SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8888, 26 May 1892, Page 4

SHIPPING.

fliaH Waiter at Auckland—6.l3 vm,; 6.38 p.m. t,»> » Mannkau— 8.53 a.m.; 9.18 p.m. SUM.—Rises, 7.0 a.m.; set!), 4.54 p.m. Moojt—New, to-day, 5.29^p.m. WEATHER FORECAST. Captain Edwin wireil from Wellington yesterday at 1.22 —Indications for frost to-night, _ ARRIVALS. lona, 8.8., 170, F. Amodeo, from Great Barrier.— S.S. Co., agents. „ CLEARED OUTWARDS. Te Kapo, s.r., 1544, Geo. Allman, for Sydney. Passengers: Mesdames Giblin and family (2), Doncrofts and maid, Forsaith, Cad by and child, Scott, Iredale, Hargreaves, MissesDuval, Frankham, Anstead, Rev. T. S. Forsaith, Messrs. Sheath (2), Langdale, de Moirdrey, J. H. White, W. S. Laurie, A. Fitzmaurice, W. H. Cadby, D. Craig, Shackell, E. E. Cadiby, Scott, L. P. Iredalo, E. H. Macan, White, J. Reed, and 14 in the steerage. lrom the South : Six saloon and 9 steerage.—Union S.S. Co.. agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, K. Stephenson, for H'hangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents, DEPARTURES. Te Kapo, S.S., for Sydney. Wellington, s.s., for Whangarei.

EXPECTED ARRIVAL. LONDON : Mataura, b&rqu*. sailed March 5. Tekoa, s.s. (via South), sailed March S. Maori, s.s., via the South, sailed Mar. '23. Celtic King, s.s., via Sydney, early. Duke of Buckingham, s.s., sailed April 14. Duke of Westminster, S.S., sailed May 19. Ruapehu, s.s., loading. Helen Denny, barque, loading. S*K\V YORK : Crescent, barque (arrived at Lyttelton May 21). Mary Hasbrouck, barque, sailed Feb. 12. Abiel Abbot, barquentine, sailed Mar. 4 Doris Eckhoff, barque, to sail April 29 (via Wellington) New Zealand, barque, via the South, to sail May 15.

JVD.N EV : Boomerang, H.M.s., early. NEWCASTLE : Wenona, barque, sailed May 14. rOWNSVILLF. : Eliza Firth, brigantine, sailed. •ABOTONQA : Richmond, s.s., early. ■ahiti: Richmond, s.s., early. SAMOA: Upolu, s.s., early. •nsi: Clansman, schooner, to-day, AIMER '• Darcy Pratt, brigantine, early, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Sardhana, barque, loading, NEW YORK: Motley, brigantine, loading. St. Lucie, baique, loading. SAN FRANCISCO :

Alameda, R.M.s., June 18. SYDNEY: Fiona, 8.5., to-day. tonga : Upolu, s.s., June 7. SAMOA : Upolu, S.S., Juue 7. UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Mahinapua leaves Onehunga. at 1 p.m.; Pukaki arrives from .South; Australia leaves for East Coast at 2 p.m. Friday.—Waihora leaves for South at noon ; Pukaki leaves for Westport. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m. ; lona for Kuaotunu, Tairua, and Mercury Bay ac 9 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell early, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Thames Service. —Rotomahana or Chelmsford leaves for Thames daily, and s.s. Ohincmuri leaves for I'aeroa twice weekly. HAURAKI S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Ruby leaves for Paeroa, at 10 p.m.; Maori arrives from Wade. Friday.—Maori leaves for Wade, at 4 p.m. Saturday.—Ruby arrives from Pacroa; Maori arrives from "Wade.

VESSELS IN At*. ISO UK. [Thin liit <loe» not include coaster*.] IFlingarooma, H.M.s., in stream, Arawata, s.a., in 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 Wharf. Killarney, barque, at Railway Wharf. Grasmere, barque, at Railway Wharf. Zeno, brigantine, in stream. Motley, brigantine, at No. 2 Jetty. Southern Cross, Mission schooner, in stream. Pitcairn, schooner, in stream. Silver Cloud, 3-masted schooner, at Breastwork. Christine, whaling schooner, at Breastwork. Welcome, schooner, at No. 2 Jetty.

EXPORTS. Per Te Kapo, for Sydney: 1 box f;um samples, 60 pieces timber, 25 kegs beef, 71 cases meats, 10 deer, 755 bundles box timber, 31 cases and 2 bags bolts, 2 cases fish, 61 bales flax, 112 coils rope, 3 sacks potatoes, 10 sacks oats, 14 sheets and 2 bars iron, 102 sacks and 35 bag 3 oysters, 79 boxes butter, 55 sacks sand, and sundries. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tekoa left Wellington for VVaitara on Tuesday night to load frozen meat. She comes on to this port, and then goes on to Rockhampton to complete her loading for London.

