Shipping.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 998, 17 April 1891, Page 36

Shipping.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. ARRIVED Thursday, April 9. Jubilee, ss, 1005 tons, Brothers, from the South. Passengers Saloon : Mesdames Washinan, 4 children and nurse, Keliher. Wiltshire and 4 children, Carrington and S children, and Rossiter, Misses Clark, Rossiter (2), Mackilroy, Woodcock, McKerry, Robertson, Luscombe. Wiltshire (2), Messrs Jensen, Wiltshire, McAlister, McDougall, O’Donnell. Dunning, Kilbridge, Endiges, Dunnick. Connell, Williams (2), Cameron, Percy, Donald, Parker ; 7 steerage. Johnston and Co, agents. Waihi, ss, 60 tons, North, from Blenheim. TT.S.S. Co, agents. Tekapo, ss, 1501 tons, Allman, from South. Passengers : Saloon—Miss Armstrong. Mesdames Cockburn, Pascoe, Checkley and 2 children, Gibbs, Captain Todd, Messrs Clifford, Gibbs, Fleming, Wilson, Anderson, Priesfcman, Woods, Mcßeth, Checkley, 38 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Hauroto, ss, 1276 tons, Nevide, from South. Passengers : Saloon —Misses Galena, Robson, and Tolerton, Mesdames Wilsen, Roberts, Knivett, Winney and 2 children, Messrs WilBon, Winney, Walker, Roberts, Hoise, Te Rango, and Te Wliaaro ; 25 steerage. IT.S.S. Co, agents. Waver ley, ss, 77 tons, Gibbons, from Patea. Turnbull and Co, agents. Neptune, ss, 50 tons, Eckford, from Blenheim. Passengers : Cabin —Mrs McLaughlin, Mr North and family. Levin and Co, agents. Friday, April 10. Takapuna, ss, 370 tons, Grant, from. Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon : M iss Raine, Mesdames Williamson, Neale, Raine and Cuggie, Rev Dr Gibson, Messrs Neale, Young, Reeve, Graham, Taylor, Williams, Coggie and Holls; 21 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Tarawera, ss, 1268 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via Hobart and South. Passengers —Saloon : Misses Perham, Reeves (2), Xiachman, Lee and Sacdstrin, Mesdames Durie, De Castro and child, Deans, Reeves and 2_ servants, C a d w all ad e r, Hawker, Ward, Williams, To!hurst and boy, Ackins and family, . Habens and child, Cook and child, Davies, Griffen and family, Captain Wheeler, Messrs De Castro, Cadwallader, Hawker. Johnson (3), Meek, Letz, Mackav, Moore, Hicks, Richter, Lachman, Wright, Stringer, Walsh, Ross, Cobbam, Jackson, Fothergill, Griffen arsd-Newton ; 10 steerage. (J.S.S. Co, agents. Penguin, ss, 442 tons, Spedding, from Nelson. Passengers Saloon : Misses Lawrie, Boyes, Haynes, Donald, Levy and Giles, Mesdames Hanson, Arthur, Jackson, Pattie, Fern and Pearman, Messrs Andrews, Hansen, Carter, Jackson, Pattie, Buttle, Taylor, Dunk, Pearman, Law, Costello; 10 steerage. IT.S.S. Co, agents. Saturday, April 11. Otarama, ss, 2460 tons, Scruby, from Napier. N.Z. Shipping Co, agents. Queen of the South, ss, 121 tons, Harvey, Coast. Levin and Co, agents. Stormbird, ss, 176 tons, Chambers, from Wanganui. Johnston and Co, agents. Neptune, ss, 44 tons, Eckford, from Blenheim. Passengers—Miss Sherwood, Mrs Jackson and 5 children, Messrs Wing and Lee. Levin and Co, agents. Grafton, ss, 297 tons, JNordstrum. fiom Greymouth, Westport and Nelson. Passengers —Saloon: Misses Steele, Barry, McGregor, Muir, and Whisher, Mesdames Larcombe, Rodgers, Wilson, Peacock and family (5), Messrs Harrison, Larcombe, Clark, McLean, Hogg, Brassett, Coull, Langbein, Barkley, Felton, Rodgers, Hood, Kelly, Patterson, and