SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8882, 19 May 1892, Page 4

SHIPPING.

ftIQH Wan at Auckland—ll.l7 a.m.; IH9 p.m. L» - Mxnnkaa—l.s7 a.in.; 2.29 p.m. {wr-—Risen, 0.53 a.m.; gets, 4 58 p.m. •loos— quarter, 20th, 133 a.in. ARRIVALS. _ Manapouri, b.8., 1020, E. Wheeler, from Melbourne, Hobart, and Southern ports, Passengers: Mesdames Black, Brown and three children, Jones, Darling and family 15). Fry or and child, Bewa, Towsey, Gabites, Broagnton, Hunt and four childreu, Rigger tod six children, Brett, Millard, Pollen, Misses Bews, Millet, Towsey, Price, Rainey, Gray, Humphries, Waldrum, White, Gifford, Pewter, Rev. C. G. Grubb, Dr. Polleu, Messrs. W. E. Craig, J. Black, Brown, Jones, Hanmer, J, Scelye, C. Cunningi: un, H. Gray, Gabitea, Bunting, Alexander (2), Hugo, H. A. Banuer, Neal, S. Phillips, Joyce, Crumby, Atkinson, E. Brown, Chamberlain, Nolan, Millard, White, Edbank, E. Robson. the Myra Kemble Comedy Company 114), ana 20 in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. lona, a, 179, F. Amodeo, from Great Carrier. Passengers: Mesdames Barney, push, Miss Springall. Messrs. Bush. Morrow, Itidings, Cooper, and Bush. —Northern 0.0. Do., agents.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Mataura, barque, sailed March 5. Tekoa, s.s. (via South), sailed March 8. Maori a., via the South, sailed Mar. 23. Duke of Buckingham, s.s., sailed April 14. Ruapehu, 3.5., loading. Helen Denny, barque, to sail April 10. tiw Yolih : . Crescent, barque, via Dunedin, sailed

January 16 Mary Hasbrouck, barque, sailed Feb. 12. Abiei Abbot, barqueiitme, sailed Mar. 4 H. J. Lib by, barque, to sail April 20 (via Dunedin and Lyttelton). Doris Kckhotf, barque, to sail April 25 (via Wellingtou) JAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.S., due May 21. IYDNKV: Boomerang, H.iLs., early. Mouowai, R.M.s., Iriday. IJEWCASTLK: . Graamere, barque, sailed May 4. Wenona, barque, sailed May 14. fOWNSVILI.K : Eliza Firth, brigantine, sailed, IAMGA : Alameda, R.M.3., May 21. •apiekDarcy Pratt, brigantine, early.

j PROJECTED DEPARTURES, lofi c*: J>uiui.»na, barque, loading. SEW yukk: Motley, brigantine, loading. St. Lucie, barque, to load. LAN FRANCISCO : Monowai, R.M.S., May 21. SYDNEY : . „ „ Alameda, R.M.S., about May 21* Te Kapo, 6.5., May 24. TlJl : Ovalau, a.8., Saturday. lON (J A : Upolu, a.8., June 7. JjLMOA : Monowai, R.M.s May 21. Upolu, t.s., June 7.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. This Day.—Manapouri leaves for South It noon ; Mahinapua leaves Onehunga at 1 p.m.; Ovalau arrives from estport. Friday.Monowai arrives from Sydney. Saturday.—Alameda arrives from Honolulu and leaves for Sydney ; Takapuna arrives at Ouehunga 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.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m. ; lona leaves for Kuaotunu, 3'uirua, and Mercury Bay at 9 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whaugarei. Friday.— arrives trom Russell Parly, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. , „. , Thames SEKVicE.—Rotomahanaor Chelmsford leaves for l'limnes daily, and 8.9. Ohinemuri leaves for Paeroa twice weekly. HAURAKI S.S. CO.'S. MOVEMENTS. This Day. — Ruby arrives from Mangattrai; Maori arrives from Wade. Friday.—Paeroa leaves for Paeroa at 3.30 a.m. ; Ruby leaves for Paeroa at 12 midBight; Maori leaves for Wade at 8 p.m. Saturday.—Paeroa arrives from Paeroa; Maori arrives from Wade. Monday.Ruby arrives from Paeroa.

