PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13722, 11 April 1908, Page 6

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. £'•" ORANGE BRANCH, s.s., 3435, McClellan, Iron .'•Newcastle and Sydney.-New Zealand Shippini 'Company, agents. r '■' TALUNE, U.S.. 2078. J. P. Jordan, from "West port, -Passengers: Mrs.'Graham and three cliil dren, Messrs. Moss (2), Watson—Union S.S. Co. Agents. . MANAPOURI, s.s., 2060, A. D. Chrisp, fron Tahiti and Rarotonga. Pr.saengers: Misses Deni Hon, Browne, Henry, Mesiiames Aspinall, Bryan JDockery,' Tosford, Lippitt, Middlemas, Story ifessrs. T. 11. Crocker, ,Bryan, Docfcery, Davis :.-■ . and 39 steerage.—Union S.S. Co., agents. APANUI, 8.8.1 243, Gibbons, from Awanui, Wai liarara, Houhora, Mangonui, and Whangaroa Passengers: Mesdames Pngh, Fletcher, Olsen 'sij'i. Enrighl, Messrs. Carther, Johnson, Franif Smith. Matutonovich, Fletcher, Longridge, Kapa Northern S.S. Co., agents. BADEN-POWELL, s.s.,' 194, Petersen, fron Svgungum.—Northern Coal Company, agents. CLIO, schooner, 81, from Whangnrei— J. 3 Craig, Limited, agents. HERALD, scow, 73, Champion, from Ngu ' iiginru.—Northern Coal Company, agents. fc ;: fe'.'' '-'.-.' ArniL 11. KANIERI, 8.8., 203, T. Myers, from Whangarei v Passengers: Misses Smetar, Tierncy, Wilson, Kil dare, Holmes, Mortis, 'Jones, Thompson.—North era (S.S. Co., agents. DEPARTURES, . NGAPUHI, s.s., 691, Stephenson, for Whanga :£.' , act. '" AUPOURI, s.s., 463, Uiullain, for Tauranga. - &.ORORA, scow",. 160, J. Corbctt, for Hokianga. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. LoNDO>r: Niwaru, 8.8., via Australia, due April 29. Star of Japan, s.s., due May 21. Turakina. b.s., due about May 2. Mirairo, «.e.„ due,, April' 29. "Tokomaiu, s.s., due about July 22. Liverpool : Karamea. .e.g., to sail. ' - Devon, s.s., due to-morrow. . ..Morayshire, s.s., due in May. Nairnshire, e.g., to, sail. Indivghiri, b.b., due April 24. Whakatane, e.s., due about May 16. Ma'tatuu, a.s., due about. May 26. . .Delphic, s.s., via Australia, due May 16. ', .tjJJCOTJVBB : ■. ' , ■ -, Jndraveli, s.s., to tail. Ban Frascibco: ■■) ".•.■":' "'■"'. • •Aeon, .s.a., due about today. .. . ;.' - SuvcriG, s.s., to sail ■ ...... Sew York : ._■'-■■■ : Strathavon, s.s., via Australia, at Melbourne MircU 27. ' , ... . Vermont,: s.s., to sail. = African Monarch, s.s.. -sailed. Buceros, S.s., to sail April 8. Calcutta: Waihora, s.s,, due eariy in May. • Stuxbv; Manuka, e.s., to-morrow. ■ Fiji:- - -.-■■. , • ■>■ ' Atua, 8.8., early. .'". Tohoa: Aeon, s.s., about to-day. Alti'i. s.s'., early. Sauoa:" . Atua, 3.»., surly. Oka: v- . -.--,. • Aeon, s.s., about to-day, ilKi-BOG HK E • ... .' Ganymede, barque, to sail. Newcastle: . v - Northern Chief, barque, sailed March 25. Earl Douglas, s.s., sailed April 7. ,' Daniel, s.s., sailed April 9. PROJECTED DEPARTURES, ' - Loxuox: , .'.- Ilia Qra.'ss., about April 25. Karamea, s.s., in April. ' Turakina, s.s., May 5. .-■-,' Wh&katane ; 5.6., May 20. -'%kffmaru, s.s., to sail ou June 5. Maori, e.s., about April 25. % Sydney: .:■>■■ Mokoia, s.s., Monday. - AUia, s.s., April 28. Via: - ■ Atua, s.s., April 28. ■ ■■".