Glover; 24 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Sunday, April 12, Waihi, ss, 60 tons, North, from Blenheim. IT.S.S. Co, agents. Oreti, 53,128 tons, Waller, from Onehunga and way ports. Passengers—Saloon : Messrs Lye and Crottie. TT.S.S. Co, agents. Mahinapua, ss, 205 tons, Richardson, from Westport and Nelson. TT.S.S. Co, agents. Penguin, ss, 442 tons. Spedding, from Lyttelton. -Passengers—Saloon : Mesdames Dobson, Stewart. Fisher, Hollis, Inkpen. Britten, and Winstanley, Misses Ferguson, Rossitter, Eyton, Shaddeck, Morton, and Hay. Messrs Collier, Robertson, Johnson, Campbell, Dobson, Bisley, Little, Livingstone, Hallenstein, Sparks, Hart, Ronan, Witchell, Eyton, Kelly, Fisher, Morlay, Kempthorne, Hale, Lafferty, Walton, Owens, Brennan, Mackay, Kennedy, Shaw, Gladstone, Hill, Winstanley, Hopkins, Britten, Morris, Marsh, Tolehurst, Captain Anderson ; 20 steerage. TT.S.S. Co, agents. Monday, April 13. Waverley, ss, 77 tons, Gibbons, from Patea. Turnbull and Co, agents. Tuesday, April 14. Mawhera, ss, 380 tons, Manning, from Greymouth, Nelson, Westport, and Nelson. Passengers Saloon : Misses Hitchinson, Mackay, Rochloff, King, Brown, and Jones, Mesdames O’Halloran, Dungan, Clark, Messrs Campbell, Steele, Hooper, Gentry, Hungerford, Cox, Cock, Jones, Brown, Moylan ; IS steerage. .TT.S.S. Co. agents. Waihora, ss, 1296 tons, Anderson, from Auckland,, via the East Coast. Passengers— Saloon: Muses Morgan, Sampson, Speedy, and Zohrab, Mesdames Bendall, Webb, 2 children and nurse, Messrs Hall, Dean, Metcalf, Franklyn. Witt, Finlay. Glassford, Lunn, and Parker; 12 steerage. TT.S.S. Co, agents. Waitapu, ss, 40 tons, Westrup, from Patea. Master, agent. Southern Cross, ss, 165 tons. Black, from Auckland, Gisborne, and Napier. IT.S.S, Co, agents. Waverley, ss, 77 tons. Gibbons, from Patea. Passenger—Mr Richards. Turnbull and Co, agents. lonic, 3070 tons. Kidney, from London, via Plymouth, Teneriffe, Capetown, and Hobart. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs Edmunds and Mr A. Stonerigg; second saloon : Messrs A. Shoobridge, W. Welton, J. Wilson. W. R. Waters ; steerage : Miss Nellie Devine, Messrs J. Adams, Wm. Devine, W. Pringle. For Auckland —Salonn : Mr G. Blaydes ; second saloon : Mr C. Windhurst; for Otago—Misses Oannir.g (2). Messrs J. Canning, J. Chapman. F. Symonds; for Lyttelton Messrs F. Spragg. and J. A shall; 30 steerage tor all ports. Turnbull and Co, agents. Hir.emoa, ss, 420 tons, Fairchild, from the Manukau and Taranaki. Waltatu, S 3, 95 tons, Wills, from Kaikoura. Levin and Co, agents. Tuesday, April 14. Brunner, ss, 332 tons, Phillips, from the South. Passengers : Saloon —Mrs Smith and 2 children, Messrs Pulford, Goodall, and Goldsmith ; 10 steerage. TT.S.S. Co, agents. SAILED. Thursday, April 9. Neptune, ss, 44 tons, Eckford, for Blenheim. Passenger—Mr OhatSeld. Devin and Co, agents. Jnbilee, ss, 1005 tons, Brothers, for Sydney, Passengers : Saloon Misses Caddipan (2), , Ensor, Howie, Clark, Cornwall, Ward, Mesdames Farnie, .Randall and child, Cashion,

