SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9495, 26 April 1894, Page 4

SHIPPING.

uIGH WATER at Auckland—o.63 a.m.; 10.90 p.in. „ Manulsau— 0.88 a.m.; 0.64 p.m. Run—Rise®, 6.28 a. m.: sets, 6.10 p.m. : . • MOON—Last quarter, April 5,8, 2.62 p.m. ; ARRIVALS. Mariposa, 5.5.,3000, H. M. Hayward, from San Francisco. Passengers For Auckland j W. C. Birch, Young, Hill, P. E. Millar, D. J. Mcßoberts, Miss A. Tucker.—Union S.S. Do., agents. Ovalau, s.s., 1229. N. Beaumont, from the Bluff, Oamaru, and Lyttelton.— : Idrs. Beaumont.— S.S. Co., agents. E. L. Mayberry, barque, from Nelson. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Te Anau, s.s., 1652, W. Waller, for Sydney. •-Passengers: Mesdames Main, Collier, Croft, Maf,or, Robertson, Massey and infant, Stoue, Keetley and infant, Mathias, A. B. Scott, Packer, Misses Hillstead, Crosley, Birch, Price, Morrison, Holman, Revs. Williams, Bull, Macnicol, Isitt, Messrs. Lyndon, T. Allen, Grear, Fraser, Davenport, Kayes, Hodges, Shorter, Crosley, T. Carter, Collier, Main, Robertson, H. Mager, G. Griffiths, Massey, Ward, Archer, J. D. i Francis, Packer, Slater, Bagnall, R. Craig, Sutherland, F. W. hibbin, J. Winters, W. R. Grant, McJannett, J. McNamara, A. Reid, W. Carter, 17 in the steerage, and original from Southern ports.—Union S.S. ' Co., agents. DEPARTURES. To Anau, s.s., for Sydney. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. lON DON : . ~ Star of England, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, sailed March 7. Rangatira, s.s., sailed Mareh 13. Star of Victoria, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, sailed April 13. SHARPNESS: Antares, barque, sailed February 20. iSW YORK : Sadie A. Thompson, barque, sailed Jan, 25. Mary Hasbrouck, barque, loading. Mannie Swan, baiquentine, loading. Essex, barque, early. i.YDNEY : Buteshire, s.s., to-day. Mararoa, s.s., Sunday. Tasmania, s.s., Sunday, (TSCASTLE : Clansman, schooner, sailed April 18. Natal Queen, barque, sailed April 23. Authous. brigautine, early. Freetrader, barque, sailed April 25. PORT KEMBLA : Stanley, brigantine, sailed April 25. SAMOA : Mariposa, R.M.s., April 26. Upolu, s.s., early. TONGA : Upoiu, s.s., early. sapiek : Saxon, schooner, sailed April 21. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Buteshire, to-morrow. Rangitikei, barque, loading* SEW YORK : E. L. Mayberry, barque, to arrive. JAN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.s., May 19. aoNGLULU : Mariposa, R.M.S., May 19. SAM OA : Mariposa, R.M.s., May 19. SYDNEY: Mariposa, R.M.s., to-day, Wairarapa, s.s, Tuesday. FIJI : Ovalau, s.s., to-morrow. TONGA: Fleetwing, schooner, early. fIARuTONGi.: Richmond, s.s., to-morrow. Welcome, schooner, early. TAHITI: Richmond, s.s., to-morrow.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day. — Mariposa leaves for Sydney; Mahiunpua leaves Onehuuga, 1 p.m.; Wai- i hora leaves for South, 2 p.m.; Din.gadee ' for the East Coast at 2 p.m. Friday.— leaves for Fiji, 5 p.m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-d*y.