There was a barque in sight outside of Tiritiri at sundown last evening. She will probably be the Wenona, which left Newcastle on the 14th inst. The Arawa left Rio for London on Monday night, her frozen meat being in good condition. The p.s. lona arrived from the Great Barrier last evening. She leaves for Kuaotvnu and Mercury Bay this evening. Last evening the Union Company's steamer Te Kapo left for Sydney. The 5.3. Wellington left for Whangarei last night. For Wellington, via the East Coast, the s.s. Australia leaves this evening. The departure of the s.s. Waihora, for Southern Ports has been postponed until noon to-morrow. A considerable quantity of gum was taken on board the barqucuti.ne St. Lucie, for New York, yesterday. The origan tine Zeno is to be berthed at the wharf to-day to complete her overhaul. Cap tain McKay, who brought the vessel out from England, left by the Te Kapo for Sydney last evening, Captain Fry having arrived from England and resumed charge. Yesterday morning the s.s. Fiona proceeded up to the sugar works to discharge her sugar cargo. She goes on to Sydney to-day. The Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, notify that on and after the loth June next a beam of red light will be shown from the Sea Hill liidit, Kcppel Bay. between the bearings of S., 6deg. W., and S., 25deg. W. The new schooner scow Willinga, which was built by Messrs. Lane and Brown, of Whangaroa, for the Australian coastal trade, has arrived at Sydney. H.M.s. Curucoa and Royalist arrived at Suva from Sydney on the 11th inst. The former vessel left on the 17th for Lau with lis Excellency the Governor. The ship Avon arrived at Suva from Caluitta on the 6th inst. with 514 coolies. Her lassage occupied 58 days. The ship British Peer left Suva for Calutta on the 3rd inst. with 464 coolies.

The barque Agness arrived at Suva from Sydney on the 4th inst. with coals. Mr. A. M. T. Duncan lias been appointed Lloyd's agent at Suva. H. M.S. Rapid has left Sydney for the Solomon Islands. She is to call at Brisbane, Port Denison, Cairns, and Samarai en route. The well-known schooner Albatross has l>een sold at Sydney to Captain Jackson, who intends to employ her in the coastal trade there. She is a vessel of 77 tons, and was built at Whangapoua in 1874, ii I s. Orlando waf» to leave Sydney for Melbourne and Hobart on Friday last, and will come on here from the latter port. After a short stay here the Orlando will probably proceed on to Fiji, arriving there about the last of July. The agents for the Tyser Lino (Messrs. Stone Brothers and Co.) inform us that the next steamer of the line due here is the Celtic King, which may be expected in about a fortnight s time. She comes by way of Melbourne and Sydney. The Canadian Association of Marine Engineers is asking for legislation to compel foreign engineers seeking employment in Canada to undergo examination as to their ; proficiency. The Association has also petitioned the Minister of Marine to make it loinpulsory upon engineers to exhibit their certificates in their engine-rooms. Captain Lamley recently found at iknappion, Oregon, a piece of pine oar. he blade vasinagoodstateof preservation, but the oar was broken off about wnere it would be used • .n the rowlock. The blade was branded ' Lupata," and was found in the boom at &aappton. It probably belonged to one of

the vessel's small boats. The Lupata was wrecked at Tillamook Bay about 13 years ago, nor a single one on board being saved. There is something remarkable in the way that drift is carried between the Columbia River and points along the coast. Recently the British tugs Pilot and Lome of Nanaimo were libelled by tho United States for a violation of the statute which prohibits foreign tugs from towing American vessels into American ports. In the United States District Court both tugs were fined, the former £128 and the latter £176. J. C. Dunsmuir, owner of the tugs, appealed from the decision of the District Court to the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which has reversed the decision and dismissed tho libel. On the 2f>t!i March there was launched complete from the works of Messrs. William Simons and Co., Renfrew, a twin-screw, suction-pump hopper dredger.named Jupiter, built to order of the N.S. Wales Government, under the direction of Messrs. Coode, Son, and Matthews, C.E., Westminster. The vessel is fitted with two powerful centrifugal pumps and suction pipes of 20J. inches diameter, capable of dredging sand to a depth of 35 feet, the hopper having capacity to contain 530 tons of dredgings. She is pro* pelled by two pairs of tri-eompouud, surfacecondensing engines of 700 indicated horsepower. It was stated recently that the Howard D. Troop, a new sailing snip, ran 2SOO miles in 11 days. Seeing trio report, the master of the ship Mermerus, Captain J. E. Coles, has written :—" I have the pleasure to enclose for your inspection an abstract of the log of the Mermerns on her last outward passage to Melbourne, from which you will observe that during 22 consecutive days, from 17th August to 7th September, 1891, inclusive, the vessel ran a distance of 5964 miles, being an average of just over 11 knots an hour. The best daily runs were 334, 306, 307, 202, and 300 miles.

