SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6691, 27 September 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING.

Bras Wxtkr.—3.9 a.m.; 3-31 p.na. Suit,—Rite*, 1.37 s.ra.; lata, {'47 p.m. KSTAOttOIOOIOAL—TISTABDAI. Noon.—Barometer. 29’27 ; thermometer, 19. 0 p.m.—Barometer, 29'32; thermometer, 63. Midnight.—Barometer, 29-16; thermometer, SO. Wind.—N.W., gale. ARRIVED Rxptxmber 20. Haurakl, 90 tone, Harvey, from Wanganui. Passengers—Misses O’Donovan end Smith, Messrs Brown and Smith. Lorln and Co., •gent . SAILED. Skptemekr 26.—Hula, s.s., 90 tons, Berriman, for Wanganui. Passengers—Misses Thorpe and Lurford, Mr and Mrs Hornell, Mr and Mrs Hassell, Messrs Evans, Graham, Jackson, and Powell. Turnbull and Co., agents. „ Tui, s.s., 64 tons, Pope, for Foxton. Turnbull ana Co., agents. - s ENTERED OUTWARDS. September 20.—Norman McLeod, barque. 834 tone, Scouller, for Napier. N.Z. Shipping Co., agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Otaki, sailed June 23 : West York, June 27; Sea Toller. July 14 ; Wanganui, July 29 ; Orarl, August 21st. _ ~ , „ . Liverpool via Port Chalmers. -Beechdale, eaiiea Boston via Port Chalmers. —Dio Fill, sailed July 19. Lyttelton and Port Chalmers,—Hawea, this day. Foxton.—Napier, this day. Melbourne via South. —Te Anau, 29th. Wanganui.—Hula, 28th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foxton.—Kaur i hi, this day. Pateis.—Wakatu. 28th. Lyttelton and Port Chalmers,-Penguin, this day. Nelson and West Coast.—Charles Edward, this day. Picton and Blenheim.-Napier, 28th. Pleton, Nelson, New Plymouth, and Manulcan.— Hawea, 28tb. Auckland via East Coast.—' 0 Anau. 29th. BY 'L'ELEQRAPa. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Lyttelton, September 2s. Sailed—Sampero, for London. The Arawata sails South about 11 to-night, and the Hawea North at 9. Tikabu, September 28. Arrived—Waitaki, from Danedin; Southern Cross, from Westport. , Sailed—Annie Hill, for Auckland; Isabella, for Gatlin’s river: Edith Reid and Waitaki, for Dunedin. Auckland, September 28. Arrived—Asterion, Captain Whitcombs, 138 days from. Liverpool. . „ Dunedin, September 28. Arrived—Te Anau, from Bluff. The Union Co.’s steamer Hawea left Lyttelton for this port lost night. She proceeds North to-morrow. The Union Co.’s steamer Penguin returns from Picton »nd Nelson this morning, and leaves again during the day for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers* The steamers Hula, for Wanganui; Tni, for Foxton; andMohaks, for Blenheim, sailed yesterday, the two first-named in the afternoon, and the latter at 6.80 p.aa. The s.s. Haoraki left Wanganui at 7 p.m. on Monday; experienced strong N.W, winds, and arrived alongside the wharf at 8.39 a.m. yesterday. She leave* for Foxton to-day. ~ „ The N.Z. Shipping Co.’s chartered barque Norman McLeod cleared at the Customs yesterday. She proceeds to Napier to load wool for London. ■ From telegrams which have been received It appear* that rough weather prevails in the Strait?, Tha steamer Napier was bar-bound at Foxton yesterday, and a hoary sea was also reported to bo running at Wanganui. .... ... An examination of the bottom of the steamer Wakatu, which recently got ashore at the month of the Patea river, has shown that two of her plates have been so badly bent that they had to be repUMd. It is expected that she will resume her usual running and Co.’s steamer Go-Ahead will not return to this port fat several days. She loaded live stock at Wanganui, and left that port for Dunedin direct on Monday evening. _ Of errors in chronometers, the Rev. James rearson, F.R.A.S , Fleetwood, writes as follows:—** Th« following rulej, which are practically applied by masters of vessels using chronometers at sea. but which are not to bo fouuci In any of the works «n navigation, it is desirable to have printed for their convenience I —l. If to the time shown at any instant by a chronometer t'ie addition or subtraction of the error of the instrument gives a time which Is in advance of the true Greenwich time, the ship la thereby placed west of its true position. If it gives a time which Is behind the true Greenwich time she is •ait «f her true position. 2. Now, if the chronometer be slow to true Greenwich time, Its error must of course bo added, and therefore if its assumed rate is too large the ship is placed west of its true position ;If too small, it is placed east. 3. But if the chronometer be fast of true Greenwich time its prror must he subtracted, and therefore in this case, if its assumed rate is too large, the ship Is placed east of its true position ; too smsli. It is placed west. ’ During the last few days a gang of men have been busily employodin the Government workshops at Port Chalmers making the new sternpoat for the ship City of Perth, which was completed this forenoon. The weight of the sternpost and part of the keel is about SScwt, the dimensions being 30ft by Xsft. It was a work of groat difficulty to weld the iron together, owing to tha want of proper appliances.—Dunedin “Star." INTERCOLONIAL WEATHER EXCHANGE, WBLLIKC.TON Obskbtatory, September 26. NEW ZEALAND. Depression extended oyer New Zealand; strong gales, thunder storms, and heavy rain, with the change from N.W. to westerly winds on the West Coast. AUSTRALIA. jv Strong westerly winds with unsettled weather ; overcast, squally, and showery. ■ BaROMETRRa: New Zealand —Russell, 29*6; Wellington 29'1; Bluff. 23 9. Australia.—Albany, JO'S; Hobart, 39.3; Portland, 297; Sydney, 29 7.