SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9582, 6 August 1894, Page 4

SHIPPING.

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-ARRIVALS. ■;--; r Rotomahana, a.s., 1727, George Allman, - from Sydney. Passengers: — Mesdames Thompson,Daiseisley, TJndle, Eaten, Ledimrbam, Marx and 4 children, Misses Mann, H. Bate, Anderson, Ledingham, Revs. Leonard and Brother Felix, Messrs. Cottman. R. * Thorneby, R. M. Samuel. T. Eddey. J. Pitt'boons, James Knox, J. S. Robinson, J. lorivel, W. Msbley, R. Tyndall, C. Sendos, R. Smith*, E. McLeod, E. To«r, A H. Renshaw, Poniatonski, W. H. Hammond, Connelly, Sbakspear, Penahuna, and 52 in the steerage. For Wellington : Mrs. Anketell and child, Mr. T. Hughes, and 7 in the steerage. For Lyttelton : Mrs. T. A MoDonald. Mr. W. H. Shnttleworth, and one steerage. For Dunedin: Miss J. Eckhoff, and one steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Clansman, s.s., 300. W. Farquhar. from Tauranga. Passengers: Mesdames Marks, Booth, Wallace and family, Misses Marks, Kerr, Booth, Somerville, McKenna, Messrs. Davis. Blackwood, Taofield, Chargton, Goes, Chappell, Henwood, Potter, Maiyon. — Northern S.S. Co., agents. Waiotahi, s.s.,<?7S, J. Duvhm.from Opotoki and Tauranga. Passengers: Mrs. Campbell and child, Messrs. Marsel (2), Irwin, Yogel, Taranaila—Northern S.S. Co., agents. ; Argyle, s.s., 129, Johnston, from Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu. Passengers : Miss Guerin, Messrs. Lust, Gamble, Woodward, McSheflTey. — Northern S.S. Co., agents. Ohinemuri, s.a., "0, E. McLeod, from Whananaki and Northern ports. Passengers: Mrs. Aspden, Mr. Northern S.S. Co., agents. Douglas, n *~ 52, Haul tain, from Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Southern Belle, barque. 338, C. McCooe, from Port Kembla, N.S.W.—Master, agent. Spray, schooner, 52, John Urqohart, from Whangarei.—Master, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Upoln. s-s., 1141, George Crawshaw, for flji. Pass«ngeiß.— Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson, Mr. and .Mrs. Smart, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Elder. —Union S.S. Co., aceuts. Queen, schooner, 46, Thomas Jones, for Hokianga.—Master, agent. DEPARTURES. Upoln, as., for Fiji. Queen, schooner, for Hokianga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. fisoos: Ruapehu, 5.8., sailed from Capetown July 22. Waimate, ship, sailed. Hawke's Bay, as., via* Melbourne and Sydney, sailed July 14. Pake ha, 3.3 , loading. Hew TOES : Mary Hasbrouck, barque, arrived at Lyttelton August 3. Mannie Swan, barquentine, sailed from Wellington July 28. Clan McLeod, barque, sailed May 14. OUed Baxter, barque, loading. •AN FEANCIsCW: Mouowai, R.M.S., August Id. HONOLULU : Monowai, KM. 3., August IG. CALCUTTA : , Port Melbourne, s.s., sailed July 25. SAMOA : Monowai, R.M.8., August 16, srosET: Tasmania, 5.3., to-day. Mararoa, 5.8., to-day Mariposa, ii. M.s., Friday. NEWCASTLE : Vision, brig, early. WaitemaU, barquentine, early. Northern Chief, barque, early. IUMTKHAMFTOS: Kenilworth, schooner, put into Brisbane in distress, May 8. •OUTH SEA ISLANDS: Welcome, schooner, early. &ABOTOXGA : Waiwera, schooner, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Ruapehu, ■ j., via the South, early. Euterpe, ship, loading. NEW YOKK: Sadie A Thompson, barquentine, to-day. Mannie Swan, barquentine, to arrive. LAN FKASCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.s., Saturday. HOSOLULU : Mariposa, R.M.s., Saturday. stPset : Wairarapa, 8.5., Wednesday. SAMOA: Taviuni, 1.9., Wednesday. Mariposa, R.M.s, Saturday. KSOAi Taviuni, s.s., Wednesday. Ysabel, barquentine, August 10. aaiuwoxoA: Linda Weber, brigantine, early. lint: Taviuni, s.s., Wednesday, Ovalau, s.s., August 16. N'OSFOLE ISLAND : Southern Cross, Mission yacht,' Aug. 17. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.Moa arrives from East Coast; Kawatiri arrives at Mauukau from Greymouth; Australia arrives from East Coast; Mararoa arrives from Sydney; Takapuna leaves Onehunga at 10 a.m.; Rotomahana leaves for South at 4 p.m. Tcesday.Australia leaves for East Coast; Corinna arrives from South; Wairarapa arrives from South; Kawatiri leaves Manukau for Greymouth. edsv.—Mahinapua arrives at Onehunga ; Mararoa leaves for South at noon; Wairarapa leaves for Sydney at noon ; Taviuni leaves for Tonga; Moa leaves for East Coast. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.—Gairloch leaves for New Plymonth at 1 p.m.; Ulehelg -eaves for Raglan and Kawhia at 1 p.m.; Douglas leaves for Whangarei Town Wharf at 5 p.m.; Clansnan leaves for Russell, Whangaroa, and Mangonui at 7 p.m.; Argyle leaves for Kuao;unu and Mercury Bay at 7 p.m.; Wellington arrives trom Whangarei. Tuesday.— Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Parua Bay. and Mangaoai at 10.30 p.m.; Argyle arrives from Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay, and leaves for Barrier at midnight ; Waiotahi leaves for Tauranga and Opotiki at 7 p.m.; Chelmsford for Whaugamata and Whakatane at 5 p.m. -. . ..,' „ "■ '_- Wednesday.— arrives from New Plymouth; Argyle from the Great Barrier Douglas from Whangarei; Glenelg from Raglan and Kawhia. Thuesday.—Gairloch leaves for New Ply- • mouth at 1 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei: Argyle leaves for Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and Tairua at 7 p.m. I Douglas, for Whangarei Town Wharf, at 5 p.m. . Friday.—Clansman arrives from Russell at 6 a.m., and leaves for Tauranga at 7 p.m.; Glenelg leaves for fiokianga at 1 p.m.; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay at 10.30 ■ p.m. ; Saturday. — Argyle arrives from < Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunu ; Gairloch : from New Plymouth; Douglas from Whaugarei. ' 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. Wallaroo, H.M.S., in Calliope Dock. Rapid, H.M.S., in stream. Taviuui, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf., Rotomahana, 5.8.. at Queen-street Wharf. Southern Cross, Mission yacht, in stream. Arawata, s.s., in stream. Euterpe, ship, at Quay-street Jetty. - Natal Queen, barque, at Railway Wharf. Examiner, barque, in stream. Kiliarney, barque, at Hobson-etreet Wharf. Southern Belle, barque, at Sugar Works. Sadie A. Thompson, barquentine, at Queenstreet Wharf. . f v Ysabel, barquentine, at Queen-street Wharf. Linda Weber, brigantine, at Queen-street ■:. • Wharf. 1 Grace Dent, schooner, at Railway Wharf. — m •.! IMPORTS. ; ; Per Rotomahana, from Sydney:—l93o bags ; bones, 326 bags kainut, 780 bags boned us 142 hides, 8 coops fowls, 448 cases fruit, 12 horses, 9 bales bones, 2 cases books, and a quantity of sundries. Per Southern Belle, from Port Kembla, New South Wales :~450 tons coal. / EXPORTS. . Per Upolu, for Fiji: 165 bags lime, 124 " sacks potatoes, 25 sacks flour, 7 sacks oysters, SO sacks 'sugar, 10 sacks oats, 5 W kegs butter, 12 sacks beans, 5 sacks wheat, ' *8' cases onions, 8 cases apples, 8 casks , spirits, 8 sacks chaff, 5 casks milk, and sun- , dries. ' The Union S.S. Company's steamer Roto-' ; i raahana, Captain : George Allmau, . arrived j from Sydney at 5.30 p.m. On Saturday. Mr. A, Salvesen, the purser, to whom wo are in- • debted for; our files, reports.—The Rotomahana left the Sydney wharf at 3.15 p.m. on the 31st ult:and 5 cleared the Heads at 3.45 p.m. On the 3rd inst., at 11.20 p.m., bad the. P. Three Kings abeam, and passed Maria light at 1.40 a.m. on the 4th, and rounded North I Cape at 3.15 a.m. At II a.m. had the Poor Knights abeam; and had TiriTiri abeam at

