SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4119, 2 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

TOKT OF WELLINGTON. Hiou Water.— s,l7 a..m. ; <1.7 r.M. ARRIVED. JUN-El.—Wcllinsf n. 3.9., 202 tons. Carey from he «mithern ports Passengers—Saloon : Loyal Opera Company (33). Mr. and Mrs. Wilson ftul cuU . Mr. and Mrs. Dnncan and servant, Mirf Mclntosh, Kov Mr Moir, Messrs, Smith, Fielding, Crocombo, simitze, McKay, SUorrin, Burnett, Clayton and .. for the North : steerage :5, and 12 for the .North, 1.. S. L MaMi?aUi. t ’li.9.. KW tons, Griffiths from Foxton Passengers-Snloon; Messrs. Finlay, Johnson, ami Madcy. R. S. Lodger, agent. Fiery Cro.-s, schooner. 72 tons, Grundy, from Lyttelton. No passengers. SAILED. j Junk 1. —Manawatu. p.s., 103 tons, Griffiths, for Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon: Messrs. t erev Alexander, and Askin ; steerage : -13 immigrants Oa La Coast ports. Passengers—ratoon: Messu* Xaj-ioi, George. Tollcmache, Jacob, and Murray ; steerage . i. I '" tons, St Carey, torthoNorHij ern port*. Passengers—Saloon : Mes.rs. Bulla and on a lighthouse CrUl3e ‘ IMPORTS. Wellington, from the Southern ports-30 boxes soap, 3 bars pearl barley, 3 kildorluns ale 1 hhd porter. 3 do ale. 20 cases. 1 piece dm, : 2 bales, 1 cask 3 ovens. 1 pel, 1 box, 12 sacks potatoes, JO do grass seed, ‘>s3 do oats, 017 do flour, 120 do bran, 51 to Fiery'Cross—o7o sacks flour, 150 do bran, 42 do potatoes. EXP ORXS. , . B Manawatu, for AVanganui—lll l>kga sundries, 5 trusses, 2 pkgs grates. 1 case fitting-}. 2 prigs leather, G hhds ale. 20 bags Hour, 5 cases brandy, 1 case cigar., 1 cask ale, 20 boxes tea, 10 cases fish, 1 pci, 0 1 drum, 1 cramp, 2 kegs. Eangatira, for East Coast-1 truss drapery, o case® do. 1 qr-cask ale. 12 cases stout, 2 cases sundries. <*3 pkgs do. 1 b;U buckets. 02 pkgs oilmen a stores. 1 coil iope. 2 kegs staples. 23 kegs nails, 1 case brandy. 1 octave wine, 2 trunks. 2 pels. 3 cases 2 boxes, I horse, 182 bars iron, 500 fire bricks. 1 roll belting, 3 bdl» iron, 10 sheets do, 3 casks horseshoes, 1 set harrows 1 pkg whittles, 1 case fenners. 1 do platedware, 1 do hardware, 1 pci chain, 1 bdl wheels, o cases c.ocu-s, - chests. 2 cases chairs, 15 kegs, 1 case pump, and a quantity of goods ex Claud Hamilton, Otago, and Lie McCallum More. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Meleoukme, via the Southern Forts.—Alhambra, 3.5., 3rd instant. , Melbourne, tiatheMest Coast.—lara.ua, 5.»., st Southern Forts.—City of Adelaide, mail steamer, 4th instant. Sydney. —H.M.S. Challenger. Adelaide.—Kangaroo ; sailed -Oth May. Newcastle.—Australind. barque ; sailed 21st May. Result, ship ; sailed 21st May. s . lnfl London. —Weymouth, ship ; AA aikato, ship ; sailed 13th March. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Lyttelton.—Paterson, p.s., 3rd instant, at noon. Melbocrmb, via West Coast.—Alhambra, s.s, 3rd Melbourne, via Southern Pouts,—Tararua, s.s., oth instant. n>, » Kandavau, via Napier and Auckland.— City or Adelaide. A. and A.M.S.S., 4th instant. . Newcastle. —McCallum More, ship : Edwin Lassett, barque ; Heversham, barque—early. London.- -Wennington, ship.

BY TELEGRAPH.

Lytteltons—June 1, arrived—l.3o p.m., Lacljbird, from Wellington. Poax Chalmers. —June 1, arrived —Hadda, barque, from Hong Kong, with 104 Chinese passengers, and Mr. J. Small, comedian. The passage was made in ul days. POET OF NEWCASTLE, N.S.W. Arrived. —May 9, Princess Alice, from Lyttelton : Lutterworth, from Dunedin. May 11, Moa and Hylton Castle, from Auckland. Sailed. —May 7, Heather Bell, from Nelson. PORT OF MELBOURNE. Arrived.—May 12, Nightingale, schooner, from Hoklanga. PORT OF SYDNEY. , , r Arrived.—May 7, Wave, from Auckland. May 9, Tokatca, from Hong Kong, via Dunedin. Slay 10, H.M.S. Alacrity, from New Zealand.

