SHIPPING

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9404, 10 January 1894, Page 4

SHIPPING

HWH Wates at Auckland-8.30 } 8.49 p.m. , j *-•».,,_,•»•..• Manukaa—ll.4 a.in. ; 1t23 p.m. ■ BU»*.Btos, i.« a.m.; sets, 7.12 p.m. f '.«1 «OON-Hrst quarter, 16th, U.«O a.m. • f \; i • :4. WEATHER FORECAST. r .7 ' Captain Edwin telegraphed from Wellington at 1.13 p.m. yesterday:—indications continue for easterly winds, and glass falling. <;- . ' . - ARRIVALS. t Wellington, 8.8., 279, E. Stephenson, front Whangarei. Passengers :—Mesdames Martin, Murchie, Low, Simpson, Sinclair,. Liddle, Sheehan, Prior, Johnson, Mackie, MoAuley, Osborne, Misses Lund, Day, Walton, Calkin, Hopweel, Gunson, McKay, Messrs. Sissons, Fletcher, Marshall, Adams, Calkin, Possevan t, Cornes, McNiccol. Hunter, Thomas, Dawson, Marsack, Thomas, McDonald, Campbell.— S.S. Co., agents. Argyle, s.a,, 129, F. Amodee, from Mercury Bay and Kuaotunu. Passengers: — Miss Whittington, Messrs. Isaacs, and Stocking. —Northern S.S. Co., agents. Chelmsford, s.s.. 70, C. Hopkins, from Whakatana and Whangamata. Passengers : —Mr. and Mrs. Creme, Misses Creme (2), Mr. White.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Australia, s.s., 459, John Gibb, for the East Coast, Napier, and Wellington. Passengers: Mesdames Parker and three children, Whittaker and three children, Thomas, Misses Thomas (2), Judge Gudgeon, Messrs. M. P. Matawhero. A. W. Gordon, Whittaker, and eight in the steerage. — Union S.S. Co., agents. Naiotahi, s.s., 278, W. F. Norbury, for Tauraoga and Opotiki—Northern S.S. Co., i agents. Argyle, s.s., 129, F. Amodeo, for the Great Bonier.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Douglas, s.s., 52. Haultain, tor Whangarei. —Northern S.S. Co., agents. - DEPARTURES. Australia, s.s., for the East Coast, Napier, and Wellington. Waiotahi, s.s., for Tauranga and Opotiki. Argyle, 8.3., for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay. Douglas, S.S., for Whangarei : EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON : Duke of Sutherland, s.s., about Jan. 20. Celtic King, s.s., early. Hawke's Bay, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, sailsd December 24* CAPETOWN : Mashona, as., due. SJSW YOKh : Elinor Vernon, barquentine, put into Mauritius. Tahiti, barque, arrived at Wellington January 2. J. C. Hamlin, jun., barque, sailed Sept. 5. E. L. ay berry, barque, sailed. Lottie Moore, barque, loading. . Sadie A. Thompson, loading. 6AN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.&., early. HONOLULU : Mariposa, R.M.S., early. {SAMOA : Mariposa, R.M.8., early. Upolu, s.s., Friday.l TONGA: Upolu, 8.5., Friday. run: I Upolu, 5.8., Friday. I SYDNEY : i

Mar&roa, 5.8., to-morrow. Rotomahana, s.s., Sunday. Tasmania, s.s., Sunday. NEWCASTLE : Stanley,'br:gantine, sailed January 6. Vision, brig, early. Natal Queen, barque, early. Devonport, barque, early.. Northern Chief, barque, early. Acacia, barque, early. LONG ISLAND: Clansman, schooner, daily. Terarawa, ketch, early. WELLINGTON': Duguay Trouin, French warship, to-day. VORTOLK ISLAND : Elsie, ketch, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Morven, barque, loading* Forfarshire, ship, to load. Mashona, s.s., to arrive. SEW YORK : O".>od Baxter, barque, loading; Tahiti, barque, to arrive. JAN FRANCISCO : Alameda, R.M.s., January 27. SAMOA: Alameda, R.M.8., January 27. Upolu, 8.9., January 10. HONOLULU : Alameda, R.M.s., January 27. tonga : Upolu, S4k, January 16. SYDNEY: Manapouri, 5.8., Saturday. &ABOTONGA : Richmond, s.s., about January 24. TAHITI: Richmond, s.s., about January 24. rRIENDLY ISLANDS : Ysabel, barquentine, early. UNION S.S. CCS MOVEMENTS. Mahinapua arrives at Onehunga ; Moa leaves for East Coast at 8 p.m. Thursday.— arrives from Sydney; Mahinapua leaves Onehunga. Friday.—Manapouri arrives from South; Mararoa leaves for South; Upolu arrives from Tonga ; Ohau arrives from Timaru. Saturday.—Manapouri leaves for Sydney; Ohau leaves for Westport.

NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. —Arjryle arrives from the Great Barrier; Gairloch arrives from New Plymonth ; Chelmsford leaves for WhaDgaruru, Whananaki, Ngunguiu, and Northern ports at 1 p.m. ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m. Thursday.Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 m.; Argyle leaves for Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and Tairua at 7 p.m.: Wellington arrives from Whangarei; Glenelg arrives from Raglan. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell early, and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, and Parua Bay at 10.30 p.m.; Glenelg leaves for Hokianga at 1 p.m. , Saturday. — Wellington arrives from Whangarei: Gairloch, from New Plymouth ; Argyle, from Tairua, Kuaotunu, and Mercury Bay Waiotohi arrives from Opotiki; Glenelg arrives from Hokianga. Thames Service.—Rotomahana or Ohinerauri leaves for Thames daily, and Paeroa leaves for Paeroa twice weekly.. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Thin Hit doe* not include roaster*, Bussaxd, H-1.G.M.5., in stream. Scorff, French warship, In stream. Richmond, ;s.s., at HoDson-street Wharf. Invincible, s.s., in stream, Arawata, s a., in stream. Margaret Galbraith, ship, at Railway Wharf. Forfarshire ship, in stream. Morvrsn, four-masted barque, at Quay-street Jetty. Obed Baxter, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Wenona, barque, in stream. Cuthona, barquentine, at Quay-street Jetty. Ysabel, barquentine, in stream. Silver Cloud, barquentine, at Breastwork. Chittoor, barquentine, at Queen-st. Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission yacht, in stream. Christine, schooner, in stream. Kenilworth, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Marmion, schooner, in stream.

,'Last night the Northern S.S. Company's steamer, Wellington, arrived from Wnangarei, with a quantity of kaari gum and sundries. She leaves for Whangarei again tonight. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer. Argyle, arrived from Mercury Bay and Kuaotunu last night, and left for the Great Barrier at midnight. She returns this even' ing. The Union S.S. Company's steamer, Australia, left for the East Coast, Napier, and Wellington last evening, with several passengers and a miscellaneous cargo. '. " Last evening the Northern S.S. Company's steamer, Waiotahi, left for Tacranga and Opotiki. ■"■ .•' , The Northern S.S. Company's steamer, Douglas, left for Whangarei last evening. Yesterday the ship, Margaret Galbraith came oat of the Calliope Dock and berthed at the Railway Wharf. ..'•';„ The barquentme, Sliver Cloud, came out of the Auckland Dock yesterday, and berthed at the breastwork to complete her overhaul. , . ,_ To-day the four-masted barque Morven will complete her loading for London^ The barquentine Chittoor has completed the discharge of her cargo oi oats from the Bluff, and will start taking in ballast this tt On the 6th instant the Auckland barque Northern Chief arrived at Melbourne from Kaipara, all well. On discharge of her timber cargo , she proceeds to Newcastle to load coal for this port. <o ''~: . ; The ketches Ettie and Lizette are to be offered for sale by auction on Friday .next by Mr. R, C. Carr. i .- : \z-'' "'"'■' _ " v i'' : - : The French flagship Duguay-Trouin ma be expected to arrive from Wellington tod*lt?tbe breastwork to the eastward of the Quay-street jetty, the schooner Waiwsra is undergoing overhanl^y -!_^v 4!; *'- " ; .V- , The three-masted scow Wbangaroa is loadlog timber at Whangarei for the South.,