4.20 p.m., arriving at wharf as above. Had strong south-west breeze and high westerly sea and passing squalls to early on the 3rd Inst., thence moderate sonth-west and fane to arrival. The Rotomahana leaves for Guv I borne, Napier, Wellington, and the South today at 4 p.m. ■. '. On Saturday mint; the Northern a. 8. Company's steamer Waiotehl arrived from Opotiki and Tanrauga with cattle, sheep, and general cargo. She leaves for the same places again to-morrow evening. '„'.*■" I The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Clansman arrived from Tauranga, early yesterday morning. She leaves for Russell, \V hangar©*, and Mangonni this evening. On Saturday night the Northern S.S. Company's steamer Argyle arrived from Tairua, Mercury Bay, and Kuaotunn. She leaves for the last two places again this evening."'-,,"' . '■'' ... ' The Northern &S. Company's steamer Ohinemurt arrived from Ngunguru and the North on Saturday evening, bringing & quantity of general cargo and 50 casks whale oil. She resumes her running in the Thames trade to-day. « On Saturday morning the Northern S.B. Company's" steamer Douglas arrived from Whangarei with a cargo of coal. She leaves for the town wharf, Whangarei, this evening...:',':':--.- •■■•' .■■■■.'." _, .-.■.. The barque Southern Belle, Captain Chas. McCooe, arrived frm Port Kembla, New South Wales, on Saturnay night with a cargo of coal for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. The master reports that \ the barque sailed from Port Rembla on Friday, July 27, and had fresh northerly and westerly wind* to the North Cape, which was passed on Fridav last; thence south-west winds to the Hen and Chickens ; thence light variable winds to arrival. • On Saturday afternoon the schooner Spray arrived from Whangarei with a cargo of coal for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, and went up to Chelsea to discharge. _ The Union S.S. Company's steamer Upoln left for Fiji on Saturday with a quantity of general cargo, and on discharge loads with raw sugar back to Ibis port. On Saturday night the schooner Queen sailed for fiokianga with a cargo of flour, etc. '|

The Union S.S. Company's steamer Mararoa is due from Sydney to-day, and proceeds to Napier, Wellington, and the South on Wednesday.

To-day the American barquentine Sadie A. Thompson will haul out into the stream.

The departure of the Union S.S. Company's steamer Wairarapa Sydney has been postponed until noon on Wednesday. On Saturday the barque Elizabeth Graham sailed from the Kaipara for Melbourne with a cargo of timber.

A record passage of 29 days from Capetown to Newcastle was completed on July 21 by the ship Lord Spencer.

The mail steamer Mariposa on her passage from this port to Sydney met with heavy weather nearly all the way across, gales from south-west and south, with high seas and dirty weather prevailing. She was delayed over 15 hours on the passage.

For the second time the ship Titania was offered at auction in Sydney on J uiy 24, by order of the V ice-Admiralty Court. On the Previous occasion there was no bidder, "here was no reserve, and there was a fair attendance of shipowners and others. Bidding started at £480, and finally closed at £580, when the erstwhile tea-clipper was knocked down to Mr. Paxton, shipbroker. The compulsory sale was in connection with the recent collision between the Titania and the Kouoowarra off Green Cape.

The chairman of the P. and O. Company, at a recent meeting of the shareholders of the company, stated that a time was coming when not a single ton of English coal would be sent out to the far East. They were preparing for this contingency by building a huge steamer, to be named the Mazagon, for which it was contemplated finding immediate employment in carrying coal between either China, Japan, or Calcutta, and their various ports of call in the East. The Mazagon, which would carry over 7000 tons of cargo, would cost something like £45,000, while the Caledonia, their newest mail steamer, would cost them nearly five times that sum, although she would only carry about 3500 tons deadweight. THE TASMANIA. This morniuz Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co.'s steamer Tasmania is expected to arrive from Sydney. She leaves for Napier, Wellington, and the South at 4 p.m., and special rates of passage are advertised in another part of this issue by Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co., the agents for the steamer.

THE WRECK OF THE FREETRADER:

THE CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT.

