SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9197, 11 May 1893, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High WATKRat Auckland—l.B7 ».ro.; 2.18 p.m. „ „ Miimkau—4.ll a.ui. ; 4.62 |).IU. Si'N—Riies, 6.42 a.m.; sets, 4.62 p.m. Moon—Now, loth, lu.is p.m.

WEATHER FORECAST. Captain Edwin telegraphed at I.SO p.m. yesterday Indication* for frost to-night, and for low tides.

ARRIVALS. Argyle, s.s., 129, F. \modeo, from the Great Barrier. Passengers: Misses Leßoy and Springall, Messrs. Ryan and Thompson, and two in the steerage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Ohinemuri, s.s., 78, E. McLeod, from Opotiki and Tauranga. Passengers: Inspector Hioksou and party (8), Messrs. Baxter, Grey, Gardiner.— S.S. Co., agents.

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Ruapehu,s.s.,4l63, E. A. Findlay. R.N.R., for London, via Southern ports.—New Zealand Shipping Co., agents. ■ ukaki, s.s., 930. C. Fleming, for Westport.— Union S S Co., agents. Australia, s.s., 459, John Gibb, for the East Coast. Napier, and Wellington. Passengers . Messrs. G. Ellis, iuson, N. Gamble, Thompson, Stewart, aud two in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents.

DEPARTURES. Ruapehu, s.s., for London, via the South. Pukaki. s.s., for Wcstport. Australia, s., lor the East Coast, Napier, and Wellington.

EXPECTED ARRIVAL. lON don : Pakeha, s.s., sailed March 25. Mamari, s.s., sailed April 8. Te Koa, 8.8. early. Maori King, s.s.,early. «W YORK : ... ~ John McDcrmott, brigantme, arrived at Fort Chalmers May 8. Clan Ferguson, barque, sailed Feb. 8. W. B. Flint, sailed March 13. Abiel Abbot, barqiientine, sailed Mar. 13. Alary Hashrouck, barque, to load. Esses, barque, to load. BAN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.s., May 18. Honolulu : Mariposa, K.M.s., May 18. AIM v : Mariposa, R.M.s., May 18. Upolu, s.s., early. BONOA : Upolu, s.s., early. SYDNEY : Alameda, R.M.s., early. POET KKMBLA : Wenona, barque, early. NKWOA.-TLE : Vision brig, early. Aratnpu, schooner, sailed. Mary Wadley, barquentiue, early. Clansman, schooner, early.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. lON DOS : Raugitiki, barque, loading. Star of Victoria, s.s., to-morrow. saw YORK; Manuie Swan, barque, loaded. Queen, barque, to load. (AN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., May 20. HONOLULU: Alameda, R.M.s., May 20. 3AMOA : Alameda, R.M.s., May 20. SYDNEY : Taluue, s.s., May 16.

UNION S.S. COMPANY'S MOVEMENTS,

To-day.—Rotomahana leaves for South, at noon; Mahiaapua leaves Ouehunga at 1 p.m. , Saturday.— arrives at Onehunga at 7 p.m.

NORTHERN S.S. CO. 8 MOVEMENTS. Today— Glenoid leaves for New Flymonth at I p.m.; Argyle for Kuaotuou, Tairua, and Mercury Bay at 7 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Friday.— arrives from Russell at I! a.m. and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Wellington for Whangarei, Marsdeu Point, Mr.ii.uapai, and Parua Hay at S p.m. , isatckday.—Glenelg arrives from New Plymouth ; Argyle from Mercury Ray, Kuaotuiiu, and Tairua; Waiotahi arrives from Opotiki. Thames Skrvick. —Rotomahana or Ohinemuri leaves for Thames daily, and 8.8. P»eroa leaves for Paerou, twice weekly.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Tliiw li-t il«*n in. iiiclnila . ..«!.ier».) KatoomHa, H.M.s., in stream. Star of Victoria, 8.8., at Qneen-street Wharf. Rotomahana, 8.5., at Queen-street Wharf. Araw&ta. as., in stream. Ra-ugitiki, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Belle i3le. barque, at Railway Wharf. Queen, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Mannie Swan, barquentine, in stream. Waitemata, barquentine, at Railway Wharf. Lady Mabel, brigantine, in stream. Prosperity, brigantine, at Railway Wharf. Eillan Donan, brigantine, at Breastwork. Victory, brigantine, at Sugar Works. Cuthona.&rnasted schooner, in stream. Christine, schooner, in stream. Marmion, schooner, in stream. j. Welcome, schooner, at Hobson-street Wharf.

