SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 5870, 24 January 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT or wutt.ixgTON ARRIVED. January 22.—Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Scoones, 'rom Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin; Misses Robinson, Crawford. Stevens (2), Harris, Mesdames Layton, Jensen, Harris, Western. Ormshee. Messrs Sibbald, Raploy, Drown (2). George. Fitchett, Bamford, Horsetail and 2 boys. Breen, Moore, Cars'" ‘tui son, Sreenan, Herbert. Gratford, Morrow, and jailer; 4 in the steerage, Martin, agent. Wakatu, s.s., 78 tons, Evans, from Wanganui. Heaton, agent. Napier, s.s., 4S tons, Bisk, from Blenheim. Turn--bull and Co., agents. Huia. s.s., 90 tons. Wills, from Lyttelton and Kaikoura. Passengers Cabin: Misses Costley, Palmer. Mesdames Fox. Martin, Curtis and 4 children, Twomey, Beatty, Mr and Mrs Fielder and child, Mr and Mrs Gammon and family. Messrs Gray, Parsons. Haywood, Whittington, and Houchen. Turnbull and Co., agents. : Lizzie Gray,-, brigantine, 93 tons. Stevens, from Timaru. January 23. —Tararua, s.s., 883 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne via the South. Passengers—Saloon: From Melbourne—Miss Dougl-»s, Mrs Ogden, Messrs Shallcr'ss, BartlettrStacklcton, Dunn. Darrell, and Gorst: 23 steerage. '.From Co ist—Misses Browne, Holmden, M eston, Coates. Muir, Mesdames Broxrie, Smith, Bonj'imQn. Aikman, Dr Hector, Hon. M. HoUnes. Messrs Baker,'- DMsbury. Browne. Grant,- King, Mendlerdh, Edison, Smith, Benjamin, Gamnloli, Aikman. Cummings. Strike, Wood, and Butler; 21 in the steerage., D. Mills, agent. Maravel, ship. 1237 tom, Ramsay, from London. Co., agents. SAILED. 22.—Go-Ahoad. s.s., 83 tons, Dicker, for. Eatf Coast. Johnston, agent, January 23.-—Tararua. s.s., 563 tons, Muir, for Sydney.*via the East Coast and Aucklmd. Passengers— Saloon ; Misses Owen. Murdoch (2). Smith, Harris, Ilinchcliffo. and Bushnell. Mesdames Clark, nihchcliffe, Bushnell. Bacon,'■Green, and Mc'srs Hinohcllffe (2), Brown, Adams, Aikman, Murd 'di, Jessop.; Gavin, Cozan, Mendelsohn. Lawson. Miiaro, Williams and Aitken; 10 in the steerage. D.-Mills/agent. Wanaka, s.s.. 277 tons, McGillivray. for Lyttelton and port; Chalmers, Pessengers—Saloon : Misses Mites-.ajid-Scally, Haultaiu. Greenwood, and Nairn, Messrs. Grant (2), GUI. Berry. Foster, Pollens, Jliiultaln, Walter. Hardy. Cooper, Burr, Hately, Handry, Keating, Fordham, Dyson; lO.in steerage. D. Mills, agent, Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Scoones, for Wanganui. Mart in, agent. Tui. 5.5... 64 tons, Berryman. for Wanganui. Turnbull and Co., agents. Stella, Government steamer, 156 tons, McKersie, forOpunaka » ■ IMPORTS. Lizzie Gray, from Timam: 600 sacks oats. Order. , Tararua. from Melbourne : 140 pkgs, 64 bags sugar, Order: S boxes. 9 barrels, Gandy; 14 bags bark, Johnston aiiij Co:- -7. barrels coffee. Palmer; 2 qr-casks whisky, T. and W. Young; 2 cases tobacco, Willeston; 2 ca>es, Bank of Australasia; 1 do. Colonial Secretary; 2 pkgs!., Lyon andßlair; 20 cases, X bale, Thompson, Shannon and Cp; 1 case, Turnbull and Co; 27 casks tallow,. 1 bale'canvas, 30 cases acid. Kitchen and Son: 2 <lo do.- hTZ.'Drug Co: 6 half-chests, 46 box's tea, Palmer: 3 cases. Smith; 4 do. Mills; 182 do fruit. 34 bags ouions, Laery and Campbell: 19 baskets bottles, N.Z Drug Co;- 24 cases cheese, Myers; 1 case, Lyon and Blair; 2'pkgs. Watt; 1 pci. Colonial Secretary. From Hobarton : 31 cases fruit, Cato: 1 locomotive, Order, From Dunedin: 85 cases whiskey. Order; 1 bale. 1 octave. Press and Co; 13 pkg«, Napier; 2 cases. Drug Co: 60 sacks grain, Ha*elhum ; 9 cases bacon, 2 do cheese, Bishop; 52 sacks grass seed. Pearce* cases cheese, Jamieson; 2 cases, Laery and Campbell. Ethel, from Dunedin: 5 boxes, 10 half do soap, Scanlon and Co: 17 boxes. 26 half do, Whitmore; 120 sacks. :12Q :qr do flour, Duncan: 10 sacks barley, 150 do. SO half do. 40 qr do flour, Plimmer, Reeves and Co; SS7 sacks oats, 129 do wheat. Order. ..EXPECTED ARRIVALS. MuLF.onRNr. via the South.— Tararua, 23rd; Rotoraahana, 30th. Sv-dney-via East Coast—Albion, 25th. Sydney dihect—Wakatipn, 26th. Auckland via the East Coast—Hawea* 30th. Westport and Greymouth—-Grafton, this day. SouTuaio* Ports—Penguin, 25th; Wellington, 2Sth. Blenheim-Napier, 25th* Napier and East Coast—Kiwi, 2Sth. Fdxton—Stormbird and Jane Douglas, this day. Pieros.' Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau— Taiaroa. this day. PicroN and Nelson—Taiaroa. 28th. Wanganui—Manawatu and Tui, 25th. Wanganui and Nelson—Wakatu, 29th. Pa tea —Patea. this day. Nelson and West Coast—Murray, 27th. - . J?Y TELEGRAPa. 1 V LYTTELK Thursday. Cleared: Hnrunui. ship, for Lorn* •. with 11 passengers., SS77 bales wool and skins, 18 ' wheat, 7 casks tallow, and 46 bags bones. Sh-.* v i-s in the morning. AUCKLAND, Thr:.r;day. Sailed * Albion. - Passengers for Wellington— Miss Kinder. Mesdames Grudly, Knewstub and 3 children, Lawson. Messrs Grundy, Quick, Rees, Freedman. Flegetataul, Walker, Lewson, Evans, McDonald, Seloss, Thomson, and Heskfc. NELSON. Friday. Arrived : 4.30 a.m,, Waitaki, from Picfcon. CASTLEPOINT. Thursday. Arrived : Steamer Go-Ahead, 10 hours from Wellington. .having,averaged 91 knots. She sailed for Napier at 10 p m. ‘ TARANAKI, Friday Sailed : Rangatira, for Wanganui and Wellington, at noon, ; Passengers—Misses Newell, Collins, and Mr. ; Adams. NAPIER. Friday. Arrived: 9.30 a m., Go-Ahead, from Castlepoint. The”following vessels were in port last night:— H.MS. Cormorant. Steamers Kiwi, Hula, and Southern Cross. Ships—Opawa. Maravel. Eastminster, and Western Monarch. Barques—Bebington, '-cottish Prince, Malay. Lutterworth, Atlanta, Hawkhope, and Anne Melhuish. The Union Company’s steamer Wanaka left Bussell at 3.30p.m. on the 17th, and arrived at Auckland at midnight; sailed at 5.30 p.m. on the 19th: was at Tauranga atS 20 a.m.on the 20fcb; left at 11.30 a.m,.and arrived at Gisborne at 11.30 a.m. on the 21st; got away at 5.30 p.m.; reached Napier at 5.30 a.m. on the 22nd; sailed for Wellington at 3 p.m. on Thursday, making fast to the wharf at 2.30 yesterday afternoon.. Had fine weather down the coast. The Wanaka left during the evening for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. The Union Company's steamer Tararua left Melbourne at 1.30 p m. on the 13th; reached Hobarton 1 at 1 p.m. on the loth; sailed at 5.30 p.m., and arrived at the Bluff at 1 p.m. on the 19th; got away again at 5 p.m.; arrived at Port Chalmers at G a.m. on the 20th;.left at. 330 p.m. on the 21st; reached Lyttelton at 10 a.m. on* the 22nd ; sailed at 4 p.m., arriving in harbor at 9 a.m. yesterday. The Tararua left again at 3,pm..for_ Napier,. Gisborne, Auckland, and Russell. The brigantine Ethel, with a cargo of colonial produce, arrived from Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. The steamer Tui got away for Wanganui at 3 p.m. yesterday. The Union Company’s steamer Taiaroa is due this morning from Nelson and intermediate ports. The Manawatu bar appears to be in a bad state, there being only 6 feet of water on it at high water. The steamers Stormbird and Jane Douglas are inside, but it is expected the latter will be able to get out today. The barque Atlanta having landed the Wellington portion of her cargo, hauled out into the stream yesterday. She proceeds to Port Chalmers, where she will discharge the remainder. The steamerGo Ahead left on what might be called bar muden trip (as she is almost a new boat, very little of the old remaining) to the East Coast yesterday, and, as will be seen by the telegram, has realised all; expectations in regard to speed, 9j knots being averaged on the run to Napier via Castlepoint. The Union Company’s steamer Albion is due-to-morrow from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast ports. She leaves on Monday afternoon for Melbourne via Southern ports. The steamer Rangatira may be expected to arrive to-morrow from Wanganui, Taranaki, and Manukau: The ship Maravel will be berthed at the wharf'this afternoon, and commence dlscha r ging on Monday. The steamer Wakatu, for Wanganui and Nelson, and Kiwi, for East Coast, leave this evening; The Union Companys steamer Penguin will arrive to-raorrow from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. She leaves ba.Monday for Auckland via East Coast ports.'" - ’■- ‘ ' The steamer Grafton should: arrive from Westport and Greymouth to-day. Tlie. UnioniCbmpany’s steamer Wakatipu is due on Monday , evening, from Sydney. The atekmers Manawatu and Wakatu arrived from W;vnganaion[Thui3(Jai* morning, and returned to-the same port yesterday afternoon. The Government steamer Stella left for Opunake yesterday evening with a-detachment of 70 AC. WRECK OF. THE SCHOONER PROGRESS. ‘ The‘schooner Progress went ashore at Mukamuka Rock, to the westward of Wairarapa Lake. It is expected ahe will become a total wreck. The crew have, however,>got «wajr .without accident. The schooner is owned by 6.' W, Owen, of Auckland but there are no further particulars to band. ! ')j [ ! ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP MARAVEL, FROM XONDON. The N.K.S. Cd.V chartered shfp Maravel, with over 309 passengers on board, arrived in harbor at 10 a.m. yesterday, after a smart. passage of 82 days from Gravesend. She is a fine iron clipper of 1237 tons register, and adaped for carrying a large number of passengers, her accommodation, as far as space, light, • and ventilation 'is concerned, being equal to any; vessel which has visited this port. The ship is under the command of Captain Ramsay, with Messrs. Boon and Sane first and second officers. Both vessel 1 and 1 officers ■ are strangers to Wellington, she having.previously been trading to the sister colonies, and latterly .to Canterbury. The passengers, all of whom arrive in excellent health, are certainly the most desirable class .which has overcome out to this colony, nearly all of whom possess means to start in business.. There was one birth, and two deaths of Infants: otherwise the voyage proved very uneventful. The Maravel. left Grave?end at 8 a.m, on the 31st October; cast tug off at 10 a.m., and proceeded down the Channel with a light easterly breeze. Landed pilot at midnight on the 2nd November. Light south-east and easterly winds, varying to south-west, till off Canary Islands, where she was becalmed for four (lays. - Picked up the north-east trades on the 20th, in latitude .25*16 west, and 17 55 west, which proved light and unsteady, and eventually gave out on the 20th in 7*16 north and 23*37 west. Thence southeast and southerly winds till crossing the Line, at midnight on the 3rd December. In I*2l south, when she had a of light variable weather, thewind veering almost round the compass within the 2* hours, which lasted to the 14th. and from thence fresh from the north-west till passing the meridian of the Cape on the 22nd. ' On the 26th she encountered a north-west gale, with terrific squalls, for 24 hours, when it moderated, and continued so till the Slat, when ifveered; Into the eastward, and then tacked into the north-east, and on January 2nd hauled to the eastward. She passed thoCrozetson tho 28th December, and Kerguelen on the 81st. Was off Capo L'-uwln on the 9tb January. M*de the Tasmanian coast on the 15th, when she had a hard gala from the nortli-wesfc; I Stood away.to the southward, and 1 at'6 am- on the-18th the Snares bore east true, distant about 18 miles, wind from the. westward. Thence light variables up the coast. Passed Banks* Peninsula at 8 p m. oh the 23rd ; was off tho Heads at 10 p.m. on Thursday: stood off and on under easy sail until 7 a.m. yesterday,-, when Pilot Holmes boarded and brought bar fata- port. The foFV r r the names of the passengers by the i- - '*' ll : Saloon: Miss Helen D’Oyly, Meadamc*- • ; i Chapman. Revs. H. Vere White, 3. Douglas, Messrs. Hart, Charles Headman, arid G. Chapman. Second Cabin : Harold and Bertha AmbleTf' Wilson. Margaret, and Andrew Rutherford; n horoas, Marla, and Mary Woolley; William. Sophia, Elizabeth. Ada. Frederick, and Bessie Webb; John and William Gilruth; Arthur and Joseph Bretherton;/

Mary Ensor, Patience Steer, Henry Blyth, Charles Smyth, Oswald Pinel, Archibald Slade, John Jackson, Edmund Trevelyan, Edward Hall, Miles Bateman; Hill, A. J. Wardale, and Robert Coomer, Steerage— About 250. NOTICE TO MARINERS. i The following information has been forwarded for publication by the Secretary of the Marine Department:— The Harbor Master at Westport reports that the bar channel has gone more to the south-westward; that beacons are placed on the town side for entering the river, hearing about south-east magnetic, and carrying red flags by day and red lights during tho night at tide time to mark the channel. The inward ball and flag signals are shown as usual from the flagstaff, also tho harbor light.