The barque Freetrader, which was wrecked at Warrnambool on July 21, was insured for £200. Captain Bowden has made the following statement:—" I have been engaged on the coast of Australia about 50 years, and have been master and owner of the Freetrader since 1836. The Freetrader was built in Tasmania half a century ago. On May 24 last the vessel left the Thames (New Zealand) with a cargo of sawn timber for Warrnambool, and experienced very bad weather. Ran into Sydney for provisions. After a trip of 46 days she reached Warrnambool on July 9, and the vessel discharged her cargo, and took in ballast. I expected to sail for Newcastle last Friday, but the wind changed, and we could not get away. On Saturday night I anchored off the Breakwater, and thought the ship would be perfectly safe, as three anchors were out. After midnight the anchor chains broke, and half-an-hour later the hawsers snapped,and the ship drifted, and was dashed into the piles. I burned blue liehts to summon help, and we all landed safely. lhe insurance only covers the mortgage. I saved nothing from the ship."

THE BARQUE ACACIA IN HEAVY WEATHER.

The Tasmania-owned barque Acacia, from the Thames bound to Melbourne, put into Sydney on July 28 in distress. The barque met the full force of the recent terrific gales in the Tasman Sea, during which she was badly knocked about, and lost portion of her fresh water supply. Captain Herbert reports:—"We left the Thames (N.Z.) for Melbourne on June 25, and cleared the land on the 29th, with hard south-west gale, lasting three days. Afterwards moderate weather until July 10. From this date on we had a succession of hard westerly gales, lasting 14 days. During part of the time it blew with hurricane force, raising a tremendous sea, and flooding the deck fore and aft. On the 18th, in a violent squall, we lost the lower foretopsail, foretopmast staysail, and main staysail, and the following day lost another lower foretopsail. Altogether six sails were blown clean away, leaving very • little but the bolt » ropes. The worst of all was losing a tank of water on July 6, and from that date we had nothing but thick muddy water to drink, and very little of that. Smoky Cape was made on the 25th inst. On the 27th the wind came fair after a continuation of head winds for 22 days. Passed Port Stephens at at 2 p.m. on 27tb, and arrived at Sydney Heads at 8 a.m. on the 28th." The necessary repairs Will be effected as speedily afl possible, and Captain Herbert expected to make a fresh start for Melbourne on the 2nd inst.

THE WARSHIPS. H.M.S. Rapid is under orders to leave this port for Rarotonga to-morrow. The Penguin left Sydney on July 28 on an important surveying cruise. The commander has received orders to proceed to Brisbane and take a line of soundings, thence on to the Solomon Group in connection with the proposed Pacific cable route. The work will occupy some weeks, and the Penguin will afterwards resume surveying operations in the Solomon Group. , , The Karrakatta has come out of dock at Sydnev and leaves this week for Brisbane to meet the Orlando. J, , - „ The Boomerang was at Noumea on July 22, having just returned from a cruise .through the New Hebrides. , M . , ..' ■,■• , The Lizard has arrived at Thursday Island from the Islands. .. ; - . ■ • , , The Katoomba and Goldfinch are at Melbourne, The former goes on to Adelaide and Western Australia. The Dart is at Sydney : preparing for a surveying cruise to the New i Hebrides. The Mildura and Tauranga are at Sydney. •■-''.■ ".'■■',''•' '■; Mr. A. P. L. Dupett, of H.M.S. Mildura, and Mr. M. Bennett, of thfiKatoombai return to England by the R. M.s. Orizaba. - r A report from Portsmouth says that H.M.B. Bona venture, at one time named as successor to the Orlando as flagship on the Australian station, has been commissioned for the summer manoeuvres, and will afterwards replace H.M.s. Boadicea as flagship on the East India station. : " The Boomerang is out of dock at Sydney.

THE MIOWERA The Canadian mail steamer Mipwera, which is reported having been seriously injured on the coast of Norway by striking on a rock, made a trial run on June 18 prior to proceeding on her cruise. Having > gone through a series of evolutions to demonstrate the power of her patent steering gear, and the adjustment of her compasses, the vessel was run a series of trials over the measured mile, and eventually along the coast line till opposite the Coquet Lighthouse, a mean speed of !17 knots per hour being maintained. The engine worked smoothly and without a hitch. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright London, August —A : premium of 65 guineas is demanded on the Miowera.

FORT OFONEHUh'GA.