EXPORTS Per Pukaki, for West port: 150 bags lime, 14 bundles bags, 14,000 bricks, 178 nests and 225 pipes and junction*, 40 bunches and 5 cases bananas, bO cases oranges, 'J sacks oysters, 2 cases fish, 2006 bags sugar, '21 cases syrup, and sundries.

Tho Northern S.S. Company's steamer Ohiuemuri arrived from Opotiki, Whakatane, and Tauranga yesterday afternoon. She left for the Thames in the evening. < Last evening the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruapehu left for London, via the South, taking about 5000 carcases of frozen mutton, a quantity of kauri gum. cotton, etc., and a luge number of casks of cement, transhipped from the company s barque Rangitiki. . The Union S.S. Company a steamer Pukaki left for Westport yesterday afternoon. The Union S.S. Company's steamer Australia left for the East Coast, Napier, and Wellington, last evening, taking several passengers and a large general cargo. At noon, to-day, the Union S.S. Company s steamer Rotomahana, leaves for Southern porta, Hobart, and Melbourne. The Tyser Company's steamer, Star of Victoria.berthed at the Queen-street wharf, yesterday morning, and during the day the work of discharging cargo was proceeded with. The steamer takes in some general cargo for London, and will leave for Napier and Wellington tomorrow morning Yesterday afternoon the American barquentine Mannie Swan finished loading her cargo of kauri trum and flax, for New York, and was towed to an anchorage in the stream. She will probably sail to-day. The brigantine Eillan Donan has entered outwards at the Customs for Hokianga, where she loads timber for Sydney. She will sail to-day. The brigantine Prosperity has been fixed through Mr. M. Niccol, to proceed to the Thames and load timber at Bagnall's mill, for Rockhampton. The barquentine Silver Cloud, which recently arrived at Launceston from Long Island with a cargo of guano, is to proceed to Newcastle and ioad coal for Onehunga. The barque Vivid has been fixed through Mr. M. Niccol to load timber at Aratapu for Sydney. The barque Devonport has arrived at Sydney from Kaipara, and will probably proceed to Newcastle to load coil for this port for Mr. M. Niccol. Last night the Northern S.S. Company steamer Argylo arrived from the Great Barrier. She leaves for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay this evening. The barquentine Mary Wadley has been shattered to load coal at Newcastle for this Yesterday the barquentine YoSand© arrived it Sydney from Kaipara. The schooner Clansman has arrived at Sydney from Kaipara with a cargo of timber. On discharge she proceeds to Newcastle to load coal for this port for Mr. M. Niccol. The brigantine Anthona has arrived at the Thames with a cargo of coal for this Gas Company. Yesterday the Shaw. Savill and Albion Company's steamer lonic left Wellington for Napier to load frozen meat for London. 'llii barque Lurline arrived at Lyttelton from Rio tie Janeiro yesterday to load for London.

The barque reported as having passed Russell on luesday afternoon will probably be the Weuona from Port Kembla to this port with coal. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's Iteamer Rangatira left Tiinaru for Lyttelton last night. Some changes have taken place in the officers since the steamer left this port, Mr. W. B. Holmes (late second officer) having been promoted to chief; Mr. J. Plunkett [late of the Arawa), second ; Air. R. Anderson, third, Mr. Hollingworth is still in charge of the engine-room, while Mr. Ramsay has assumed charge of the refrigerating department The brigantine M. A. Doran is now on her way fromDunedln to Kaipara to load timber | for an Australian port. r'i The three-masted schooner Lark has sailed from Sydney' for the New Hebrides. The Lark has seen a few changes since she proudly flew the white ensign of Her Majesty's

Navy, but her present commission is perhaps the most marked, so far, in her career. Instead of exercising her crew in gun drill while patrolling the South Seas in search of murderous Polynesians, she has left on a mission of peace, carrying 2500 packages of stores for distribution amongst the missionaries in the New Hebrides. After due inspection by representatives of the Presbyterian New Hebrides Mission here, the Lark was purchased lately by Messrs. H. Prescott and Co., and placed in dock for renovation, to adapt her for conveying the missionaries and teachers from station to station in the group. Deck cabins and other extensive improvements were made, and the smart little vessel converted into ft comfortable island passenger trader. A Wellington telegram says that direct steam communication between Wellington and Pelorus Sound has been established, and tho s.s. Rowena (late of Auckland), the vessel which is to be engaged in the trade, left on her first trip yesterday. The Norwegian barque Ephialties arrived at Wellington from New York on Wednesday afternoon, after a passage of 129 days. She has part cargo for Lyttelton.

