SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8964, 23 August 1892, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

High Wji'.-kb at Auckland—7.43 a.m.; 8.3 P-ra. Mnnnkau —10.23 a.m.; 10.43 p.m. Sun nUei. 6.35 a.in.: sets, 5.31 p.m. jjoos—First quarter 31st, 1.9 a.iu. — WEATHER FORECAST. rar.tain Edwin wired from Wellington yesterday at 12.30 p.m.:—Glass further fail. Wind changing by the south. ARRIVALS. Wellington, s.s., 279, E. Stephenson, from Whangarei. Passengers : Mesdames Vokes, Bergquist, Miss Cain, Rev. Father Mahoney, Messrs. Clark, Porter, Blackmore, Rutherford, Hempter, Duxiield, Call, Smith, Armitage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Venus, sketch, 38, J. Urquhart, from Gisborne.—M. Isliccol, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDSClansman, s.s., 326, W. Farquhar, for Russell r-nd the North.Northern S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES' Clansman, s.s., for Russell and the North. EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

LONDON' : Rangatira, s.s., to-morrow. Star of England, s.s., sailed July 9. Duke of Argyle, s.s., sailed August2. ris' Eckhoff, barque, sailed April 30. New Zealand, barque, via the South, sailed May 23. Essex, barque, via Wellington, sailed June 2. Elinor Vernon, barquentine, loading, SAN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.s,, early, CALCUTTA: Rotokino, 8.5., sailed July 23. NEWCASTLE : Heather Bell, barque, early. MOUNT KEMBLA (N.S.W.) : Buster, barquentine, early. SAMOA: Upolu, s.s , Thursday. Mariposa, R.M.s., early. FIJI : Poherua, s.s., to-day. CONGA: Upolu, 8.5., Thursday, TAHITI : Richmond, s.s., early. RABOTONGA : Richmond, s.s., early.

PROJECTED DEPARTUUIS3. jx>npon: . Forfarshire, ship, loading, NEW YORK: Mary Hasbrouck, barque, loading, SAN /KAN CISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., September 10. SYDNEY: Talune, s.s., August 30. SAMOA: Upolu, 5.3., August 30. TONGA: Upolu, s.s., August SO. TAHITI : Richmond, s.s., about September 10. EAROTONGA: Jessie Niccol, schooner, Wednesday. Richmond, s.s., about September 10.

UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Wairarapa, arrives from South. Wednesday.—Kanieri, arrives from East Coast; Mahinapua, at Onehunga; Janet Nicoll arrives from South, and leaves for Greymouth; Southern Cross leaves for Gisborue at 2 p.m. Thursday.Upolu, arrives from Tonga; Mahinapua, leaves Onehunga at 1 p.m.; Wairarapa, for South at noou; Kanieri, for East Coast.

NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day. — Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m.; Chelmsford for Whaugamata and Wnakatane, at 5 p.m. ; Waiotahi for Tauranga and Opotiki, at 7 p.m. ; Douglas for Whangarei town wharf, at 5 p.m.; Argyle for Great Barrier, at 11 p.m. Wednesday.—Gairloch arrives from Waitara; Glenelg leaves for Raglan, Opunake, and Wanganui at 1 p.m. , Thursday.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei; Argyle leaves for Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu at 7 p.m. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell esrly and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. ; Waiotahi arrives from Tauranga and Opotiki e;;rly ; Wellington leaves for ' Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Thames Service.—Rotomahana or Ohinemuri leaves for Thames daily, ands.3. Paeroa leaves for Paeroa twice weekly. HAURAKI S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.— arrives from Matakana. Wednesday.Ruby arrives from Mangawai; Maori leaves for Wade at 3 p.m. Thursday.Maori arrives from Wade. Friday.—Maori leaves for Wade at 5 p.m. Saturday.—Maori arrives from Wade. VESSELS IN At* UK. [Thin li-t .lues not include coaster*.) H.M.s. Goldfinch, in stream. Arawata, s.s., in stream. Forfarshire, ship, at Queen-street Wharf, limaru, ship, in stream. Mary Hasbrouck, barque, at Quay-st. Jetty. Kathleen Hilda, barque, at Hobson-street Wharf. Waitemata, barqnentine, at Railway Wharf. Zeno, brigantiue, in stream. Darcy Pratt, brigautine, at Breastwork. Adelaide, three-masted schooner, at Railway Wharf. Yiiabel, schooner, in stream. Jessie Niccol, schooner, at Qoeen-sfc. Wharf. Ivanhoe, schooner, in stream. Olive, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Marmion schooner, in stream. Gratitude, ketch, at Breastwork. IMPORTS. Per Venus, from Gishorne : 100 sacks maize, 7 casks tallow, 2 tons bones. Per Marmion, from South : 252 sacks black Tartarian oats. —W. J. Hurst <ind Co. Per Marmion : 100 sacks table potatoes, 58sacks fowl wheat. Per Wairarapa: 120 sacks potatoes, 5 cases bacon, 90 cases apples. Per Janet Nicoll: 175 sacks potatoes.— and Arthur, agents.

