SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9722, 18 January 1895, Page 4

SHIPPING .

iIGM ATE* Auckland—ll.37 _r_; 12.0 p.m. „ „ MaaukAU—2.ll a.m.; 2.34 p.m. )WK—Kises, 4.5* a.in.; acts, 7.9 p.m. ; lOON—Last quarter, to-day, 10.20 a.m. WKATHEB forecast. Captain Edwin telegraphed from Wellington at 12.65 p.m. yesterday:— lndications strong east to tout!i and south-west winds, and glass fill. ARRIVALS. Wellington, 5.5.,279, E. Stephenson, from Whangarei. Passengers j—Mesdames Main. Sanson, Kirks, Lyser, Murray, Misses Guuson, Blackinore, Alderton, Findlay. Messrs. Hemus, Rimmer, Bain, Bush, Gold water, Lalley, Murphy, Peters, Main, Dobson, Blackmore, Large, Buchanan, Birks, Welch, Bennett.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. jChelmsford, s.s., 70, J. Stein, from Whakafane and lauranga. Passengers: Miss Kirby, Messrs. Stuart, Hanter, A. and H. Withy, Master Stein.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Waitemata, barquentine, 365, A. Campbell, from Newcastle.— J. Craig, agent. CLEARED OUrWARDS. Ovalau, S.S., 1229, Norman Beaumont, for Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Sydney. Passengers : Messrs. Giinilan. <*. Dunnett, J. A. Helling, MoKinlay, A.C. Walker.— S.S. Co., agents. Argvle, 5.8., 129, A. F. Johnson, for Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and Tairua.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Douglas, s.s., 52, Haultain, for Whangarei. Northern S.S. Co.. agents. Aotea, schooner, 100, J. H. Skinner, for the East Coast and Gisborne. — D. Nathan and Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Ovalau, S.S., for Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Sydney. Argyle, s.s., for Kuaotunu and Mercury Bay. Douglas, s.s., for Whangarei. Aotea, schooner, for the East Coast and Gisborne. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON: Waikato, s.s.. passed Capetown Jan. 4. lonic, S.S., sailed December 29. Maori, s.s„ via Melbourne and Sydneysailed December 4. BRISTOL: Lutterworth, barque, sailed from Wellington January 12. ran CISCO : Arawa, K.M.S., February 2. Honolulu : Arawa, R.M.s., February 2. NEW YORK : Alice, barque, arrived at Wellington January 16. E. G. Johnson, barque, sailed Nov. 26. Trinidad, barque, loading. Alio a : Arawa, R.M.s., February 2, «tbxj:t : Tasmania, s.s., Sunday. Monowai, s.s., Sunday. NEWCASTLE : Devonport, barque, sailed Jan, 9. Defiance, brigantine, earl v. ran : Ohau, s.s., to-day. Taviuni, s.s., Sunday. BRISBANE : Welcome, schooner, sailed December 29. RAROTOSGA : Taketuma, schooner, early. LTTTKLTON : Clansman, schooner, sailed January 12 Annie Hill, schooner, sailed January 12. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. LONDON : Mamari, s-s., via the South, to-day. Amsterdam, barque, to-day. Lutterworth, barque, to arrive. «AN FRANCISCO : Mariposa, R.M.S., January 26. HONOLULU: Mariposa, R.M.s., January 26. XKir YORK.: Alice, barque, to arrive. SIB.MI . Waihora, s.s., Wednesday. ■AMOA : Mariposa, R.M.s., January 26. TAHITI : Richmond, S.S., January 25. harotonca : Richmond, s.s., January 25. Linda Weber, brigantine, to-day. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day.Clansman arrives from Russell at (> a.m,; Glenelg leaves for Hokianga at 1 p.m.; Chelmsford leaves for lauranga (passengers only), Whangainata, and Whakatane at 5 p.m. Thames Service.—Rotomahana or Ohinemuri leaves for Thames daily, and Paeroa leaves for Paeroa twice weekly. IMPORTS. Per Waitemata, from Newcastle: 510 tons coal, EXPORTS. Fer Ovalau, for Tonga and Samoa: 8120 pieces and 67 bundles timber, 77 packages sashes, 23 doors, 8 bundles frames, 50 packages and 9 bundles joinery, 3 bundles mouldings, 4 packages casements, 6 kegs nails, 12 cases hams and bacon, 8 bales bay, 512 kegs and 5 tierces beef, 45 sacks flour, 14 head cattle, 50 sheep, 2 pigs, 34S cases meats, 29 sacks bran, 6 rolls netting, 10 crates, 8 cases and 8 bundles iron, 8 cases cheese, 8 crates poultry, 12 cases and 7 kegs butter, 30 vases onions, 34 bags rice, 32 cases mullet, 16 sacks wheat, 4 sacks sharps, 5 cases drapery, 5 sacks oats, 12 cases preserved fish. 111 sacks, 77 cases, and 3 crates potatoes, 90 cases kerosene, 188 bags sugar, 55 crates and 21 tins biscuit, 77 crates, 10 cases, and 381 tins bread, 10 drums oil, 65 boxes soap, 4 cases stout, 3 cases paper, 6 totara piles, a quantity of sundries, and transhipments from London and the South. The Northern Company's steamer Wellington arrived from Whangarei last night with passengers and general cargo. She leaves for the same place again to-night at 10.30 o'clock. Yesterday morning the Northern Company's steamer Chelmsford arrived from vVhakatane and Tauranga with a cargo of maize, etc. The steamer was detained at Whakatane for several days, owing to the bar not being passable. She leaves for Tauranga, Whangamata, and Whakatane, at 5 p.m. to-day. The Union Company's steamer Ovalau left last evening for Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Sydney with a larse miscellaneous cargo. Last evening the Northern Company's steamer Argyle lei t for Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and Tairua. She returns to-morrow evening. Yesterday the Northern Company's steamer Douglas left for Whangarei. The Dutch barque Amsterdam hauled out into the stream yesterday, and sails for London to-day. The brigantine Lady Mabel is loaded with timber at Hokianga for Sydney, and will sail the first favourable change. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's iteamer Mamari will leave tor Napier today. A barque, bound South, passed Russell on Wednesday evening. This will probably be the Devonport from Newcastle to this port. The Northern Company's steamer Clansman arrives from the North early this morning. Yesterday the Union Company's steamer Wakatipu arrived at Wellington from Sydney, which port she left at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday last. The barque Centurion, under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company, has been ordered on to Wellington from Otago Heads to load for London. The schooner Aotea sailed for the East Coast and Gisborne, last night, with a full general cargo. Yesterday, the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers Rimutaka left PortChalmers for Wellington. She leaves the I ; . latter port for London on Thursday next. - THE WAITEMATA. Yesterday afternoon the barquentine Wai- / temata arrived from Newcastle with a cargo of coal for Mr. J. J.Craig. Of the passage across, which has been a somewhat lengthy one of 17 days, Captain A. Campbell reports :—Sailed from Newcastle on December 30 with a light southerly wind, which hauled round to the eastward and continued to vary between south-east and north-east until the 9th inst., when we had two days' fair run with the wind from south to south-west. The wind then hauled round to the eastward again and continued for four days, thence to arrival light variable winds prevailed, with two days' fog and calm between f \ the Three Kings and North Cape. TiritirJ light was sighted at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, and the tugboat Eagle took us in tow at 4 '■ p.m. yesterday, and the vessel was berthed «-• at the -street Jetty at 5 m. As soon as the Waitemata was berthed the work of - discharging was proceeded with and continued throughout the night, and it is ?■ expected that she will be discharged to-day and sail to-morrow for the Kaipara to load timber for Sydney.. THE SOUTHEBN CROSS. i- Yesterday morning the Melanesian Mission yacht Southern Cross, Captain J. Bongard, arrived at Napier from Norfolk Island with Bishop Wilson and a party of Melanesians. The yacht goes on to Wellingf c/ ton and other ports of the colony in a few .'. ;days.;;;-.•;. •.'-:>>■;."' -■-■- ■■■'■■• -'- •■ ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. On the 2nd' inst., Mr. George Jennings, of Te Arai, found a bottle on the beach, between Point Arai and the Pakiri river, con-