Miei barque Vivid, which arrived at Aarpara from Newcastle on Monday, is to load timber for Melbourne. Last night the Northern S.S. Company's steamer Chelmsford arrived from Whakatane and Whasgamata with the following cargo; I —100 sacks maize, 20 bales wool, 100 sheep, j and sundries. Sha leaves for Rgunguru and •ther Northern porta t-day. The steamer Mashona, under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company to load for London, is now fully due at this port from Capetown, she having left there on Decembers. _ The ship Forfarshire will start loading for London daring this week. On Saturday next the Union S.S. Company steamer Ohau leaves for Westporfe. The many friends of Mr. E. R. Stock, who has popularly filled the position of purser of the Union S.S. Company's steamer Australia for the past two years, will be pleased to learn that he has been promoted to a similar position on the company's steamer Flora, trading between Wellington and Dunedin. The Government steamer Hinemoa arrived at Whangarei yesterday with a cargo of railway material. ..A. spar-decked steel screw steamer, the Woolwich, has been launched by Messrs. Bopner and Son. The vessel is 330 feet long, 43 feet beam, and 29 feet 6 inches deep. She will be classed 100 A), at Lloyd's, and carry over 6000 tons dead weight on Lloyd's freeboard. She has cellular bottom for water ballast, and will have all the latest appliances suitable for a first-class cargo steamer. She will be fitted with triple-expansion en nines by Messrs. Blair and Co. (Limited), of 1200 i.h.p., with two large steel boilers working at 1601b. She has been built for London owners.

Two vessels are being prepared under the direction of the Trinity House to relieve the lightships at the North Goodwin Sands and the Kentish Knock. The new ships are being built under contract, and they embody many improvements upon the lightships of the older type, eaoh being supplied with powerful syrens, the one for the North Goodwins being worked by steam and that for the Kentish Knock by a caloric engine. Both vessels will be in direct electrical communication with the shore, the cable from the North Sands having its land connection at Dumpton Gap and that from the Kentish Knock a* Kingsgate Bay. The post office authorities will lay the cables, and the cost of the work and maintenance charges will be defrayed out of moneys specially voted for the purpose by Parliament. Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, the late chief constructor of the British navy, has given the weight of his high reputation to the possibility of constructing a ship for Atlantic navigation which will be 1000 feet long and 300 feet broad, with engines of 60.000 horsepower, and an ocean speed of fifteen knots. This ship he described as a " steel island,' which will be incapable of entering any dock, at any rate as at present constructed, naving several engines working side by side. He thinks that a draught of 26 feet of water need never be exceeded. "1 do firmly believe," said Sir Nathaniel, " that we shall get the mastery over the seas, and that we shall live more happily in a marine residence, capable of steaming 15 knots an hour, than we can ever live in a seaside town."

MELBOURNE TONNAGE RATE QUESTION. ' The proposal by the Commissioner of Customs (says the Melbourne Argus) to remit the tonnage rates to foreign-going vessels entering the port in ballast and departing without finding cargo is regarded by the Marine Board as one of those generous suggestions which reflect infinite credit on the Government without the prospect of entailing any expense to the community. The pilots, who had been asked by the Board, at the request of the Minister, if they would remit a portion of their fees, replied objecting to having the burden of endeavouring to increase the business of the port cast upon them when the whole community would beuefit, but at the same time agreeing to refund half of their fees to any vessel entering the port in ballast and failing to obtain a cargo. The president remarked that the offer was generous, because the refund offered was a large one, and at the same time it was safe, because no such refund would ever be likely to be demanded as foreign-going vessels do not, as a rule, run about promiscuously in ballast looking for freights. Captain Clarke, who represents the pilots, blushed a rosy red at this praise of his constituents, and it was resolved to forward the reply to the Minister without comment. THE FASTEST VESSEL IN THE NAVY. The official trial of Her Majesty's ship Havock, built by Messrs. Yarrow and Co., was looked forward to with more than usual interest, the Havock being the first of twelve similar vessels of an entirely new and distinctive type which are being built by private contract for the British Admiralty. They have been designed by Mr. W. H. White, Director of Naval construction, with a view to be superior to other fast vessels building by foreign Powers, who, it is well known, have made great advances of late in the construction of such vessels. The name given to this new type is that of " torpedo-boat destroyer." They are intended to act against torpedo-boats, and to have a speed superior to that possessed by such craft at the present time, and, what is of the highest importance, to be capable of maintaining that speed at sea, in which torpedo-boats have been found to be deficient. Their coal-carrying capacity will enable them to have a radius of action far greater than the present torpedoboats, and to test by practical experience how far the Havock can operate from a base, a further low-speed trial took place recently. The first trial consisted of a three hours' continuous full-speed run at the mouth of the Thames, carrying a load of 35 tons, when the contract speed of 26 knots was exceeded The Admiralty authorities expressed themselves highly pleased with the result of the trials.

