SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4154, 14 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. Higu'Water. 5.2 a.m. ; 5.21 P.M. SAILED. July 13. —Wennington, ship. SS2 tons, John McAvoy, for Lyttclton, and thence to London. Johnston ami Co.. agents. , , Edwin Bassett. barque, 30r> tons, J. Salmon, for Newcastle, in ballast. W. R. Williams, agent. ENTERED INWARDS. July 13.—Waikato, ship, 1020 tons, Charles Hod<ler, from London, with passengors and cargo. Johnston and Co., agents. IMPORTS. Waikato, from London : C pkgs, 1 cask, 2 trunks, 00 cases merchandise, 1 hamper do, Nathan and Co.; 178 cases merchandise. 19 pkgs do, 50 bdts do, 8 bales do, 27 pots, 7 (ir.-casks, 200 casks cement, 0 bdls spades, 02 casks, 1 hhd, 15 camp ovens, 15 do covers, 25 qr.-casks, 100 cases bottled beer, 100 boxes, 50 cases merchandise, Order; 1 case, John Diitlne (Wanganui); 28 pkgs, R. Burrctt; 12 cases merchandise, 1 bale, 2(j bdls spades, 7 casks. 1 barrel, 2 bdls shovels, 3 do forks, (Jibson and Co.: 1 case books, Colonial Secretary ; 0 pockets hops, Krull and Co.; 1 case pianofortes, Betimno and Ilunter ; 2 casks, 2 crates, 3 do saddlery. New Zealand Trust, Loan, and Investment Co.; 1 box, 2 boxes woolpacks, 20 kegs nails, 7 cases, 10 boxes glass, 3-1 drums oil, 10 kegs paint, 2 cases, 0 cask 3, C aises pianofortes, 0 qr.-casks whisky, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency ; 10 casks brandy, SO drums oil, Jaracs O'Slioa; 1 case, J. W. G. Fumival; 12S0 rail joints, 20 chests, 20 bags, 15 kegs, 30 cases hardware, 1 do silver goods, 1 freezing machine, 4 cases freezing sets, 1 caso merchandise, 17 cases bolts, 4 do spikes, 21 do stoves, Public Works ; 10 anchors, 23 kegs nails, 2 casks, 0 cases, 1 tierce, E. W. Mills ; 1 case, Sise and Co.; 10 case 3, 7 bales, 14 casks, 50 cases. 33 trunks boots, D. Anderson ; 3 cases merchandise, Kirkcaldie and Stains; 4 rolls do, Joseph Eurne ; 1 trunk. 1 caso, McDowell and Co.; 1 truss. Mrs. Sarah Hogg (Wanganui) ; 10 cases, Samuel Ladd and Co.; 10 cask 3 shades, 125 cases stout, 75 do ale, 1 case, Bannatyne and Co. EXPECTED ARRTVALS. Melbourne, via Southern Ports. —Cliud Hamilton, ICth inst. Melbourne. —Ashburton,viaGeographeßay,W.A.; sailed 12th Mav. Auckland.—H.M.S. Blanche; brigantine Rhyno; schooner Merlin. London.—AVeymouth, ship, sailed 7th April (from Deal) Reichstag, Strathnavar, St. Leonards. Panthca, Euterpe, sailed 2Sth April; Conflict, sailed sth May. Liverpool.—J. A. Thompson, ship. , PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via the East Coast. —Claud Hamilton, s.s., 10th inst. East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatira, this day. East Coast Ports (Middle Island).—Phcebe, 15th inst. Wanoanui.—Stormbird, this day; Manawatu, July 15. Foxton.—Napier, July 15. BY TELEGRAPH. NAPIER. July 13.—Sailed, 0.30 a.m.: Luna; 2 p.m.: Rangatira ; both for Wellington. Passengers per Luna : The Superintendent, Mr. W. Carlisle, Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs. Mrs. Park, Misses Park (2), Messrs. Girdlestone, F. W. Williams, Captain Russel. Hon. R. Stokes, and others. Per Rangatira: Miss Allen, Jlessrs. Owen, Maliony, Campbell, Ambrose, McGuiness, Kilgour, Parke, Sutcliife, and others. LYTTELTON. July 12.—Arrived : Ornati and John Bull, from Newcastle ; P.C.E., from Auckland. July 13.—Arrived, 0.45 p.m.: Ladybird, from Wellington : Rio Loge. Sailed : Eureka, for Wellington; Shepherdess, for Wanganui, with oats andwheat. BLUFF. July 13.—Arrived: Carrick Castle, ship, 77 days out, with 220 immigrants, all well. Three children died during the passage. Sailed; Hopeful, barque, forLyttelton. AUCKLAND. July 13.—Arrived : Towerhill, from Warrnambool; Jane, from Hobart Town. PORT CHALMERS. July 13.