SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3940, 2 October 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. j_— Wind 3. W., heavy galo. Weather rain, 80UW, and hail. 8 a.m. — Barometer, 29.49; thermometer, 40. 1 pan.—Barometer, 29.60; thorinoBieter, 45. 5 p.m.—Barometer, 29.70; tliemiometer, 45. Hijrh water on October 2nd—At the Heads, 7.20; %t Port Chalmers, 7.55; at. Dunedin, 8.40. DEFAKTDRK. Trial, ketch, 18 tons, Kelly, for Waikouaiti. Master, agent. \ KXPBCTED 'ARRIULS. From London.— Celestul Queen, July 8; Christian M'Ausland, Juno 28; Calypso, Jessie lteodmati/ July 28; Lennox Castle, July 20; May Queen,- Mataura, Aug.; Auckland, July 28. '■'■•<. . '. i From Glasgow.— lhtercargUl) July 17.» From Liverpool.—Cordelia. From Tasmania.-Southern Cross, India. FhOM I'ifdßT Sound —Rosalia. From New York.—Sunlight. From Foo Ciioo.—Fairlio, July 29 ritOJRCTKD DEPARTURK3. For London'.—Waikato, early. For Sas Fraxumco. —Pnrsee, early. Vo'rMblißOUßNS.—Alhaitilira, Bth inst.; Otago,early. For Fiji.—Star of the South, 4th inst. For Northern I'oAts.—Wellington, 3rd inst. For Auckland.-irJcisie Henderson, early. For Southern- Ports.—Wuiigamii, 7th inst.; WallaW, early ; Lady of the Lake, early; Sea Gull, 3rd inst For Coast.—Hope, early. For Oamaku.—Beautiful Star, Gtli inst.; Kate Brain, this day. For Ltttelton, &c—Beautiful Star, early ; Bruce, 6th inst.; Maori, early. For Natier.—Excelsior, early. For' Wellington.—Enterprise, this day. For Horitika.—Circe, early; Lizzie Guy,-early. CUSTOMS ENTRIES. INWARDS. Oct. I—Trial, 25 tons, Kelly, from Moeraki, with cargo. Master, agent. . . . r'Grace, lfl tons, Brady, from Sloeraki, with cargo. Master, agent. OUTWARDS. Oct. I—Trial, 25 tons, Kelly, for Wuikouaiti, in ballast. Master, agent. Vision, 159 tons, Laverocke, for Auckland, with largo. R. B. Martin and Co., agents. Jessie Henderson, 92 tons, Robinson, for Bluff Hartxjur, with cargo. RB, Martin and Co., agents. , Grace, 15 tons, Brady, for Waikouaiti, in ballast. '; Haster, agent. ■ ! IMPORTS. i Per Trial, from Moeraki: 27 tons stone, Munro; 6 lbags, M'Lean; 12 hides, C bundles, 5 bags, Wright, fjtcpheneon, and C> Per Grace, from Moeraki: 16 tons stone, Leggatt. EXPORTS. Per Vision, for Auckland: 80 hhds, Copeland; 10 tons iron, Briscoe and Co ; 70 packages, H Law and Co; 35 hhds, Marshall and Uopelund ; 500 bags, Royse, Stead, and Co; 1320 do, Anderson and Mowat; 27 cases, , B B Martin. Per Jessie Henderson, for Bluff Harbour: Lot doors and sashes, Findlay and Co. : ; The weather of yesterday amounted to a decided recurrence on the part of his clerkship to the depth of winter. Besides a howling sou-west gale that freshened in furious squalls, it rained, snowed, and kailcd; and, taking it throughout, it rendered the day almost as uncomfortable as any one of the now closing winter, and little or no work was done amongst the Shipping. The gale absolutely closed the port to incoming craft, whilst of departures there was but one to record, that of the ketch Trial, bound to the next door port of Waikouaiti, From half-a-dozen to a dozen vessels were anchored yesterday about the Heads, the majority of them being of the fleet which left the Port anchorage on Wednesday. As the weather was thick, whilst it is not easy at any time to pick up and make out vessels, especially small craft lying under the land/we failed to distinguish more than theketchesHuonßell, Isabella, and the Pioneer schooner. A