SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9314, 25 September 1893, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland— a.m.; 6.2* p.m. • „ '■'-,', Manokau— am.; 8.58 p.m. Run—Rises, 0.37 a.m.; sets, 5.49 p.m, Moos—Full, to-day, 8.1 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

Clansman, s.s., 300, W. Farquhar, from (Fauranga. Passengers:— C. B. Turner, Scott, Walsh, Misses Vercoe, McCulloch, Marley, Revs. H. Bull, Scott, Messrs. T. Wrigley, Todd, Kirton, H. Watts, D. Lundon, McCulloch, Moss, Cairns, Pillrey, Trayes, Munro, Dale, P. Lundon, Walsh, Home.Northern S.S. Co., agents. Argyle, s.s., 125, F. Amodeo, from Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu. Passengers: —Captai* Hearne, Messrs. Moses, Gamble, Turner, Le?e, Currie, and two in the steer-, age.—N«kli(srn S.S. Co., agents. Wai»f»fef, 5.8., 278, Norbury, from Opotiki and TMtfanga. Passengers:—Captain Campbell, Mr. Mills.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. / Scotchman, auxiliary ketch, 42, J. Ai BeWicke, from VVhangarei.—Master, agent!'*

CLEARED OUTWARDS. Chelmsford, s.s., 70, C. Hopkins, for Whangamata and Whakatane,—Northern S.S. Co., agents.

DEPARTURES. Chelmsford, s.s., for Whangamata and Whakatane.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

(ONDON : Star of England, s.s., sailed August 4, via Melbourne and Sydney. Star of Victoria, s.s., sailed September 6, via Melbourne and Sydney. Waitangi, ship, loading. Himalaya, barque, to load. UYERPOOL: Turakina, ship, sailed. GLASGOW:

Margaret Galbraith, ship, sailed July 30. KKW YORK *. Essex, barque, arrived at Wellington, September 9. Kathleen Hilda, barque, sailed June 5. Elinor Vernou.barquentine.sailed June 3. Alice, barque, sailed July 7. Obed Baxter, barque, sailed July 26. Nora Wiggins, barque, sailed July 17. Tahiti, barque, loading. «AN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., about October 13. Honolulu: Alameda, R.M.s., about October 13. SAMOA : Alameda, R.M.s., about October 13. HEWCASTLE : Waitemata, barquentine, early. Devonport, barque, early, NVenona, barque, early. Acacia, barque, early. Ganymede, barque, early. SYDNEY Monowai, R.M.s., early. IDELAIDE: Lady Mabel, brigantine, sailed Sept. 13. FIJI:

Poherua, s.s., early. ROCKY ISLAND :

Gazelle, barque, early. LONG ISLAND :

Gleaner, brigantine, early. ;OKFOLK ISLAND: Pitcairn, schooner, early.

PROJECTED DEPARTURE LONDON' : Westland, ship, loading. NEW YORK : Mary Hasbrouck, barque, to load. Essex, barque, to arrive. SAN FRANCISCO : Monowii, R.M.s., October 7. * HONOLULU ; Monowsj, R.M.S., October 7. CALCUTTA : Maori, s.s., September. SAMOA: *" Monowai, R.M.s., October 7. NOBFOLK ISLAND: Sarah Pile, schooner, early. FBIKNDLY ISLANDS: Ysabel, schooner, early.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS.

To-day. — Australia arrives from East Coast; Talane arrives from South ; Takcpuna leaves Onehunga at 9.30 a.m. Tuesday.— leaves for East Coast at 5 p.m.; Pukaki arrives from South. Wednesday.—Mahinapua arrives at Onehunga at 1 p.m. Thursday.— leaves for South at noon ; Mahinapua leaves Onehunga at 1 p.m.; Pukaki leaves for Westport. Saturday.Moa arrives from East Coast, and leaves again.

NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS.

