SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11314, 8 March 1900, Page 4

SHIPPING.

High Water at Auckland—o.l a.m.; 0.27 p.m. i. „ Manukau—2.o a.m.; 2.26 p.m. ; Sun—Rises, 5.45 a.m.; sets, 6.20 p.m.. #.?. Moon— quarter, to-day, 5.5 p.m. : f ARRIVALS. Pukaki, 8.6., 1444, George Lambert, • from the Bluff, Oamaru, and Timaiu-Union S.S. Co., agents. Ovalau,' S.S., 1229, P. W. Macbeth, from the Society ■* and Cook Islands. Passengers Messrs. L. Bailey, H. H. Ilemus, Koeppen, and nine steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. . Lena, steam launch, 8, Jackson, from Gisborne and way porta— agent. / - DEPARTURES. Wellington, e.s., 279. E. Stephenson, for Whangarei.—Northern S.S. Co., agents. Muritai, s.s., 225, Joseph Duthie, for the Great Barrier-Northern S.S. Co., agents. Waimana, s.s., 180, C. Hopkins, for WhakaNorthern S.S. Co., agents. Greyhound, auxiliary schooner, 100, A. Subritzky.for Whangaroa, Hohoura, anil Awa--Master, agent. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LONDON: Indramayo, 8.8., due to-morrow. Tonwana. s.s.. via Melbourne and Sydney, sailed February 20. Kuraara< s.s., direct, Bailed February 6, HAHBUKG: Nordby, barque, sailed November 17. NEW YORK : Indraghiri, s.s., via, Melbourne and Sydney, due to-morrow. Queen Mary, s.s., via the South, sailed January 13. Fernfleld, s.s., via Melbourne and Sydney, sailed January 24. Craignair, barque, arrived at Wellington March 3. „ , Mary Haflbrouck, via Wellington, sailed December 27. Charles G. Bice, barque, via Wellington, sailed. Edward L. Mayberry, barque, loading. MARSEILLES: , , T Gniseppe Dabundo, barque, sailed January 19. ' SAN FRANCISCO: Alameda, R.M.8., March 11. SAMOA: Alameda, 8.i1.5., March 13. 6VDITEY • Indramayo, s.s., to-morrow. Indraghiri, s.s.. to-morrow. Mararoa, s.s., Sunday. NEWCASTLE: Neptune, barauentme, sailed February 20. , Kathleen Hilda, barque, early. Wenona, barque, early. Defiance, brigantine, sailed February 21. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. NEW YORK: Clan Macleod, barque, loading. |A V VRANCIRCO: Moana, R.M.s., March 13. SYDNEY: „ , Waihora, s.s., Monday. FIJI: Manapouri. s.s., to-morrow. SAMOA: Manapouri, 8.9., to-morrow. fnNfiA: Manapouri, s.s., to-morrow. BAROTONGA: Ovalau, s.s.i Tuesday. TAHITI: . , . ' Ovnlau, b.s., Tuesday. UNION S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-dav: Flora arrives from the South; Mapourika leaves Onehunga for the South at 1 p.m. (12 noon passenger tram); Pukaki leaves for the Bluff, Oamaru, and Timara at 12 noon. , 6 _ . _ . Friday: Omapere arrives from Bast Coast ports; Manapouri leaves for Tonga and Samoa. _ Saturday: Flora leaves for the South at 12 noon; Omapere leaves for East Coast ports. NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. To-day: Muritai arrives from Great' Barrier: Chelmsford leaves for Whangapoua at 9 p.m.; Wellington arrives from Whangarei; Ngunguru leaves for Whangarei Town Wharf at 5 p.m.; Ohinemnri arrives from Awanni, Waiharara, and Hohoura direct: Waitangi arrives from Tairua, Whangamata, and Tanranga. „ _ Thames Service: Steamers leave for Thames and Paeroa daily. See advertisements daily papers. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Noma, yacht, in stream. Waimate, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. Manapouri, s.s., in Calliope Dock. Southern Cross, mission yacht, at Queen-street' Wharf. Ovalau, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. Pukaki, S.S., at Queen-street Wharf. Clan Macleod. barque, at Quay-street Jetty. Asterion. barque, in stream. Yflabel, three-masted schooner, in stream. Vision, brigantine, in dock.