THE WINEFRED. Particulars of the schooner Winefred at Rotumab, which was announced in our columns about a fortnight ago, reached here by the s.s. Fiona yesterday. It appears that the schooner was wrecked on February 15 at Oniaf, Rotumab. Thi9 place is an open roadstead and does not afford any shelter from northerly or westerly winds. On the morning when she went on shore tho weather was very threatening, with the wind blowing strong from S.S.E. The vessel was discharging cargo, but matters assumed so unfavourable an appearance that an attempt was made to put to sea, but the wind suddenly veered to the W.N. W., and, the chain parting, the schooner was literally blown on shore. There was no time to get sail on her, as the shank parted while preparations for that purpose were being made. The crew, in all, were barely able to save themselves by means of the boats just in what ! they stood, they having no time in which to secure their belongings. On the next morning the vessel was thoroughly broken up, portion of her wreckage and cargo being scattered over the beach. The ship was in- ' sured for £800 in the Sydney office of the South British Insurance Company, and the merchandise belonging to the owner was also insured with the same company for £200. The remainder of the cargo was not insured. I The schooner was in charge of Captain Philip .1 ones, who is well-known in Auckland shipping circles.

AN INTERESTING COMPARISON. The largest sailing vessel afloat is said to be the France, which has been in Australia, and it is interesting to compare her size with the Great Eastern, which helped to make, but scarcely to sustain, the reputation of the late Mr. Brunei. .An imaginative journalist —Mr. John Hollingshead— wrote an article about the Leviathan, as she was first called, for " Household Words,"soon after its inception by Charles Dickens in 1859, and it was therein stated that " the length, breadth, and height of the Leviathan correspond very nearly to the length, breadth, and height of Great George-street, Westminster." The length was 680 feet, while that of the France is .'57.') feet; the breadth of the Great Eastern was 83 feet, the beam of the France being 50 feet; and the height or depth of the two vessels are set down at 58 feet and 34 feet respectively. The tonnage of the Leviathan was nearly 12,000, that of the France is nearly 6160. It will be seen, therefore, that the largest sailing vessel now afloat is about half the size of the huge steamer which was designed for propulsion by paddle wheels. The English monster was too monstrous for utility, and after much money had been lost by the shareholders, and she had been idle for a long time, she was sold for a fraction of her cost; but the France does not appear to be too large for convenience, though it remains for engineers to decide whether her dimensions could be judiciously exceeded.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA. ARRIVALS. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, from New Plymouth.—A. Barnes, agent. Mahinapua, s.s., W . J. Newton, from the South. Passengers : — Mrs. Riddle, Miss Lonsdale, Messrs. Watson, Wingfield, McNau"hton, Lindsay, Osborne, Pearson, Riddle, McKenzie, Allright, Conden, Godkin, Dunlop, Day, Holmes, Ponsford, Bruce, Black, Judge Conolly, Master Watson, and 21 in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Argyle, s.s., Austen, for Wanganui. Passengers : Miss Saunders, Messrs. Hall and Bell.—A. Barnes, agent. The Northern Co.'s s.a. Argyle left for Wanganui, via Raglan and Opunake, shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday with a cargo of sugar, cement, drain pipes, etc. The Union Co.'s steamer Mahinapua arrived in harbour from the South yesterday afternoon. The purser reports that she left Wellington at. 2 p.m. on the 22nd instant, and arrived at Picton at 7.30 p.m. the same day. Left there for Nelson at 5 a.m. on the 23rd, arriving at three p.m. Left Nelson for Taranaki at 6.10 p.m. the same day, and arrived there at 9.15 a.m. on the 24th. Left Taranaki for the Manukau at 10.30 p.m., crossed the Manukau bar at 10.30 a.m. on the 25th, and arrived at the wharf at 12.30 p.m. Experienced strong W. winds and a sea as far as Nelson ; from there to Taranaki had fresh S.W. winds, with moderate sea. From Taranaki to arrival had strong W. winds, with considerable sea.

BY TELEGRAPH. KAIPARA HEADS. Mav 25.—Arrived: Lily, schooner, from Lyttelton. WHANGAREI. May 24.—Arrived : Douglas, a.s., from Auckland. RUSSELL. May —Arrived : Vixen, cutter, from Whangaruru. Sailed: Atlanta, schooner, for Auckland. TAURANGA. May 25.—Arrived : Waiotahi, s.s., from Auckland. WELLINGTON. May 24.—Sailed : Tekoa, s.s., for Waitara. LYTTELTON. May 25.—Arrived : Ardle, s.p., from Newcastle ; Clara, barque, from Melbourne. SYDNEY. May 25—Arrived : R.M.s. Alameda, from Auckland ; Willinga, scow, from Auckland ; Kate Tatliam, barquentine, from Napier. THE lONIC. Hobart, May 25.—The Shaw, Saville, and Albion Co.'s steamer lonic arrived from London at 2.30 o'clock this morning. She leaves for Wellington in the afternoon. She brings 26 passengers for Australia and 86 for Mew Zealand. The list of New Zealand passengers appeared in the Herald on Monday last."