The ketch Venus, from Gisborne, comes up in charge of Captain John Urquhart, who recently took the cutter Fanny down to the East Coast port. The Veuuß is to go on to Messrs. Henderson and Spraggon's slip, for the purpose of being thoroughly overhauled, on completion of which she will load up for Giiborne again. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer, Clansman, left for Russell and Northern porta last evening. Owing to bad weather, the Northern S.S. Company's steamers YVaiotahi and Douglas did not leave for their respective ports last evening. Should the weather prove favourable they will leave this evening—the Waiotahi, for Tauranga aud Opotiki, at 7 p.m., and the Douglas, for the Whaugarei town j wharf, at 5 p.m. j The schooner Marmion, from Lyttelton, did not berth at the wharf to discharge yesterday, but will do so this morning if the weather has moderated. A notice to consignees by the Tyser Company's steamer, Indramayo, appears in our advertisement columns. The Northern S.S. Co.'s steamer Chelmsford is to leave for Whangamata and VVhakatane this evening. The s.s. Argyle did not leave for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay last night. She is to leave for the Great Barrier to-night. The departure of the Union S.S. Co.'s steamer Southern Cross, for the East Coast and Wellington, has been postponed until to-morrow evening. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s steamer Ruahine, which left here on Friday evening, reached Wellington on Sunday night. The barque Kathleen Hilda has been fixed by Mr. M. Niccol for Newcastle, to load coal for this port. From here she will take about 250 tons of flour. The ketch Gratitude is to load timber for Lyttelton, either here or at the Thames. One of the new pearling ketches built by Messrs. Lane ana Brown, of Whangaroa, for the Queensland pearl fishery, is at present alongside the Railway Wharf, having come to this port for the purpose of being measured by the proper authorities. She is a very handsome little craft, having a yacht-like appearance, and has been named the Little "Bill- Her dimensions are : —Length overall, 50 feet; beam, 11 feet 8 inches; depth, 6 feet; tonnage, about 13 tons. She has been built to the order of Mr. Clarke, of Brisbane, who has had quite a number of similar vessels built at Whangaroa and Kaipara. Messrs. Lane and Brown have another ketch similar to the one here in course of construction. .... ,r ! ' " Yesterday the schooner Olive came out of Auckland Graving Dock, and berthed at the Queen-street wharf. She is to proceed to Brisbane in a few days to take up her new trade in the pearl-fishing industry. By the Union S.S. Co. s steamer Takapuna, which left for the South yesterday, Captain Svendsen, formerly master of the lost schooner Louie, ana latterly chief officer of the barque Wenona, left, for Lyttelton to assume command of the schooner, Annie Hill - V ■ V . ' > fir-'-i The existing nomenclature of. the different , spars of a five-masted vessel is given in a " recent issue of the London Nautical Maga«ine, in reply to the query of a correspondent.