ARRIVALS.} '.:-:_.- Takapuna, s.s.. J. Grant, from the South and New Plymouth. Passengers: Mrs. Waller, Rev. Webster, Messrs. Nott, Mar. tin,'- Forrest, Qribble, Lawrence, Chambers, Paton, Ramaon, and five in the steerage.— Union S.S. Co., agents. * >-.-■= -'.. %. ; ''■■,:,, ■)•- :-PGairloch, 8.8. r W. F. Norbury, from New Plymouth. Passengers : Mesdames Clements and Dunbar. Misses Owen * and Hilton, Messrs. Caldwell. Purdy, Olliver, Dunbar, Lynn; Lnsk, and 10 in the steerage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. '<■'-,_ , Glenelg, s.a., Austen, from Wanganuu— Northern S.S. Co., agents.

At ten o'clock on Saturday night the Union S.S. Company's steamer Takapuna, Captain John Grant, arrived from the South and New Plymouth. Mr. George Crawley, the purser, reports that the steamer left Lyttelton at 6.30 p.m. on the 2nd instant, and arrived at Wellington At 9 a.m. on the 3rd. Left again the same day at 4 p.m., arriving at Taranaki at 7 a.m. on the 4th. Left Taranaki at 10.30 a.m. the same day. crossed the Mauukau bar at 8.30 p.a, and arrived at Onehunga wharf as above. Experienced strong variable winds and heavy sea till arriving at Taranaki i thence to arrival fine weather. ' ; ''" "• - " * \ • The > Northern S.S. Company's steamer Gairloch left the Breakwater, New Plymouth, at 10.30 p.m. on Friday,crossed the Mauukau bar at 11.15 a.m., ana arrived at Onebunga wharf at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Besides a quantity of general cargo, the steamer brought 80 boxes of butter. The Northern S.S. Company's steamer Glenelg arrived from Wanganui early on Saturday morning. .

BI TELEGRAPH.

KAIPARA HEADS ■ August Sailed: Elizabeth Graham, barque, for Melbourne. * v MARSDEN POINT. August Arrived: Christina, schooner, from Auckland. '':.'-'■'■■■' ." WHANGAREI. August 4.—Arrived : Wellington, s.s., from Auckland. GISBORNE. August 4.—Sailed: Australia, S.S., for Auckland. August Sailed: Corinua, s.s., for Auckland. NAPIER. ! August 4.— Arrived: Tarawera, Is. s., (from Auckland and Gisbornc. Sailed : Tarawera, S.S., for Wellington. • I WELLINGTON. August 4.—Arrived : Mahinapua, s.s., from Onehunga, via Taranaki; Wainui. s.s., from the West Coast and Nelson; Wairarapa, s.s., from the South; Brunner, s.s., from Westport; Duke of Sutherland, s.s., from London, via Auckland. Sailed : Hinemoa. Government s.s., for Pioton, Marlborough Sounds, and Nelson, with the Parliamentary excursion party; Charles Edward, sis., for Nelson and the West Coast; pingadee, S.S., for Westport; Brunner, e.s., for the South ; Wairarapa, s.s., for Sydney, via the East Coast and Auckland. August 5. —Arrived: Kanieri, b.b., from Onehunga via way ports; Waverley, s.s., from Nelson; Southern Cross, s.s., from Auckland via way ports; Ovalau, 8.5., from Auckland; Kafau, s.s., from the East Coast; Tarawera, s.s., from Auckland via the East Coast; Penguin, s.s., from Lyttelton; Ma* whera, s.s., from Nelson and the West Coast; Doric, s.s., from London via Auckland. Sailed: Mahinapua, s.s., for Onehunga via Taranaki; Wakatu, s.s., for Lyttelton via Kaikoura. -- LYTTELTON. August Arrived: Waikato, s.s., from the Bluff. August Arrived! i! Taleri, e.s., from Newcastle. MACLEAY RIVER. August Sailed : Heroine, schooner, for Napier. MELBOURNE. August Arrived: Northern Chief, barque, from the Thames; Mary Wadley, barquentine, from Greymouth, SYDNEY. August 5.—-Arrived: Talune, i.s., from Wellington. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND IN A GALE. Wellington, August 4. Captain Beauchant, of the steamer Duke of Sutherland, which arrived from Auckland to-day, reports that when about 40 miles to the north of Cape Palliser the vessel encountered a heavy southerly gale, and when abreast of the Cape shipped tremendous seas, which flooded the decks fore and aft, washed all movable gear overboard, and smashed the port railing forward and aft. The vessel steamed to Cape Campbell, where she remained until 4 o'clock this morning, when the weather moderating a start was made for Wellington. The gale is reported by the officers to be the worst experienced by them on the New Zealand coast. '■■ " ■ ■_"