' raining a slip from the Chief Weather Bureau, Brisbane, on which was the following message—" Thrown overboard, ship Valparaiso, Sept. 12, "94, lat. 3311, long. 166-4015 east. All well. Wind S.W.— Menhoz, Master." Mr. Jennings has forwarded the original of the message to Mr. C. L. Wragge, the chief of the Queensland Weather Bureau. The bottle has travelled 325 miles on a course cast by south to the North Cape, and then about 155 miles along the coast to where it was picked up, on a course south and east. PORT OF ONEHUNGA. DEPARTURES. Mahinapua, 5.8., W. J. Newton, for New Plymouth and Wellington. Passengers: Mesdames Reid and Tisdall, Misses Davies and Myers, Rev. Patterson, Hon. E. Mitchelson, Messrs. Holloway, T. W. Ellston, Turner, Evett. Tanfield, Bumby, J. 0. Firth, Gresham, England. Tisdall, Coleman Phillips, Myers, Simpkiu, Holt, Miller, Best, Furlong, and 10 in the steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. Gairloch, s.s.. W. F. Norbury, for New Plymouth. Passengers: Mesdames Richmond, McDermott, O'Neill, Messrs. Richmond and Wardell, and six in the steerage.— Northern S S. Co., agents. Kanieri, s.s., De Wolfe, for Raglan.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. The Union Company's steamer Mahinapua left for New Plymouth and the South at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, with a large general cargo and a number of passengers. The Northern Coinpauy's steamer Gairloch left for New Plymouth at LIE p.m. yesterday, with a general cargo and 2 horses. The B.S. Kauieri left for Raglan at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. |