Rannell, Nicholls and family, Messrs Harris, Lightband, Coleman, Nicholls, Elkleton, and 50 steerage. Johnston and Co, agents. Tekapo, ss. 1501 tons, Allman, for Sydney. Passengers—Saloon : Mesdames Young, Orr, Abbott, Rattray. Booth, Jobberns and family, Taylor, Cook, Knight, Good, Spencer. Gascoigne, Misses Coneys, Lyne, Booth, Barnes, Gapes, Short, Rolfe, Bowen, Hannagati and Taylor, Rev Taylor, Captain Shuttleworth, Messrs Young, Abbott, Jobberns, Orr (2), Rattray, Booth, Cook, Stevenson, Kelly ; 27 steerage. TT.S.S. Co, agents. Hauroto, ss. 1276 tons, Neville, for Sydney, passengers Saloon : Misses Taperell, Roff, Finney, Prosser and Beale, Mesdames Taperell, Fergus3on, Crawford, Harris and Lowater, Rev T. Flavell, Messrs Howell, Jones, Smith, McLeod, White, Cater, Pybus, Fisher, Smith, Webster and Taylor; 15 steerage. TT.S.S. Co, agents. , , Rotorua, ss, 57G tons, Stott, for the South. Passengers Saloon : Mesdames Travers, Ritchie and Rooney, Messrs Travers, Moore, Acton, Gregg. vVaymouth, Chrystal, Gibb, Cunningham, Harper, Andrews, Hallenstein, Robinson, Duncan, Harris, Ritchie and Rooney; 10 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Friday. April 10. Penguin, ss, 442 tons, Spedding, for the South. Passengers—Saloon; Misses Walton, Way, Gooder and Hastings, Mesdames Millaney, McKay. Hood, Brown and child, Messrs Oxley, Smith, Walton, Hollins, Miller, Mullaney and Dixon; 15 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Takapuna, ss, 369 tons, Grant, for Onehunga, via New Plymouth. Passengers— Saloon : Mesdames Cameron and McCaulay, Messrs Newton, Bateman and Salmon ; 7 steerage. U.S.S. Co. agents. . , . Tarawera, ss. 126 S tons, Sinclair, for Sydney, via Auckland as East Coast. Passengers— Saloon: Misses Aitken, Mee, Berry (6) and Lawson, Mesdames Mee, Otlivier, Britain. Berry, £)q Castio and child, Captain Castles, Lieutenant White, Revs Paige and MeCallum, Messrs Ollivier, Trevethiok. Lyell (2), Harrop, Barron, Quinn, De Castro, Meadows, Berry and boy; 25 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. . Waverley, ss, 77 tons, Gibbons, for Batea. W. and G. Turnbull and Co, agents. Glenelg, ss, 156 tons, Norbury, for Manukau and intermediate ports. Levin and Co, agents. Saturday, April 11. . Kennedy, ss, 138 tons, Ferneaux. for Nelson and West Coast. Passengers—Mrs Driver and child, Rev Mr and Mrs Griffin and 3 children, Messrs Robertson, Wallace, Nicholls, and Price. Turnbull and Co, agents. Neptune, ss, 44 tons, Eckford, for Blenheim. Levin and Co, agents. Elinor Vernon, three-masted schooner, 545 tons, Berry, for Auckland. Levin and Co, agents. Sunday, April 12 ; Mahinapua. ss, 205 tons, Kichardson, for the South. U.S.S. Co, agents. Tuesday, April 14. Penguin, ss, 442 tons, Spedding, for Nelson via Picton. Passengers—Saloon ; Mesdames Ward, Williams, Turnbull, Thornton, Mercer and child, Messrs Turnbull, Lindsay, Glenney, Dartnell, Thornton, and Capt. Wheeler; 7 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Oreti, ss, 128 tons, Waller, for Nelson, Taranaki, and Manakau. U.S.S. Co, agents. Waihi, ss, 60 tons, North, for Blenheim. U.S.S. Co, agents. Waihora, ss, 1269 tons, Anderson, for Melbourne, via the South. Passengers: Saloon—Misses Curie, RohlofF, Hasting, Alcorn, Burors, Penfold, Platow, and Canning, Mesdames Atkinson, Chapman, Everest, Hunt. Clarke, Grant, Brittain, Chester, Heald, Bowles and family, Carr and family, McKinnon, Kempthorne, Russell, Palmer, Adams, Canning, Merton, Smith and 2 children. Hon Holmes and valet, Revs Stuart and Dr Gibson, Messrs