- •Talune, s.s., April 15. . Suva: . >•■/'■ Talune, s.s., April 15. &AB.OTOSWA : '(■■ ■- Manapouri, e.s., April 14. • Tahiti: , Manapouri, s.s., April 14. FKrEaDiS ISLASTD3; Atua, s.s,, April 28. - fri- ■Samoa : Atua, s.s., April 28. ONION S.S. CO./S MOVEMENTS. p' #iv -,«- : - ■ ' East Coast. ".'', ;'•_ /To-day: Monowai sails for- Southern ports at "" noon; Squall sails for Tolsgo Bay and Gisborne at 2 p.m. . . Sunday: Mokoia arrives from Southern ports; i; Manuka arrives from Sydney; Rakanoa arrives frail Westport. Monday:. Manuka, sails for Southern ports at 4 p.m.; Mokoia sails for Sydrey at 5.30 p.m. Wednesday: Talune sails for Fiji at 4 p.m.; Manapouri "sails for Rarotcnga and Tahiti at 5 :: p.m.; Rakanos, sails for Westport at 5 p.m. Thursday: Maitii arrive? from Dunedin, etc. Friday: Squall arrives from Gisborne and To- . lago Bay. Saturday: Msitai sails for Southern ports, at soon; Sjuall sails for Tolago Bay and Gisborne at 2 p.m. West Coast. Sunday: Takapuna arrives from New Plymouth. . Monday; Takapuna sails for New Plymouth and ■ Wellington at 3 p.m. (train 2.10 p.m.). 'Wednesday: Rotoiti arrives from Wellington, Nelson, find"'New Plymouth, and sails again for the "same ports n. 3 p.m. (.train 2.10 p.m.). Friday Takapuna arrives from New Plymouth acd Wellington, and sails for New Plymouth at £ p.m. (train 1.10 p.m.). ,„ .NORTHERN S.S. CO.'S MOVEMENTS. -To-day: Waiotahi - arrives from Tairua, Mercury .-; Bay, and Whangamata: Ngatiawa arrives from Opotiki and Ohiwa; Clansman arrives from Mangonui, Whangaroa, and Russell about 6 a.m.; '-Ngapnhi arrives from Whangarei about 8 p.m.; Kauieri arrives from Whangarei early Mangapapa leaves for Whakatane at 3 p.m. Sunday: Rarawa leaves Onehuaga (or New Plymouth, at 3.30 p.m. (train 2.30 p.m.); Anpourl arrives from Tauranga about 8 a.m.; Kanieri leaves for Whangarei at 4 p.ni Monday: Clansman leaves for Russell, Whangaroa, and Mangonui at 6 p.m.; Waitangi leaves for? jtaglan, Kjwhia, and Waitara at 9 a.m.; Aupouri leaves for Tauranga at 5 p.m.; Nga;v puhi leaves for Whangarei at 9.30 p.m.; M'aiotalii . leaven '- for - Turf) Chfidles, Kuaotunu, Mercury Bay, and • Taisrua at 7 p.m. ; Apanui leaves for ' Hopljora, Wai'Rarora, Mcngonui, and Whangaroa at 3 p.m.; Paeroa leaves for Whauauaki, etc., sat 1 p.m. Tuesday: Nganuhi arrives from Whangarei 1 y»ut 4 pjn. " Rarsiwa unives art Onehunga , from Ne-JF Plymouth about 8 a.m., and leaves : . ■Jot the same port at:3' p.m. (train 2.10 p.m.); Kanieri arrives from Whangarei and leaves for / Whangarei Town Wharf at 5 p.m.; Ngatiawa -'-:• leaves for Tauranga and Opotiki at 12 noon. "Wednesday: Aupouri arrives from Tauranga '; about 8 a.m.; Waiotahi arrives from Tairua, Mer- :■; cury Bay, For* Charles, and Kuaotunii about 5 p.m.; Aupouri leaves lor the Great Harrier at midnight; Kanieri arrives from Whangarei Town ■ Wharf; Waitangi arrives at Onehunga from Rag- ■'•-'." lan, Kawhia, and Waitara Jate; Ngapulll leaven .' - - lor Whangarei at 9.30 p.m. -:' Thursday: Rarawa arrives at Onehunga from . New Plymouth about 8 a.m. and leaves tor the ..' ~ same port at 3 p.m. (train 2.10 p.m.); Waiotahi ■ leaves for Tauranga at 5 p.m.; Ngapuhi arrives - from Whangarei about 4 p.m.; Claymore leaves for Hokianga at 2 p.m. (train 1.10 p.m.); Aupouri i *, arsivea from the Great Barrier about 6 p.m. and :-v leaves for Whangarei at 8 p.m.; no steamer for -"' Whangarei Town. Wharf. Friday: Ngapuhi leaves for Whangarei at 9.30 p.ra.; Apanui arrives from Awanui, Waiharara, Houhora, - Mangonui, and Whangaroa about 11.30 , a.m.; Kanieri arrives from Whangarei; Aupouri ar»ives from-Whangarei about 3 p.m.; Paeroa ' . arrives from the North about 6 a.m. no steamer from Whangarei Town Wharf. . Thames service: Steamers leave for Thames and " \ Paeroa daily. See advertisement daily papers. V VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Iris, H.M. cable steamer, in stream. 