SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10264, 23 January 1895, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. Tore Ball at Port Ciulmers. New Zealand mean time at noon, calculated for the meridian of longitude, in timo 11 hours 30 minutes esßt of Greenwich, will be signalled once a. week by a time ball dropping at the instant of mean noon. A blue flag will be hoisted at the mast-hea-', Port Chalmers signal station, on the forenoon of the day when the time signal is to be given. Phases op the Moon. (Calculated tor New Zealand moan time), JANUAUY. ». H. M. First Quarter 4 7 22 p.m Full Moon 11 6»• »-mLast Quarter IS 10 25 a.m. SiewMoon... 26 8 56 a.m. THE WEATHER. January 22.—Wind S.W. Weather overcast. 8 a >«. Noon. 6J?-.™-Barometer ... 3039 30/42 30MS thermometer ... C(i oli 7o HIGH WATER. f a.m. p.m. *„„ „, lAt the Heads ... 0.50 1-23 dan. IS -J At Port Chalmers 1.30 2.3 {.At Dunedin ... 2.15 2.45 ARRIVAL. Rotomahana, s.s., 885 tons, Morrisby, from Sydney, via Hobart aud the Bluff. J. Mills, agent. Passengers: Misses Robertson, Dryden, Mesdames Reynolds, Jones (and maid), Barratt (and child), Hardy, Hislop, Robertson, Elliott, Biggins, Messrs Robertson, Todman, Measlier, Steinmetz, J. R. Don, W. Don, M'Donald, Wake, Collins, Kitchett, M'llroy, 11. R. England, W. Stott, Livingstone, J. A. Robertson, Barratt, Turvey, Skin, B. Low, J. Andrews, T. W. Hall, Uiggins; and 10 steerage. DEPARTURES. Invercargill, s.s, 13C ton*, Sundstrom, forlnvereargill. K. Ramsay, agent. Wakatipu, s.s., 123S,fons, Ewan, for Sydney, via Hook Strait. J. Mills, a^ent. Passengers: Misses Hendry (and 2 children), Peters, Forbes, Burford, Mackerras (2), Dawe, Smith, Fountain, Olayton, Greer, Hislop, Ivens, Wardell, M'Eacher, Sheath (2), Ferguson (2), Brabburn, Cook, Wallace, Mesdames Clarkson (and child), Cook, Strafford, Low, Dawe, Strathers, Wareham, Cook, .Csmeron, Worthington, Bishop Novill, Rev. Bridge Brosnan, Messrs Price, Leitch, Greig, Kennedy, Woolridge, ' Pope, Wareham, Aitken, White, Findlay, Schilling, M'Beath, Aitken, Cameron, Cable, Edgar, Wedge, Young, Dowe, Friedlander, Israel, Manning, Struthers. Menelaus, Watson, M'Donald, Worthington, M'Kay, Carter, M'Neill, Davidson, Piggott, Grant, Frizzelle, Andrews, Mountford, Crook, Bamctt; and 20 steerage. Annie Fletcher, barque, 491 tons, Thomson, for Lyttelton. Hogs, Howison, Nicol, and Co., agents. .EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Fkom London. — Glenlors, barque, 774 tons, Tonkin, WGTP. Ransitiki, barque, 11S8 tons, Pottinger, VNKP. Pakeha, s,s., 4331 tons, Hoffatt. From Cardiff. —Hurunni, barque, 1012 tons, Plunkett, QKDB, From Hamburg. — Turakina, ship, 1189 tons, Haraon, WQHM. J'bom Liverpool. — Himalaya, barque, 1008 tons, Hill, VTKM. From Glasgow. — Hudson, barque, 797 tons, Kemp, WSFD. J'som Nkw York.—City of Adelaide, fourmasted barque, ?« tons, J. M'Kay, WCHB. Frederick P. Litchfield, barque, 1042 tons, Young, JSBL. From Rio pc Janeiro. —Famenoth, barque, 945 tons, Ross, PSFJ. From Adventurk Bay.—Ocean Ranger, barquentine, 234 tons, Clark-sen. v From Brisbane.—Highland Forent, barque, 995 ferns, Dennody, JHCD (December 12).

IMPORTS.