VESSEL IN HAUIJUUK. [Thin li-t •!»«» »"t include • oaatert.] tlingarooma, in stream. Arawata, s.s., ill stream. Timaru, ship, in stream. Sardhana, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Northern Chief, barque, in stream. Devonport, barque, in stream. Annie Reed, barque, at No. 2 Jetty. St. Lucie, barque, at Queen-street W hart. Killarnev, barque, at Railway Wharf. Zeao, 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 Breast-

work. Frank Guy, 3-masted schooner, at Breastwork. Christine, whaling schooner, at Breastwork. Welcome, schooner, at No. 2 Jetty.

IMPORTS. Per Manapouri, s.s., from Melbourne and the South : 325 bags bark, 1463 bags oats, 105 sacks flour, 320501b bags flour, 230 sacks oatmeal, 430 sacks potatoes, IS sacks bran, 14 sacks pollard, 10 sacks barley, 5 sacks peas, 101 sacks onions, 467 sacks wheat, 39 sacks Beed, 8 sacks hides, 50 tapioca, 61 cases tea, 20 cases M. H. cartridges, 339 cases castor oil, 25 cases wine, 185 cases jam, 60 cases medicine, 90 boxes soap, 176 cases meats, and quantity of sundries, and transhipments £or 'iji, Tauranga, Frisco, and Honolulu. Per Manapouri : 12 cases bacon and lard, 60 sacks oatmeal.—T. H. Hall and Co. Per Manapouri, from the South : New Zealand Express Company (Campbell and Crust), 27 packages.

At ten o'clock yesterday moraine the Union Company's steamer Manapouri, Captain E. Wheeler, arrived in harbour from Melbourne via Southern ports. The purser reports that the steamer left Melbourne at 3.45 p.m. on the sth inst., arriving at Hobart at 7.50 a.m. on the 7th. On the same evening at 4.45 cleared for New Zealand ports, and arrived at the Bluff at daylight on the 9th. Cast off again at 4.50 p.m. and arrived at Port Chalmers at 8 a.m. Proceeded up stream to Dunedin at 1 30 p.m., where she lay until 3 p.m. on the 11th, when she cleared for Lyttelton, and arrived there at 10 a.m. on the 12th. Left again for Wellington at 11 p.m., and reached there at 4 p.m. next day. Was weather-bound until 3 p.m. on 15th, when she sailed tor Napier, arriving at 11.30 a.m. on the 16th. Sailed again for Ciisborne at 9 m. and was in the Bay at daylight on the 17th, clearing again at 10 a.m. for Auckland, arriving ay above. Experienced moderate weather from Melbourne to Lyttelton, from there to Wellington met ■with heavy head wind and sea ; from there to arrival tine weather. On the last trip of the Manapouri from the Bluff to Melbourne, via Hobart, she experienced very rough weather. The Manapouri is well knows, however, as a very comfortable seaboat on such occasions, and just before her arrival at Melbourne the passengers assembled in the saloon, and Mr. W. B. Lallinstein, of Dunedin, on their behalf, thanked Captain Wheeler, who was present, for the constant care and attention which had been bestowed on them during the passage. Captain Wheeler acknowledged the compliment paid to himself and officers and to the vessel. _ The cutler Gipsy arrived from the East Coast yesterday with a cargo of grain. She experienced some heavy weather on the trip up, but suffered no damage. The s.s. lona arrived from the Great Barrier last evening, with a number of passengers and a quantity of sundries. At high ■water last night she went into dock for cleaning and overhaul, and will resume her running for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay tonight. The three-masted schooner Frank Guy was towed to an anchorage in the stream yesterday morning. The barque Killarney has berthed at the Railway wharf, to discharge her cargo of coal.