'J. Maori, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. . Monowai, s.s., at Queen-street Wharf. Taliaae, s.s., at Quay-street Jetty. Orange "Branch, b.b., at Railway Wharf. Squall, 8.?., at . Quay-street Jetty. -v "Manapouri, s.s., at Hobson-street Whan. *'. Gem, bareue, : in stream. Hazel Craig, barque, at Hobsoo-street Wharf. , . . IMPORTS. Per Talune, from Westport: 800 tons coal. Per Maori, from London: 4911 bags and 8640 oases asphalt, 408 axlea, 10S8 bare Iron, 653 cases beer, 200 boxes candles, 17 crate* and 457 cases glass, 88 ghders, 1203 packages groceries, 234 cases, galvanised iron, 89 bundles hoop .iron, 5200 bags, manure,. 31 casks and 100 drums oil, ,737 kegs paint, 60 coils nlain wire, 62 pianos, 255 ; ■"' bandies and 402 pipes, 48* rails, 46 casks and 527 oases spin;*., 1850 sash weights, 23 bundles and 30 bars steel, 4 bundles and 165 sheets iron, 24 tanks, 350 tires, 145 cases turps, 015 boxes tin, JIOO wheels, 253 casks zinc, and sundries. Per Orange Branch, from Sydney: 22,500 case.' tell, and a large quantity of hardwood. Per Manapouri, from Tahiti and Rarotonga: 843 bunches, 103 kits, arid 5476 cases bananas, ■;- 26 cases pines, 12,471 cases oranges, 38 package* fruit, 394 cases kumaras, 13 sacks and 69 cases LOeoanut?, 1411 sacks copra, 4 sacks coffee, 37 bales fungus, 73 sucks beche-de-mer, 3 package* shark fins, 3 packages old copper, 136 packages pearlshell, 33 cases vanilla, 40 packages hides and skins, a.ud sundries. -,■'■■' The schooner Clio arrived from Whangarei . yesterday;with. a cargo of lime. ■--'. ■- , , The Korora left: yesterday for Hokianga. The Victoria, from Auckland, arrived in Sydney : j !it "J a-Ui. vesterday. : - ','■• .-, - -:-' -

Another multi-masted American' schooner ha» como to, grief.■'■; This time it is the Harriet C. Kerlln. ■- The steamer Mercedes de Lairinga signalled, a* she pasted Old Head of Kinsalc, that she had the crew of the American schooner on board. The latter vessel has been abandoned in the Atlantic. „ * Particulars of the shipping records of West Australia for 1907 show that .2093 vessels entered the various ports of the State, of which 1985 were steamers and 108 were sailing craft. 'Die , tonnage aggregated 3.626,979 tons, of which 3,557,951 were represented by steam and 39,528 by sail. .». ' , February 15 was remarkable in the history of steel manufacture and of shipbuilding, and in ' the annals of Birkenhead and Sheffield, as being the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the first steel ship. This was the little paddle eteamer Ma Robert, built at Birkenhead by the late Mr. John Laird, to the order of the. Admiralty, for tlnv Livingstone, expedition to the Zambesi. During last month the Wellington Harbour pilot staff handled 49 steamers and Jive sailing vessels, all of 'which trade in oversea services. The- net tonnage of the steamers amounted to 174,020 tons, and of the sailers to 4378 tons. For the month of March of 1907 the number of vessels piloted totalled 30 steamers and two sailing vessels, the tonnage being 134,019 and 1410 tons respectively. , The Melbourne Steamship Company has ordered it new steamer in England for 'the coastal trade. She is to be larger than the Monaro. THE TURAKINA. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Turakina, which If It Capetown on the 6th inst., en route from London to Auckland, will not call at Hobart on the way. She is expected to arrive at Auckland on Way 2. - THE MANAPOURI The Union Company's steamer Manapouri arrived from Tahiti arid Rarotonga last evening and berthed at the Hobson-etreet Wharf. The purser (Mr. M. P. Caffln) reports that the vessel left Auckland on March 17 and experienced light north-easterly breezes and smooth seas until arriving at Rarotonga. at 5.50 a.m. on March 24. She discharged her cargo and sailed for Raiatea at 1 p.m. the same day. Moderate