SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11079, 2 June 1899, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High. Water at Auckland-1.10 a.m.; 1.38 p.m. „ „ . Manukau— a.m.; 3.37 p.m. Sun— 6.68 a.m.; sets, 4.40 p.m. Moon—Now, Thursday, 5.52 p.m.

WEATHER FORECAST. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday "North to east and south-east heavy gale; heavy sea; heavy rain; very high tides; glass further fall."

ARRIVALS. Te Anau, s.s.. 1653, John Bernech, from Southern and East Coast ports. Passengers: Misses Fenwick (2). Beattie (2), Davis, Karkeck ',21, Campion, Orr, Metcalfe (2), Wilson Stephens. Zeigler, Stevens, Poord, Brickson, McPherson, Harmstoii, Bothwick, Curtis, Para say, Sinythe, Rede, Mercer, Mowbray, Palmer, Drumm, Sulliva i. Buchanan, Sheen, Mesdames Pollard, Sullivan, Fitts, Ashton, Eylie Harper and three children, McLelian, R<ed, Biddies, Messrs. Thompson, T. Pollard, Bealtie, Sullivan. Pitts. Ashton. Royle, Cartel', Percy, Stephens, Quealy (21, Young, Bing, Russell, Cleaver, Crowther, King, Sullivan, O'Connor, Gleeson, Yaughan, Nable, Thomas, Williams, Walker, Lawrence, Cohen. Bottombv, Mackie, Writs, llaiper, Carr, McLelian, Bradile, Hookey, Williamson, Hairis, Hogan, Harcourt, East (2), Skipworth, Rhodes, Loss, Maynard, Biddies, Walstead. Platts, and 27 steerage.—Union S.S. Co.. agents. Wellington, s.s., 279, E. Stephenson, from Whangarei. Passengers: Mesdames Bartley, Henius, Svlen. Hisses Hasefleld and McLean, Messrs. Maselield, F. Foote, G. W. Foote, Bach, Wright, Bullei, Wilson (2). Morton, Clark, Drover, Edwards, Whitelaw, nhite, and 10 steerage.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Muritai, 5.&., 225, Joseph Dutlue, from the Great Barrier.— S.S. Co.. agent?. Chelmsford, s.s., 73, J. Taw, from WhaNorthern S.S. Co., agents.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Starof Victoria, s.s., via Sydney, sailed April 18. Due at Sydney June 6 Delphic. s.s.. via Capetown and Hobart, due to-morrow. . Star of New Zealand, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, due about July 25. HAMBUBG: Bille, barque, sailed May 2. NEW YORK : . , . „r „. . Mary Hasbrouck, arrived at Wellington, Ardandcarg, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, : led April 12. ,„ , Lisniore, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, sailed May 20. Hiram Emery, barque, via Wellington, sailed February 11. Grace Decring, barque, sailed. Alice, barque, loading. BAN" I'RANCISCO: Moana, P..M.5., Tuesday. SAMOA: m , Moana, R.M.s., Tuesday. FIJI: Upolu, s.s., early. SYDNEY; Mararoa, s.s., Sunday. TAHITI: Ovalau, s.s., to-day. EAROTONGA: Ovalau, s.s., to-day. NORFOLK ISLAND: . Croydon Lass, schooner, early. Medoru, schooner, early.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. NEW YORK; , , Lake Erie, barque, to load. Mary Hasbrouck, barque, to arrive, SAN i'HANCISCO: Mariposa, R.M.s., June 12. SYI'NKY : Tarav.era, s.s., Monday. Jloana, R.M.s., Tuesday. FIJI: Upolu. s.s., June 21. Taviuni, s.s, Juno 23. SAMOA; M iriposa, R.M.s., June 12. Taviuni, s.s., Juno 28. TONGA; Taviuni, s.s., June 28. TAHITI: Ovalau. s.s., Tuesday. EAKOTnSGA; Ovalau, s.s., Tuesday.

UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day: Ovalau arrives from Tahiti and Raroloiiga. „ , Saturday; Rotoiti arrives at Onehunga from the South; Te Anau leaves for Southern ports at noun.

NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-'lrv; Clansman arrives from Russell; Wellington leaves for Whangarei, Marsden Point, Mangapai, and Parua Bay al 8 p.m.; Uairloch arrives from New Plymouth; Muritai leaves for Kennedy's Bay, Kuaoiunu. and Mercury Bay at 9 p.m.; Ctelmsford arrives from Whangapona; Glen Dig leaves for Ilokianga at 1 p.m. Thames Service: Steamers leave for Thames daily. See advertisements daily papers.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Tutanekai, Government, s.s., at Railwa; Wharf. Te Anau, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. Lake lirie, barque, at Quay-street Jetty. Vision, brig, in stream. M. A. Doran, brigantine, at Hobson-stree Wharf. Aratapu, brigantine, at Qugen-street Wharf Clansman, scuoouer at Quay-street Jetty. IMPORTS. Per To Anau; 10 cases Green's hams an bacon.—T. H. Hall and Co. The Northern Company's steamer Welling ton arrived from Whangarei last night witl passengers and general cargo, and leaves fo the same place again at eight o'clock to night. Last night the Northern Company's Bteame: Muritai arrived from the Great Barrier, am leaves at nine o'clock to-night for Kennedy'] Bay, ICuaotunu, and Mercury Bay. The Northern Company's steamer Chelms ford arrived from Whangarei last night. At eight o'clock to-night the Northern Com pany's steamer Ngunguru leaves for Whanga poua and Whakatane. Owing to being detained by bad weathei at Russell, the Northern Company's steamei Clansman will not arrive until about tei o'clock this morning. H.M.s. Ringdove arrived at Gisborne fron Coromandel yesterday. The barquentine Ocean Ranger sailed fron Kaipara, for Adelaide yesterday. THE TUTANEKAI. The Government steamer Tutanekai is t< proceed to Tauranga to-day to overhaul till buoys in the harbour there. THE TE ANAU. The Union Company's steamer Te Anau Captain John Bernech, arrived from Southeri and East Coast ports yesterday morning. Mr. Percy Isaac, the purser, reports that th( Steamer left Dunedin at 3 p.m. on May 26 and called at Lyttelton, Wellington, -Napier and Gisborne, leaving the latter port at 11.3( a.m. on the 31st, and arrived at 11.30 a.m. yes terday. The Te Anau leaves for East Coasl and Southern ports at noon to-morrow.

THE OVALAU. The Union Company's steamer Ovalail is due to-day from Tahiti and Rarotonga.

EXTRAORDINARY SHIP SALVAGE. A ship launch has just taken place at the yard of Bwiui and Hunter, Newcastlo-on-Tyne, under extraordinary circumstances. In the autumn of last year the steamer Milwaukee, owned by Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co., of Liverpool, ran on the Scaurs off Cruden. a reel ot semi-hidden 1 ocks 011 the east coast of Aberdeenshire. Divers who were sent down reported that there was a rock somo 30ft in length and Bft in height piercing the bottom of the vessel in the main hold. The idea of saving ike vessel as a whole was abandoned, but it was determined to cut the steamer at the after end of the main hold, the bulkheads in the stern division being. undamaged, and no water having reached tile engines. The method resorted to in severing the fore and after ends was by the application of dynamite, the successive charges being spread over a length of from 4[t to 6ft. The charges varied according to the thickness of the steel plates, which had to be torn asunder, and so excellent was the quality of the material that charges of no less than 1401b were required in order to burst the plates. Eventually the forward section of the steamer was left on the rocks, and the stern floated into deep water, being thereafter towed to the Tyne. and docked a. the V allsend slipway docks. Messrs. C. b. u an and Hunter (Limited), the builders vesSl - , we re entrusted with the reconnmi tif" 1! e , nv i lrd or wrecked portion and the lauuch of the vessel with the new vanl ,o !!f a tl, ded ' t00l! » la< ? '™ n ' the pontoon yard of the company. It is said to be the first tune that such a shipbuilding feat has lM7 n i i: n r ?''™ d - The Milwaukee built in f)l. 1» .! steel screw steamer, and her original gross register was 7317 tons: the dimeSn were: Length .i 47oft; breadth. 66.1 ft ; depth, 31.9 ft. After the usual survey her name will be restored in Lloyd's register as an oceangoing passenger steamer of the highest class.