[Special Notice.—Consignees desirous of having their names appear in this part of cur columns, together with their consignments! may have the name inserted on payment of a small charge.] Per Rotomahana, from Sydney, via Hobart and the Bluff: 43 casks fruit, 32 barrels fruit, 68 bags hark, 1 hag seed, 1094 cases fruit.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, January 22. —Arrived t Waihora, from the south ; Annie Hill and Clansman, from Lyttelton. H.M.S. Wallaroo sails for Samoa on Friday. Sailed: Monowai, for the south. Passengers: Misses Jack, Gwynne, George, Tonks, Welsh, Buckley, Stevenson, Paton, Eollenson, Haven, Patterson, Smith, Pascoe, "Wousp, Bull (2), Gettoe3, Gilchrist, Scott, Bere, Purdy, Baker, Kerr. Howe, Davison, M'Nicol, Rees, Tattley (2), Holloway, Fountain, H'Donald.Latta, Tnlloch. Lindsay, Judson, Daley, Schnackenberg, Oakley. Golding, Simpson, Edgerj Garrctt, Moss (2), W. B. Wilson, Beck, Whyte, Beck, King, Peach, Ryan, Condon, Levy, Loughnan, Cossar, Chnrton, Lusk, Orr, Heap, and Cullen, Mesdames Mann, Hart (and son), Birch, Fenwick, Bolles, Rolls, Paton, Rich, Redmond, Bevans, Jowitt, Smith, Pascoe, Birks, Dudley, M'ilurray, Hunter, Maclde (and 3 children), Bach (and Eon), Samson, Amner, Ruddock, Rees, Ballantyne, Simpson, Ganett, Bassire, Demutt, Wilson, White, Hood, Baker (and 2 children), Messrs Mann, Leslie, Long, Payton, Sunderstrom, Mackie, Archdeacon Dudley, Canon Mac Murray, Bull, Ahem, Paterson, Holmes, Justice Denniston, Holland, Munt, Warren, Johnston, Cook, Ormiston, Parkinson, Darby, Morton, Munro, Quin, Shepherd, Duncan, Pearhouse, Buckendall, Martin, Lindsay, Goldwater, Hiddlestone, Sykes, Eogern, Warburton, Harvey, Espie, Marshall, Arthur, Andrew, Atkinson, Bate, French; and 40 steerage. Wellington, January 22.—Arrived : Omapere, from the south: Dingadee, from Auckland, via the East Coast; Neptune, from Blenheim ; Queen ef the South, from Foxton. Lyttelton, January 22.—Sailed: H.M.S. Ringdove, for Tauranga and Wellington. Bluff, January 22.—The Te Anau left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 16th, cleared the heads at 7.35 p.m. the same day, arrived at Hobart at 3.45 p.m. on the l8th; cast off at 530 p.m. same day, sighted Puy3egur Point at 1.45 a.m. on the E2nd, and arrived here at 1 p.m. Experienced southerly winds and fine weather to Hobart ; thence moderate southerly winds and smooth sea till arrival. Passengers: For the Bluff—Misses Waite (2), Gilfillan, Alexander, and Hislop, Mesdames Waite, Alexander, Rentoul (and child), Master Hislop, Dr Waite, Messrs Williams, Ross, Powell, Dugdale, Robertson, Linsing (2), Saggard, Professor Rentoul. For Dunedin—Misses Treadiway, M'lnnes, Cameron, Hawkes, Ross, Downes, Mesdames Treadway, M'lnnes, Patey, Eetham, Falk, Watson, Messrs Falk, D. M'Nicoll, Park, Pizey, Blyth, Robertson, Treadway, Watson, Shanahan, M'lnnes, Gresham, Letham, Jeffreys, JBrowne. For Lyttelton—Misses Hewnon, Taylor, Dick, Bayley, Menzies, Mesdames Ellis, Taylor, Messrs Taylor, Aitken, Pym, Lovelock, Tinworth. For Wellington: Misses Chapman, M'Donnell, Renny, Brown, Knapp, Clare, Jeffries, Bradford, Mesdames Chapman, "Sturtevant (and child), Messrs Mason, Rowntree, Ward, Lochey, Master Cobb. For Auckland: Misses Plummer, Hill, Blake, Mesdames Hewlett, Shone, Messrs Webb, Paton, Wilson, Treney, Slater, Shone ; 65 in the steerage for all ports.

