SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4244, 27 October 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF W ELLINGTON High Water, 5.3 a.m.; 6.22 r.M. ARRIVED. October 26.—Wellington, 261 tons, . Carey, from Lyttelton. Passengers—Cabin : Mrs. Ritchie, Misses Webb and Davis, Messrs. Fisher, Irving, Nation, McKay, Caffrcy. Payman, Wilson, Kelly, Drury, Calcott. 10 for North, and 7 steerage. Vire, French man-of-war, 1025 tons, Jacquemart, from Dunedin. Napier, 44 tons. Butt, from Foxton. Passengers Messrs. Collins, Stewart, and Martin. Lyttelton, 86 tons, Scott, from Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Range, Pidder, Dobb, and Bartlett. Xactitia, 44 tons. Palmer, from Napier. SAILED. October 26.—Albion, 601 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne, via the West Coast, Passengers—Cabin: Rev. Father Rowland, Mr. and Mr*. Kerr, Messrs. Iledley, Pash, and 12 others. 10 in steerage. CLEARED Oin\ October 26.—Oreti, for Havelock, in ballast. IMPORTS. Falcon, from Walrau: 09 bales wool, 1 truss, 20 cases, 2 sacks, 1 saddle. XXX, from Wairau: 32 bales hemp, Bdo wool. Lyttelton, from Wairau: 193 bales wool, 2 pels. Herald, from Oamaru : 670 sacks, 160 half-sacks, Wellington, from Lyttelton: 70 cases, 61 boxes, 1 cask, 1 half-chest, 1 anchor and chain, 1 bag, 3 bales, 15 sets points and crossings, 25 sacks, 2 trunks, 1 truss, and sundry cargo for Northern ports, Napier, from Foxton: 4 bales, 4 bdls, 85 hides, 4 casks, 33 sacks, 8 kits, 14 qr-casks, 3 boxes, 1 pkg, 2 cases, 1 basket, 060 feet timber, SSS sleepers, 1 plough. EXPORTS. Albion, for Melbourne, via West Coast : 38 bales, 4 bdls, 1 vyce, 1 cask, 5 cases, 9 kegs, 1 truss, 1 box, XXX, for Wairau : 134 cases, 2 pels, 54 bags, 2 bdls, kegs, 3 trusses, 5 drums, I sack, 18 packages, 3 tons coal. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Panthea, Langstone, to sail Juno 20 ; Hindostan, July 15; Wanganui, July 25 : Star of India and Hourah, sailed August 25; Ruth, sailed from Deal July 24; Carnatic, Jungfrau, E. P. Bouverie, and Soukar. New York.—Sunlight, barque, to sail 10th August. Newcastle. —Anne Melhuish. Northern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., this day. Wanganui.— Manawatu, p.s.,this day ; Stormbird, s s., tills day. Napier.—Rangatira, s.a., this day. Mgf.Boun.yß, via the West Coast, —Alhambra* b.s., 2nd November. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports. —Wellington, with San Francisco mail, this day. Melbourne, tia tile West Coast, —Otago, s.s., 14th November. East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatira, s.s., this day. London. —Haldone, early in November. Wanganui.— Stormbird, s.s., this day; Manawatu, p.s., this day. Southern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., 23th inst; . Melbourne, via the South. —Alhambra, s.s., 2nd November. Northern Ports. —Ladybird, s.s., 31st inst. Foxton. —Napier, this day. BY TELEGRAPH, LYTTELTON, October 26,—Arrived: 3.30 p.m. Tararoa, from' Wellington.. She sailed South at 5.45 p.m. NAPIER. : October 26.—ArrivedLima, from Wellington, The schooner Falcon sailed round to Coffey's slip on the Te Aro beach yesterday afternoon, where she will receive a thorough overhaul. In the meantime the schooner XXX will take her place in the Blenheim trade. The Napier, Capfc, Butt, arrived yesterday at noon, having left Foxton on Sunday at 7 a.m. Crossed the bar at 8 a.m., and from thence to Kapiti experienced heavy head wind all the way, having to take shelter at Waikanae and also at Ohau. . The Napier was eighteen hours from the .Manawatu bar to Waikanae point, an average of two miles per hour, owing to the heavy sea and wind. The s.s. Stormbird sails this afternoon for Wanganui, and will take as passengers His Honor Judge Johnston and members of the legal profession, who go by her to attend the Supreme Court sittings at that place. The schooners Clio and Onward left Foxton on Sunday, after a detention of three weeks, through the recent gales. The Mary Ellen has arrived in Foxton from Wellington, and is now waiting for a cargo of sleepers from Palmerston. The s.s. Otago is appointed to leave Melbourne about the 3rd proximo for the Bluff, and will be due here about the 14th November. The s.s. Taranaki was due at Nelson this morning from Taranaki and Manukau, and is expected to arrive here to-day. She is announced to sail for Lyttelton and Otago on Wednesday. The s.s. Wellington will leave to-day for Picton, Nelson Taranaki, and Manukau, at 2 p.m. This vessel takes the English mails for transhipment at Auckland to the San Francisco steamer.