—Arrived : Ship Caroline, 89 days from Cork, with 350 V statute adults ; 120 single women, 77 single men, and 40 women out of Cork workhouse. At the Heads—The ships Cartsburn, from Glasgow, with immigrants ; Hindostan, with immigrants, from London ; and Davenagh, from London. The s.s. Easby, collier, arrived from Newcastle last night. The barque Eureka will be the next to arrive, with a cargo of Yankee notions. The Eureka, a.fine large vessel, loaded at New York for all New Zealand ports, and made Otago her first destination. _ After discharging cargo there, and turning it out in very good order too, as American bottoms usually do, she sailed for Lyttelton, and has been discharging the Canterbury portion of her cargo the la3t few days. She may be expected in Wellington harbor within the next few days. The three-masted schooner Melanie, having discharged all her cargo of timber, is on the berth again for Kaipara, and taking in ballast for the trip. A curious souvenir of bygone days is reported to have been discovered on board her whilst she has been lying at the wharf this time. It will be remembered that the Melanie had not the best of characters a short time ago, when she was engaged in the South Sea Islands trade. She was so little above suspicion that her movements were generally watched with more than usual vigilance, and on one occasion she was actually stopped and overhauled by a cruiser, which found her papers so doubtful that she was seized as a slaver. Shortly afterwards she was repurchased, and for some time past has been more peacefully if not so profitably employed in the New Zealand coasting and interprovincial trade. The souvenir referred to consisted of several rounds of ammunition and a small quantity of powder, which were found within the lining of the ship's side, where they had evidently been stowed away to escape prying eyes, probably on a cruiser suddenly heaving in sight. A new addition to the coastal fleet in the way of schooners will shortly be made In the shape of the Marmion, which may shortly be expected from Kaipara with timber. The firfe little brigantine Circe, which left here some time ago with a cargo of pipes for Hokitika, loaded with timber 3t that port for Dunedin, and made a smart run round to Port Chalmers.

The steamer Stormbird brought the following passengers on her last trip from Wanganui:—Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, Messrs. Broadbent, Johnston, Dawson, Gilmour, Scott, Alexander, and Campbell. The Magellan Cloud, a vessel well known on the coast, and which ha 3 lately been trading from Auckland to interprovincial ports, is on the berth at Auckland for the Chatham Islands. The steamer Wellington, on her trip North on Saturday, took mails and several passengers for her, and the Taranaki, on Thursday, will take supplemental mails and passengers. The schooner's accommodation will be taken full advantage of by a number of intending visitors to the islands, and she will also take a welcome supply of produce and other cargo for the inhabitants. The opportunity Is not often afforded of a vessel going to the Chatham Islands.

The steamer Fairy ha 3 been put to novel work since her arrival from Napier. She was engaged all yesterday in making trip 3 to and from the ship Waikato, conveying the immigrants and their luggage to the shore. The little steamer is very handy for the work, and got through it admirably. The Isabella ha 3 at once commenced the discharge of her cargo of timber. A Large part of it was put out yesterday. The steamer Stormbird yesterday had her rigging and general gear surveyed and tested by Captain Johnson, of the Marine Department. After her late overhaul everything was of course found taut and strong, and she was passed with credit. Mr. Nancarrow also inspected her boilers and machinery with the same satisfactory results. The accident, as it wa3 called, to her boiler, on her last trip_ from Napier, was only a very trivial affair, not deserving the name. A stay got started, and was put right in an hour; the rate at which the steamer came down the coast showing that nothing serious could have happened. The Napier will resume trading by a trip to Poxton on Wednesday. ■ The next trip of the Aspasia, just arrived from the East Coast, is to Castle Point, for which she finds a quantity of cargo awaiting her. The schooner Euby, which has been lying at the wharf of her owners, Messrs. Bcthune and Hunter, since her last unlucky run in the Strait, has been repainted and generally repaired, a new foremast having been put in her, and she is now loading for the Kaikouras, her old berth. It is rumored that Captain Fraser, who ha 3 for some time been master of her, is to be the new Inner Pilot in place of Mr. John Anderson.

