SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4362, 13 March 1875, Page 7

SHIPPING.

. ~ PORT. OF AUCKLAND. Arrived.—February 20. Anaxi, barque, 84 days out, from London. ' March 3.—lndia, 'ship, from London, with 103 Immigrants. March B.—Ada, barque, from London ; no passengers. March 9. Cyphrenes, R.M.S., from San Francisco. ••• • Sailed.—February 20.—Macgregor, R.M.S.,for San Francisco with English mail. POET OF WELLINGTON. t Arrived. —February 22.—Osseo, brigantine, from New York, via Poyt Chalmers. March 4. —Esk, barque, from London, 113 days out; one passenger. March 11.—Chaudiere, barque, from New York via Port Chalmers. Sailed,—February 14. —Howrah, ship, for London; 12 passengers. March 10. —Avalanche, ship, for London via Lyttelton. PORT OF LYTTELTON.. Arrived.—February 25. —W. W, Smith, ship, 89 days, from London seven passengers. February 28. —Charmion, barque, from London ; no passengers. March 3. —Catharina, barque, from New York. Sailed,—February 23.—Malian!, ship, for London. March 9.—Waitangi, ship, for London. PORT CHALMERS. Arrived.—February 17.—Oaraaru, ship, from Glasgow, 78 days out; 280 immigrants. February 19. City of Dunedin, ship, from Glasgow, 111 days out; 254 immigrants. February, 23.—Gareloch, ship, from London; 250 immigrants. February 2d.-—Welling-ton, ship, from grants. February 28. —Jeannie Loutxtt, barque, from Liverpool, 110 days out; no immigrants. March B. Gloucester, barque, from Hongkong, with 200 coolies. March B.—Mellowdale, ship, from London, 81 days out; no passengers. , . , _ Sailed.—February 15.— Calypso, ship, for London. February 22. —May Queen, ship, for London ; eight passengers. February 24. —Auckland, ship, for London: 41 passengers. March 5. —Wild Deer, ship, for Point de Galie. ARRIVAL OF THE ARDENTINNY. Tho barque Ardentinny, a tight iron vessel, of 380 to is register, Captain Brown, dropped anchor at the powder moorings, at 0 p.m. on February 21st. She left London on the 21st November, and is consequently ninty-two days out. _ Remarkably hne weather was experienced during the voyage, a quantity of prize stock which was shipped at London arriving here without loss. The Ardentinny came south about. She was boarded by Mr. Pilot Holmes at two o’clock yesterday—he having just previously brought in the Fairlic—and brought to an anchorage last night, after a tough beat against a N.N.W. wind and an ebbing tide. The Ardentinny has fifty tons of powder on board, but no passengers. She is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company for whom Messrs. Johnston and Co. are agents at this port.

ARRIVAL OF THE ESK. The barque Esk, an iron vessel of about 500 tons register, Captain J. B. Stitt, was brought to an anchor off Kaiwarra by Pilot Holmes at two a.m. on Thursday, March 4lh. She left London on the 11th November, and on the 27th December, forty-six days out, the Line was crossed. The passage from t.ie Channel to New Zealand was uneventful, the coast of this colony being sighted on the 23rd ultimo, since when light southerly weather has prevailed. During the yoyage a few drums of paraffin oil for the General Government and several jars of acid, which were stowed on deck, commenced to leak, and tor the safety of the vessel they were all cast overboard. The Esk made off the entrance to Port Nicholson at about five o’clock on Wednesday evening, Mr. lilot Holmes boarding the vessel shortly afterwards. The night was very dark, a dull skv and a smoky atmosphere making the working of a vessel into our port anything but a pleasant task ; Somes Island light was invisible, and Pencarrow Head light but a speck. After five hours of hard beating the barque was safely anchored. The master of the Malay, which arrived off the Heads almost in company with tiie English vessel, anchored his vessel till yesterday morn ng, when he succeeded in bringing her into port. Tlie Lsk comes consigned to Messrs.. W. aud G. Turnbull and Co., her cargo being general.