schooner that looked something like the Friendship was also there. The steamer Wallobi was said to be at anchor below Hobart Town Point, Ijut we failed to make her out. No doubt she was there, fdrlit is most improbable that her commander would have put to sea to face the galo on Wednesday night. Outside the Heads, at anchor, were the Christian M'Ausland, the schooner Agnes Jessie, and a barque, which arrived yesterday morning, name unknown. The brig Syren, which came down from Dunedin late en Wednesday evening, is moored in the outer berth of the Pier, and there will complete loading for Kapler. The steamer Wellington was undocked last night, and left her temporary resting on the blocks a clean and vastly improved boat. Whilst in dock, phe was scraped outside, and received two coats of Peacock's anti fouling composition, overlaid with one of Borthwick's. Her. topsides were also painted. Her means of propulsion was the chief seat of the overhaul she received. Her engines were dismantled and thoroughly looked to, the boilers were cleaned and repaired, and a next to new screw shaft was shipped. She also received a new stern bush, whilst the trusses of the bearings in the shaft pipe were reBewed. The Wellington is a beautiful boat, and whilst Bh'eßaSbeeii out "ol water her comely proportions have attracted no little attention, and excited much ad-, miration. There was not much doing yesterday at the Dunedin Wharves, the weather being so unfavourable. Still, work was prosecuted between the squalls. At the Rattray street Jetty, the schooner Endeavour, lately out of dock, was taking in cargo for Oaniaru. Whilst in dock she was caulked inside and out, and received a false keel. Her rig remains ■unaltered. The schooners Marmion and Jane Anderson were discharging cargo, as also the brigantine Sea Gull, from the Bluff. The schooner Jessie Henderson -was ready to take in ballast, 1 and is also to ship cargo for the Bluff. The brig "Vision was all but loaded, and may possibly Bail for Auckland to-day. At the Jetty street Wharf the schooner Enterprise was loading for Wellington, and the ketch Anne for Oamaru. Captain Blethen, formerly of the Nevada,' is Chief Harbour Master at S..n Francisco. Captain Hardiugc, late of the Nebraska. Is sheep-fanning in Sonomo County.—New Zealand Times. .... ; At the office of Mr 11. Nicel, in Custom House street, is to be seen a marine curiosity which has been cut out of the bilge of, the, brig, Susanne, whilst on the patent slip at the North, Shore. A conspicuous hole in the copper was first observed; • and upon stripping it off the ship's side, it was.apparent that .something had pierced th' 6 planking. A further examination disclosed the extraordinary fact that one of the finny tribe, believed by the captaini to be a sword-fish, had sent his weapon straight through a sheet of muntz metal, and three and a half Inches of oak planking, and happening to strike between two timbers, had only been stopped by the interior planking of the ship—a distance of about ten inches iroiri where the sword first entered the wood—and this without blunt-' ing the point of the spear, which is about an inch in diameter. The weight, size, and speed of the fish must have been uncommonly great, as a, strong man with a maul would hot have been able to drive a spike , nail the tame distance, with the first stroke. Mr Nicol intends to present his marine acquisition to the Auckland Museum.—Southern Crcfls..