NGUNGURU HARBOUR. The Collector of Customs at this port has received the following communication :— "Ngunguru, Mayo, 1893. Sir,— beg to inform you that the black buoy lately placed on the south spit near the mouth of this harbour (inside the bar rocks) has broken adrift As there are a good many strangers coming for coal to this place you might think proper to warn them. The leading beacons for taking the bar will not lead them clear of the spit on which the buoy was moored. The buoy is safe above highwater mark.l am. etc., John T. Giffney, district school teacher. _____

GENERAL AVERAGE. Several matters of local interest have cropped up lately in this connection, and are worthy of passing notice. The s.s. Ruahine, belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Company, caught tire, and the agents are requiring a deposit of 12J per cent., and the document issued to the cousin nees demanded payment of 10 per cent, on duty in addition to cost of the goods. Wo presume that this was only a clerical error, as the drawer of the form could not possibly be ignorant of the fact that all the authorities on the subject specially exclude duty as subject to contribution. The shipping company have sine* issued another form eliminating the duty column. In the meantime many people have been considerably inconvenienced through the delay caused by this stupid blunder. In 1889 the lonic (Shaw, Savill, and Company) became the subject of a general average deposit of £4274, which was paid iuto a trust Account in Dunedin, and an attempt was made to get an adjustment stated in New Zealand, but Shaw, Savill, and Company objected, principally on the alleged ground that the cost in the colony was excessive. The statement, which was prepared in London, has just come to hand after a lapse of three and a-half years : and it is somewhat instructive to note that nearly one-half of the deposit has to be returned, and the cost of the statement and printing is £927 103, or about 40 per cent, on the actual amount involved. We do not think that underwriters ought tamely to submit to such an exorbitant charge, more especially as the work could have been well done in the colony, for much less, and more expeditiously. The third instance is an accident which occurred to the same steamer, the lonic, about 800 miles off Table Bay, on her voyage to New Zealand. The shaft broke, and the vessel was towed to Table Bay by the Hawarden Castle. The agents now inform the underwriters that a deposit of 23 per cent, will be required, and request that the money be remitted to Loudon. In the first placo the underwriters are the wrong parties to apply to; it is the consignees who have to pay the deposit. In the second place it is unreasonable to request the money to be sent to London. And in the third place. 23 per cent., which will represent between £30.000 and £40,000, appears to be a very excessive amount to ask for when the circumstances of the case are taken into consideration. It is well that the underwriters have successfully upheld the principle of having these deposits paid into a trust account in the colony. We are informed that the owners of the Hawarden Castle have claimed £25,000. Such a sum could only be a salvage, and not a tonnage charge. In our opinion, without having all the facta before us, only tonnage could be claimed for. We are inclined to think that excessive deposits lead to exorbitant settlements.—lnsurance Journal.

PORT OF ONEHUNOA. ARRIVALS. Mahinapua, s.s., W. J. Newton, from the South. Passengers : Mesdames Gibson, Ford and four children, McLeod and iafaut, Shannon, Storey, Herd, Elmes, Misses Hunter, Shannon, Kemp, Christie, Belloe, Messrs. Ford, McLeod, Shannon, Rawhng, Herd, James, Tontleld, Cleamon, Master Withy, and live in the steerage. —Union S.S. Co., agents. Gairloch, s.s., A. McArthur, from New Plymouth. Passengers: Mrs. Brown, Misses Jones and Hopkins, Messrs. Brown and Douglas, and four in the steerage.— S S. Co., agents. Glenelir, s.s., Austen, from Hokianga. Passengers: Mesdamea Lester, Herbert, Phillip, Dr. Forbes.—Northern S.S. Co., agents.

DEPARTURES. Gairloch, s.s., McArthnr, for Wangnui and Wellington.—Northern S.S. Company, agents.

At 11.40 a.m. yesterday the Union S.S. Company's steamer Mahinapua, Captain W. J. Newton, arrived Prom the South. Mr. G. A. Hodson, the purser, reports that the steamer left Wellington at 10 p.m. on the7th instant, and arrived at Nelson at 10.15 a.m. on the Bth. Left again at 11 p.m. for Taranaki, arriving there at 2 p.m. on the 9th. Left again for the Manukau at 10.:*) p.m.. crossed the bar at 10.20 a.m. yesterday, and reached the wharf as above. Experienced strong north-west wind with heavy sea as far as Nelson ; from thence to Taranaki had strong south-west wind and sea ; thence to arrival fresh south-west wind with moderate sea. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Gairloch arrived from New Plymouth at six o'clock yesterday morning, and left again at three o'clock in the afternoon for Opunake, Wanganui, and Wellington. At the latter port she goes on the slip for general overnanl. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Glenelg arrived from Hokianga at noon yesterday. She takes up the Gairloch's running to New Plymouth, leaving to-day at 1 p.m.