—Gairloch leaves for New Ply- ' mouth at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei; Argyle leaves for Mercury Bay, Kuaotunu, and Tuirua, at 7 p.m.; Chelmsford leaves for Whangamata and Whaka- ; cane at 5 p.m.; Douglas arrives from Whangarei; Glenelg leaves for Raglan and Kawhia at 1 p. in. 1 Friday.Clansman arrives from Russell i at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7-p m. ; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden ' Point, Mangapai, and Jfarua Bay, at 10.30 Saturday.— arrives from Tairua, \ Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu; Gairloch - arrives from New Plymouth; Waiotahx ; irrives from Opotiki; Kanieri arrives irom j Opunake and Waitara; Glenelg leaves for ' Etokianga at. 1 p.m. { Thames Sekvick. —Rotomahana or Untne- ' cnuri leaves for Thames daily, and Paeroa 1 leave 3 for Paeroa twice weekly. ? VESSELS IN HARBOUR. 1 Thin list does not include coasters. ( Rapid, H. M.S., in stream. Tongariro, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. E Waihora, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. { Ovalau, s.s., at Quay-street Jetty. , s.s., at Railway Wharf. ; Arawata, s.s., in stream. , Devonport, barque, in stream. , Rangitikei, barque, at Quay-street Jetty. Northern Chief, barque, in stream. ; Lottie Moore, barque, at Queen-street Wharf. Cuthona, barquentine, in stream. Haada Isle, barquentine, at Sugar Works. Christine, schooner, in stream. Sarah Pile, schooner, in stream. Welcome, schooner, at Queen-street Wharf. Norval, schooner, at Quay-street Jetty. IMPORTS. Per Mariposa : 290 cases canned goods, 200 cases dried fruit, 10 cases borax, 15 sacks beans, 4 cases machinery, 74 packages merry-go-round, 5 cases roots, 40 cases oranges, 10 cases limes. Per Ovalau, from the Bluff, Oamaru, and Lyttelton : 3761 sacks oats, 1011 sacks wheat, 1010 sacks brans, 3648 packages flour, 352 sacks pollard, 142 sacks seed, 79 sacks potatoes, 64 sacks onions, 69 sacks hides, 4 blocks stone, and a quantity of sundries. EXPORTS. Per Te Anau, for Sydney; 20 bales flax, 50 bags sawdust, 85 empty kegs, 3 oases boots, 55 bundles broom handles, 4 cases | apples, 5 boxes ferns, 1 case tobacco, 159 sacks oysters, and sundries. The Union S.S. Company's steamer Ovalau, Captain N. Beaumont, arrived at nine o'clock yesterday morning from the Bluff, Oamaru, and Lyttelton, with a cargo of grain and produce. Of the passage Mr. R. Kearns, the purser, reports that the steamer left the Bluff at 3 p.m. on the 19th instant, called at Oamaru and loaded cargo on the 20th, leaving that port at 10.30 p.m. the same day, and arrived at Lyttelton ati 3 p.m. on the 21st. Left again at 7.30 p.m., passed the East Cane at 3 a.m. on the 24th, rounded the North Head at 8.25 a.m. yesterday, and berthed at; the Quay-street Jetty as above. Experienced fine weather, with light variable winds, to arrival at Lyttelton, and from thence strong, north-westerly winds, to arrival. The Ovalau is to leave for Suva and Levuka to-morrow evening. Last night the Northern S.S. Company steamer Argyle arrived from the Great Barrier. At seven o'clock to-night sho leaves for Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and Tairua. The Union S.S. Company's steamer Te Anau left for Sydney last night with ft number of passengers and a quantity of general cargo. This afternoon the Union S.S. Company's steamer Dingadee leaves tor the East Coast, Napier, and Wellington. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tongariro leaves for Napier this ifterioon.