Ijowe, Hooper, Trehearne, Smith, Donaldson, Hurnard, Brittain, Atkinson, Lineman, Pickering, Bowles, Waite, Heald, Hales, Scbaadt, Spraggs, Welton, Tolhurst, 'I ruebridge, Ash all, Burne, Hallenstein, Simonds, Brown, Dillon, and Curry; 20 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Mawhera, ss, 380 tons, Manning, for Nelson and West Coast. Passengers : Saloon —Mrs Hollyoak, Rev Barclay, Messrs Bishop. Lenonry, Nicholls, Hollyoak; 5 steerage. U.S.S. "Co, agents. Pleiades, ship, 1020 tons, Morton (in tow), for Picton. Levin and Co, agents. Waitapu, ss, 40 tons, Westrup, for Patea. Master, agent. Stormbird, ss, 136 tons, Chambers, for Wanganui. Passenger: Cabin—Miss Robinson. Johnston and Co, agents. Queen of the South, ss, 121 tons, Harvey, for Foxton. Levin and Go, agents. Brunner, ss, 332 tons. Phillips, for Westport, via Nelson. U.S.S. Co, agents. Southern Cross, ss, 158 tons, Black, for Auckland, via the East Coast. U.S.S. Co, agents. Waverley, ss, 70 tons, Gibbons, for Endeavour Inlet. Turnbull and Co, agents. Hinemoa, ss, 282 tons, Fairchild, for the South. Wakatu, ss, 110 tons, Wills, for Kaikoura and Lyttelton. Passenger Mr Collier. Levin and Co, agents The.barque Akaroa has made a good start loading, and has already on board 700 casks of tallow and about the same number of bales of flax and wool. Sho expect 3 to be a full ship by the end of the month. THE S.S. OTARAMA. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s cargo steamer Otarama arrived in port on Saturday afternoon, having come here to fill up. She is a large vessel, built of steel, and is fitted with the usual equipments for labour saving, having steam winches, derricks, and patent windlass, and is schooner tieged, with pole masts. She was built by W. Doxford and Sons, Sunderland. Her dimensions are as follows Length between perpendiculars, 365 f t; beam, 44ft 2in ; and depth of hold, 30fr. Her registered tonnage is 2460, or a gross measurement of 3808 tons. The hull, w hich is of steel, is divided into watertight compartments by six bnlkheads, and is also doublebottomed to the extent of 340 ft, and this gives a storage capacity of 655 tons of water ballast. The bridge deck amidships is 88ft in length, on the fore part of which is the chart-roorn and wheelhouse, fitted with steam stearing gear. Under the bridge deck are very comfortable quarters for the officers, who are accommodated on the starboard side, and the engineers on the port side, the galley, bakehouse and messrooms being also under the bridge deck. _ The crew are quartered in the forecastle, which is some 37ft in length. Her main decks are of iron, and her saloon, although small, is very comfortably fitted r.p, and contains four stateroom? with accommodation for 12 passengers. There are t.wo bathrooms, lavatories, &c., the panels of the saloon being of polished oak and teak, with gilt cornices, the settees and* revolving chairs being upholstered in_ crimson velvet. At the forepart of the saloon is a very