BY TELEGRAPH. MARSDEN POINT. January9.—Arrived last night: Hinemoa, Government s.s., from Northern Ports. She berthed at the Railway Wharf this morning to land her cargo of rails. RUSSELL. January 9.—Arrived : Clansman, 8.8., from Auckland. NEW PLYMOUTH. January 9.—Arrived: Takapuna, s.s., Gairloch, s.s., from Onehunga; Mahinapua, BJi., from Wellington and Nelson. Sailed : Takapuna, e.g., for Wellington; Gairloch, s.s., Mahinapua, s.s., for Onehunga. TIMARU. January Sailed: Uhau, s.s., for Auckland. WELLINGTON. January Arrived : Omapere, 8.8. from Westport; Dingadee, s.s., from Auckland, via the East Coast; Takapuna, s.s., from Onehunga, via Taranaki; Manapouri, s.s., from Melbourne, via Hobart and the South. Sailed Omapere, s.s., for Nelson and Westport: Manapouri, s.s., for Sydney, via the East Coast and Auckland. Passengers: Misses Kelly, Jackson, Clith, Peddie (2), Chambers, Mesdames Jackson, Muir, Harrow, Finlay, Campbell, Connor, Messrs. Muir, Mueller, Finlay (2), Hope (2), Elder, Connor, Forrest, Forsyth, Carey, Sankey, Belbin, Swan, Peddie, Dobbie, and 12 in the steerage. aRC " LYTTELTON. January Arrived: Waihora, s.s., for Wellington. Sailed: Waihora, s.s., for Port Chalmers. _ _„.„! PORT CHALMERS. January Arrived: Duke of Westminster, from the North. Sailed : Wakatipu, for Sydney, via Cook Straits. Passengers : Mesdames Gunn and family, Dengen, Misses McLaughlin, Allan, Wareham, Wilson, Nicholls, Drumm, Messrs. Langham, Allan, Chettle, Rendell, Cameron, A. Hamilton, Vincent, Purvis, and 13 in the *"**-■ SYDNEY. January 9.—Arrived: Hauroto, s.s.,from Wellington. , ,__

:%, THE JESSIE READMAN. Wellington, January 9.—The steamer Kiwi will be chartered to proceed to Chatham Islands to assist in floating the ship Jessie Readman. Captain Babot, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's representative will probably accompany her.

* ■ THETAINUI. - ■ Wellington, January 9.—The bhaw, Savill. and Albion r Companys steamer Tainni arrived from London, via the Cape and Hobart, at 4.30 p.m. to-day. She left London on November 23rd, and reached the Cape on December 17. Landed 42 passengers and arrived at Hobart at 5 a.m. on .the sth inst. Had fine weather, except at the start, but after leaving Hobart experienced.strong easterly winds and head sea. Lauded m Sassenscers and 250 tons of cargo at Hobart. he brings. 138 passengers, 16 sacks mails, 46 boxes parcels post, and 2900 tons cargo. Passengers for Auckland: Miss Ward, Messrs. Elgood, Maringham, Newton, Ward, Atken, Kfldia, Sawyer. For- Wellington: Misses Morrell (2), Pike, Cooke, Hujse, Falder, Cunningham, Mr. Mrs. Lovendge, Mr. and Mrs. Veysey. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard, Mrs Falder, Messrs Curtis, Grant, Warrell, Pike, Woodward, Challis, Day, Hawk, Hulse (2), Stuckey, Bickendike, Hansen, Middle, Paradine (2), Winter. For Lyttelton: Mr. and Mrs. Common, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. Paton, Misses Cnnniugham (2), Webb, Browne, Ginder, Weston (3), Mrs. and Masters Starkey (6), Mrs. and Masters Weston (4), Dr. Anderson, Rev. Northcote, .Messrs P. Cunningham, Holme* (2), Parker,

Jackson, Mayers, Palk, Proctor, Webb, Hughes, Hodge, Knight, Liddington, Shotlander, Willcocks, Higgam. For Dunedin: Mestlames Bringham, Gerhardt, King, Misses Church, Gerhard Donaldson. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Flett, Messrs. Evans, Peroival, Judge Watson, Bourgon, Fletcher (3), Lloyd, Marshall, McKay (2), Fassey (2), Sim, McLelland, Wark, For other ports : Mrs. Stafford, Misses Stafford, Black, Brown, Jones, Harris (2), Messrs. Sainsbury, Cohen, Logan, Mackie, Welsh, Duncan (2), Jones (3), Stable (2). v