The Time Ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. To obtain Greenwich mean time, subtract llh SOm from the Time Ball time. . A small screw steamer is now being built at Auckland by Messrs. Sims and Brown, of_ Custom-house street, for the trade with Waitara. She is to carry thirtv-two tons on a light draught of water. Another schooner has been launched at Coromandel from the yards of Messrs. Hansen and Harrison. She was christened Onward by Miss Kate Hansen. The length of keel is 51 feet ; length over all, 59 feet: depth of hold, C£ feet; beam, 15i feet. She draws 2 feet G inches forward, and 3 feet G inches aft, and isOi. tons measurement. . .. . „ , . The inquiry into the wreck of the barque Earl of Southesk will be continued to-day at the Custom House. .... , .. An unexpected, and what might have proved disastrous accident, happened to the James Paxton, at Riverton, when waiting a slant of wind to get over the bar laden with grain for Dunedin. A leak was observed near the forecastle, about her water-line. The leak, upon examination, proved to be the work of some mischievous rat or rats, which had gnawed through the ship’s bows a hole of some inches in diameter. The Paxton has since returned to the jetty and when repaired will proceed to her destination. Had the leak not been discovered in time, damage to a considerable amount must have accrued to the cargo, which consists of barley and wool. # A telegram we are happy to state, has been received by the owners of the schooner Melanie, stating that she had got off the shore in Manukau harbor without damage, and would sail on Saturday evening for her destination. ~ , , . The Colonial Government p.a. Luna sailed last night shortly before 12 o’clock on a lighthouse cruise. Cape Campbell will be the first place of call. f The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company s steamer Wellington arrived alongside the wharf shortly after daylight yesterday morning, having had a capital run from Lyttelton of nineteen hours before the S.E. breeze. The Royal English Opera Company, making in all the goodly number of thirty-three, were among her numerous passengers. The Wellington called at Oamaru on the voyage lip the coast, where she took in a large quantity of grain of various sorts. She arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday morning, and discharged cargo and passengers. By special arrangements with the Royal Opera Company, her time of sailing was postponed from Saturday evening until Sunday morning at 11 a.m., at which hour she left for this port. A fresh South-east breeze was blowing when she got outside the Heads, and this helped her on her way considerably, bhe arrived olf the Hoads about daylight, and brought up alongside the wharf shortly afterwards. During the day she wai busy in discharging her unusually large cargo—amounting to almost 300 tons in all and in taking in cargo for the Northern ports. The steamer a clearing was concluded at a late hour, and she was to leave at midnight so as to catch the tide on the other side of the Strait. The next vessel to arrive from the Southern ports, will he the Alhambra on Wedneas.s. Rar.gatira yesterday took in a large cargo of goods' landed here from tiic Claud Hamilton, for transmission to the East Coast, and a quantity of general cargo, and left for the East Coast ports shortly Ladybird arrived at Lyttelton at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, having had a long run of over twenty-four hours in the face of head winds. , The New Zealand Steam shipping Company’s p.s. Manawatu arrived alongside the wharf early yesterday morning, after a long and rough passage from the Manawatu River. She left Foxton at 9 a.m. on Sunday morning, and on corning outride found a strong wind from the S.E. blowing, with high sea.which compelled her to take shelter under Mana at 8 p.m. An attempt was made to get out during the the wind and sea were so high that Captain G.ihiths deemed it prudent once more to seek the friendly shelter of the island, which he did not leave until four o’clock yesterday morning, when the Manawatu came on under steam to Wellington, meetings with a southerly swell at the Heads. oho reports having seen portions of the wreck of the Earl of Southesk floating about the entrance to the harbor, the southerly swell having probably broken off the loose timbers. The Manawatu brought only one package down from Foxton. but during to-day she took in a considerable quantity of general cargo, and was ready for sailing again at dusk. Mr Eliott, the Immigration Officer, had got some seventy immigrants by the La Hogue selected for Wanganui, and these were brought together on the wharf and embarked about five o'clock, shortly after which the Manawatu left the wharf and started on her trip to Wanganui. The next trip of the p.s. Paterson will be to Lyttelton. After discharging her inward cargo yesterday, she brought up alongside the Golden feca, from which vessel she will receive another consignment of railway material for the Canterbury public works. At Lyttelton there are two locomotives waiting for her, which she will bring up here. The s.s. S tormbird may be expected early to-morrow from her trip to Waitara by waj of Wanganui, and is advertised to leave for Wanganui at six o'clock in the evening. Yesterday morning the signal for a ship was run up at the Victoria station, and for some time it was thought another immigrant ship was at the Heads. Shipping authorities, however, put her down as the Result from Newcastle, and were right in the end. Pilot Holmes boarded her about 9 a.m., but the wind until after midday was too strong ahead to enable the ship to come in. During the afternoon she beat in, a novel feature being introduced in working her in. ILe donkey engine was set going, and the forebraccs were worked by steam, enabling the vessel to tack with much greater case than under simple sail. She rounded the point shortly after dark, and brought up a short distance out in the fairway. The following is the ship’s report, supplied by the captain, through Pilot Holmes:—The ship Result, 745 tons. Captain Jarvis, left. Newcastle, N.B.’VV., on the 21st May. 'W.N.'VV. winds were experienced for the first six days out. Accompanied by heavy and a strong cross sea. Mount Egmont was sighted on the 20th May, and on the 31st the ship was under close reefed canvas between Mana and Jvapiti Islands. On the night of the 31st the wind changed round to the N.N.W., and brought the ship to the Heads, whore «he took the pilot on board and beat up the harbor, anchoring in the fairway shortly after dusk. The Result has a cargo of coal which she will discharge at ol Tlie barque Edwin Bassett hauled alongside the wharf yesterday evening after the departure of the Manawatu, and will discharge coal to-day.

