SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8966, 25 August 1892, Page 4

SHIPPING.

IMPORTS.

Bmi Water at Auckland—9.o *.m.; 9.14 p.w. „ Manakau—ll.4o a.m.; ILK) p.m. guV.-Bises, 6.31 a.m.; sets, 5 33 p.m. VlcOS—First quarter 31st, 1.9 a.ni. WEATHER FORECAST. > Captain Edwin wired from Wellington yesterday at 12.15 p.m.:—North-west to west and south gale with rain and colder weather. Glass rise. ARRIVALS. Argyle, a.s., 129, F. Amodeo, from the Great Barrier. Passengers: Messrs. Morris. Edlington, Helston, Charlton, Redhead, and Northern S.S. Co., agents.' Scotchman, auxiliary ketch, 42, J. Bewicke, from Whangarei.— agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS Southern Cross, a.s., 263, Adams, for the East Coast and Wellington. Passenger: One in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES Goldfinch, H.M.s., for the Kermadeca. Southern Cross, s.s., for the East Coast aud Wellington. Queen, schooner, for Hokianga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : Rangatira, s.b., to-day. • Star of England, s.s., sailed July 9. Duke, of Argyle, s.s., sailed August 2. CK' YORK ; Doris Eckhoff, barque, sailed April 30. New Zealand, barque, via the South, sailed May 23. Esses, barque, via Wellington, sailed June 2.

Elinor Vernon, barquentine, loading. . lAN FRANCISCO: Maripcsa, R.M.s,, September 10, DALCUTTA : Rotokino, s.s., sailed July 23. NEWCASTLE: Heathiir Bell, barque, early. mount ke:hbla (N.S.W.) : Buster, barquentine, early. SAMOA: Upolu, s.s, to-day. Mariposa, R.M.s., September 10. FIJI: Poherua, s.s., to-day, Upolu, s.s., to-day. TONGA: Upolu, A.8., to-day. TAHITI : Richmond, s.s., early. BAROTONGA : Richmond, s.s., early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London: Forfarshire, ship, loading, SEW YORK: Mary Hasbronck, barque, loading, SAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., September 10. SYDNEY; lalune, 5.5.., August 30. SAMOA : Upolu, s,s., August 30. TONGA: Upolu, S.S., August 30. TAHITI; Richmond, s.s., about September 10. RAK'JTONGA : Jessie ISiccol, schooner, early. Richmond, a s., about September 10. UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS. Today. — Upolu, arrives from Tonga; Mahinupua, leaves Onehunga at 1 p.m.; Wairarapa, for South at noon ; Kanieri, arrives from East Coast; Janet Nicoll leaves for Grey mouth. Friday.— Kanieri leaves for East Coast at 5 p. in. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. day.—Gairloch leaves for New. Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from. Whangarei; Argyle leaves for Tairna, Mercury Bay, and kuaotunu at 7 p.m. Friday.— Clansman arrives from Russell early and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m. ; Waiotahi arrives from Tauranga and Opotiki early: 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.s. Paeroa 'eaves for Paeroa twice weekly. HAURAKI S.S. CO. ? MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Maori arrives from Wade. _ Friday'.—Maori leaves for Wade at 5 p.m. SATURDAY.— arrives from Wade.

VKSSICLS IN JtIAKBOUK.

[ lliis li-.t <lo«i not include coaster*.) H.M.s. Ringarooma, in dock. Arawata, a.a., in stream. Forfarshire, ship, at Queen-street Wharf. Timaru. ship, in stream. Mary Hasbrouck, barque, at Quay-st. Jetty* Kathleen Hilda, barque, at Hobson-street Wharf. Waitemata, barquentine, in dock. Zeno, brigantine, in stream. Darcy Pratt, brigantine, at Breastwork. Adelaide, three-masted schooner, at Railway Wharf. Ysabel, schooner, in stream. Jessie Niccol, schooner, at Queen-st. Wharf. Ivanhoe, schooner, in stream. Olive, schooner, in stream. Marmion schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Gratitude, ketch, at Breastwork.

Per Janet Niccol: 11 cases bacon, 120 sacks potatoes, 200 bags flour, 4 bales sacks. —T. H. Hall and Co.