Ad /ices from Sydney state that the berthing list of the Canadian mail steamer Arawa is rapidly filling. The steaner leaves Sydney [or Vancouver on May 18. The American barque Lottie Moore ha* completed the discharge of her cargo from New York. All claims against the inward cargo are to be sent in to Messrs. Arnold. Cheney, and Co. by noon to-morrow. The cargo steamer Buteshire is now fully due from Sydney to load frozen meat, etc., for London. Yesterday the barque Freetrader sailed From Newcastle for this port with a cargo ot joal. The brigantine Stanley sailed from Port Elembla, New South Wales, for this port yesterday with a cargo of coal. The barque Kathleen Hilda at Newcastle from Lyttelton yesterday. The schooner Norval is to discharge her cargo of copra into the New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Rangitikei, for London. . To morrow afternoon the Union S.S. Company's steamer Walhora leaves for Southern ports, Hobart, and Melbourne. The steamer Richmond leaves for Rarotonga and Tahiti to-morrow evening. The brigantine Defiance has arrived at Sydney from Kaipara, with a cargo of timber. On discharge she will probably proceed to Newcastle to load coal for this port. Yesterday the barque Killarney sailed from Sydney for Kaipara. to load timber back. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waikato arrived at London from **•» Zealand on Monday last.

To-day the schooner Sarah Pile will berth at the Railway wharf, to prepare lor her trip to the Thames and Lyttelton. H.M.s. Royalist was to leave Sydney on Saturday last for Brisbane. After a short stay there, aho is to go on to Ugi, Solomon Group. H.M.S. Goldfinch arrived at Adelaide from Sydney on the 18th instant. . H.M.s. Dart and Penguin are engaged m surveying work on the Tasmanian coast. TheUnionS.S Company's steamer Poherua leaves . Oamaru to-morrow, Timaru on Saturday, and Lyttelton on Monday for this P The rudder of the Cunard steamship Campania consists of a single plate of steel ,«i by 11 feet 6 inches, and if inches thick. It was rolled at Krnpp's German gun factory. The greatest speed attained by Bulling ships, according to Mulhall, was by the James Baines, 420 miles in 24 hours, and Flying Cloud, 412, The Red Jaoket ran 2280 miles in seven days, averaging 325 miles ada|he number and tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of February, and the number of lives lost, are as follow Sailing vessels 46, tonnage 7268, lives lost 38 steamers 11, tonnage 4497, lives lost 9, making a total of 57 vessels and 47 lives. , ~. •*. From returns just made public, it appears that the total tonnage entering and leaving French ports in 1893, amounted to 22,093,693. being a reduction of 188,393 tons compared with the previous year. This reduction is, however, much loss than that which was experienced in 1892, when the shrinkage amounted to nearly 3,000,000 tons. If the French tonnage be taken separately, the decrease in 1893 amounted to as much as 611,142 tons, while vessels under foreign flags increased by 422,759 tons. # The principal part of the foreign tonnage visiting French ports is under the English flag, so that, notwithstanding the extensive system of bounties granted by the French Government to native owners and builders, the British trader not only holds his own, but is increasing his proportion of the French carrying trade. # The Pyrenees, which has just arrived at Melbourne from Frederickstadt, reports that on the 2nd instant, in 45Jdeg. south and 147deg. east, while the ship was running before a strong north-west gale, an A.B. named Carl Jansen was lost overboard. • The man was standing in the rigging guiding the lower topsail down and was knocked into the sea. The ship was a mile away from the unfortunate fellow before the captain, who was on the poop, knew what had happened. Ho instantly put the ship about and nad a boat ready for lowering, but although a good look-out was keut from the masthead, the man could not be found. The lost sailor was 20 years of age, and a native of Norway. ARRIVAL OF THE MARIPOSA. _ 1 The Mariposa arrived from San Francisco about two o'clock this morning, some delay being caused by the absence of the Health Officer. The steamer sailed from San Francisco on April 5 at 6.40 p.m., arriving at Honolulu on the 12th at 6.13 a.m. She sailed again on the same date at 6.20 p.m., and arrived at Apia on the 19th at 5.0 p.m. She left Apia on the same day at 11.30 a.m., and arrived as above after an uneventful voyage.