To-day. —Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.m. ; Clansman for Russell, Whangaroa, and Mangonui at 7 p.m; Douglas for Whangarei Town Wharf sit 5 p.m.; Argylefor Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay at 7 p.m. ; Wellington arrives from Whangarei. Tuesday.—Glenelg leaves for Raglan at 1 p.m. Waiota4ii for Tauranga and Opotiki at 7 p.m.; Argyle arrives from Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay. and leaves for Great Barrier at midnight; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Wednesday.— arrives from the Great Barrier; Gairloch from Waitara; Chelmsford from Whangamata and Wnakatane. Thursday.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth and Waitara at 1 p.sn ; Chelmsford for Whangamata and Whakatane at 5 p.m.; Glenelg arrives from Raglan; Argyle leaves for Kuaotunu. Tairua, and Mercury Bay at 7 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei ; Douglas arrives from Whangarei Town " Wharf. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m.; Glenelg leaves for Wanganui at 1 p.m.; Kanien leaves for Hokianga at 1 p.m. Saturday.—Gairloch arrives from Waitara ; Argyle from Mercury Bay, Kuaotunu and Tairua; Waiotahi from Opotiki. Thames Service.—Rotomahaua or Ohinemuri leaves for Thames daily, and s.s. Paeroa leaves for Paeroa twice weekly.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR.

Tliim li*fc does not include co»sierH.] Tauranga, H.M.s., in Calliope Dock. Indramayo, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. Arawata, a.s.j in stream. Westiand, shm, at Queen-street Wharf. Mary Hasbrouck, barque, at Railway Wharf. Handalsle, barquentine, at Sugar Works, Zeno, brigantine, in stream. Christine, schooner, in stream. Jessie Niccol, -schooner, in stream, Sarah Pile, schooner, in stream.

The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Clansman arrived from Tauranga early yesterday morning. She leaves for Russell, Whangaroa, and Mangonui this evening. On Satnrday night the Northern S.S. Company's steamer Arsyle arrived from Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu with a quantity of kauri gum and sundries. She leaves for the two latter places again this evening. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Chelmsford, left If or Whangamata and W linkatane on Saturday. The auxiliary ketch Scotchman arrived from Whangarei on Saturday night with a cargo of lime. She leaves for Whangarei again to-morrow evening. The schooner Sarah Pile has hauled out into the stream, anchoring below the Railway Wharf.

To-day the Union S.S. Company's steamer Australia is due from Wellington, Napier, and the East Coast. She leaves for the same places again to-morrow evening. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Waiotahi arrived from Opotiki and Tauranga yesterday morning with a cargo of 550 sacks maize, a number of cattle, and a quantity of sundries. She leaves for the same place again to-morrow evening. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the Union S.S. Company's steamer Talune leftGisborne for this port, and may be expected to arrive about the same hour this morning. She leaves for Southern ports, Hobarc, and Melbourne on Thursday at noon. On Saturday next the Union S.S. Company's steamer Moa leaves for the East Coast and Napier. The departure of the American bat que Essex, from Wellington to this port, has been delayed until to-morrow. After rather a lengthy pa/wage of 19 days the barque Wenona arrived at Newcastle from this port. She loads coal back to Aucklaud.

On Saturday the barquentine Adelaide arrived at Sydney from the Thames with a cargo of timber. The barque Delmira sailed from the Bluff on Saturday for Maiden Island, to load guano back. The new scow Ranger has sailed for Mercury Bay to load timber back to this port. On Saturday next the Union S.S. Company's steamer Maori, is announced to leave Wellington for Calcutta. The ship Pleione arrived at Port Chalmers from Glasgow on Saturday, after a passage of 110 days. r \ . The Board of Trade have received, through the Foreign Office, a gold watch and chain for Mr. F. Manley, master, a marine glass for Mr. Henry Boeg, chief mate, and silver medals for James Bouch and John Silver, seamen, of the steamer Borderer, of Liverpool, which have been awarded to them by the President of the United States in recognition of their services on toe occasion of the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American schooner Iceland,,on March 20.

Messrs. Cowlishaw Brothers give the following report regarding the steamships of the Archibald Curne line of Indo-Australian traders :—The steamship Clitus is expected at Melbourne next week with a cargo of sugar from Java. The new steamship Darius is now loading at Calcutta, and is expected to sail for the colonies on September 10. On discharge of her cargo she will load horses at Melbourne for Bombay. The steamship Argus will sail from Calcutta about the end of September with a full freight of general Eastern produce for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. Our Marsden Point correspondent telegraphed on Saturday:—The Gem, schooner ' has put in for shelter. ' The question of seamen's advance notes is still being agitated in Cardiff shipping circles, says a London contemporary. The boardinghouse masters have now taken definite action and issued a circular notifying owners and masters of 'vessels, brokers, and seamen that they have been compelled to adopt the only system of paying seamen's advances which is recognised by the present shipping laws, namely, cash payments on the security of the seamen s effects. The circular adds that the masters have resolved after the Ist August not to acknowledge the advance note until Parliament has granted' a legal and negotiable document, and they appeal to all parties to assist in bringing about an amendment of the Act.