The ship La Hogue was not brought alongside yesterday, tho wind being somewhat too strong to manage tho warping easily. Weather permitting, she will bo berthed to-day. . , The pretty schooner Fiery Cress arrived in harbor yesterday about mid-day. from Lyttelton, withacargo if produce. She was to have left Fort Cooper on Wednesday, but the high winds caused her to delay her departure until the following day : baffling muds were experienced at first, bub the southerly breeze on Sunday enabled the schooner to ffot siitlieiently close to tho. Heads to heat up before U‘° yesterday. The Fiery Cross is one of the handsomest of tho coasting topsail schooners. xr „,. ! . i i,A The Day mar, which has cleared for Hokitika, was still at anchor yesterday afternoon. , . The schooner Aurora (hushed the discharge of her irward cargo of wool and limestone, and hauled a\\a> from the vvharf yesterday morning. The schooner Zior is tho first to break into the Ann Mellmish's transhipped cargo of pipes, and is now lying alongside the barque, loading for Hokitika, The s barque lladda has arrived at Port Chalmers from Hong Kong, after a passaw of_ sixty-two tlays. She brings 184 Chinese, probably induced by the representations of their mining brethren to cross the seas. The barque has been expected at 1 ort Chalmers, and has a cargo of tea and other Chinese merchandise. , . . -,xr^:i,,.+rv Further particulars as to the new ship M aikato come by the English mail. Yesterdays issue contained. the notice of her departure, and the number of immigrants to arrive by her. and a brief summary of tho ship’s accommodation for them will not be uninteresting. Nothing has been spared to ensure comfort and cleanliness during the long the efficiency and completeness of ventilation being especially secured; for if there is one thing those on hoard an emigrant ship pine for it is pure air, when they arc forced by wind or ram to be collected together below. In the arrangement of the bunks they have been placed fore and aft instead of crosswise, and the block system has been adopted so as to isolate, any family or families affected with any contagious disease. In stormv weather there is no need to go up by the mam hatch, for a special storm hatch is provided. The single womens compartment has had special care hcstowel on it, and has been made very comfortable for tins impor;ant section of our immigrants; a separate cabin is provided for the matron, whose onerous duties render some extra comforts necessary to their fulfilment. Like the McCallum More, the AVaikato is fitted with iron masts and yards and double topsails, a practice which is now coming in vogue, and of winch seamen "really approve. Reins fitted with all the modern improvements, tho AVaikato was expected to make a capital run out, and if all lias gone well, it will not be long before she is signalled at the Heads. A more complete description then will enable visitors, of whom she is sure to have a large number, to satisfy themselves on her numerous points of excellence. Another storv of tho summary way m which independent Republics seem to think they are entitled to treat the ships of other States comes by telegraph from London. An English steamer, commanded by Captain Hyde, left A r alparalso, in Chili, one day with a number of Chilian passengers on board. Ly sonic misadventure, the cause of which is not given, tho vessel capsized, whether with loss of life or not we are left in ignorance. Thereupon the Chilian authorities, indignant at Chilian passengers being capsized in an English vessel, adopted the unheard of course of imprisoning tho captain. -Hyde. Mr. Humboldt, the British Minister at Valparaiso, justly incensed at such treatment of a British subject, at once demanded tho release of Captain Hyde, and backs tip his demand with a claim for indemnity. This energetic action evidently startled the Chilians, and they at at once ordered the captain’s release. As for the indemnity, which most concerns them, that is still ponding. , , „ . The barque Chevert brings the following cargo 300 tons coal, 151 pieces iroubark (40.000 feet super). Her passengers arc Air. and Airs. Jenkinson and six children, and Air. Andrew AVatson.