SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9504, 7 May 1894, Page 4

SHIPPING.

BjoH'Watee at Auckland—7.lf a.m.; 7.51 p.m. .. SUnokaa—9.4s o-m.; 105 P-m. ;®P*r:Bfees, 6.37 a.m.; gets, 4.59 p.m. MOOS— quarter, 12th, 5.32 p.m. \ WEATHEB FORECAST. '' Captain Edwin wired from Wellington on Saturday at 12.30 p.m.:—lndications for glass rising and for *ery cold ni^ht*. Captain E&rrm say* bard gales from til® northward, changing by W. 'and with rain, any be , expected in most parts of th-s country between midnight on the 3th and noon on the Xlth hist. ARRIVALS. Clansman, s.s.. 300, W. Farquhar, from Taur&nga. Passengers: Mesdames Wright and Lund on. Miss Lundon. Messrs. Wright, Vogan, Foster, Pilling. — Northern S.S. Co., agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, E. Stephenson, from WhangareL—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Argyle, s.s., 129, F. Amodeo, from Tairna, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu. Passengers: Messrs. Buchanan, Gibbs, Slater, Gamble.— Northern S.S. Co., agents. Scotchman, s.s., 42, J. A. Bewicke, from WhangaieL— agent. Freetrader, barque, 188, H. Bowden, from Newcastle.—M. Jiiccol, agent. Stanley, brigantine, 344, K. M. Lindfors. from Port Kembla, Jl.S.VV.Master, agent. Anthons, brigantine, 113, C. H. Hyde, from Newcastle.—Master, agent. *" Queen, schooner, 46, T. Jones, from Hokianga.—Master, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Poherua, s.s., 1175, J. Shepherd, for the Bluff.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Saxon, schooner, SS, James Naiman, for Giaborne,M. Niccol, agent. DEPARTURES. Poherua, 5.3., for the BlutL Saxon, schooner, for Giaborne. EXPECTED ARRIVALS, LONDON: lonic, s.s., due to-day. Star of England, s.s., arrived at Melbourne April 29. Rangatira, bj., sailed March 13. Star of Victoria, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, sailed April 13. Mamaii, s.s., sailed April 26. Ruahiue, 8.9., loading. Duke of Sutherland, s.s., to load. JBAJiPXESS: i An tares, barque. Bailed February 20. JEW yokk : Sadie A. Thompson, barque, sailed 'Jan. 25. Marv Hasbrouck, barque, siiled Mar. 19. Mannie Swan, barq March 24. Lssex, barque, early. SYDNEY: Te Anau, s.s., to-morrow. NEWCASTLE : Elizabeth Graham, schooner,[sailedjMay o

Defiance, brigantine, early. fcOCKHAMPTOX : worth, schooner, sailed April 28.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES* OKDOX : . , Rangitikei, barque, loading. SSW YOBK. : , , Lottie Moore, barque, loading. E. L. Mayberry, barque, to load. 3AS FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.s., May 19. 30S0U7LU : Mariposa, R.M.s., May 19. UJIOA: Upolu, S.S., Wednesday. Mariposa, R.M.S., May 19rrDNEV: Mararoa, s.s., to-morrow. Tasmania, 5.3., to-morrow. Manapouri, s.s., Wednesday. tOSGA: _ Upolu, s.s., Wednesday. Fleet wing, schooner, to-d vy. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day. — Takapuna leaves Onehnnza, 10 a.m.; Manapouri arrives; from South; Southern Cross arrives from East Coast Mararoa arrives from South. Tuesday.—Mararoa leaves for Sydney, at 5 p.m.; Southern Cross leaves for East' Coast, 5 p.m.; Te Anau arrives from Sydney. . Wednesday.—Malunapua arrives at Onehunga; Manapouri leaves for Sydney, 5 p.m.; Upolu leaves for Tonga and Samoa, 5 p.m. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To, day. — Gairloch leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; Glenelg leaves for Raglan at 1 p.m.; Douglas leaves tor Whangarei Town Wharf at 5 p.m.; Clansman leaves for Russell. Whangaroa, and Mangonui at 7 am. ; Obinemuri leaves for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay at 7 p.m. Tuesday.—Ar*.;yle leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, i>rua Bay, and Mangapai at 8 p-m.; Ohinemuri arrives from Kuaotnna and Mercury Bay, and leaves for the Great Barrier at midnight: Waiotahi leaves for Tauranga and Oiwtiki at 7 p.m.; Chelmsford arrives from Tauranga, Whangamata, Slid Whakatane. . Wednesday.—Gairloch arrives from New Plymouth; Ohinemuri from the Great Barrier; Glenelg arrives from Raglan early, and leaves for Wanganui at 1 jj.m.; Chelmsford leaves for Whananaki, Ngungnru, Helena Bav, and Northern ports at 1 p.m. Thursday.— leaves for New Plymouth at 1 p.m.; Argyle arrives from Whangarei. Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Argyle leaves for Mercury Bay, Kuaotunu, and Tairua at 7 p.m.; Waiotahi arrives from Opotiki earlv; Waiotahi leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 8 p.m. . Saturday.— arrives from Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu; Gairloch arrives from New Plymouth. Thames Service. —Rotomahana or Ohinemuri leaves for Thames daily, and Paeroa leaves for Paeroa twice weekly. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. This list does not include coasters. Rapid, H.M.S., in stream. Upolu, s.s., at Queen-street Whan. 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. E. L. Mayberry, barque, at Queen-st. Wharf. Natal Queen, barque, at Railway Wharf. Freetrader, barque, in stream. Cathona, barquentine, at Hobson-st. Wharf. Stanley, brigantine, in stream. Anthons, brigantine, in stream. Christine, schooner, in stream. Fleetwing, schooner, at Railway Wharf. Welcome, schooner, at Railway Wharf.

