SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4224, 3 October 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF AV ELLINGTON ' HiaH Watbk, 10.10 a.m.; 10.52 P.M. AEKIVBD. October 2.—AVaratah, barque, Fisher, from Hobart Town. SAILED. October 2.—Aurora, schooner, 52 tons, Eomerill, for Castle Point. E. Pearce, agent. Hannah llarratt, for Flaxbourne (put back). CLEARED OUT. Octouer 2.—St. Leonards, ship, 10J3 tons, Todd, for San Francisco, in ballast. Levin anil Co., agents. Record, barque, 437 tons, Jenkins, for Bluff. Mclntyre and Co., agents. EXPORTS.. Aurora, to Castle Point: 451 pkgs., 10 cases, 1 saddle, 70 bills., 34 bags, 11 boxes, 1 tank. 2 pels., 300. fencing standards, 10 mats sugar, 1 keif, 3 bales. Record, to Bluff : 73 cases, 1400 rails. 25 bdls., 50 pairs wheels and axes, 1 fly-wheel, 2 road do., 2 octaves, wine, 5 casks, 1 pkg. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. , • London.--Douglas, 1428 tons, Wilson, sailed from Oravesend July 3 ; Panthea, Langstone, to sail June 20; llindostan, July 15; AVanganul, July 25 ; Cartvale, passed Falmouth Jnno 20; Star of India and Hourah, sailed August 25 ; Helen-Denny, 1297 tons, Ruth, sailed from Deal July 24 ; Jungfrau, E. P. Bouverie, and Soukar. Northern Ports.—Ladybird, s.s., this day. Soutiieun Ports.—Wellington, s.s., oth inst. Melbourne, via ihe West Coast.—Albambra, sth inst. . Melbourne, via Nelson.—Nightingale. Newcastle. —Robin Hood, Anne Melhuish, Australind, Camille, Frowning Beauty, Heversham. Naker.—Rangatira, 4th inst. AA'anganui.—Manawatu, p.s., this day; Stormbird, 8.5., this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern* Ports.—Wellington, s.s., 7th inst. London.—Halcione, early in November. Sax Francisco,—St. Leonards, this day. Bluff.—Record, this day. Southern Poets.—Ladybird, s.s., this day. Foxton.—Napier, s.s., early. Melbourne, via the South.—Alhambra, sth iDSt. East Coast Ports (North Island).—Rangatira, s.s.. sth iust. AVangan ui.—Manawatu, p.s., this da3*; Stormbird, s.s., sth inst

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AUCKLAND. September 2.—Arrived : Pluebe. NELSON. October 2.—1.30 pm. Arrived: Albion. WANGANUI. October, 2.—1.30 p.m. Sailed: Stormbird, for Wellington. PORT OF NEWCASTLE. September IS.—Arrived: Glendower, from Hobart Town. September 17.—Sailed: Melrose, for Nelson. September 19.—1 n Port: Barques Anne and Jane, Australind, Heversham, and Hopeful; brig Robin Hood. The barque AVaratah, Captain Fisher, arrived last night from Hobart Town with a general cargo and eighteen draught horses. She left Tasmania about the same date a 3 the barque Malay. Experienced bad weather on the passage across, and in consequence lost two of the horses. Anchored in Guard's Bay on ThurscUv. The AVaratah is a centre-board vessel, which enabled the pilot to beat her up the Heads against a strong N.AA'. breeze and an ebb tide. A barque and a topsail schooner were signalled at the Heads yesterday' afternoon. The Hannah Barratt, which has put back on two occasions through having been thwarted by the weather in her attempts to reach Flaxbourne, sailed again yesterday afternoon. The schooner Aurora also sailed for Castle Point in the evening. The barque Record cleared yesterday for Bluff Harbor, with a quantity of railway material; and is in full readiness to sail. The ship St. Leonards cleared at the Customs yesterday for San Francisco, in ballast, and will sail as soon as her crew is complete. The J. A. Thomson ha 3 given notice of sailing, and will shortly clear. The schooner May i 3 now taking in ballast and stores at, the Queen's AA'harf, and will sail for Mauritius, via. Newcastle, on Monday. It will probably be February next year before she returns to this port, when she will bring a cargo of sugar for her owners. The Stormbird sails for AVanganui on Monday, at noon. The balance of the cylinder plates, per J. A. Thomson, will be taken by her. The Falcon is hourly expected from Blenheim. Lost at Sea.—The voyage out of the new screw steamer Durham was not accomplished without its measure of fatality On August 23, when the steamer was in lat. 44deg. S., and long. 35min. E., and going along in a hard southerly gale, about seven o'clock in the morning one of the hands, who was aloft on the maiiitopsail yard, was knocked overboard by the halyards carrying away. A life-buoy was instantly thrown to him, the engines were stopped, and the port lifeboat manned and lowered as speedily as possible. The boat pulled to the spot and jiicked up the life-buoy, but thero was no trace of the poor

