SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 6048, 18 August 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. P High Water.—To-day ; 1.24 a.m.; 1.59 p.m. Sun,—Rises, 6.44 a.m.; sets, 5.9 p.m. METEOROLOGICAL —YESTERDAY. Wind.—S.E.; weather tine. Noon—Barometer, 30*02; thermometer, 62. C p.m.—Barometer, 30*10; thermometer, ss. Midnight—Barometer. 30.12 ; thermometer, 54. ' j ARRIVED. August 17.—Bygdo, barque, 513 tons, Christensen, from New York via Fort Chalmers. Levin and Co., agents. ■ r SAILED. - August 17. —Huia, s.s., 90 tons, Berryman, for Wanganui- .Passengers—Cabin; Misses Duncan (2), Mesdames McGregor, Stevenson,’ and Duncan, Messrs. Le Corneo and Robinson ; three iu the steerage. Turnbull and Co., agents. Patea,-5.5.,-50 tons, Gibbons, for Patea. Turnbull and Co., agents. Wallace, p.s., 80 tons, Palmer, for Nelson and West Coast ports. Passengers—Cabin : Mesdames Steer and Surgener, Messrs. Port, Collins, Savage,'Enfield, Baillie, and Kirk ; 16 diggers for Okarito. Deacon, agent. Napier, s.s., 43 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim, Turnbull and Co., agents. CLEARED OUT. August 17. — barque, 1054 tons, Sutherland, for Melbourne. Turnbull and Co., agents. Endeavor, topsail schooner, 79 tons, Dick, for Oamaru. J. and T. Meek, agents, IMPORTS. Per Bygdo, from New York—ll boxes, 2 cases sewing machines. Levin and Co.; 100 do sarsaparilla, 31 cases tobacco, Bannatyne; 100 pkgs ink, 2 boxes do, 1 case show cards, 1 do lead pencils, Lyon and Blair; 100 cases painW. and G. Turnbull and Co.; 2 cks glassware, Myers; 1 case oil. 4 cases plumbago, 1 tierce crucibles, E. W. Mills ; 69 cases medicine, 6 do advertising material, Felton, Grimwade and Co.; 72 oars, 44 cases, 8 crates mer-. chandise, W. l)a\yson; 4 pkga, 3 cases hardware, 27 handles, li do stove castings, 2 bales do, 2 crates do, 1 case do, 2 do hohoware, 3 do rakes, 1 do handles, Jacob Joseph and Co.; 250 cases oil, 50 half-barrels sugar, 50 cases lobeters, 30 do axes, 5 do brooms, 100 do pins, 2 kilderkins salmon, 3 cases shovels, 2 pks pumps, 50 qr-brls apples, 43 spools, 103 reels do wire, . 2 kegs staples, 1 bdl circulars, 2 brls blocks, 10 -cases slates, 5 boxes castings. S 4 pkgs, 1 bale, 31 bdls, 60 cases, 3 crate, 1 brl merchandise, 20 half-bris apples, Order. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Sailed : Irvine, 10th May ; St, Leonards. 3rd May; Waimea, 12th June. Glasgow.—Sailed: Stirlingshire, 10th June. Sydney, via Auckland and East Coast.— Albion, 29th. Auckland via East Coast.—Rotorua, 22nd. Melbourne via the South. —Arawata, 20th. Southern Ports.—Grafton, Go-Ahead, and Hawea, this day; Wakatipu, 20th. Picton, Nelson, Taranaki and Manukau. — Wanaka, 20tb'. Picton and Nelson.—Taiaroa, this day. Foxton.—Jane Douglas, this day ; Tui, 20th. Wanganui.—Wakatu and Manawatu, this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne via the South.—Rotorua, 23rd. Sydney direct.—Wakatipu, 20th. Sydney via Auckland and East Coast. —Arawata, 20th. Southern Ports.—Taiaroa, this, day. Wanganui. ; —Huia,* Wakatu, and Manawatu, this day. Patea.-—Patea, 19th. ; Napier and Castlepoint.—Go-Ahead, this day. Nelson and West Coast.—Grafton, this day. Foxton. —Tui and Jane Douglas, this day. Blenheim.—Napier, 19th. BY TELEGRAPH. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Lyttelton, August 17. Arrived —Te Anau, at 8.40 a.m., and Hinejnoa, at H. 30 a.m., from Wellington. Sailed—l.3o p.m., Go-Ahead, for Wellington ; Stella, for • Southern lighthouses; • Te Anau, for Port Chalmers; Hinemoa and Hawea for Wellington. Timasu, August 17. Arrived—Grafton, from Oamaru. Sailed—Grafton, for Lyttelton- She takes about twenty men for the West Coast rush. Dunedin, August 17. # Arrived—Arawata, from Melbourne via Bluff. Sailed—Wakatipu, for Sydney via Lyttelton and Wellington. Wanganui, August 17. Arrived—6.3o a.m., Rangatira, from Wellington. Sailed—7 p.m., Manawatu and Wakatu, for Wellington. Picton, August 16. Arrived—7 p.m., Taiaroa, from Wellington, PJelson, August 17. ' Sailed—4 p.m., Taiaroa, for Picton. Napier, August 17. Arrived—3 a.m., Kiwi, from Casfclepoint. Auckland, August 17. The brig Brinda has sailed for Wangaroa, to load timber for Wellington. The mail steamer Zealandia arrived from Sydney at noon to-day, with the outward San Francisco mail. Sailed—Wanaka, for South; s.s. Zealandia, for San Francisco, this afternoon, with a large number of passengers. The time ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time would show 12h. 30m. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. The following vessels were in port last night: —H.M.S. Danae. Steamer—Tui. Barques— Rodell; Bay, Bygdo, Merope, and G. M. Tucker.; The Union-Company’s steamer Taiaroa will return early this morning, from her Picton and Nelson trip ; she leaves again at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. The steamers Manawatu and Wakatu were to have left Wanganui at 7 o’clock last evening, and may be expected to arrive about 8 o’clock this morning. They return to the same port during the evening, the former boat going on to Nelson from Wanganui. The steamers Wallace, from Nelson and West Coast ports ; Huia, from Wanganui; and Patea, from Patea, got away for their respective ports yesterday morning. The .Union Company’s steamer Hawea, from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers, will arrive in harbor about noon to-day. She leaves for Manukau and intermediate ports, at noon tomorrow. Meters. Shaw, : Savill and Co.’s barque Merope cleared at the Customs yesterday, and will sail for Melbourne this morning. She will load atthat port for Home. The steamer Go-Ahead will arrive at 7 o’clock this morning from Lyttelton. She is advertised to leave at 5 p.m. for Castlepoiht and Napier. The steamer Tui leaves for Foxton at 3 o’clock this afternoon. . . The topsail schooner Endeavor cleared at the •Customs yesterday for Oamaru, where she will load produce for Messrs. J. and T, Meek of this city. Captain Williams’s barque G. M. Tucker will sail for Newcastle to-day. The Union Comxmny’s steamer Wakatipu will arrive early on Friday morning from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers, and will sail again at noon,"for Sydney direct. ' " The steamer Jane Douglas, from Foxton, may be looked-for early this morning. She returns to the-same port at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The steamer Napier got away for Blenheim last evening. T ARRIVAL OF THE BYGDO. The Norwegian barque Bygdo, from Port Chalmers, with part-of original cargo from New York,-was brought into harbor by Pilot Holmes er.rly yesterday morning. She left Port Chalmers on Saturday afternoon, and had light S E. wind to Sunday morning, when it shifted : to . the N.W., but during the evening again backed into the S.E., and continued to arrival. She brings about 350 tons of cargo from New York, and comes consigned to Messrs. Levin and Co.‘ She was berthed at the wharf during the afternoon, and will commence discharging this morning. The .Bygdo has been chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company, and will shortly be placed oa the berth for London, ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT FOR VESSELS. At the enquiry into the collision between the Narragansett and the Stoningfcon, the question as to the practicability of using these headlights cropped up. The shipmasters contended that they would be worse than useless—that the great glare would so dazzle the eyes of the quarter-master and look-out men that the result would be less efficient than the present system. However, a large section of the persons interested were not satisfied with this view, and a trial was resolved upon, in which the friends of the electric light proved triumphant, as will be seen from the following extract from the Nev) York Herald :—“ Considerable interest was excited on the North River last night by the series of experiments with an electric headlight for sea-going vessels from, the prow of the steamer City oi Columbus, at pier No. 35. The air was impregnated with mint enough to bring out into full relief the pencilled beam of milky light that, no matter in what direction it was turned, brought into bold relief every object for at least three miles from the pier, and that without interfering with the vision of the look-out or the pilot. The bearrrofriight was about eight inches in diameter at the reflector, and could be turned with ease up or down or right or left. It revealed the craft moving on the river, the colors

in which they were painted, and in many instances the letters of their names. While tho instrument is firm and will not change its position unless moved, a child can operate it. .All the objections heretofore urged against the use oi the electric headlights v for vessels are removed by the machine experimented s wifch last night. The danger attributed to suchlights heretofore has been that the reflection was thrown back intp the eyes of the pilot and lookout, blinding them to all distant objects. But with the" present one there is no disadvantage. The foreground is not so brilliantly illuminated as to cause the distance to fade away to the eye ; only objects remote from the ship are made plainly visible. In a light fog, the pencil of light is more clearly defined, though some of .it is reflected back ; in,a thick.fog it.appears.to. be a bright white spot in the dense atmosphere, yet iu tue densest fog it will penetrate a distance of 2000 feet. By means of it one ship in approaching another at that distance would find itself In the midst of an intensely illuminated fog, and knowing at once the cause, would obviate all danger of collision.”