AN INTERESTING ocean hack between TORPEDO-DESTROYERS. The following; interesting account of an ocean race between destroyers came to hand recently:—Two Japanesci torpedo-destroyers -> the Shinonorao and the Murakumo, the former in charge of an English crew and the latter manned by Japanese, are at the present, it would appear, racing in the direction of Yokosuka, in a desperate effort to defeat each other for the honour of their respective countries, fur, a? stated, the Shinonome is in charge of Englishmen. On hearing of the successful trip of the Murakumo . from Plymouth to Suez, the builders of the shlnonome, according to the Japan Herald, obtained permission from the Japanese Government to bring the former to Japan in charge of their own employees, with tile sportsmanlike object of overtaking the MuraKumo and beating her in a run to Yokosuka. mJIT(i, was thereupon selected, and . placed Sin'nnnnm m?™ 11 of a " expert officer. The ' r, r-, ? t ! r It" ?'- vm , outl i 011 February 19 in S° { ' he Ifurakumo, which had then arrive*! at. Suez. Tll(! .Shinonome, cf course, ront D rn.r-, ? any intermediate ports, except Gibraltar an ,4 Suez, and actually succeeded 111 overhauling the Ifurakumo at Co- ! -i <n J tllat " ort for Singapore on April 18, two days earlier than the Murakumo, winch had then hardly realised what ™ in. the wind, but is no/ running after the Shinonome as hard as her engines will . permit Of, course, the real rtruggfe date" . from this point, as the Mnrakumo's Japanese . officers were not aware of the nursnit before The latter certainly enjoy an advantage over ~ their rivals during this stage of the race - as they are familiar with the route, so that %an exciting finish will take place before the winning-post is reached.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA. DEPARTURES. Takapuna, s.s., John Grant, for New Plymouth, Wellington, and Nelson. Passengers: Mesdames Cobb and Culpan, Mr. and Mrs. Gricrson, Misses J. Drown, Noble, Gellntly, Dunn, Cowern, Jagger, Gillillau, Green, Bight Hon. R. J. Seddon, lion. A. J. Cadman, Captain Sopwith, Messrs. J. Culpan, Gellatly, Thomson, C. A. Graham, H. Baxter, J. G. Lewis, Scully, l'yke, Hamer, Crowe, McKee, W. N. Douglas, l'errin, O'Brien, Masters Seccombe and Totten, and 15 steerage.— S.S. Co., agents. Kanieri, s.s., De Wolfe, for Raglan and Northern S.S. Co., agents.

The Union Company's • steamer Takapuna left yesterday afternoon for New Plymouth and Wellington. Yesterday afternoon the s.s. Kanieri left for Raglan and Aotea.

BY TELEGRAPH. KAIPARA HEADS. .June I.—Arrived: Ngaru, scow, from Auckland. Sailed: Ocean Ranger, barquentine, for Adelaide. marsden point. June I.—The Htion Belle, Will Watch, Talisman, Eleanor, and Clio, ketches, Leo. cutter. Rover. Orakei, Moehau, Totara, Herald, and Progress, seows, Saxon, schooner, and a scow, name unknown, are here windbound.

RUSSELL. June I.—To sail at midnight: Clansman, s.s., for Auckland. Passengers: Messrs. Johnston (2), Payne, and si:: steerage.

WHANGAROA. June I.—The scows Rata and Waitcmata are hero windbound.

MANGONUI. June 1.— I The s.s. l'aeroa is barhound at Parengarenga. GISBOItNE. June I.—Arrived: Ringdove, H.M.s., from Coromandel; Mawhera, s.s., from Auckland and Coast ports. NAPIER. June I.Arrived Elingamite, s.s., from the North.

WAITARA. June Arrived: Eimutaka, s.s., from Lyttelton.

NEW" PLYMOUTH. June Arrived: Gairloch, s.s., from Onebunga. Sailed: Gairloch, s.s., for Onehunga.

WELLINGTON. Juno I.—Arrived: Tarawera. s.s.. from the South Sailed: Tarawera, s.s., for Sydney, via the East Coast and Auckland. Passengers: Hisses Martin, Melville, Brown, Mrs., Krause, Messrs. Lush, Wilson, Rooney, Masters Butts and Stocker, and 15 steerage. Rotoiti, s.s.. for Onehunga, via New Plymouth. Passengers: Misses Nunneyn, Douglas, Fookes, Mesdames Luke and Keats, Rev. Earl, Hon. Shrimski, Messrs. Webb (21, Shotlander, Turner. Abbot, Master Spencer, and nine steerage. LYTTELTON.

June I.—Arrived: Waikare, s.s., from Port Chalmers. Sailed: Loch Torridon, barque, lor London.

SYDNEY. June I.—Arrived: llotokino, s.s., from Timaru.

MELBOURNE. June I.—Sailed yesterday: Taltine, s.s., for Hobart and the Bluff.

THE W AIM ATE.

DUNEDIN, June Sailed Waimate, s.s., for London. She takes from this port; £65 bales wool, 5 bales sheepskins, 116 bales ral>bitskins, 5 bales basils, 123 casks tallow, 43 casks pelts, 8527 carcases mutton, 6035 crates rabbits, 2 drums glycerine, and 10 cases sundries.