fellow. He was seen to fall into the -water head foremost, and as he did not rise, again, it is conjectured that the yard in its descent, when the halyards gave way, struck and stunned him. Three Shits Lo3i in the China Seas.—Nothing further has .been heard of the barque Alice Cameron. It is now nearly certain that the vessel must have fallen in with a hurricane and foundered. What more especially points to the conclusion that some sad fate has befallen her i 3 that two vessels—the Jewess and the Lelia 11. long—left Newcastle for Hong Kong about the same date—one on the same day, and one the day before the departure of the Alice Cameron, and neither has since been heard of. This makes it likely that all three-have been overwhelmed in one common disaster. Suspension of A Master's Certificate.—The Steam Navigation Board of Victoria have concluded an inquiry,, into the loss of the brig Alice Maud on Vansittart Shoal, Barren Island, on the morning of the 4th ult. The Board's decision was that the vessel was lost through default of the master, Captain Hurley, in navigating the brig, and his certificate was suspended for four months. The master was reprimanded by the Board for his negligence. Tides at New Guinea.—Tides are excessively irregular, and appeared to be greatly influenced by the state and duration of the wind. The rise and fall at springs was estimated to be not more than five feet. Near Teste Island, flood set to the northward, ebb to the southward, attaining at spring tides a speed of two , knots. Between Teste Island and the southern entrance of China Strait, the direction of the stream became deflected to the east end westward, but opportunity did not offer of testing the exact direction or speed. In Fortescue and Cliina Straits, the tides run with greater velocity, the direction of the stream following that of the straits, flood to the north, ebb to the south, and at spring tides reaching as great a speed as five knots. Between Smith Inlet and the Engineer Group, less tidal influence was observed, owing to the greater depth of water, and wideness of the channel, in the more confined parts, between Smith Islet arid the south-east extremity of Moresby Island, the tides ran four to five knots, setting in the same direction as in China and Fortekeue Straits. In the vicinity of Blakeney Island, the flood stream set north-west, the ebb south-east. In Goschen Strait, between Grind and Gallows Reef, the flood set west by north, the ebb east by siouth, at spring tides 1J knots an hour. In no part of the main route to and through Goschen Strait does the speed of the tide exceed 2£ knots an hour. Curious Stiirnso Case.—ln Friday's journals, writes "yEgles" in the Australasian, the Kastern and Australian M*il Steam Company (Limited) advertised (by its agents) the sailing of the Jeddah, from the Sand ridge railway pier, for Saturday, 12th September. But the ship didn't come to the pier, and she slipped off in the most unceremonious way, without waiting for mail, goods, or passengers. And why? She had been on Are, and in order to extinguish the fire she was Hcuttled in Twofold Bay, and sunk. After being patched a little, she was raised, and came to Melbourne to earn her freight. The cargo was tea, and valueless. The owners of cargo, acting on a wclllinown principle of marine insurance, considered that the ship was liable to contribute to a general average; the cargo having been destroyed in order to save the hull. But the company (by its agents) avoided any direct assent or refusal. And whilst the owners of cargo were getting into motion the lumbering machinery of law, the astute company (by its agents) coaled the ship in the graving dock, got steam up, cleared her at the Customs a day earlier than expected, and sent her to sea -in the night. So the company (by its agents) has accomplished the brilliant feat of-paying the claimants with the foretopsail. The appreciation of the cleverness of this steamship company (by its agents) is most pronounced in commercial circles—the pronunciation occasionally rather harshly accented. , Tub New Blackwali, Steamship Durham.— The follwing description is given of this new vessel:—Her keel was laid at tho Blackwall yard in June, 1873, and she was, through a very Urge number of workmen being employed, completed within twelve months of that date. She is a Bister ship io the Northumberland, which vessel she somewhat exceeds in size. Her dimensions are as follows:—Length over all, 305 ft.; breadth, 39ft.; and depth, 20ft. Din. She is 2000 tons burden. She is fitted with engines of 300 nominal horse power (1500 Indicated), with compound cylinders and superheating apparatus, by Messrs. Humphreys and Tennant. Her passenger accommodation is spoken of by those who came out in her as being everything that could be deiiired, and a look at the comfortable quarters provided for tho saloon passengers is enough to make even the most persistant victim to sea-sick-ness envious of a trip under Buch favorable circumstances. Tho saloon itself is lofty, roomy,' and well ventilated, fitted with. swinging shelves and tables, and all the various appliances necessary to make life happy on ship board. The 'tween decks are specially fitted for the Australian passenger traffic, and he who _woald I>3 dissatisfied with the accommodation would "certainly b* a moat inveterate grumbler. Tho vessel i.l barque rigged, and Is fitted with Iron masts, with the exception of the rnlzen, which is of wood. She also carries all the most approved appliances for loading and discharging cargo—such as donkey engines, &c, with the necessary accompanying gear, as well as water condensers and other machinery. Her saloon accommodates eighty passengers, and tho capacity of the lower class cabins is proportionately largo. The qualitieso( the Burharn are very highly spoken of by those who came out in her, and she Is stated to /be an excellent sea boat. Her speed as a sailing vessel was, however, scarcely tested during the voyage, for from the time she loft London (on tho 25th July) up to Saturday last her screw was going, with the exception of something like forty hours.