The schooner Welcome berthed at No. 2 jetty, yesterday, to discharge her cargo of boned ust. H.M.s. Riugarooma took in some coal, yesterday, but will not leave until after the Queen's Birthday for Wellington. The American barquentine St Lucie took in some cargo for New York yesterday. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka arrived at Wellington from London, via Hobart, yesterday Union Company's steamer Talune was taken over to Melbourne by Captain Neville, sf the s.B. Hauroto. Captain Chatheld, late •f the s.s. Mararoa, who has been on a holiday there, will assume command of the Talune. , , , ~ The IndependiJice Beige announces that it is about to publish a series of articles from an eminent English authority, showing the

decay of the British navy. It has reached such a stage that Great Britain IB on the direct road to a naval Sadowa. The Otago Harbour Board's dredge worked five days last week at Wellington removing silt from the site of the proposed new wharf, and lifted 6000 tons, equal to 4500 yards. Mr. Ferguson, engineer to the Board there, who expresses himself satisfied with the progress made so far, estimates that 90,000 yards will require to be taken away before the erection of the new wharf can be proceeded with The dredge was not at work lust Saturday, the men belonging to her being engaged in overhauling the machinery. It is intended to worK only five days each week, so as to allow the machinery to be overhauled every Saturday. The dredge is leased from the Otago Board for six months at a rental of £250 per month, the Wellington Board paying all expenses—probably ioOO or £600 each month. It is expected that the two new Cuuard j line steamers building at Govan, Scotland, with triple expansion engines of at least 50 I per tent, more indicated horse-power than the Teutonic and Majestic, will attain a speed of 22 to 224 knots an hour, which will mean a minimum passage of about ft days 4 ! hours across the Atlantic. In 1878 the Britannic, to make the passage in 7 days 11 hours, indicated 5100 horse power, and consumed 100 tons of coal a day. Either of these new boats, in making the same passage in 5 days 4 hours,will indicate 26.000 horse-power, and will consume 410 tons of coal a day. It will be seen that to gain '2$ days on the passage it is necessary to multiply the horsepower by five and the daily consumption of coal by four, notwithstanding that at least 25 per cent, more efficiency is gained from the fuel by the adoption of triple engines.

A VALUABLE MARINE INVENTION. In August lost Mr. G. A. Walker, son of Captain Walker, and Brother to Mr. T. H. Walker, of the Berea Academy, Durban, was drowned in the straits of Malacca. 23 miles from the nearest shore. The deceased while in 'he Cuuard mail service, invented an " instrument call and speed and revolution indicator and engine tell-tale," for which he had taken out provisional protection only a tew months before his death. At that time he wrote : —" I have entire confidence in the success of my invention, and believe it will mean a fortune. All the eugineers I have consulted affirm that there is nothing like it."' This opinion, says the Durban Mercury, has been confirmed by Mr. H. Burrill, who has seen the model for exhibition ordered by the inventor, which was lying at the model makers in Liverpool awaiting him. Mr. Burrill says it is a beautiful model, and on trial worked splendidly, to the entire satisfaction of those present. The engineers were delighted; it is an invention that engineers have been trying to get for some years. The instrument is worked by electricity, stands on the bridge, and is for the captain to give orders to the engineers, registering each order given, while it strikes electric bells of different sounds. It will last for years, and in harbour can be unshipped and stowed away. There is nothing like it in the market, the present instrument being a pneumatic one. The invention is described as most ingenious, and must have necessitated much thought and scudy; as a matter of fact, the invention took several years to perfect. The patentee agent in Liverpool declared that it would be of the greatest use where traffic is great, enabling steamers to avoid collisions. Messrs. Alexander McGerch and Co., the London electric engineers, ho fitted out the U.S.S. Scot, are the managing agents, and Mr. Burrill feels confident that trie invention will be a success. It is greatly to be regretted that the inventor did not live to reap the reward of his invention. The invention under notice would have appeared at the recent Naval Exhibition, anil have made the subject of a course of lectures in the Nautical College of Liverpool, but for his lamented decease. His father has taken measures to properly protect the patent.

