of the bluff. After climbing 100 feet up the steep bluff tho captain found a narrow ledge to stand upon. A life line was thrown to him from the d«ck. He saved ten of the crew, tour losing t'leir footing in trying to climb the bluff and being washed away and drowned. The steward was the first to lose his footing and fall into the soa.