.1 r 3. Goldfinch left for the Kennadecs -;cVi<T'-ay; from thence she goes on to the \ -x Hebrides. . , , -it evening the a.s. Argyie arrived from the Great Barrier with several passengers and a quantity of sundries. She leaves for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay at seven o'clock this evening. he auxiliary ketch Scotchman arrived from Whangarei yesterday with a cargo of coal. She leaves for Whangarei again tomorrow. , __ . ci c r> Yesterday afternoon the Union S.S. Company's steamer Southern Cross left for the East Coast and Wellington. . _~ The schooner Quoen has sailed for iio&ianga with a full cargo of sundries. H. M.s. Ringarooma went into the Calliope Dock yesterday morning. , The American barque Mary Hasbrouci shipped a large number of cases of kauri gum for New York yesterday. . The three-masted schooner Adelaide is to load timber at the Thames/for Sydney. The brigantine Aratapu which is discharging coal at the Thames from Newcastle, is to load timber there for Sydney. The cargo steamer Rangitira is expected from Wellington to-day. Mr. A. Heather is the local agent for the vessel. Yesterday the barque Devonport arrived a.% Hokianga from this port to load timber for Sydney. S.S. Co.'a Island steamer The Union S.S. Co.'s Island steamer Upolu is due from Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji to-day. . The schooner Zior, which arrived at the Thames from Lyttelton on Monday, is to load timber there for Lyttelton on discharge of her grain cargo. The Union S.S. Co. coastal steamer Kanieri is detained on the East Coast by the bad weather. She was in Tologa Bay yesterday. She leaves for the East Coast on Friday. The s.s. Pukaki leaves Dunedin on Monday next for this port, calling at Oamaru and Timaru on the way. At noon to-day the Union S.S. Company's steamer Wairarapa leaves for.Southern ports, Hobart, and Melbourne. The Secretary of the U.S. Treasury has awarded the contract for the construction of

the U.S. life-saving station, authorised to be erected upon the grounds of the World's Columbian Exhibition at Chicago, for £1576 The station will be a part of the Government's exhibit at the Fair. It will be one of the most complete of its kind ever erected, and will serve to illustrate in the best manner the organisation and methods of the life* saving service. It will take the place of the present Chicago life-saving station, the crew of which will be moved to the new station. In 167*2 longitude must have been very far from the truth on board the large majority of ships, for their only guide was the moon, moving swiftly across the sky, and rapidly shifting her position with respect to the stars, while, at the same time, lunar tables were erroneous. Three years later Greenwich Observatory was founded for the purpose of rectifying lunar tables so that navigators might arrive more nearly at their longitude ordinary. Harrison's chronometer was not given to the world till 1765, and this Yorkshire carpenter received £20.000 for his most important invention, which has rendered ltmars almost obsolete; but chronometer* were not introduced into the Royal Navy before 1825, and merchant ships found these indispensable aids to safe and rapid navigation much too expensive for many years after they had become a realised fact; Two hundred years ago the dead reckoning longitude was of the highest importance, 1 although often a whole handful of degrees in error. Commodore Anison, in his voyage round the world, wished to visit Juan Fernandez in order to recruit the health of his crew, stricken with •curvy, the sea scourge of that age. He fetched the proper parallel to the eastward of his destination, but ran east' under the Impression that he was on the other side of the island, and eventually made the mainland . of America. Many of his men; died while the vessel was working back again. A captain of old John Jacob Astor, the New York millionaire, made six voyages without a chronometer, and then suggested to his em-