IMPORTS. Per Ovalau, irom the Society and Cook Islands: 2761 kits and bundles bananas, 806 oases and boxes oranges, 10 sacks cocoanuts, 82 cases pines, 73 sacks copra, 18 sacks fungus. 76 bales cotton, 60 cases vanilla, 445 cases and 38 casks pearlshell, 1 gasoline launch, and a quantity of sundries. Per Pukaki. from the South: 3055 sacks ■wheat, 979 sacks oats, 121 sacks pollard, 1415 sacks bran, 150 sacks ryegrass, 48 sacks potatoes, 46 sacks oatmeal, 1410 sacks flour, 609 half-sacks flour, 1720 quarter-sacks flour, 21 sacks hides, 500 cases milk, 5 bales woollens. The Northern Company's steamer Wellington left last night for Whangarei. Last night the Northern Company's steamer Muritai left fot the Great Barrier. Yesterday morning the Northern Company's steamer Waimanr. left for Whakatane. Last evening the auxiliary schooner Greyhound left for the North. The Northern Oompany'9 steamer Chelmsford leaves for Wliangapona at nine o'clock to-night. , , . This morning the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waimate will be berthed at the Railway Wharf to take in frozen meat for London, and leaves for Wellington in the evening. The brigantine Vision was floated into the Auckland Dock yesterday for general overhaul. Yesterday the Government steamer Innemoa arrived at Wellington from Onehunga. THE BOTOKINO. The Union Company's • steamer Rotokino. from Auckland to Wellington with the Rough Riders, was passed by the s.s. Pukaki off the East Cape at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. THE MARAROA. The Union Company's steamer Mararoa left Sydney for Auckland last evening, and is due on Sunday next. but, owing to the fresh outbreak of bubonic plague will havo to undergo quarantine. THE MANAPOURI. The Union Company's steamer Manaponri will be floated out of Calliope Dock this morning, and is to leave for Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Sydney at noon to-morrow. THE OVALAU. The Union Company's sfeamer Ovalau, Captain F. W. Macbeth, from the Society and Cook Islands, was inspected by the health officer yesterday morning, and being granted pratique was berthed at the Queen-street Wharf, and the work of discharging her cargo of pearlshell. copra, cotton, fruit, etc., proceeded with. Mr. James A. Tubby, the purser, reports:—The Ovalau left Auckland on the 13th ult.,, and reached P.arotonga at 4.30 a.m. on the 20th. < Left at 11 a..m the same date, and arrived at Papeete at 1.30 a.m. on the 23rd. Left that port at 5.30 p.m. on the 25th, and anchored off Rarotonga at 3.30 a.m. on the 28th, and left for Auckland at 7 p.m. the same date, arriving as above. Experienced fine weather to Papeete, and heavy rains during the vessel's stay in that port, followed bv fine weather to arrival at Auckland. The Ovalau leaves for the Islands again on Tuesday evening next.

THE PUKAKL The Union Company's steamer Pukaki. Cantain George Lambert, arrived from the South yesterday afternoon with a cargo of grain and produce, berthing at Quay-street Jetty No. -2. Mr. E. R. Stock, the purser, reports that the steamer left the Bluff on the Ist inst., Oamarn on the 2nd, and Timaru on the 3rd at 8.40 p.m.; rounded the East Cape at 3 p.m. on the 6th; had Cuvier abeam at 8.45 p.m. on the 7th, and anchored alongside at 4 p.m. the same date. Experienced fresh to moderate south-east winds, with considerable northerly swell between Timnru and the East Cane, and moderate north-east wind's across the Bay ot Plcntv to arrival. The Pukaki leave? at noon to-day for Napier, at which port she takes in a cargo of sheen for Lyttelton. THE TUTANEKAI. The Government steamer Tutanekni left Wellington for East Cape Wand on Momlav night last, taking 90 cases of lantern material, 430 sacks of gravel, and a steam launch, in which Captain Gray is to survey the cable route from the island to the mainland. The steamer will then return to Wellington to be fitted with her cable-laying gear to enable her to lay that cable and do some pick-lng-np work in Cook Strait. AN INTERESTING RECORD. The following is » record of (lie passages mode by sailing vessels from New Zealand ports to England last year:—Snntbwjk. 75 (lays, Lyttelton to Falmouth; Pern, 02 days, AncMand to New York; Auckland. 84 days. Wellington to Lizard; Loch Tnrridon. 85 days. Lyttelton to Gravesend; Eden Holm, 87 days, Launceston to Isle of Wieht: Taranaki, 89 days, Wellington to Liaard: Wellington, 90 days, Lyttelton to Lizard: Hiram Emery, 91 days. Auckland to New Yo«k. Longest passages were:-Anna Sophia. 148 days, Timaru to Qupenstown: Blenheim, 146 days, Lyttelton to Lizard; Mary Hasbrniick, 141 days, Auckland to New York; Beech Holm, 139 days, Lyttelton to Kinsale Head: Pirth of Dornoch,, 138 days, Timaru to draveseiid.New Zealand Times.

tee flora.

The Union Company's steamer Flora left Gishorne for this port at 1.30 p.m. yesterday and should arrive this afternoon. She leaves for East Coast and Southern ports at noon on Saturday. ; " » %ssss&* THE LENA. The little steam' fatincli Lena, belonging to .Mr. T. B. O'Connor. which has be'en away ,Tor some time past, a wived from Gishorne, • after a passage of nine and a-lialf davg. The vessel was brought tin bv Captain Jackson, Swho'snpnlies-the following .• accmnt of the trip: Left Gisborne at noon on February 26. • arriving at Toloca Bav the same evenipg at teeven o'clock) Went into the river the next

