LATE SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8969, 21 April 1890, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING.

High Water at Wharf —6.10 am ; G.SSTpm, PHASES OF TUB MOON. Calculated for New Zealand mean time.) D. H. M. New Moon ... 19 7 35.5 p.m. First Quarter ... 27 4 21.6 p.m. METEOKOI.OG IGA I, — YESTERDAY. Stm—Rises, 6.34 am ; sets, 5.7 pm, Noon—Barometer, 30'06 ; thermometer, in ■bade, 68. 6 pm—Barometer, 30 04 : thermometer, 64. Midnight—Barometer, 30'02; thermometer, 62. Wind.—N.W., light. Weather.—Clear. ARRIVED. Sunday, April 20. Brunner, as, 333 tons, Ewan, from Westport. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs Edwards and 2 children, Messrs Smith, Moore; 5 steerage. U.S.S. Co, agents. Herald, as, 356 tons, Jones, from South. U.S.S. Co, agents. Monday, April 21. Tongariro, R.M.S., 2656 tons, Bone, from London, via Plymouth, Teneriffe, Capetown, and Hobart. Passengers : Saloon, for Wellington—Miss Jonas and maid, Mr C. Frean ; second saloon—Miss C. Case, Mr H. C. H. Carwick; steerage—Misses Johnston (2) Shimer (3), Sigrue, Mrs Shimer, Messrs Vass, Albones (2), Hancock, Macdonald, Porter, Shimer (2), HurnBteen, Pounder. For Auckland: Saloon— Mr C. M. Taunton ; second saloon—Messrs O. E. Stevens, A. C. Mann, W. J. Payne, B, A, Woodcock; steerage—Misses Bailey (3) and Gray, Messrs S. Bailey, W. J. Cusp, Master Gray. For Timaru : Saloon —Colonel and Mrs Hart. For Napier : Second saloon Miss and Mrs Bacon, Mr R. G. Miller. For Lyttelton : Second saloon Mrs Leslie, Messrs Bebb, Inglis, Franks, Masters Leslie (2) ; steerage—Miss Tait, Mr and Mrs Tait. Messrs Barry, Nibett, Carlsone, Petterson, Whyte, Hanna, Master Tait. For Port Chalmers : Saloon— Mr S. Dixon ; steerage —Mr and Mrs J. Greer, Messrs Green and Grenar. For Oamaru : Saloon Miss Bertha Lee. For New Plymouth : Steerage Messrs Drawbridge (4), Rutherford, Lawrence, Cutting, Wallenstein, Turner, Master Tnke. For Canterbury : Steerage—Mrs Jarman and Messrs Jarman (4). New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. SAILED. Sunday, April 20. Charles Edward, ss, 156 tons, Whitwell, for Nelson and West Coast. Turnbull and Co, agents. Brunner, sa, 333 tons, Ewan, for South. U.S,S. Co, agents. Wanaka, as, 278 tons, Marks, for Nelson, New Plymouth, and Onehunga. U.S.S. Co, agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Loudon—Akaroa, left December 20th ; Opawa, left January 12 ; Assaye, left February 16 ; Otahi, left March 9; Duke of Sutherland, left April 2, Plymouth—Tongariro, left March Bth; Arawa, left March 22nd, for Port Chalmers ; Aorangi, left April 5. New York—Elinor Vernon, left January sth; Carrie L. Tyler, left February 28th, Algo a Bay—Duke of Buokingham, left March 29. Blenheim—Neptune, this day. Sydney—Hauroto, this day. East Coast—Kiwi, this day. Patea—Waverloy, this day. South —Mahinspua, 22nd inst. South—Penguin, 23rd inst. Onehunga, via New Plymouth—Takapuna, 23rd inst. Melbourne and Hobart, via South Te Anau, 25th inst. Greymouth, Westport, and Nelson—Grafton, 24th inst. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Wanganui—Stormbird, 22nd inst. Blenheim— Waihi and Kanieri, this day. Foxton—Queen of the South, this day. Melbourne and Hobart, via South—Manapouri, this day, Auckland, via East Coast—Australia, 22ud lost. Nelson, Westport, and Greymouth— Mawhera, this day. Greymouth—Herald, this day. Lyttelton, via Kaikoura—Wakatn, this day. Nelson, via Picton—Rotorua, this day. Eangitikei—Aorere, this day. East Coast—Kahn and Kiwi, this day, Patea—Waverley, this day Nelson and Westport—Mahinapna, 22nd inst. Nelson —Penguin, 23rd inst, Lyttelton—Takapuna, 23rd inst, Sydney, via Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland —Te Anau, 23rd inst. Picton, Nelson, Greymouth, and Hokitika— Grafton, 25th inst. BY TELEGRAPH. (per press association.) Auckland, April 19. Arrived—Janet Niool, from Sydney, for orders on her way to the Islands. Sailed—Essex, barque, for New York, with 513 tons of kauri gum and 62 bales of flaxiKaifara, April 18. Arrived Wild Wave, from Napier ; Annie Wilson, from Lyttelton, Lyttelton, April 20. Arrived—Arawata (last night), from Wellington ; Mahinapua, from South; Cairn, tovil, from Wellington. Sailed—Harold, barque, for London, with b cargo of grain. Picton, April 19. Arrived, 7.40 am—Grafton, from Welling- ■ ton. Sailed, 11.30 am—Grafton, for Nelson. She towed out the ship Brahmin, bound for London. Timaru, April 19. Sailed—Kinolune, for London, with grain for the Farmers’. Association. Greymouth, April 19. Sailed, 10.40 pm—Omapero, for Wellington. Nelson, April 20. Arrived, 3 pm—Charles Edward, from Wellington. New Plymouth, April 20. Arrived, 3.45 pm—Takapuna, from Weilington. Napier, April 20. Arrived — 10.45 am, Tarawera, from Wellington; 11 am, Ohau, from Wellington. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s barejue Akaroa is now 121 days out from Loudon, and may be expected to show up very shortly. The U.S.S. Co’s ss Brunner left Westport at 10 pm on Saturday, and met with fine weather till arrival here at 10 last night. She sailed South shortly after arrival. The U.S.S. Co’s as Herald left Lyttelton at 10.30 pm on Saturday, and experienced fine weather till arrival bore at 7.30 last night. She sails for Greymouth to-day. The ea Charles Edward arrived from Nelson at 6.45 pm on Saturday, and retamed at 4 am yesterday. ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. TONGARIRO, FROM LONDON. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s E.M.S, Tongariro, Captain Bone, arrived in harbour at 12.21 o’clock this morning from Loudon, via way ports. She loft London on March the 6th, Plymouth at 12.55 pm on March Bth. Experienced fresh breezes and high sea across the bay; thence moderate winds to Teneriffe, which was reached at 3 37 on March 13th. After landing passengers and mails proceeded at 7.30 pm same day for Capetown; met with light no.-th-east Trades and light winds to the

Equator, which was crossed at 4 pm on Maich 19th. The South-east Trades proved light to moderate; afterward fresh winds to the Cape, arriving there at 1.56 pm on the 28th March ; left again at 7 pm same day for Hobart, which was reached at 3.30 pin on the 16th inst; left for Wellington at 6 pm same day, and arrived as above. Experienced light winds and fine weather on the way across. When off Ushant on the evening of the Bth March, Major-General Sir Howard F.lphinstone fell overboard and was drowned, despite all efforts to save him. This was the only event that marred the pleasure of the voyage, which seems to have been a very pleasant one. The Tongariro will be berthed at the Wharf this morning, COLONIAL OBSERVATORY. Chronometer-eating Notice. The time-ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. The ball will drop at noon precisely, at which hour a chronometer set to Greenwich Mean Time should show 12h. 30m. Any difference will be the error of the chronometer, fast or slow on Greenwich Mean Time. T. KING, Observer. Colonial Museum, Wellington, 21st April, 1890.