The p.s. Manawatu succeeded in crossing the Wanganui bar yesterday, and may be expected to arrive , hero early this. morning-- ~T~ ' , ' The 5.3. Alhambra was appointed to leave Melbourne on the 24th inst., will bo due at Hokitika about the 20th, and is expected here about the 2nd November. , Thes.s. Albion sailed for Nelson, the West Coast, and Melbourne, last night, scon after six o’clock. It was a dead calm when she steamed down the harbor. The XXX has a full cargo on board for Blenheim, and will sail with the first fair wind. The ship Douglas will probably be at the wharf this afternoon or to-morrow morning, and will commence discharging soon after. The Napier sails for Foxton this afternoon, at four o’clock, with a full freight of general cargo. The schooner Elizabeth brought from Somes Island, yesterday, between forty and fifty single girls, and a few single men, immigrants by Tho Douglas. o**,—nt- jf A 5£E of Suip. — The directors of the North Shields ana Tynemouth Chamber of Commerce, at the request of some shipowners of the port, made a communication to the Board of Trade deprecating the new arrangements involving additional expense in the case of the owners of a British ship requiring to change her name. In reply, the Assistant-Secretary states that the obvious intention of tho statute is to restrict rather than facilitate changes in the names of British ships ; and further—“ That the application for leave to change the name of a ship is not made as a matter of right, to be acceded to without question and inquiry, but is altogether an application of an exceptional character, to be agreed to only in exceptional cases; and, in the second place, both the intention to apply for leave to change a ship’s name, and the fact that leave is given must be advertised largely, in order to let all parties interested know of the case," and that “it is only by careful regulations of this kind that the renaming of rotten and worthless ships can be checked,— Thoju.B Qhxy.”—Sydney Morning Herald. The Fp.Eircxi Steajieu Coetlogan.— Tho Coetlogan, a small French screw steam corvette, which passed Cape Otway on Tuesday night, arrived in the bay early yesterday morning. She is en route for New Caledonia, where she will be stationed for the next two years. She has been despatched from France to strengthen the naval force at the island, and prevent the escape of Communist or other prisoners. She is a long, low, lean-looking craft, with a straight stem, and the great rake of her masts (she is barquerigged) gives her a very saucy appearance. She carries four guns—two Gin. boro and two Gin. bore, the latter being brass pieces. There is also a small howitzer for boat or field service, and the whole of them are muzzle-loaders. She was built at Brest, some twenty years ago, and has done a good deal of cruising in her time. Evidently she has been built for fleetness, and it is said that she steams and sails well. She is last from Cape Town, where she put in to add to the stock of supplies on board ; but after starting from Rochefort she called at Lisbon, tho Canaries, and Senegal, prior to her arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, She sailed from the Cape on the Sth ult., and had moderate winds from W. and N. on the passage, except off Amsterdam, where she had heavy gales and a high sea, the latter breaking on board and carrying away one of the davits. The Coetlogon will remain here, it Is expected, for about eight days, to coal, provision, &c., and will then resume her voyage. With the usual politeness displayed on board French war vessels, the public will be allowed on board, but she is a small craft, and there is nothing new or peculiar about her. She has a complement of some ninetyfive men and officers on board, and one of the latter, M. Matignon, was out hero some time ago in the largo French transport Orne. The following is a list of the names and appointments of the officers of the Coetlogon :—MM. Leborgne Kerambosquer, lieutenant do vaisseau, commandant; L. Proat, lieutenant de vaiaseau, second officer; MM. Templier, Nombel, Maillet, Donnarleix, and Matignon, ensignes do vaisseau ; M. Cbcvrier, physician.