LATEST SHIPPING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 20

LATEST SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. Tuesday, November 10. Penguin, s.s., 517 tons, Manning, from Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon: 32 return excursionists; •10 fceerage. SAILED. Tuesday, November 10. Neptune, s.s., 44 tons, Eckford, for Blenheim. Huia, s.s., 90 tons, Crawford, for Wanganui. Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, for Greymouth. Queen of the South, s.s., 121 tons, Manley, for Foxton. Wairoa, s.s., 48 tons, Westrup, for Motueka. Waverley, s.s., 77 tons, Vickerman, for Nelson and West Coast. By Telegraph. — Press Association. Auckland, November 10. Arrived—Bakanoa (5.30 a.m.), from Fiji ; Star of England (7.30 a.m.), from London via Sydney ; Sarah and Mary, brigantine, from Lyttelton. Patea, November 10. Arrived, 11 a.m. yesterday—Aorere, from Wellington. Sailed, noon—Aorere, for Wellington via Opunake. New Plymouth, November 10. Arrived, 3.30 a.m.—Gairl6ch, from Onehunga ; connected with express. Sailed, 10 p.m.—Mahinapua and Gairloch, for Onehunga. Lyttelton, November 10. Sailed Brunner (1 p.m.), Wellington; Gothic (6 p.m.), for Napier ; Wakatu (9 p.m.), for Wellington via way ports. ■ . Sailed, 10.15 p.m.—Flora, for Wellington. Passengers—Misses Walker, Jones, Mesdames Eley, Smart, Ewart, Fraser and 2 children, Captain Worster, Rev Father Cummings, Revs Zachariah and Dolamore ; Messrs Hill, Goodmans, Tillman, Corrick, Arrowsmith, Hallamore, Cook, Ansley, Morris, Ryan, White. We stport, November 10. Arrived, 11.5 a.m.—Corinna, from Wellington. Dunedis, November 10. Sailed—Mararoa, for North. Passengers—Misses Aburn, Bannatyne, Nixon, Trimble, Rattigan, Weir, Mesdames Miller, Trimble, Daley, Caehemaile, Jack, Taylor, Creagh, Stevenson, Messrs Jay, Taylor, Creagh, Paterson, Simes, Meadows, Hodge, Thodey,2Heare, Weir. Bluff, November 10. Sailed, 7 p.m.—Talune, for Hobart. The steamer Glenlochy recently sailed from Newcastle for Adelaide with the largest coal cargo ever shipped at the northern port. The Glenlochy carried 6000 tons of coal, exclusive of bunkers, all of which was shipped at the dyke. The next largest cargo was that of the steamer Agapanthus, which took 5665 tons net, the Southern Cross coming third with 5600 tons. In sailing vessels, the largest cargo was that of the Osborne, amounting to 4908 tons. The Forteviot comes next with 4810, the Palgrave 4790, the France 4557, the Royal Forth 4558, and the Alice Leigh 4318. Two more old boats of the North German Lloyd Company (the Neckar and the Danzig) have been sold, and the Company has now got rid of nearly all its oldest ships. During very vivid lightning flashes last week the residents of Castleclift*, "Wanganui, were startled by a loud boom, which some took to be a signal from a ship in distress. It was found that a detonating rocket on the bridge of the Moa, which was lying at the Heads wharf, had been exploded by the lightning, the report being as loud as that of a cannon. | JThe Corinna returns from Westport to Wellington. It is reported that Messrs Reynolds and Company, Hobart, have sold their fleet of steamers and plant to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. It is understood that it is because [the Union Company will now have control of the Hobart—West Coast of Tasmania—Melbourne trade that the Grafton and other of the Company's boats are being sent across to Tasmania to make the service more complete. The Manapouri has been floated into graving dock at Port Chalmers, prior to leaving early next week for Bluff, Hobart and Melbourne. The Waihora, leaving here on Friday, connects with the Manapouri at Dunedin. The barque Onyx is to brine a cargo of timber from the Clarence River to Wellington. TheWakatipu, due in-Wellington from Sydney on Sunday next, leaves the following day for Melbourne via South and Hobart. THE RIMUTAKA AT CAPETOWN. By Telegraph. — Press Association. Capetown, November 9. The Rimutaka loft yesterday for Hobart and Wellington, all well. MISHAP TO THE MANAIA. Messrs Johnston and Co., local agents for the Manaia, which left here on Saturday morning for Waitara, on Tuesday received a telegram from the lighthouse-keeper at Pungarehu to the effect that the vessel had passed there under sail on Sunday. In passing, Captain Simpson signalled that the steamer had broken her shaft. Later advice received states that the Manaia reached Waitara on Sunday, and, having discharged her cargo the same day, is now getting her thrust shaft replaced there. . MORE DEEP DIVING. The following extraot is from a Newcastle (England) paper -.—Successful diving operations have been oarried on at Cape Finisterre in connection with the sunken steamer Skyro, of Sunderland. The Skyro in Apri}, 1891, sailed from Carthagena, Spain, bound forTJondon, with a valuable cargo on board of silver, lead and fruit, and having besides stowed in the cabin bar sliver valued at £9OOO. Her total cargo was valued at about £30,000. All went well until approaching Cape Finisterre m foggy weather, when the vessel struck the Meixiddo reef, but passed over and went down in deep water within 20 minutes, and about two miles off the coast. The whole of the crew were saved. An expedition went out in the same year and found the wreck, but was unable to secure the treasure. The vessel, with her valuable cargo, thus remained untouched until last year, when Mr John K. Moflatt, of Bilbao, entered into negotiations with Lloyd's underwriters, and spent four months over the operations, which had to be suspended in September last year owing to bad weather setting in. This year another determined effort has been made with more powerful apparatus, the working depth for the diver being 28 fathoms— lGSft. It has now resulted successfully, and already 37 bars of silver, valued at .i'looo, have been placed in the bank at Corunna, to remain there until the operations are completed. To obtain the remaining 51 bars it is found necessary to blow away the deck, which the diver is preparing to do, but from the experiments made so far it is doubtful whether the dynamite can be ignited, from some unknown cause. Since July 18 last, and up to this week, the diver has made 27 journeys down, first in mooring buoys over the vessel to mark the spot, and which have been carried away several times by the bad weather, and in the recovery of tho 37 bars now obtained. The air and water pressure on the diver is 731 b per square inch. When there is considered the wild and exposed position of the wreck, being about nine miles south from Cape Finisterre, the strong currents that prevail in this locality, and the fact that the diver has had to clear away the cabin skylight to effect an entrance and get down into the cabin with the deck collapsed to within ISin of the cabin floor on the starboard side of the silver, some idea of the dangerous naturo of the undertaking may be realised. It is expected that within Itbe next three weeks this operation, that has been fraught with so many difficulties, will be completed. With the exception of Mr Gregory, who has charge of the operations on the spot, and Mr Moffatt's son and the steward, who are English, the operators are Spaniards, including the diver, who is a fellow of splendid physiqne, named Angel Erostarbe. The diving apparatus has been specially supplied by Messrs Siebe, Gorman and Co;, the well-known submarine engineers, of London.