morning, and filled up with fresh water, leaving again at 6 p.n ~ out returned at 10 p.m., on account of the weather looking very bad from the north-'vest. At midnight, the weather having improved somewhat, shaped : a course for the East Cape, but there was . a heavy head sea. Brought tip at the Cape on the 28th, it blowing a north-west gale. At 2 a.m. on the Ist inst., the wind suddenly shifted into the iionth, bo got nnderweigh, and proceeded round the Cape, shaping a course for Hick's Hay, which was reached at 10 a.m. on the 2nd. Blew the boiler down, and,left at 1 p.m., and arrived at Tekawakawa at 8 p.m. the same date. Went into the river next moriing. blew the boiler down, and filled up with fresh water, and at 6 p.m. left again, reaching Tanranga- at noon on the 3rd. Filled up with fresh water, and got wulerweieh the next morning, but on getting outside for n'd the sea too heavy, and returned, remaining until the sth. when a fresh start was made, hut had to return again owing to the heavy sea. Finally got away at 10 a.m. that (lav. and reached Mercury Bay at 7 p.m. Riled up with fresh water, and started at 8 a.m. on. the 6tli, out it was blowing from the north-east, with too much sea to proceed. By midnight the weather had moderated, but there was still a heavy sea. At 3 a.m. yesterday proceeded out of the hay, passed Cape Colville at 4 p.m., and arrived in harbour at 10 p.m. ' PORT OF ONEHUNGA. ' ARRIVALS. Macourika, 9.8.. J'. Robertson, from Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Passengers: Mesdameg Dumner, Verrall, O'Neill. Busby, Featherstone, Wilde, Jones. HoW?ll, Fisch, Barley. Price. Davies. Frith. Myar, Misses Bon«kill, Robinson, Harris. Verrall. Barnes. Darcey (2), Kelly. Jackson, O'Neill, McGlonre, Tavlor, Murphy. James, STnton, Keeble, Savage, Green, 'Gray. Jones. Revs. Featherstone, Blackove, Hills, Messrs. Rrlttain. Mynott, Bartlett. Brawn, Penny. Myar, Oxenham. Grigsby, Lucjuo. Allen, Bassett, McKenrie. Sing Kee, Ogle, Pyrke, Do Montalk, O'Neill, Horrell, Jannet, Leveson, whitcombe, I)ick»v, Asht.on. Mules. O'Malley. Hain. Buly. per, Davis, Daltjleirti, Jones. Holton, Jackson ID, Teuton. Price, Davie:). Minclier, Mahoney, Pliilpot, King. Jacobscn.-Union S.S. Co., a"gents. DEPARTURES. Gairlocb. s.s., W F. Norburv. for New Plymouth. Passengers: Misses Fitzherbert and Johnston. Mesdames Fitznatrick, Johnston, Weston, Messrs. Handy, Clavton, Mc.Master, Newton, Wallis, Weston, South.-Northern S.S. Co., agents. The Union Company's steamer Manonrika arrived yesterday morning from Wellington and New Plymouth. „., , The Northern Company's steamer Gairloch left yesterday afternoon for New Plymouth. BY TELEGRAPH. CAPE MARIA VAN DIEOTN. March Tlie barque Northern Chief passed south at 1.30 n.ui. to-day. MAB3DEN POINT. March 7.-Bailed: Will Watch, ketch. Loo, cutter. Vixen, Progress, and Rover, scows, Norval, schooner, for Auckland. WKANOARET. March 7.—Arrived: Ngnngnrn, s.s., from Auckland. To sail at 9 p.m.: Ngnnguru, s.s., for Auckland. „ GtSBOItNE. March 7.—Arrived: Elingamite, s.s., from Auckland, The s.s. Omanero left for coastal ports and Auckland late last evening, taking the following pnsaenpers from tins port.:— Vessrs. Booth. hnstono. Rees. Friedsberf? m Karama. Ho«!tev. Dixon, and Graham. The ss. Flora left for Auckland at balf-nast one o'clock with the following nassengers:Mesdames Spraetr. Ponsford. Johnston, Humnhrevs and chile. Misses Rosie, Crawford, Warren, Bees, Fletcher, Howehow (2), Dunn, Johnston. 'King, Wore. Messrs. Berl-y, Markharoj Mossma,n, Bnsrke. Thornton, Lloyd. Johnston. EIW. ITiekson. The schooner Waiapuhaslef^r^o^. March 7.-Arrived: P"keha. s.s.. from Gisborne: Rotoiti s.s., Hinemoa. Government 8.5.. from Onehunpa and New Plymouth. Rotomnhana, s.s., from Lvttelton. Sailed: Eotomahana, s.s., for Tjvttelton. T/VTTELTOY •March 7.—Arrived: Waihora, s.s.. from Dunedin. Railed: WWhora, 5.9., for the North and Sydnej^^ March Arrive l: Vine Branch, s.s., from Bydfley ' U7DNEY. Maroh 7,-Afrival: Emnreza, barnne, from "Ivaiiara. Sailed: Mararoa, s.s.. for AucklM(l' MTLBfVCRNF, March 7.—Arrived: Kasso, barque. from the Thames.* Sailed: Zealandia, s.s., for Hobart and the Bluff. ADELAIDE. March 7.—Arrived: Buteshire, s.s., from Lonl,n - GLASGOW. , March 6.Sailed: Corryrrechan, barque, for Dunedin. .