SHIPPING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1212, 24 May 1895, Page 28

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. Tuesday. May 21. Tasmaria, s.s., 1265 tons, McGee, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast. Passengers —Saloon: Misses Muir, Buchanan, Sealy, Johnson, Cook, Kirton, Rice, Orebson, Watters, Catler, Carver, Buxton, Davis, Davidson, Mesdames Weston, Robinson, Holmes, Turner and family, Payten, Jones, ‘•Smith, Clarke, Parnell, Chegwidden, Chandler, Cutler, McLean, Davis, Wright, Rotter, Watters, Griffiths, Messrs Ryan, Catler, Drummond, Harris, Turner, Smart, Hume, George, Brocklehurst, Chegwidden, Renton, Connelly, Bishop, Gallin, Easts, Hilton, Richmond, Ogden, Kerr, Gibb, Elder, Banks, Binney, Lane (2) ; 43 steerage. Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, from South. Passengers —Saloon: Miss Falconer, Mesdamcs Falconer, Smart, Aldridge and child ; 6 Queen of the South, s.s., .121 tons, Harvey, from Greymouth and Wanganui. Corinna, s.s., 820 tons, Todd, from South. Passengers —Saloon: Miss Clouts, Mesdames Rentoul and Scrimone, Rev Morley, Messrs Scrimone, Whitcombe, Hudson, Jamieson ; 5 Australia, s.s., 260 tons, Gibb, froni Auckland and East Coast. Passenger—Saloon : Wakatu, s.s., 95 tons, Vi ills, from Lyttelton, Cheviot and Kaikoura. Rimutaka, s.s., 2885 tons, Greenstreet, from London, via Teneriffe and Capetown. Passengers for Wellington Saloon: Mrs DeanPitt Messrs Smallbones and Gilbert, Master Gilbert; second-class: Misses Pickering, Thornhill (2), Messrs Page (3) ; steerage: Misses Sutherland (4), Mrs Coles, Messrs Dobson, Mitchell, Wells, Wheeley, Thompson, Wilson, Smith, Davidson, Robinson, Masters Sutherland (3). For other ports Saloon : Miss Woolcombe, Mrs Luxmore, Messrs Dawes andSandeman; second-class: Misses Bailey, Ross ( 2). Taft, Carter, Mesdames McKmlay, Bailey, Carter, Weigall, McGregor, Messrs Orford, Worthington (2), Bailey, WynnWilliams, Lithgow, Rodney, McEwing, Pardoe, Shields, Devries, Weigall, Master Worthington; steerage : Misses Rass, Goodwin (2), Byrne, Wilson (2), Hyslop (2), -Homing (3), Gallagher, Mesdames Hall, Wilson (2), Hvslop, Messrs Shirman, Stevenson, Tofield, Hxckling, Jenner, Hall (3), Smith Grierson, Wilson (3), Birkett, Hyslop, Mickle, English, Fleming (31, McDouall, Ahern, Blewman, Busby, Cooke, Mitchell, Masters Hall (3), Wilson, Bailey (2), Hyslop (3). SAILED. Tuesday, May 21. Queen of the South, s.s., 121 tons, Harvey, for Foxton. ~ Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, tor Greymouth. Passengers —2 steerage. Tasmania, s.s., 1265 tons, McGee, for South. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Schnmpton, Cuddon, Walters, Buxton, Osborne (2), Davis, Mewey, Plaisted, Rice, Davidson, Lane, McLean, Kessiler, Mesdames Griffiths, Walters, Owen, Wagstaff, Wright, Davis, North, Davey, Potter, Belworthy and child, Lane, Ross, Holdsworth, Bellvey, Waterfield, McKay, Messrs Kerr, Elder, Aldridge, Osborne, Banks, Bunny, Chapman, Gibbs, Griffiths, Cuddon, Smallbones Fleming, Townsend, North, Salmon, Webb, Wright, Ross Charlesworth, McKenzie, Rotter, Cameron, Heron, Bishop, Me Waters MeGuire, Eastes, Davies, James, Coffee, Morris (2) Ritchie, Aitken, Linwood, Taggart, Strathan, Griffen, Savage, Barrie, Maloney; S 3 steerage. __. . * , Corinna, s.s., 820 tons, Todd, for Wests.s., 137 tons, Chambers, for Wanganui. ARRIVAL OP THE RIMUTAKA. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s s.s. Rimutaka left Plymouth on 6th April, arriving at Santa Cruz at 5 a.m. on the 11th ; landed mails and passengers, coaled, and lelt for Capetown at 1 p.m. same day, which was reached at 6.30 a.m. on the 2 /th ; landed passengers, received mails and passengers, left at 2 p.m., and arrived Hobart at 2 a.m. on the 16th ; discharged cargo and left at 7.30 p.m. for Wellington : passed Cape Fare' well at 8 p.m. on the 20th, and arrived m harbour at 5.39 next morning. The voyage was uneventful, and the weather generally fine. She takes in a quantity of wool, meat, timber, &c., fo- London, and was to sail yesterday for Lyttelton and Oamaru, making the former her final port of departure from the Colony.