IMPORTS.

Per Freetrader, from Newcastle2so tons Stanley, from Port Kembla4oo tons Anthons, from Newcastle 299 tons coal.

At 4 o'clock yesterday morning the bngantineStanley. Captain K. M. Lindfors. arrived from Port Kembla, New South Wales, with a cargo of coal for the Colonial Sugar P-ehn-ing Company. The master reports sailing on April 24, with a light westerly wind, which lasted tor 24 hoars, and then hauled to the south, and round by east and nrfrfch to the west again on the 28th, and then dropped to a calm. This was followed by a moderate breeze from north-east to south-east, with a hich easterly swell which lasted until the 3rd inst., when it again hauled to the North, blowing fresh. The North Cape was rounded on the morning of the 4th, and Cape Brett passed the same evening, with a light southwesterly wind, which increased to a moderate gale on the afternoon of the sth, and continued until dropping anchor in the harbour as above. This morning the Stanley will town up to the Sugar Works to discharge. On Saturday last the three-masted schooner Adelaide arrived at Sydney frorn the Thames with a cargo of timber. ,On discharge she Sroceeda to Newcastle to load coal for the hames. To-day the Union S.S. Company's steamer Manapouri is to arrive from the South. She leaves for Sydney on Wednesday evening. Yesterday afternoon the brigantine Anthons, Captain C. H. Hyde, arrived from Newcastle with a cargo of coal. She experienced similar weather to the barque Freetrader on the trip across. The barque Freetrader, Captain H. Bowden, arrived yesterday morning from Newcastle, with a cargo of coal for Mr. M. Niccol. The master reports sailing from Newcastle on April '22, after the Natal Queen, and had light westerly aud south-westerly winds until the 2oti), then squally weather from E.S.E. to N.E., with rain. The Three Kings were passed at 8 a.m. on the 4th, and Cape Brett at Ba. in. the next day. Squally wea/fcherfrom the W.S.W. to S.S. W. prevailed along the coast. Tiritiri being passed at 3.30 a.m. yesterday, and the harbour made at 8.30 a.m. The Freetrader will berth this morning to discharge. Yesterday morning the Northern S.S. Company's steamer Clansman arrived from fl?aurans?a. She leaves for Russell, Whangaroiv, and Mangonui, this evening. On Saturday night the Northern S.S. Company's steamer Argyle arrived from Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu. To-morrow night she leaves for Whangarei. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Wellington arrived from Whangarei yesterday morning. She is to lay up for a general Overhaul, her running in the Whangarei trade being taken up by the Waiotahi and ; Argyle. I V

On Saturday morning the 5.3. Switchman arrives from- Whaujsarei with a cttjp of coal. She leaves for the same place again tomorrow. The Union S.S. Company s'steamer Poherua left for the Bluff on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday night the schooner Saxon sailed for Giaborne with the following cargo : 32,000 feet timber, Iff tons coal; 2 tons lime, 5 tons salt, 1 ton tow, and a quantity of sundries. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Ohinemuri leaves for Knaotonn and Mercury Bay this evening. , On Saturday afternoon the barque I\atal Queen was berthed at the Railway " hart, and will commence discharging her cargo of coal this monung. ! The AmeWin barque Lottie Moore commenced loading for New York on Saturday morning, a large number of cases of kauri gum being shipped. , This evening the Northern S.S. Company a steamer Douglas leaves for Whangarei Town Wharf. Tonday the Union S.S. Company a steamer Southern Cross is due from Wellington, Napier, and the East Coast. She leaves for the same ports to-morrow evening. . The schooner Queen arrived from Hokianga yesterday. She brought 3 - ton {cameras, 6 totara piles, 2200 feet totara timber, 6 sacks gum, 300 posts, MX) sleepers, \ 4 bags wool, 1£ 100 sundries. The Belgian Minister of Finance having | announced that all the Government can do to ease the charges on shipping at Antwerp is to abolish the light and beacon dues, the College Echevinal has addressed a letter of regret to the Minister, offering on the part of the city to considerably reduce the quay dues and the charges on steamers arriving in ballast, if the Government would iorego its share of the net proceed* of the Scheldt quay does. An insurance on some cargo by a vessel from London to a Spanish port was placed in London early in March, but a few days later the insurance broker received a letter from his client desiring him to cancel the line, as he had placed it more cheaply elsewhere. A? the time when the letter arrived, the ship was posted as a loss, and it need hardly be said that the London underwriters readily cancelled the line, leaving the underwriters who had taken it more cheaply to benefit by their cutting. The number of steamers in the Russian mercantile navy, which in the year 1873 was lvO (75,000 tons measurement), rose at the end of 189:? to 326 (157.000 tons). airly all of these steamers were built in Great Britain. A New York electric company is building wind-power electric plants for sailing vessels, yachts, and launches. Windmills are utilised to generate the power which is accumulated in storage batteries and given out as required for propelling, illuminating or (in the case of wooden sailing vessels) pumping ship.