The Board 6f Trade, as Receiver -General of Droits of Admirality, claim all derelict property picked up at sea by British ships, and masters of ships are bound on arrival to deliver all such property to the Receiver Of Wrecks for the district. The law is not statute law, and is not contained in the Merchant Shipping Acts, but will be found in the old books, and we give the following condensed report of the Integrity, .'case a? a dear illustration : —ln the case it appeared from the joint affidavit of Robert Haynes and William Ashton, late seamen on,board the Integrity, that being on a voyage from Liverpool to Jamaica, on the 14th May, 1823, the Integrity,' at about three days' sail from Madeira, fell in'with a merchant vessel water-logged, and so shattered that they could not make out What she was, except that she was not an English vessel ; that she appeared to have been drifting about the sea for several, months, as her sides, and even her deck, were covered with' barnacles; that the master and the '■'mite; of the Integrity boarded the wreck, and fished down' her hatchway with a boathook by means of which they, dragged up a heavy trunk 'containing various gold coins to the value "of* between £300'and'£400, some gold watches, tings, &c.; they also got up some cordage and clarot, but found no papers that could lead to a discovery of the owners, neither could they go below on account of the water. It appeared that the cordago was used up on board the Integrity, and the claret drunk by the master, arid- crew; and on their return to Liverpool that Johnson divided the gold coin with his crew in tolerably.,fair l proportions. The King's Advocate stated that the law did. hot sanction a private distribution; that whatever property is found derelict must be restored upon the payment of a salvage to the owner, if he appear in due time; but if not it must, subject to the same demand, be condemned as a droit of Admiralty.', The monition was decreed, and in a fow days the master (Johnson) brought in the property, accompanied by an affidavit as to the goods that had "been found, and as to his perfect ignorance of the lay. with legard to them. A. decree of condemnation subsequently passed, and upon a prayer on the part of the master for salvage remuneration, the Court directed a moiety of the coiii and other nrticles heretofore brought in by him to be delivered out for that purpose.-'-Nautical Magazine. Douglas's BoAT-LowßßiNa Apparatus in Scotland. •-The Norifl* British; AgriculturistI'of a recent date •ays:—" On Friday afternoon a trial of a boat-disen-gaging apparatus imported irom the Antipodes by the inventor, an Australian colonist, was made at Granton with one of the boats of the Pharos, which has been fitted with the patent gear. The ordinary system of swinging boats by means of a hook and eye-bolt is open to great objection, owing to the' difficulty experienced in detaching the hooks from the eye-bolts at both ends of the boat simultaneously, and the danger of the rolling of the ship swamping the. boat. To avoid the liability to accident it is usual for vessels to heave-to in order to lower the boats; but the invention of Mr Douglas, if generally 'adopted, would entirely do away with any such uecessity-^the apparatus working to greatest advantage when the ship is under way. It may oe thus described r In each end of the boat is placed an apright stanchion, terminating in a socket. These sockets contain each an iron ball, in the upper side of which is an eye.'to'vyhich the usual block and tackle is affixed. The balls are held in the sockets by means of ■bent levers, hook-shaped at their extremities, and connected at the lower ends by a rod traversing the boat's Ibottom in ji horizontal direction. While a strain is kept upon the rods the points of the levers presn on the balls, and keep all fast and secure ; but when, by touching a lever, the strain is relaxed, the balls fly up attached to the tackle, and the boat is free. At two o'clock, Mr Douglas, with the permission of Captain Grant, exhibited the working of the patent to a number of gentlemen connected with the shipping interest in Edinburgh and Leith. In order to show how simply, effectually, and instantaneously' the apparatus works, a boat on the Btarboard quarter was lowered to within about three feet of the water, whentha handle which.secures the levers in their places was let go, and the boat dropped into the harbour perfectly clear of the gear. This test was repeated with' various modifications, the boat being on an'occasion swung at an angle, the stern resting on the water, and the "bow in the air, and on another afloat from stem to stern; and each time the action was as satisfactory as could be desired. The gentlemen present' expressed their opinion that this was the only successful attempt 'to solve the difficult problem of d sengaging a boat while a vessel is in motion, with perfect security and with'a minimum of trouble—testimony which must have "been eminently gratifying to the inventor. The cost of the patent is veljr, trifling, considering its immensely good results—the iimiaratus and right to use it being only £4 lot alnrge^Biised ship's boat."