ployer that one should be obtained. . This fed to a rupture between them; the master got another vessel, brought from Hongkong a cargo of tea, and so flooded the market that when hia old ship arrived John Jacob Astor had to dispose of her cargo at a sacrifice. By chance they met one day, and the millionaire, upon being told by his former servant that the chronometer which caused the separation cost £120, said, " well, that was dirt cheap, for it cost me £12, CXX)." To-day chronometers are decidedly a drug in the market, though as a rule they are not so good as when more pains were taken In their construction. The Council of the Shipmasters and Officers' Federation concluded a meeting in London on June 24, the principal business of which was to discuss the terms of a Bill dealing with several shipping matters, which [ Bill it is intended to introduce into the House of Commons. The main object of the Bill is to secure increased safety of life and property at sea, by extending the employment of certificated officers to classes of vessels which at the present time do not require and do not carry such officers. The Bill farther proposes to limit the employment as masters and officers in British ships to men who are of British birth, or who become naturalised British subjects. This is a matter which will provoke debate; but so long as the law restricts British ship-owning and British subjects for some international reasons, so long the law furnishes an argument for the employment of British subjects to at least command British ships. And apart from international complications which may and will arise in time of war through the employment of alien commanders in British ships when Great Britain is hers involved in war, there remains the fact that, on board his own vessel, the master has to fulfil the functions of a magistrate, and therefore, like his brother magistrates on land, he should be a born or naturalised subject of the Queen.

THE DEPRESSION IN SHIPPING, AND LABOUR AGITATORS. No one knows better than a shipowner what labour agitators and stiikes hav6 done towards the present stagnation in business (says the Sydney Morning Herald;. Numbers of sailing vessels are laid up in the colonial ports for lack of employment, and not a few steamers. At the present moment there are steamers of the best description lying at their anchors in Sydney Harbour idle, and some of these vessels have not earned a shilling for many months. Lately the carrying 'trade has become so bad that steamers which have been kept going for years past have been added to the laid-up list, and the crews paid off. The same deplorable condition of affairs exists in England, and has done for a long time. Nor do matters appear to have much improved judging by the following, received yesterday by the mail:—Speaking at South Shields last week on the occasion of the trial trip of the new steamer Castlemocr, built for the South Shields Steam Shipping Company, Mr. W. Runciman, the managing director of the company, said the vessel would leave the Tyne in ballast. That would show the state in which trade was at the present time. If trade were to improve as it did two years ago, there was not the least doubt that that class of ship would pay a good dividend to the shareholders, but there were difficulties in the way, one of which was the labour question. He pointed out to the company the importance of exercising what influence they possessed to meet the difficulty, and showed that the course of action that was being pursued by the men, who followed the advice of certain people, was damaging the shipping industry and everybody who had any responsibility in carrying on the commerce of the world. Did anyone believe that the shipowners would allow the river to be blocked up by idle vessels if they thought they would yield a profit? Yet they had men who got up in the marketplace, and upon public platforms, and made reckless statements, exciting men to strike by declaring that the owners were making huge profits ; otherwise, said these men, such vessels as that could not be produced. They had thousands of men starving on Tyneside who would be employed if it were not for these agitators, who were loudly exclaiming against the shipowner and every form of capitalist. The seamen were being ad vised to ruin and disaster, and it was the duty of every person who had any influence to speak oat plainly, and tell the men what serious results would arise from following this pernicious advice. If men would speak on the labour question, let them do it in moderation and wisdom, and in such a way that business should not be dislocated ana brought to a standstill.

FORT OF OftEHUNGA,

ARRIVALS.

Mahinapua, s.s., W. J. Newton, from the South. Passengers Mesdames Holmes and child, O'Hara Smith, McLean and two children and maid, Dixon and child, Paterson, Wilson and three children, Daw, Misses Wilson, Westwood, Hunt, Messrs. McGregor, Carde, Thompson, Price, Espie, Caulton, Perinain, Walker, Paterson, Wifikham, St. Clair, Ritchie, Hooper, Daw, Masters Basset* and Clark, and 14 in the steerage. —Union S.S. Co., agents.

The Union S.S. Company's steamer Mahiuapua, Captain »Y. J. Newton, arrived in . harbour yesterday afternoon, from the South. Air. G. A." Hodson, the purser, reports that the steamer left Wellington at 6 a.m. on the 22nd instant, and arrived at Nelson at 5 30 p.m. the same day ; left again at 7 p.m. for Taranaki, arriving there at 10.35 a.m. on the 23rd ; left Taranaki for the Mannkau at 10.50 p.m., crossed the bar at 1*2.15 p.m. on the next day, and reached the wharf at 2.10 p.m.. Experienced light, favourable winds, with smooth sea as far as Nelson ; from there to Taranaki had strong S.E. wind and sea ; thence to arrival had strong head wind and sea.