to lighteasterly, breeze and smooth sea were met with until arrival at Rain tea on March 26. The steamer left again the same day and arrived at Papeete on March 27. Departure was taken from Papeete at 5.15 p.m. on March 28. Huahine and Raiatea were worked on March 29, Atiu on March 31, Mauke on April 1. and Kang.iia on April 2, the steamer arriving at Rarotonga on April 3. She finally sailed for Auckland on April 4. arid sighted the Barrier at 9 a.m. yesterday and had Cuvier abeam at one p.m. The steamer experienced light to moderate south-east winds and moderate sea* through the Cook Group, and from Rarotonga. light to fresh easterly breeze and slight sea till the 7th inst, then strong northwest to south winds and gale, with heavy sea, until the 9th inst.; thence light southerly breeze and smooth sea until arrival. The Manapouri sails for Tahiti and Rarotonga on Tuesday v. THE AEON. The steamer Aeon, which left San Francisco on j March 17 for Auckland and Sydney, is due here to-day. She has a quantity of general cargo for this port. - THE DEVON". The. Federnl-Houlder-Shire liner Devon, from Liverpool, Capetown, Melbourne, and Sydney, will be due hero to-morrow, having left Sydney on Tuesday. She has a number of passengers and 1722 tons of general cargo for Auckland. EARL DOUGLAS, The steamer Kail Douglas, from Newcastle, should arrive here to-morrow or on Monday. •THE MANUKA. The Union Company's steamer Manuka left Sydney at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday and should arrive here to-morrow. Owing to the Easter holidays she. will sail for the South on Monday at 4 p.m., ore day ahead of the usual time. ■"...''.- ""*"' r""'"'"" "*" *"■■■-"?—*'-' THE MOKOIA. ' • The Union Company's steamer Mokoia, from Duucdin, via ports, should arrive here to-morrow morning, She leaves at 5.30 p.m. on Monday for Sydney. . '.' THE TAHJNE. The steamer Talune, of the Union Company's fleet, arrived Intro from Westport yesterday and berthed at Quay-street Jet'y last evening. She sails at '4 p.m. on Wednesday for Fiji. THE KIA ORA. Messrs. A. S. Paterson and Co., agents for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited, are advised that the .steamer Kia Oi'a will load at Auckland for London about the 26th inst., remaining until the end of the month. They are also advised that it is expected that the Kia Ora will be' despatched from the -.': Dominion for London about May 9. THE MAITAI. The Union Company's steamer Maitai, until recently known as the Miowera. has replaced the stegmer Waikare in the East Coast trade, and the latter goes' into the intercolonial running. The Maitai will arrive in Auckland on Thursday and sail again for the South this day week. ' THE MONOWAI. The steamer Mouowai, of the Union Steam Ship .Company, leaves for Dunedin, via ports, at noon to-day. "~ THE ORANGE BRANCH. The turret-deck steamer Orange Branch arrived in Auckland from Newcastle and Sydney I at 10 8.10, yesterday and berthed at the Railway j Wharf. She has a large cargo pf hardwood timber for the Railway and Public Works Departments, and also 22,500 cases of oil—benzine. naphtha, ,and motor oil. The Orange Branch left Sydney on the 2nd insfc" Good weather was experienced for the first two days, but after that the vessel encountered rough weather, the wind blowing strongly from the east. High seas were the result. The steamer is expected to leave about Wednesday tor Wellington, Lvttelton, Dunedin, and the Bluff ::■> complete discharging. THE RAKANOA. The Rakanoa sailed from Westport at 4.30 p.m. •on Thursday and will arrive here to-morrow. She leaves for Westport again next Wednesday.