OCEAN TRAVELLING. About nine years ago an attempt was made to revolutionise ocean travelling. The first experiments of the inventor was the building of the Meteor. She was designed by A. Perry Bliven, a native of Rhode Island. She whs intended to be the queen of ocean greyhounds. When she was ready for trial, however, it was discovered that her engines would not move her screw, and, under such circumstances, confidence in the boat was lost. She was converted into a ateam yacht, and now flies the commodore's pennant of the American Yacht Club over the less pretentious name of Golden Rod. Although he had sunk a considerable sum of money in the craft, the Meteor's designer made the best of the situation, said nothing and made a fresh start. He had learned a great deal in his experiment, and he was more convinced than ever before that the future of ocean travel would depend largely upon the utilisation of huh pressure of attain, developed by light generators of great strength and economy, and applied to engines a simple as possible, but capable of standing the strain of tremendous steam pressure ana rapid work. Lightness and compactness, together with great jrower, was the inventor's aim in machinery and equipments. Lines as fine as those of a raciug yacht were his ideals for form of hull, arid a schedule time of less than five days across the Atlantic the ultimate object. Mr. Bliven set to work to study it all out more carefully. He has the details all worked out, and promises that before three months are over a ship 300 feet long will be well under way, backed by all the capital necessary. A model of a 430-feet water-line boat is about completed, and will be placed on exhibition in a few days. A hull 50 feet long has been built at Peekskill, and when her machinery is aboard a practical test will be made, the object being mainly to prove which is the more economical, a quadruple expansion or double compound balanced piston engine. _ The features of the proposed steamship are its yachtlike form, its similarity to the big palace sound steamers in general appearance and arrangement of cabins, the application of three screws driven by power developed in steam generators, and the use of aluminium bronze us material for all her machinery. Mi. Bliven claims that this metal has been the direct means of making it practicable to use an enormous pressure of steam in ocean navigation. The total capacity of the ship is 4000 tons of freight, 1500 steerage, 600 second-class and 800 first-class passengers, the total displacement loaded being 8000 tons. A stock company has been formed with a capital stock of 1,000,000 dollars. The company is known as the Bliven Palace Steamship Co. Mr. Spencer told a reporter that the company has faith in the patents it will control, as well as in this type of steamship, and that plenty of money has already been raised for the first 300-feet vessel.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA. ARRIVALS. Mahinapua, b.s., W. J. Newton, from the South. Passengers : — Mesdames Holmes and child and maid, McLean and two children, Wells, Fowles, Wilson, Denniston and family, Misses Holmes, Handy, Master Whitcombe, Messrs. Jackson, Brown (2), Low, Mackav, Boundy, Price, Harvey, Eichbaum, Uenniston, White, Mocan, Beaver, and 13 in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, from aitoa. Passengers : Miss Wirth, Mesdames Bluett and child, Gossett, Messrs. Wirth, Telford, Griffiths, Gossett, Gledstanes, and 1 steerage.—A. Barnes, agent.

Shortly before noon yesterday the Union Co.'a s.s. Mahinapua, Captain W. J. Newton, from Wellington via Nelson and New Plymouth, arrived alongside the wharf with a cargo of grain, hops, etc., and passengers as above. The purser reports that she left Wellington at 8 p.m. on the lath instant, and arrived at Nelson at 7.30 a.m. on the 16th. Left there for Taranaki at 11 a m. the same day, arriving the next morning at 2 o'clock. Left Taranaki for the Manukau at 10 15 p.m. on the 17th, and crossed the bar at 10.10 a.m. on the 18th, and arrived at the wharf at 11.45 a.m. Experienced light variable winds with smooth sea throughout. The Northern Co.'s s.s. Gairloch arrived from T aitara at 2.30 in. yesterday with a cargo of stock and several passengers.