handsome cheffonier with marble top, over which is a huge mirror and clock. At the entrance to the saloon on the starboard side is the captain s cabin, and on the port side is the pantry and stewards’ room, the whole of the vessel throughout being fitted with electric light. As an instance of the amount of cargo’that she can carry, it may be stated that when she left London she had 4400 tons on board. She is fitted with all the latest improvements for carrying frozen mutton, her freezing chambers being capable of stowing 65,000 carcases. The refrigerating machinery is of the Haslam patent, and is the most powerful of its description, being two cold air engines, one of which is capable of throwing 120,000 ft of cold air per hour, and the other 85,000 cubic feet. This part of the machinery is under the control of Mr McAlister, who has held similar appointments on several of the steamers, and was in charge of the first sailing ship, the Dunedin, which took frozen meat from New Zealand. The Otarama is engined on the triple expansion system, and she is fitted with Hawke’s patent hot air forced draught machinery. The diameters of the cylinders are as follows : High pressure, 27in ; medium, 44in; and low pressure, 72in. The oiston stroke is 48in. The boilers are steel, and have a working pressure of 1601 b. The engines are of 460 horse-power nominal, or 2000 horse-power effective, the registered speed being knots on a consumption of 28 tons of coal per day. The engineering department is under the charge of Mr Yy. Elder (late chief engineer of the R.M.S. Aorangi), and who left that vessel to superintend the fitting up of the Otarama when purchased by the Company. She is commanded by Captain G. Scruby, and with him are the following officers Mr H. Barnes, chief ;Mr F. Winchesfcer (lato of the Rimutaka), second 5 Mr 1. L. Jones, third. When the Otarama was first built she was known as the Sea King, but with the change of ownership there followed a change of name, and in the New Zealand native nomenclature her present designation was found. She was berthed at the Railway wharf on Saturday afternoon, and expects to leave here again this week. THE R.M.S. lONIC. The R.M.S. lonic arrived in port at 6.30 am on Monday, and was berthed at the Queen’s Wharf an hour later. The following is a report of her passage supplied by [her purser ; She was to have left London on the 21st of February, but was detained owing to a dense fog. The following day the fog lifted, and a start wa3 made, but by the time Gravesend was reached the fog had settled down thicker than ever. Moored ship at Gravesend, and remained there until the 26th February. During all this time traffic was entirely suspended on the rive*-. As it cleared a little a start was made, and by the time Dover was reached the fog had entirely disappeared. Arrived at Plymouth at 3.24 pm on the 27th February, and left attain an hour later. Had fine weather to Teneriffe, which was reached at 10.13 am on the 4th March ; sailed the same day at 543 pm ; picked up the NE Trades in lat. 19deg. N, and these lasted to lat. lOdeg. W ; encountered the SE Trades in lat. sdeg. S; these blew with moderate strength, and gave out in lat. 2odeg. S. Reached Table Bay at 6.18 am on the 20th March, and left again at 1.40 pm same day ; fell in with a westerly wind shortly after leaving, which continued till long. 46deg. E, the remainder of the run across the southern ocean had variable winds and light airs, and arrived at Hobart at 2 am on the Bth April ; sailed, at 4.30 pm the same day, and arrived as above. On the Ist March Joseph Devine, the infant son of a third-class passenger, died of bronchitis. Captain Kidley is still in command. Mr Tommis is now fourth officer, in place of Mr Hayes, transferred to the Teutonic.