Mr. H. Samuels has received a letter from Captain Campbell, master of the barque Examiner, stating that the run hence to Townsville was accompanied in six days 13 hours. This is the fastest sailiug passage on record, and is almost rapid enough for steamer performances. The barque loads bonedust for New Zealand.

A tabulated statement of freights by sail ing vessels from London to various parts of the world has been compiled in the office of the Glasgow Mail. Comparisons between the charges in July, 1890, and July, 1593, for Australian freights, show a reduction in the latter year of over 33 per cent. A very extensive general fall is shown, and the market is said to have declined to an unprofitable level.

NEW VESSELS.

I For July the output by Scotch shipbuilders was about 7000 tons more than in any month ' this year. The new contracts concluded, however, were by no means up to expectations, and were not proportionate to the inquiries. There were 14 vessels of 32,172 tons launched, of which 9 of 25.500 were steamers, and sof 6672 sailing vessels. The aggregate for the year amounts to 164,863 tons, which compares with 247,638 last year. Of the total tonnage, 9192 were for Clyde owners. 4000 for London owners, 2400 for Liverpool owners, 150 for another English port, 230 for Russian owners, and 12,700 for what are practically United States owners. The Clyde proportion is 32.022 tons, made up of 8 steamers of 25,350 tons, and 5 sailing vessels of 6672 tons. With the exception of July, last year, when 36,034 tons were launched, this is the highest output for many years. For the seven months the Clyde proportion stands at 150,721 tons, compared with 218,932 last year.

THE WRECK OF THE GIRVAN. The Marine Board of New South Wales has delivered its reserved decision regarding the loss of the barque Girvan, which foundered shortly after being abandoned on June 12, whilst on a voyage from Newcastle to San Francisco. The Board found that the abandonment was justifiable, inasmuch as the vessel was in a sinking condition, her cargo having shifted during the exceptionally heavy weather experienced the previous day. The Board further found that the cargo of coal was properly trimmed and stacked at Newcastle, and that there was no evidence upon which to fouud a charge of default against the master, Captain Joseph Angus, or any other person. The Board placed on record its appreciation of the'meritorious conduct of Captain Munroe, of the barque George Thompson, for standing by the sinking vessel. and also of the mate, Mr. Oscar Jonas Smith, and the boat's crew, who, in three trips, rescued the shipwrecked people. A subscription has been raised for the purpose of enabling the captain and officers to purchase outfits, instruments, etc., all of which were lose when the vessel went down.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS.

Takapuna, s.s., Ji Grant, from the South and New Plymouth. PassengersMesdames Thornton and child, Evans and child, Makgill and family, Blackley, Wardell, Missis Kelly, Grady, Stuart, Stewart, Messrs. Maokay, Lonsdale, Bartley, Coates, Hughes, Captain Makgill, Messrs. Keighley, Frith, Clay, Skipworth (2), /Rothschild, Allen, Ambury, Wardell, and 20 steerage.— Union S.S. Co., agents. Gairloch, s.s., McArthur, from New Plymouth. Passengers: Mrs. Patterson and three children, Messrs. Parsons, Merchay, Edwards, Cooper, Fraser, Osmond, Faily, Marzeth, Hawkins,. Patterson, Mcßride, Soale, Cobbe, and 8 steerage.— S.S. Co., agents.

The 8.8. Takapuna, John Grant, arrived at Onehunga on Saturday night. She left Lyttelton at 6.30 p*.m. on the 21st, and arrived at Wellington at 9 a.m. on the 22nd. Left again same day at 3 p.m.; called at Taranaki; entered Manukau Heads, and arrived at Onehunga wharf as above. Experienced fine weather throughout. The s.s. Gairloch, Captain McArthur, arrived from New Plymouth at 2.57 p.m. on Saturday, the 23rd. At 10 p.m. on Friday, jutt as she was leaving the breakwater, an accident occurred through the bursting of one of the tubes, causing considerable doubt as to whether she would not be detained until the following day. However, steam was blown off and temporary repairs executed, when she proceeded on her voyage at 12 50 a.m. on Saturday. Experienced light south-west wind and calm sea. Crossed the Manukau bar at 1.30 p.m., and arrived as above.