Ilie s.s. Kotomahana, from Sydney, via Hobart and the BlufF, arrived alongside the George street pier at 7 a.m. yesterday. She left Sydney at 10 p.m. on the 15th inst. and arrived at Hobart at 8.30 p.m. on the 17th, leaving again at 4.20 p.m. tm the following day; passed Puysegur Point light at 5.20 a.m. on the 2Lst, breasted Centre Island at 9.18 a.m., and reached the Bluff at 11 a.m., and sailed again at 7.15 p.m. same day, breasted the Nuggets at midnight, and entered Taiaroa Heads at 5.30 a.m. yesterday, having experienced moderate southerly winds tvith beam sea. She steamed up from Port Chalmers yesterday forenoon and landed cargo at the Rattray street wharf. The s.s. Corinna will take in transhipments for the north to-day from the ship Canterbury. The s.s. Invercargill left Dunedin on Monday evening with cargo ex the barque Waimea for Invercargill. The s.s. Wakatipu left the tongue wharf atl p.m. yesterday with passengers and cargo for Sydney, via the East Coast ports. The s.b. Herald was floated out of the graving dock yesterday morning and her place taken up by the Corinna. The barque Annie Fletcher was towed to sea yesterday afternoon and left the Battray .street Wharf for Lyttelton. News has been received at Sydney that the Italian man-of-war Christopher Columbus has started on a cruise round the world. She possesses six big guns and six 6in B.L. guns, and a complement of 234 men all told. His Royal Highness Louis of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi, is on board as Bn officer, holding the rank of a lieutenant. , The Admiralty have decided to pay the thirdclass cruiser Curasoa out of commission, and she J3 to return to England to be refitted for another term ofractive service. The new torpedo destroyer Boxer was successfully launched by Messrs Thorneycroft in December. She is a sister ship to the Avaunt, and is the fourth of her type constructed and launched by Messrs Thorneycrolit for the Royal Navy. She is 200 ft long and 19ft beam, and will have engines Bnd boilers of the lype fitted to the Daring, her guaranteed speed being 27 knots. The owners of the Strath line have recently added another steamer to their fleet in the shape of the Strathfillau, a sister to that fine steamship Btrathord, now in Port Chalmers. She went on her trial trip from Hartlepool on November 21. The vessel is a sister ship to the Strathnesa, Strathnairn, and Stmhord, and is the fourth steamer built and engined by Slessra William Gray and Co. (Limited) to the order of Messrs Burrell and Sons, of Glasgow. She carries 6400 tons dead weight, and i 3 376 ft 6in in length, with a breadth of 47ft and a depth of 29ft 9in. Her engines are of the triple expansion type, having cylinders 27in, 43in, aud 72in in diameter respectively, with a piston stroke of 45in. Steam is supplied by two large single-ended boilers, working on the forced draught system, patented by Mr Howden, of Glassovr-, the eteam pressure being 1701b per square inch. Tub air fan is in the engine room, and is driven by a separate vertical engine. The trial of the ship and her machinery, which was satisfactory in every way, was witnessed by .Mr George Burrell, one ot the managing owners, »nd Mr Taylor and Mr M'Gechan, superintending engineers to the owners. On completion of the trial the vessel at once proceeded to Cardiff to tsad for Bombay. ,

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

The Wellington Harbour Board has given noho; that works are being carried out for the extension of the Queen's wharf and Jervois quay, Wellington Harbour. The works comprise the extension southward of the middle tee for 75ft. the extenaion southward of the outer tee 120 ft, and the extension northward of the outer tee 105 ft at the Queen's wharf, and works at Jervoia quay tor 220 ft southward of the 40-ton crane. Masters ot vessels should be cautious when approaching tue works. i The Westport Harbour Board has given notice that on and after the ISth instant the colour ot the signal balls shown on the ilagataff-yard will 08 changed from white to black. The board also notifies that on and after the above dute the lower or extreme ends of the half-tide training walla ™ the south-east aide of the river will be marked hy one white light on each wall, sitimted above :i"rt below the mouth of the lasoon respectively. Ins short training wall on the north-east side of the river opposite the mouth nf the lagoon will be marked by a white luht placed on its extreme end. The two red lemUus lights, bearing about S.K. and N.W. magnetic, mark the fairway of tb« river, as formerly; the white lights mentioned merely chow the ends of the training walls referred to.