It says they are called fore, main, after-main or centre, mizzen and jigger. The 3.a. Wellington arrived from Whangarei at 2 o'clock this morning, bringing a number of and ft quantity of kauri gum and sundries. She leaves for Whangarei again to-night at 10 30 0 clock. The 8.3. Ruby, which took the Manga footballers over to Whangarei on Saturday, was till there when the > Wellington left last evening, the weather being too boisterous for her to get away.— The Mowban, a new four-masted steel sailing ship, which sailed from Sunderland on June 21, for Portland, Oregon, is said to bo the largest sailing ship built on the north coast of England. She is owned by Iredale and Porter, of Liverpool, and her dimensions are : Length, 316 feet; beam, 44 feet; depth |of hold, 24 feet 8 inches. Her gross regisi tered tonnage is 2872; cargo-carrying capacity, 4300 tons, and her crew consists of 27 hands all told. ■ , The first barge loaded with English coal I shipped at Newcastle for Canada, lias arrived in the canal basin at Ottawa. . The experiment is declared by the importers to he a great success. It shows that English coal can be placed on the market at a _ lower rate than the coal conveyed to the capital by rail from Pennsylvania or any other of the United States coalfields. The shipments of coal and ooke at the port of Cardiff for the month of May amounted to 1,271,374 tons, an increase of 143,960 tons when compared with the corresponding month of last year. The shipments that month were also the largest on record, the next being March of this year, when the quantity was 1,223,207 tons. An English exchange says-.--The new Spanish torpedo gun-vessel Temerario, which was built at Carthagena, and which is a sister to the Audaz and Nueva Espana, building at Caracas, and to the Veloz, Galicia, ana Rapido, building at Ferrol, has made on her trials 16"5 knots with natural and 20"5 knots with forced draught. The dimensions of each of these six vessels are Length, 190 feet 3 inches; beam, 22 feet 11 inches; draft aft, 10 feet 4 inches; displacement, 550 tons. There are two cylindrical and _ two locomotive boilers. With the two ordinary boilers 650 h.p. can be developed. The armament consists of two 47 inches Hontoria breech-loading, four 2"2 inches (6pr) quickfiring, and one 1 inch machine gun, with two torpedo tubes. , The small screw gunboats which are being built by Messrs. Yarrow for the Admiralty, for service on Lake Nyassa, are, says a correspondent, to be appropriately named Pioneer and Adventurer. There was a Pioneer, a screw gun vessel of 868 tons, 350horse power, and six guns, built at Pembroke in 1856; and after her came a composite despatch vessel of the same name, of 540 tons, built in 1874. I don't think that an Adventurer has ever figured in the navy, and I suspect, therefore, that the craft now constiuctmg at Poplar will ultimately be called the Adventure, after the vessel which was purchased into the navy in 1855, and which was a sister ship to the Assistance. Her name, originally Resolute; was changed to Adventure m February, 1557. The_ Pioneer was in China during the war of 1856 60, and in New Zealand during the war of 1860-64; and an earlier Pioneer, under Osborne, was engaged in Arctic exploration in 1850-52. The Adventure also saw service in China. Both names are of old standing. Three years ago the first wlialeback was launched: now there are twenty-five of them in use. Twenty are in the inland waters, one On the Pacific, and four on the Atlantic. A shipyard is being prepared ou Paget Sound for the building of this class of craft. At West Superior, eight are building, six being steamers, and none of them less than 322 feet in length. Two more are to be laid down shortly. Alexander McDougall, the inventor of the'whaleback, is an Islay man, and was for some years a pilot on Lake Superior. He predicts that when the enlargement of the St. Lawrence Canal is completed, the Canadian route will do most of the freight trade both ways for the American West. He insists that very little grain will go farther East than Chicago by rail, and he is confident that Montreal harbour will fail to accommodate the vessels that will seek it as a destination.

The sea carriage of coal finds employment for a very considerable section of the British mercantile marine. The trade is, and has always been attended with most serious dangers, and these have by no means diminished, notwithstanding that the economics of cargo carrying have developed so phenomenally and scientifically during the past few years. There is a striking resemblance in the majority of disasters that overtake coalladen vessels. After the vessel has been some 60 or 70 days oat, heating takea place; water is poured upon that part of the cargo that shows the greatest rise in temperature. This does not materially check the process of combustion, and then explosions follow; if these does not wreck the ship, smoke and flame soon drive the crew to the boats, and the vessel is abandoned—a " mass of flames from seem to stern " settling down fact." Such, in plain language, is the stereotyped account of the loss of many a fine coal-laden vessel, and such has probably been the history of many a disaster from which no survivor has been left to tell the tale.

DEPARTURES. Takapuna, s.s., Grant, for _ the South. Passengers : Miss Knight, Captain Svendsen, Messrs. Stevenson, Furuess, A. W. Eaton, \V. A. Craig, H. Hushes, H. Dacre, Gregg, Rowe, Hough, Williams, Chamberlain, Brown, Evans, Ramsay, Western, and fire in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, for New Plymouth. Passengers: Miss Smith, Messrs. Burns, Tanner, Donovan, Perrett, Coulton, Ripley, Brown, Wirth's Circus Company, and six in the steerage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents.

The Union Co.'s s.s. Takapuna, Captain Grant, left the wharf yesterday morning for the South, with passengers and cargo. At 1.20 p.m. yesterday the Northern Co.'s s.s. Gairloch took her departure for New Plymouth end Waitara with cargo and passengers, among whom were Wirth Brothers' Circus troupe. _ - An easterly gale was blowing yesterday, but the steamers got away as usual.