The ship Soukar has now about 4800 bales of wool on board, cargo coming to hand very slowly. It is doubtful whether she will be a full ship by the end of the month, as, when this fine vessel is filled to the hatches, she carries fully 7500 bales of dumped wool. All her cabins have been engaged, several applications for passages having had to bo refused by her agents. Mr. Andrew Seabury has been appointed pilot for the port of Manawatu. The barque Anne and Jane, which in future will be a stoveship in this harbor, is being rapidly dismantled. . _ The steamer Star of the South, Captain Farquhar, having taken on board a quantity of merchandise, transhipped ex the Alhambra and the Ossco, sailed for Napier, Auckland, and Fiji on March 4th at noon. The barque Malay, Captain Hill, arrived from Hobarton at nooii on March 4th, after a passage of fifteen days. She brought a cargo of Tasmanian produce, including a quantity of timber for the General Government. The Malay had fourteen passengers, but scarlet fever or scarlatina having broken out the day before she arrived, tho vessel, by order of the Health Officer, was sent to quarantine in the evening. She has since been released. . The ship Howrah hauled from the wharf into tho stream on Friday, Feb. 12th, and immediately afterwards dropped down to the fairway off Kaiwarra. She has on board 5008 bales of wool (a number of which are undumped, and a quantity of other pro cluce.) Tho entire cargo being valued at £93,000. She was taken to sea on Saturday afternoon, and the . fresh N.W. breeze which prevailed enabled lief to run the land out of sight before dark. A Provincial Gazette, dated the Ilth instant, notifies that Mr. "William Woodgate has been appointed a pilot for the port of Picton. In the same Gazette it is also notified that pilotage rates shall be follows; —For each vessel whose register tonnage shall not exceed 400 tons, the sum of 3d. per ton ; for each vessel whose register tonnage shall exceed 400 tons, the sum of 2d. per ton.— Marlborough Press, February 17. The brigantine which was signalled on Monday, Feb. 2=>ml anchored at two p.m., and proved to be the Osseo, an American, vessel of Hie largo tonnage (for her rig) of 454 tons register. She is from New York originally, but about two-thirds of her cargo was discharged *at Port Chalmers, the remainder being for Wellington. The passage from New York to Otago was made in 110 days, the vessel arriving at Port Chalmers on January 20. She left for Wellington on the 18th inst., making the run up against N.E. winds under five days, a slant of southerly wind only favoring the vessel a few hours bctorc her arrival. The Osseo is a comparatively new vessel, having been launched at Long Island in 1871, when she was classed at French Lloyds for the long period, for a wooden vessel, of thirteen years. She is a short vessel for her tonnage, but exceedingly deep, and at the present time, although her copper is invisible, she presents vsry lofty sides. The Harbor of Dunedin.— The dredge New Era has been removed further up the Cross Channel, having completed the work" at the “ Wlialc s Back, on which there is now at least 30ft. at low tide. Wnen the work on that part of tho Cross Channel is finished, at which she is now engaged, the Cross Channel will be deepened to the extent required* It is now about three or four days since the New Era wai shifted to the place where she is at present at work, bho has been employed in the Long Channel for about five weeks .and, with favorable weather; it is anticipated that the required depth of water throughout will bo got about the month of July or August.— Ottujo Daily Times, Feb. 10.

1 The ss Prktxi- Jane. — The s.s. Pretty Jane is now lying sanded up in Big River, where she came to grief last week. She has been abandoned to the undonvrltters. The insurers are the New Zealand Insurance Oflice and the South British, who have ac-. cepted risks of £2600 each._ These are however, covered to the extent of £750 in the case of the New Zealand office, £1260 in the South original cost of the boat to the A.&.P. Co. was 4/000. Captain Clavton, Marine Surveyor, is waiting for the arrival of the .company's stemner Southern Cross to ! proceed to ihe wreck on behalf of the New Zealand office A private telegram, received this morning from’Mr Codder, states that the water was pumped out of her on the 10th. Operations are suspended, because there are no appliances at hand to float the vessel The cost of repairs is estimated at jbir>oo. \V c understand that the underwriters have everything in readiness to send down to the-scene of the wreck. This apparatus will be forwarded by the Star of the South.—ZireMaiir! Star, Peb. 12. [The Pretty Jane lias since been recovered. 1 The SinrriNti Tit ape of Fur. —lt is quite evident ' that the steamer Star of the South is too small for the trade that has sprung up between this port and Fiji. ■ The last few trips from Levuka she has not only brought full cargoes, hut has also been compelled to : shut out a considerable quantity of cargo. The con- ' sequence is, that by latest advices we learn that in addition to the schooner Dauntless loading for here for Mr W D. Brewer, that gentleman has also chartered the. schooner Levuka, 7(1 tons Besides these two vessels, a firm at Levuka wore loading the schooner Daphne for this port. The:A.S.P, Co. should take into consideration the matter of employing a larger steamer in the trade before the latter slips away into other channels. The A.S.N. Co. are running a monthly steam service between Sydney and Levuka, employing such steamers as the Wentworth. Shif-Boildino on the Thames.— Only a low years back, the Thames goldfield was Maori land, fern swamps and timber its chief feature ; now it is a thriving settlement, the seat of thriving industries, so much having been accomplished in so short a time by the magic influences of gold discoveries, flow the place has expanded, and is flourishing mightily, has been demonstrated in a variety of ways. It can boast nf its ship-building yards,and only yesterday a sample of *the mechanical Skill of on. of (ts buildeuarrived here in the shape of a substantial barqnentlne, fitted with auxiliary steam power, and named the Emu. She was built on the banks of the Kaowernnga River, by Mr. Robert Stone, a shipwright of no moan ability, who has for many years been associated with the province of Ancklaml, in that capacity. To Mr Stone belongs the credit of building the first steamer lauSd in the colony. She was the old Governor Wmyard-a vessel out of date, and almost out of mind now, the year of her launching being 1851. Not only the hull but the engines of that unique little boat—she was about sixty tons- r .® dal?the Auckland and as was but natural m those nays cue Wynyard was thought much of by the early settlers, and played a very good part the Tamnki River. Subsequently, in. 18j2, she was Bent to Melbourne, and made a potoi hpr owners— Messrs. C. B. Stone, Gardiner, and Lang-fo/d-ln those good old days. The last wc heard of sSSss of Islands 11 and the Thames, but hor capabi itu.. occafionatly' divertcd* info oSTia.ine s Jf trade Umbcr-thoTroduct o oTa' °igbt mfiesup fhe'lffiames river where Is situated Mr. Gibbons faw-miU 'The Emu is built upon the diagonal panCiple, is 131 tons register. Length, 1-oft. . beam.