—Melbourne . Araug, Oct. 15.. THE FRENCH SLOOP OF WAR YIRE. The Vire, 1C25 tons, of the French Marine, arrived in the harbor yesterday from Dunedin. She left the latter port on Saturday last at seven o'clock, p.m., and experienced strong favorable winds on the passage up. Her officers arc Captain M. Jacquoraart, FirstLieutenant M. Swiencki, Lieutenants MM. Eaihouis, and Patourel, Sub-Lieutenant MM. Brichet and de Miniac, Doctor M. Genewein, and Paymaster M. Biin.

The Ota'jo Ouardian gives the following with reference to the purpose of her present voyage;— “ The last visit of the Vlre to our port (Port Chalmers) will be remembered os long as the Surat catastrophe is thought of, and the conduct of her commander in connection with it will be transmitted through history. The only change In the command of this ship since she left here is that of M, d’Etroyat, first lieutenant, who, through ill-health, has been compelled to return to Franco. M. Swienefci has been Sromoted from sub to chief lieutenant; and M. de liniac has been placed In the office of the preceding, Bince the Vire left here on the 10th of last January she has been about the South Seas; six months of her time was passed at New Caledonia. She left there on August 1 for Sydney, and arrived there in si* days. She remained at Sydney until the 2nd September, when she steered for Campbell Island, where she arrived on the 9th, and landed the following party, in whose hands the Campbell Island commission Is placed for tills important work Chief engineer and manager, M. Bouquet do la Grye ; second, M. Hatt; and third, M. Courejolcs : with whom is Dr. Filhol, a celebrated naturalist, sent by the Paris Society of Science, for the purpose of'obtainlng specimens. Ho will also visit a number of these Islands for the same purpose, amongst which will be the Auckland Islands, Stewart’s Island, the Eluif, Otago; travel North to Auckland, thence to Fiji, Sydney, Sandwich Islands, China, San Francisco, and then go home across the American Continent; The settlement at Campbell Island prepared for the party consists of ten small houses, or as they are called, barracks, thus forming a little village. While' there the weather was very bad and thick, with heavy winds, rain, snow, &c. They only once succeeded in getting an observation of the moon, and only onco were able to get the meridian. The weather was extremely unpleasant, and promises poor success for the

objects of the party stationed ; as, however, the equinox may be considered over by the date of the transit, there maybe much better weather. Having settled the party comfortably, with but little to set in order for their labors, the vessel left there on the 19th, and steamed for Otago Heads. Strong W. and N.W. winds were experienced all the way up, and especially on the 21st, when the wind was very stiff, with a mountainous sea. The Viro will remain in Wellington only throe or four days, and then return via Lyttelton and Akaroa to Port Chalmers; thence she will proceed to the Bluff, and afterwards return and pick up tho party at Campbell Island, return to Port Chalmers, and then depart from these waters to New Caledonia via Sydney. The Vire was built in 1872, at tho port De Loraino, and was specially commissioned for the observation of the Transit of Venus. She is well suited for that purpose, having very roomy cabin accommodation, and being fitted with tho latest improvements. The Viro carries six muzzle-loading thirty-six pounder guns on tho main deck, which are after the pattern of the Woolwich “Infants.” She carries a crew of eighty-six all told.