SHIPPING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1188, 7 December 1894, Page 16

SHIPPING.

in oi‘dei ; to gife passerigefs per Massilia tb London ari opportunity of spending 1 Christmas at Melbourne, instead of at sea, the Peninsular aiid Oriental Steani Navigation Company intend despatching this steamer from Sydney at 3 p.ih. on. Saturday, 22nd December, instead of Monday, 24th, at noon. , The local agents for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company have been advised that the sis. lonic reached Plymouth on Tuesday week with her meat in good condition.

The local agents have been advised that the Pakeha arrived in London on Tuesday week with her meat in good condition. The competition between the Union Steam Ship Company and the HuddartParker Company on the East Coast is having curious effects on trade. Thus it costs £2 12s 9d to bring a ton of sugar from Auckland to Hawera via Manukau and New Plymouth; whereas if it be shipped from Auckland to Wellington by the East Coast and transhipped to Patea the cost is 30s, or about three times the distance for not much more than Half ifhe cost. The secret tHdt the cost pet toil from Auckland to Wellington is 5s. — Hawera Star. The Kailcoura did not leave Hobart for Wellington until 7 p.m. on Monday. She is therefore not expected here until Saturday morning. She brings 1100 tons of cargo for Wellington. The Shaw, Savill arid Albion Compafiy’a, ship Oamaru left for London on Friday* She took the following cargo : —5230 bales and 2 fadges wool, 658 do hemp, 75 do sheepskins, 4 do rabbitskins, 2 do paper, 43 casks tallow, 18 do narrow, 200 drums glycerine. The Ruahine took the following cargo from New Zealand ports : From Wellington--6603 bales wool and skins, 4589 carcases mutton, 340 do lamb, 7384 legs do, 50 cases meat, 33 casks tallow and pelts, 11 bales leather, 13 do basils, 3 kegs sweepings, 2 cases eggs, 6 do sundries, 252 tons butter, 47 tons cheese, 5 boxes bullion (for Rio, 4 carcases mutton, 111 boxes potatoes, 13 do provisions) ; from Auckland —800 boxes butter, 4 do bullion, 1 do sundries ; from Napier—--1730 bales and 3 bags wool; from Lyttelton—--751 bales wool, 6 do rabbitskins, 20 do leather. 33 do basils, 4do hair, 273 cases meat/, 56S pkgs butter, 1 case cheese, 7332 /arcases mutton, 39 do lamb, 49 boxes kidneys, 3 do sweetbreads, 200 sacks oats (for Rio, 6 cases mutton, 7 do provisions) ; from Dunedin — 739 bales wool, 56 do rabbitskins, 44 do sheepskins, 86 do leather, 8 do Haiti 968 cases buttefj 2512 do cheese,' 4dd sundries. , Oil trie voyage of the Buteshire from London to Melbourne, via Mauritius, she snapped her four propeller blades off close by the boss. The steamer kept under canvas from the time of the accident until midnight on 2nd October, when she was picked up by the steamship Strathord, and was towed to Mauritius, where, after some difficulty, owing to insufficient dock accommodation, three spare blades which were on board were fixed on the boss, and the voyage was resumed. The Union Company’s ss Port Melbourne is expected in Wellington from Calcutta via Singapore, Auckland and Napier about the 31st Inst. She loads in the Colony with wool for London, under the auspices of the S.S. and A. Co., and makes Wellington her final port of departure about the 15 th January. THE INDRALEMA AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, November 29. The steamer Indralema, which came direct from Penarth, has come in ballast, and steamed the whole distanoe without the engines having stopped once. The engines are said to be in a fit state to enable the. steamer to travel some distance again without having to be overhauled. The Indralenla is the first vessel to steam such a distance in ballast. She belongs to the same line as the Indrarriayo, and is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company. She will take on board about 1700 bales of wool, and proceeds South to complete her loading. PASSENGERS BY THE DORIC. The following is the list of passengers booked by the Doric, which left Plymouth on the 3rd November for Wellington, via Capetown and Hobart For Wellington : Saloon Misses Elgar, Farrell, Fellowes (2), Helynr, Howell and Strong, Mesdames Elgar and maid, Fellowes and Frost and maid, Messrs Barlow, Elgar, Evans, Fellowes (2; and Rockley ; second saloon —Misses Battershell and Elderfield, Messrs Bird, Edwards, Higginbotham and Kempe ; third class—Misses Boyd, Byrno and Seaton, Mesdames Cox and family, Cuthbert and McMorran and family, Messrs Bowon, Byrne, Cox, Conroy, Dorrock and Hennosoy. For other ports : Saloon—Misses Glasgow (2), McHardy and Tucker, Mesdames Glasgow, Grant, Harrison and Keep, Rev Cowio, Messrs Gammon, Glasgow, Harrison, McHardy, Grant, Keep, Miller and Pitnoy-Martin ; second saloon — Misses Coleman, Galloway, Heath, Holt, Rondray, Laidlaw, Newham, Robilliard, Taylor, Rowland and Tritton, Mesdames Holt, Whitting ham, Rondray, Maisey, Robinson and Robilliard. Messrs Standloy, Nattle, Motherwell, McCurraoh, Grant (2), Maisey, Elliot and Crimmings ; third class —4l. The question of the vessel calling at Auckland, from Hobart, before coming on to Wellington is now under consideration.