DEPARTURE OF THE KAIKOURA. Lyttelton. May 16.. Sailed —Kaikoura, for London, via Rio. • Passengers —Messrs Norton, Francis, Roy and Miss Thorne, Mrs Suter, Miss Pyke, J. J. Savage, Walter Hunter, Miss J. Rutherford, Captain and Mrs Perry, Miss J. Wilkinson, Joseph Wright, Mrs Joyce, Carl Von Drehten, Mr and Mrs C. H. Gorton, Misses 1. R., H. A. and S. Gorton, Leo. Harper, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Jones, Mrs Martin, J. J. _ioung, Mrs and Miss Schwartz, Mr and Miss Bayloy, Miss A. Cunnington, Mrs and Miss Alexander, Mr and Mrs J. A. Bor] e son Miss P. Garforth, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Sutherland, Mr and Mrs G. F. Inderson, “Messrs C. and A. Anderson, Mr and Mrs T. C. Fawcett, G. Gourlay, D. H. Bait, Mrs L. Percy, Mrs G. Thomson, Mr and Mrs Wilson, Mr and Mrs R. Pepperill, Miss Pepperill, J. L. Coy, U. Macrae, Mr and Mrs Vaughan, C. Marks, Mrs and Miss Lloyd, Mr a,-nd Mrs W. G. Sherman, Misses G. and K. Sherman, J. Stoirar, Miss B. Steven, Miss Joint, P. Kell end, J. Woodson, C Burton, Mr and Mrs Pryer, Misses Pryer (2), Master Fryer, E. D. Hemmingway, E. Pratt, J. Conroy, C. H. Dawson, J. H. F. Hill, J. Over end, G Bonsev E. Higginson, G. J. Symes, J. Litton, H. White, G. Berston, Mrs Easterhrook, J. Addison, D. Duggan, H. Fater, P. Rosella, Mr and Mrs Connor, Mr Richardson.

The engines and boilers of the Stormbird are now receiving a general overhaul, and a new crank shaft is to be fitted in. Messrs Robertson and Co., of the Phoenix Foundry, have the work in hand.. H.M.S. Pylades, which arrived here on Tuesday from Sydney, via Auckland and Tauranga, is a composite screw corvette of 1420 tons, 1400 h.p. and 12 guns, and is a sister ship to the Rapid and Royalist, but is better armed and engined. Her description is as follows : —Size, 1420 tons ; armament, 14 sin 38cwt b.l.r. guns, besides eio-ht machine guns ; engines, 1400 i.li.p. ; built in 1884 in the Royal Navy Dockyard, Sheerness ; barque rigged ; speed, 14 knots. The Pylades is commanded by Captain JI. JJ. " Adams, the other officers being :

Lieutenant A, T. Taylor* navigating lieutenant, Peter B. Garrett (late of 11.M.5. Nelson) ; lieutenant, R. P. Parker (late of H.M.S. Bartlett; surgeon, A. G. Andrews ; engineer, James Barber; gunner, J; P; Compton ; boatswains, W. H. Haynyard and E. J. Bishop (late of the Peregrine). The total number of men on board is 163. The vessel will remain here until about the 4th of next month, when she will go on to Lyttelton. The Mount Sirion, a steamer of 5000 tons, has been chartered by the Union Steam Ship Company for the CalcuttaNew Zealand trade. She is owned by Messrs Smith and Service, of Glasgow. She leaves Calcutta for Wellington on the 20th July with a cargo of Indian produce, and returns in September with a cargo of horses. Wellington will probably be her final port of departure in the Colony. While the steamer Australia is laid up for an overhaul the Southern Cross will make a trip to Auckland and back via East Coast ports. The Mararoa will go into dock at Port Chalmers, and will not reach Wellington until Sunday, and leave here on Monday for Sydney, via Northern ports. London, May 21. Arrived —Waikato, from Lyttelton (March 26).