SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4204, 10 September 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

TORT OF WELLINGTON Hiaa Water, 4.1 S A.M.; 4.33 T.u. ARRIVED. September 9.—Hannah Barrott. 67 tons, Rentier, Irom Sydney. Passenger - Mr. Wyatt. Master, ag lUiby, schooner, 24 tons; Dalton, from Waipapa. SAILED. „„,_ , Szptember S>.~-Taranaki, s.s., 2OT tons, Wheelor, for the South. Passengers—Cabin: Miss Call, Mr. and Mrs. Black, and Master Kent. It. b. Ledger, nS l°ert, schooner, -15 tons, Hays, for Westport. ENTERED IN. „ Tt , September 0— Tnranaki, s.s., 290 tons, Uheeler, from Northern ports. 11. S. Ledger, agent. W. C. Wentworth, barque, 315 tons, McDonald, from Sydney. Pilcher, agent. CLEARED OUT. September 9.—Bencleugh, schooner, to tons, Francis, for All Day Bay. In ballast, I nomas, aE Kaltona, schooner, 47 tons, Scott, for Havelock. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Taranaki, from Onehunga: 7 casks, 20 bales, 20 cases, 5 pkgs., 5 boxes, 19 coils, From Taranaki: ~o hides, 8 cases. From Nelson: CO bags, 7 cases, 14 bales. . W C. Wentworth. from Newcastle: 47 tons coals, 171 piles, 331 bags maize, 975 felloes, 3000 spokes, 27 pleces timber. 351 drain pipes, 31 chimney pots, 10 grindstones, 21 girders. Hannah Barrett, from Sydney: 7 cases, 4S. bags, 2. pkgs, 5S pieces cedar, 4 logs do, 14 tons shale, 1 cart, 1 waggonette. EXPORTS. Taranaki, to Lyttolton: 2 cases, S hhds, 5 pkgs., 40 sacks, 2 boxes. To Dunedin: 17 cases, 10 pkgs., 1 bag, 2 boxes. Kaituna, to Havelock: 4 cases, 1 bale, 2j pkgs., !. tons. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Panthea, Douglas, to sail June 18: Langstone, June 20: Hiiulostan, July 15 : «anganui, July 25 ; C'artvale, Star of India, and Houraii sailed August 25 ; loading, Jungfrau. t New York.—Oneco : sailed 2nd of June, Newcastle.— Result, ship. Northern Ports.—Ladybird, s.s., 11th inst. Southern Forts.—Wellington, 13th inst. Melbourne via tub South.—Otago, s.s., 19th ' inst. PR6JECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports.—Wellington, 14th inst. Southern Ports.—Ladybird, 11th inst. Foxton. —Napier, s.s., 11th inst. Wanganui.—Stormbird, s.s., this day; Manawatu, 11th inst. Melbourne, via the West Coast—Otago, s.s.,

Iflth inst. . s „ East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatna, s.s., 14th instant. BY TELEGRAPH. NELSON. September 9.—Arrived, at 7.50 a.m., Phcebe, from Picton. «■ LYTTELTON. September 9.—The s.s. Wellington sails for the Nortb to-morrow at 2 o'clock. NAPIEK. September 9.—The p.s. Luna sailed last night for Poverty Bay. . ... The JRangatira sails forToverty Bay to-night. ONEHUNGA. gSepteniber 9. Sailed: Ladybird, s.s., for the South. PORT CHALMERS. Septembers—Arrived: Alhambra, from the North at noon: Heide, barque, from Frederickstadt, with part cargo for Wellington, left on May 4; Lizzie Guy, from Hokitika. Sailed: Peter Penny, ship, for Melbourne; Sussex, ship, for San Francisco; Casarewitch, barque, for Port Esperance.