The Walkato, being passed and entered at the Customs, will come alongside to-morrow, weather permitting, and commence discharge of her cargo as soon as possible, to which consignees are requested to attend. The steamers Eangatira and Luna are both on their way from Napier. The little iron clipper ship "Wennington, Captain John McAvoy, BS2 tons register, sailed from the outer anchorage on Monday, 13th July, before the light breeze. She is, as before stated, bound to Lyttelton first, and thence to London direct. Her outward cargo, which was given in detail in Monday's issue, sbow3 that she takes a large quantity of wool, skins, preserved meats and tallow, valued at about £27,800. Her filling up cargo at Lyttelton is already secured for, so that she will not proceed south to Port Chalmers, which was once intended. It is to bo hoped the Wennington will have a shorter rxm Homo than she had from London to this port, with immigrants, when she was over four months on the way. The barque Edwin Bassett spread all sail late in the afternoon, and beat out of the harbor. She is, as usual, bound to Newcastle, N.S.W. The brig Bobin Hood, the first brig we have had in the harbor for more than five months past, has attracted a good deal of attention since she has been lying at the wharf, and Captain Williams' enterprise has certainly been successful in this speculation. The brig la now discharging her cargo of coal with great despatch, fore and aft holds both working at once. A large hole has already been made In the flvo hundred and odd tons she brought over. The Stonnblrd will sail for Wanganul in the course of the day. The mate of an Ipswich barque, the Zelia, has been committed for trial on the charge of maliciously boring a hole in the vessel with intent to sink her, while in the harbor of Harwick. Licmihouhk.l at Cai'K de Vehde.—Advices from Lisbon state that the Portugese Government are about to erect two lighthouses at the entrance of the harbor of St. Vincent, Cape do Verde. Abandoned at Sea. Tho French steamer Amerique, trading between Havre and New York, was lately found at sea abandoned, and taken into Plymouth. It was found on pumping her dry that tho hull was tight, and nothing wrong witli the ship, tho valves only being open. Tho vessel afterwards proceeded on her voyage to Havre, bonds for £l2fl,fX)o having been given in a suit at tho Instance of tho salvors.

PHONIC COAST SIGNALS. (From the New York IhraU, May 18.) Not long since [Professor Tyndall in behalf of his Government, conducted a series of acoustic experiments in British waters to test the transmissibility of fog signals. He announced more recently some important conclusions to which his investigations had led him, and these results have been widely quoted as showing the unreliability of the sound signals employed at modern lighthouses and coastguard stations. The explanation given was that the intervention of invisible vapor, especially on clear, hot days, rendered the air acoustically opaque, the vapor acting as a screen or wall to arrest or divert the sound-wave. Professor Reynolds, of Manchester, has given a practical and useful refutation to this hasty theory by experiments, which show that the sound-waves are otherwise reflected, and which suggest how the phonic coast signals may be rendered more available for fog warnings. Professor Reynolds' experiments show that the sounds are not lost even when proceeding against the wind, but are lifted up off the ground. The effect of wind and rough surfaces in lifting sounds accounts for the capricious variations in the intensity with which they are audible at different times, and it gives the reason why instinctively we elevate church bells and platforms when the sounds are to bo heard at great distances. This experimental research also proves that sounds are lifted upward in the air in proportion as the upward diminution of temperature increases. The acoustic rays diverge toward the clouds in curves, varying in their sharpness as the sky is clear or cloudy, the refraction being twice as great on bright, hot days as in cool, cloudy weather. These conclusions are corroborated by the balloon experiments of Glaisher, Flammarion, and others, who at very high points distinctly heard the whistle of tho locomotive miles below, showing that the soundwave was not broken up or transmitted horizontally, but vertically. At an elevation of ten thousand feet over Wolverhampton Glaisher heard the discharge of a gun, and the same sound twenty thousand feet above Birmingham ; while also he mentions hearing the barking of a dog at a vertical distance of two miles. Tho audibility of tho steam siren and fog horn, employed by the Lighthouse Board, is of vital importance to the seamen on our long Atlantic coast and on the lakes, where the seashore is so often shrouded in fog and mist. The able and thorough paper of Professor Reynolds, in bringing to light the real philosophy of tho aerial refraction of sound, suggests the means of making the fog signals reliable. It is only necessary to elevate the source of sound, or the sound receiver, or both, above the ground to insure its transmission. A vertical difference of thirty feet makes the sound go at least a quarter of a mile further, and this increase on a foggy coast would suffice to save a steamship running at full speed on the rocks. The distance to which the warning is conveyed across the waters would be doubled if the look-out on tho ship were stationed in the rigging. Our lighthouse authorities and scientists would do well to prosecute such researches and avail themselves of the practical benefits they afford.