THE E. L. MAYBERRY. The American barque E. L. Mayberry, from New \ork, via Port Chalmers and Nelson, which was reported outside Tiritiri on Monday night, was picked up by the steamer Invincible on Tuesday, and an attempt was made to tow her up through the Motutapu passage; but, owing to the strong westerly breeze blowing, the attempt proved futile. Yesterday the barque was reported at anchor below Waiheke, and the steamer Waitoa went down to help the Invincible to tow the vessel up. She made the harbour about 2 o'clock this morning. NAVAL ITEMS. Her Majesty's ship Hornet, torpedo-boat destroyer, has juit completed her trials, in which she maae a mean speed of over 28 knots an hour. This is a knot more than any speed previously recorded by any vessel. The Havock, the Hornet's sister vessel, on her recent trials, made only 26 knots, the increased speed being due to the troduction into the second boat of the builders' water-tube boilers, instead of those of the usual locomotive type. The Hornet, which was built by Messrs. Yarrow and Co., is, therefore, the swiftest vessel in the world. It is reported that it is the intention of the Admiralty to build at Portsmouth two Majesties and one Barflenr simultaneously, which will get over the dock difficulty and not necessitate giving an extra battleship to a private firm of contractors. The Warrior, the oldest armour-clad ship in the world, built entirely of Iron, is about -nnci *»-<*oired for service., abroad as a guardship at one oTxncrcoHTingstations. She was launched by the Thames Ironworks Company at Blackwall, December 29, 1860, and commissioned for the first time in August, 1864, by Captain A. A. Cochrane, for service in the Channel. She is to have new boilers certainly, and a new secondary battery of quick-tiring guns. A good deal of nonsense is often talked about the folly of retaining old muzzle-loaders in renovated ironclads and not giving them double screws, but, even where the construction of the ship would make these alterations possible, their cost is prohibitive for aa elderly hull. A London exchange says : —" What strange stories get about! Several papers have announced that the delay in completing the yacht Water witch, at Portsmouth, destined some day or other to relieve the surveying vessel Dart, in Australia, which was herself a yacht when she was bought into the navy, years ago, is due to want of money. Nothing of the kind. It is due to want of men. It is a positive fact that the Serveying Department has not enough officers available for even such a small craft as this, although the extra allowances in the way of pay to surveyors are very considerable."

PORT OF ONEHUNGA. ARRIVALS. Mahinapua, b.s., W. J. Newton, from Wellington, Nelson, and Mew Plymouth. Passengers: Mrs. Teed, Miss Gill, Messrs. Osborne, Heels, Dixon, Lazarus, Pierson, Anderson, McMillan (2), Moore, Lloyd, Rutherford, Andrews, Barnard, Teed, Stoddard, Llynn, Nichols, Duncan, Brown, Rev. Blakey, and eight in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Oairlooh, s.s., McArthur, from New Plymouth. Passengers Mesdamos Ellis, Wybourne, Moa, Ogden, Crane, Messrs. Gardiner, Ogden, Gilmore, and four in the steerNorthern S.S. Co., agents. At 12.65 p.m. yesterday the Union S.S. Company's steamer Mahinapua, Captain W. J. Newton, arrived from Wellington, Picton, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Mr. C. S. ( Stephens, the purser, reports Left Wellington at 7.10 p.m. on the 22nd instant, Picton at 2 a.m. on the 23rd, Nelson at 8 p.m. on the 23rd, and Taranaki at 10.15 p.m. on the 24th. Crossed the bar at 11.15 a.m. yesterday, reaching the wharf as above. Experienced utrong N.W. to S.W. gales with heavy seas and dirty weather throughout. The Mahinapua leaves for New Plymouth and Wellington to-day. The Northern Company's steamer Gairlooh arrived from New Plymouth at 2 p.m. yesterday with a large general cargo. She leaves for New Plymouth again at one o'clock this afternoon. BY TELEGRAPH. WHANGAREI. April Arrived: Wellington, 8.8., from Auckland. Sailed: Douglas, s.s., for Auckland. TAURANGA. April 25.