i 22ft. 6in.; depth of hold, Bft; She is fiat in the floors, and full-lined, but withal so moulded in order that tile desired speed might not be altogether ignored. She is barquentine rigged, with double topsail yards, and to save time in light weather at sea,_ she was fitted with a 25 horse-power compound engine, built by Messrs: Fraser and Tinne, of Auckland, and which drives a double-bladed screw.. Altogether, the Emu is a handy, and, we should say, a profitable vessel, and must afford to the' Thames folks gratifying evidence of their ,progress.' Captain Connell, an old trader here, commands her, and reports having left the Thames on the 18th instant; rounded Cape Colville the same day with a fresh S.W. breeze, and carried it to White Island, when the wind hauled round to the eastward, and increased to a heavy gale, which held for thirty hours, and fully tested the seagoing properties of the Emu ; she behaved very well. Light weather followed for a couple of days, then a rattling N.W. gale blew up, and obliged the Emu to run dead before it for eight hours, thus taking her some fifty miles out of her course. Cook Strait, with Cape Palliser in sight, was passed on Wednesday last, and Banks Peninsula on Friday, and thence the Emu steamed up against a heavy S.W- gale, which suffered no abatement until she arrived at the Heads yesterday morning’, and fetched the port anchorage about noon. She is to discharge her cargo at Dunedin. —Otago Daily Times, March 1. Aiuiival of the Gareloch.— At. an early hour yesterday morning signals at the flagstaff that a ship was off the Heads attracted general attention, and until they were made out various surmises as to the vessel’s name were hazarded, the most prevalent being that the long-looked-for City of Dunedin had at last put in an appearance. The stranger, however, turned out to be the Gareloch, from London, 20th November, 1574, and to the great annoyance of those who expect friends by her, the unwelcome signal was made, “Scarlet fever on board." The steam-tug Geelong at once proceeded outside to tow the vessel in. The tide not serving, she did nob reach the Quarantine-ground until 4.30 p.nt, where she anchored. The Local Board of Health were quickly alongside, and the requisite questions put and answered, which resulted m Captain Thomson ordering the yellow flag to ho hoisted, and issuing directions that no communication should take place with tire shore until the Central Board of Health were made acquainted with the facts, Mr. Allan, the Immigration Commissioner, undertaking to forward an ample supply of fresh meat and vegetables for the use of the passengers and crew. Ihe report furnished by Captain Greenwood to the Board of Health states the number of immigrants to be 300. The first case of sickness occurred on the 6th Dec., 1874, and ended fatally on the Ist January, 1875. The last case showed itself on the 3rd of the present month, and the patient is still suffoxung. The whole number of deaths has been five—three from scarlet fever and two from dropsy—and confined to children. The general health of tire passengers has been good, the only cases of illness on board in addition to the epidemic having been colds and debility. The report farther states that all the clothing worn by the sufferers has been destroyed, and that every possible precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of this fatal scoxirgo to children. The remaining cases of fever have been isolated in the hospital on deck, and a strict watch set in order to prevent any communication with the patients. The Gareloch is an exceedingly fine-looking ship, and evidently sails well. The length of her passage from land to land only occupied sixty-nine days. She carries a full complement of forty-two hands, all told, and appears in. fine trim. The passengers who swarmed her poop and sides appeared to be a respectable and well-to-do class of persons. Our reporter is unable to furnish any particulars of her voyage, as of course no communication could be held with the ship before the arrival of the officials; and the moment the decision was arrived at to place her in quarantine, all boats were warned to keep clear of the ship. A meeting of the Central Board will doubtless take place to-day. Otago Guardian, February 13,