THE lONIC. The Shaw, SavilL and Albion Company's steamer lonic is Hue to-day from London, Capetown, and Hobart, she having left the latter port on Tuesday last at midnight. On discharge of cargo she proceeds South. Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co. are the local agents.

THE MAKAROA. The Union B.S. Company's steamer Mararoa left Napier for this port at 12.15 p.m. yesterday, and should arrive about six o'clock this eveniug. She leaves for Sydney to-morrow evening at five o'clock. She_ brings the following passenger? from Wellington:— Misses James, Tripe. Ledger, Richmond, Fitzpatrick, Bennett, Pierce, Zachnriab, Gunn, Grant, Riley, Josephine,O'Brien,Von Stunner. Mesdames Dock and two children, Reeves, Bennett, Nathan, Livingstone, Hodgins, Rhodes, Maddox, Vaughan, Crawford, Harwood, Saunders. Aitken, Ashton, Marshall, Withers, Shield, Anthony, Rev. Dukes, Messrs. Richmond (2), Braid, Tonks (2), Walsh, Maddox, Vaughan, Gilbert, Hammond, Rankin, Hayes, Jones, Nathan, Chiswell, Coker, Maher, Pierce, Ledger, Tripe, Sanson, Rogerson, Hicktord, Somes, Hill, McGowan, Fennell, Rhodes, Antony, Shields, Douglas, Withers, Josephine, Master Gilbert.

THE TASMANIA Last night Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Company's steamer Tasmania left Napier for this port. She may be expected to arrive early to-morrow morning, and leaves for Sydney in the evening. She brings the following passengers from Wellington Misses Burt, Schuch, Hughes, Naylon, Collins, Duncan, Mesdames McDonald and two children, Butler, Warskitt, Schuch, Riggs, Collins, Brenton, Cunningham, Hasty, Stevens and family (3), Messrs. Schuch, Gortley, Fisher, Hastings, Cox, Taylor, Wyatt, Cunningham, Wright, Kent, Morrison, Beauville, Harty, Hocquard, Tolerton, Palmer, Maud. THE MAGNHILD'S CHARTER-AN IMPORTANT DECISION. A decision of importance to charterers was given by the Court of Appeal, on the Ist March, in London, in a suit against a wellknown Australian shipping firm. The appeal was from a decision of Mr. Justice Day. Mr. G. C. Hansen sued Messrs. Harrold Brothers for £195 13s, being the balance of £4000, the agreed freight on a charter party entered into between plaintiff and defendants, on the 7th May, 1891. The cargo was a cargo of oats, and the voyage from New Zealand to London. By the charter party, the charterers were to have the privilege of re-chartering the vessel at any rate ot freight without prejudice to the agreement, and the master was to sign bills of lading for the cargo, at the current or any rate of freight required, without prejudice to the charter party; and should the freight list, according to bills of lading, show a less sum in the aggregate than the chartered freight, the difference was to be paid in cash prior to ship's clearance at the Customhouse, but if more than the freight the same was to be endorsed on bills of lading. The charterers' liability was to cease on the vessel being loaded, the master and owners having a lien on the cargo for all freight and demurrage tinder the charter party. The charterers effected a sub-charter, and bills of lading, with freight payable according to weight, were presented by the sub-charterers to the captain, and duly signed by him. Owing to shrinkage, the cargo of oats was much diminished in weight during the voyage, and, consequently, the amount of freight paid bv the consignees on delivery at the port of discharge came short of the gum agreed upon by the plaintiff and defendants. Mr, Justice Day had given judgment for plaintiff. Defendants now appealed. Their lordships dismissed the appeal. The Master ot the Rolls was of opinion that the cesser clause, coupled with a stipulation for lien, did not apply where by the terms of the charter party the charterer was enabled by means of a sub-charter to bring into existence a lien which was not coextensive with the lien given by the charter. The owner had deprived himself of the right of refusing to sign bills of lading unless they were so worded as to give him all the rights which the charter party conferred on him. According to the terms of the charter party the captain was bound to sign any bills of lading that, a sub-charterer might offer him. His Lordship heid that the cesser clause only relieved the charterers from so much of the chartered lump freight as the freight mentioned in the bills of lading was equivalent to, and that the charterers were still liable to'pay the balance to the shipowners.