—Arrived: Waiotahi, s.s., from Auckland. WELLINGTON. April Arrived: John Bell, schooner, from Lyttelton: Australia, 8,8., from Auckland via the East Coast; Takapuna, s.s., from Onehunga via Taranaki; Rotorua, s.s., from Nelson and Picton: Penguin, b.s., from the South. Sailed: Wainui, s.s., for Picton, Nelson, and West Coast; Moa, s.s., for Napier and East Coast; Takapuna, s.s., for Lyttelton; Penguin, s.s , for Nelson. LYTTELTON. April 25.—Arrived j Grasmere, barque, from Newcastle; Thurso, barque, from NewPORT CHALMERS. April Arrived : < Talune, 8.5., from Lyttelton, BLUFF. April 25.—Sailed : Kawafciri, steamer, for Dunedin; Hinemoa, for the Auckland Islands. NEWCASTLE. April 25. — Arrived: Kathleen Hilda, barque, from Lyttelton. Sailed: Natal Queen, barque, Freetrader, barque, for Auckland. : . . . PORT KEMBLA. April Sailed: Stanley, brigantine, for Auckland. „ne MELBOURNE. April Sailed, yesterday; Manapouri, 8.8*3 for Hobart and the Bluff. > , . SYDNEY. ' April 25.—Arrived : Belle, barque J Defiance, brigantine, from Kaipara; Taieri, 8.8., . from Auckland. Sailed : Killarney, barque, for Kaipara; Tasmania, s.s., and Mararoa, ( 8.5., for Auckland. - MELBOURNE. . April-Sailed, yesterday; Manapouri, 8.8., for Bluff. v i . LONDON. : 1 April 24.~Arrivod yesterday: Waikato, s.s., from Wellington (February 24). - :

THE AORANGI. WELLINGTON, April 26.—The Aorangi arrived from London, via Cape and Hobart. at 6 o'clock to-night, but will not be berthed until the morning, as the health offioar did not go off to-night. She brings the following I passengers For Wellington: Misses Her. rick (3), Spencer, Wilson, Mesdames Herrlck, Gale, Messrs. Egerton, Segar, Gale, Haybittle. For Auckland: Mr. O'Mera. - For Wellington : Misses Holmes (2), Marienberg, Pollock, Torlesse, Mesdames Dolne, Goring, Holmes (2), O'Neil, Pollock, Walton, Lieu- - Colonel Goring, Messrs. Bennle, (2). Colonel Holmes, Humfrey, Kelson, Micham, Lipport, Masters Holmes (3). and Walker. For Dunedin: Miss Matthews, Messrs. Matthews and Wood. Intermediate for Wellington: Misses Doynan (2), Mrs. Doynan, Messrs. Nicholson, Raitt, Scotland Roberts. Steerage for Wellington: Misses Butles, Gardener, Hutchinson, Fetridge, Mickle (2), Mesdames Barr, Earl, Harvey, Holland, Martin. Mickle, Reed, Wilson, Messrs. Barr, Bofgar, Clark. Duff, Dunlop, Fisher, Grogan, Henderson, Holland, Kendall, McKay, Mickle, Millward, Mirglees, Page, Roberts, Rosser, Scrase. Self, Thomson, 'long, Warwick, White, Wilson, Woolley ana Young, Masters Earl, Martin. For Auckland: Messrs. Harvey (2). For New Plymouth: Mr. Christie. The Aorangi's dates are : Plymouth, March 10 ; Teneriffe, March 15 ; Capetown, March 31, and Hobart, April 21. Heavy south-east weather was met with three days alter leaving the Cape, followed by south-west winds to longitude 60deg. IS., when exceptionally heavy weather was experienced on April 18th for about 24 hours, from W.S.W.; hence moderate southerly weather, accompanied by thick fog on nearing land, to Hobart. The Aorangi will probably leave here on Sunday for Lyttelton. THE STRANDING OF THE STORMBIRD. ' Wellington, April 25.—Magisterial inquiry into the grounding of the steamer Stormbird at Waikanae on the 20th of February had again to be postponed owing to the absence of the steamer with the witnesses. The Stipendiary Magistrate, in adjourning the inquiry to the 9th of May, expressed surprise that the master had not delayed the steamer, and said subpoenas would be sent, and should the witnesses not attend then warrants would be issued for their arrest.