The W. C. Wentworth beat up to the inner anchorage yesterday, where she now lies. The ships Strathnaver and St. Leonards each obtained berths at the wharf yesterday: but the very great lack of sufficient accommodation is still felt as the ship J. A. Thompson continues to lie out in the harbor, as does the barque W. C. Wentworth, both unable to obtain berths. . A barque named the Heide, from Frederickstadt, has arrived at Port Chalmers, with a cargo which is partly for that port and partly for Wellington, whither she will probably proceed as soon as she has discharged the portion intended for OUgo. The schooner Hannah Barrett arrived in harbor yesterday from Sydney. She left that port on the 29th ult., and met with variable winds and very unsettled weather throughout the greater part of the passage. On the Ist inst. she experienced a severe gale from the south-west, which lasted till the evening of the 2nd, causing her to be hove-to for about thirty hours. On Sunday last, a heavy gale from the north-east wa3 encountered, when near Cape Farewell, which had the effect of driving the vessel fifty miles south of the cape. The Hannah Barrett was purchased In Sydney by her present master, Mr. Benner, who was long and favorably known in connection with the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, having been captain of several of the steamers, well known in the coasting trade for many years. The schooner is a neat and likely craft, and has made the passage from Sydney in eleven days, during thirty honrs of which she was hove-to. The new light on the bluff at the south entrance of Hanukau harbor i 3 now exhibited. Mr. Wilcox, late assistant light keeper at Tiri Tiri, has been placed in charge. . . i. -it » Custom-house officers, in conjunction with coastguardsfnen, are noted for their smartness. A trifling incident occurred at Auckland on board the Star of the South that shows that these officers can occasionally be too smart at time,. Before the Star of the South left on her last trip from this port for the South, a seizure wa3 made of bonded store 3 by the Customhouse officer, and after judicial inquiry the case was dismissed, and the stores ordered to be returned. In consequence of this seizure the provedore was compelled to purchase his stores retail at each port the steamer called at in order to keep the passengers supplied. On return of the Star to Auckland a fresh seizure was made, which only resulted in the,fact that all the stores had been purchased out of bond, and consequently not liable to be contaminated with the Custom-house officers' seal. After due inquiry it was found imperative to return the goods improperly seized.— Herald, September 3. The Six Laroest Steamers.—The six largest steamers in the world are the Great Eastern, owned by the International Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, 674 ft. long, 77ft. broad; the City of Pekin, lately launched on the Delaware river. Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 0000 tons, 42lift. long, 48ft. broad; the Liguria, Pacific Steam Navigation Company. 4820 tons, 400 ft. long, 45ft. broad; the Britannia, White Star, 4700 tons, 405 ft. long, 45it. broad; the City of Itichmond. Ininan, 4000 tons, 453ift. long, 43ft. beam, and the Bothnia, Cunard, 4500 tons, 425 ft. long, 42Jft. broad. A Mammoth Sun-.—A little the biggest ship projected in modem times, or since Noah's famous ship. is the one mentioned in the following item, winch we find going the rounds of the Press:—An enterprising citizen of Philadelphia has proposed to build, in time to use at the International Celebration, a ship capable of carrying ten thousand passengers. It is to combine a steam railway, a racecourse, theatre, shooting gallery circus, and every imaginable modern attraction. He claims that his plan is complete, and ha.-, been approved by some of the ablest engineers. He proposes to moor it in the Delaware, and convey it at Intervals to the different cities, ports, and wateringplaces of the Continent. It will make about six miles an hour, and will be three or four times larger than the Great Eastern. Smart Passaoe to China.—The following is an extract from a letter received from Captain True, of the ship Lauderdale, which sailed from this port for Shanghai, and dated 11th July:—" I arrived here after a splendid run of thirty-live days, beating the famous Thermopylae seven days, and the Cutty Sark over twenty days, and I have made by far the quickest run of the season, and within a day or two of the fastest from Sydney. Should any of your nautical friends a3k what route I took, you can tell them, up between the Solomon Islands and New Ireland, through the Carolines andLadroncs, entering the China Sea by the Loo Choo3."— Sydney Monday Herald. Shipbuilding in America. —It would not be a wild estimate to say that one-third of the vessels tailing from this port, of whatever class, are unfit to combat the tempests or the North Atlantic, or the severer triahi to which they are exposed along the coast-line. Shipbuilding itself is no longer a high and conscientious art, where men make or lose their reputations on good or bad v/ork, as they may elect. The tendency now-a-days seems to be to build a hull of great capacity and proportionate* weakness in the shortest time, with whatever material may be at hand, the main idea of the job being to make the abomination - sell! Theso evils are undoubtedly directly traceable to the decline of shipbuilding. Its fag end alone remains to sustain American commerce, and this is the reason why so many disasters are recorded from day to day. If onr wealthy and enterprising capitalists wisli to start a new line of steamers to foreign countries—as, for example, on the Pacific—their only available vessels must be selected from old and worthless craft, which burn more coal than they can safely carry octoss that broad ocean, and hence the commander is obliged to avail himself of every makeshift to reach port, if, indeed, he reaches his haven at all. There i 3 but one encouraging sign which points to better times, and that is the successful introduction of iron shipbuilding on the Delaware.— 2ftw York Herald, July IS.