SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10359, 14 May 1895, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. Time Bali- at Port Chalmers. ( New Zealand meantime at noon, calculated for the meridian of longitude, in time 11 hours 30 I •minutes east of Greenwich, will be signalled once J a week by a time ball dropping at the instant of , j mean noon. a • _\ Phases of the Moon. I (Calculatsd lor New Zealand mean time). : MAY. D. H. VI. _ First Quartos ... 2 3 15 p.m. I Full Moon ... ... 9 11 30 a.m. I Last Quarter ...... ... 17 5 15 a.m. r New M00n... ... 25. 0 17 ...m. } -first Quarter ... . ... ...31 SSO p.m. ( Perigee, 4th, !9 p.m. *, Apogee, 17th, 7 a.m.; Perigee, 29th, 9 p.m. ( THE WEATHER. ] • May 13.-W'na S.W. Weather rainy. 8 a.m. Noon. sp.*OJ. Barometer: '~ 3002 30 OS 3012 ■ Thermometer .... •48 . D 250 •HIGH WATER. [ a.m. p.m. "Mavli jAt the Heads ... 5.52 6.12 ' M*yi- lAt Port Chalmers (J.S2 0.5-*: lAt Dunedin ... 7.17 '7.37 DEPARTURES. Napier, s.s., -IS tons, Mathieson, for Waikawa. | E. liamsay, agent. Flora, s.s., 533 tons, Bernech, for Lyttelton and Wellington. J. Mills, agent. Passengers: Mes-daii-es Lees (and child), O'Neill, Wuterhousu, Davies, Crossan, Ready (and child), Buchanan, Misses Toomey, Shanks, Ha-ilain, Waterhouse, Jackson, Morns, Thompson, Bartleman, Noble, Niven, Messrs Buchanan, Mabin, Toomey, Armitage, Davis, Kearns, Arthur, Beal, Francis, Entrican, Rev. il. 0. Leal; 13 steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Losdo.n.—Rangatira, s.s., 40H4 tons, Burton. R.N.R., Anril 14. Waimate, ship, 115ti ■ tons, Worster, NMFS. ' Fbom Liverpool.—Earnock, barque, 1198 tons, Yates, QNLT. Euterpe, ship. 1197 tons, VPJK. - From Glasgow.—Firth of Dornoch, barque, SS3 tons, Nicol, SWPC. Akaroa,-barque, 1298 tons, Murray, WF___a.' From New York.—B. Webster, barque, 555 tons, Guiepe, JLWP Clan M'Leod, barque, bit) tons, Whitney, MRVJ. Adelaide, barque. Calphuinia, barque. <s SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, May 13.—Arrived (10 a.m.): Rotomahana, from southern ports. (Evening) Mararoa, from Sydney. She left Sydney at 5 p.m. on Thursday. Passengers: For Dunedin—Misses Vann [($), Gleeson, Harrison, Messrs Campbell, Talbot. Hodgson, Carey, Moss, Brown. For Auckland—73 saloon and 9S steerage. - H.M.S. Pylades leaves for Tauranga on Wednesday next and remains there until Saturday; wheii she proceeds to Wellington, where she will be" oh the Queen's Birthday. Alter remaining in Wellington until June she goes on to Lyttelton. Sailed : Southern Cross, mission schooner, for Norfolk Island and Melanesia. Passenger: Archdeacon Palmer. She returns about the middle of July. Anglian, for Sydney. . Wellington*, May 13. —Arrived : Taupo. from Fiji, via Auckland. Sailed:' Wainui, for Nelson; Hauroto. for the south. Passengers: Misses .Wilson, Fenwick, Davis, MesdamesDean, Smith, Coker, Sim, Wilson, Sim, Morris, Simson, Mitchell, Rev. Mr Sim, Messrs Merians, Simson, Paul; Dodds, M'lnnes, Whittington, Masters Davis, Paul; aud 10 steerage. Taupo. for Westport ; Penguin, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Misseß Blundell, Jalcins', ' Hbywood, Barker, Kemp, Mesdames Napier-Bell, Blundell, 'Dean (family and attendant), Messrs Hargreaves, Heywood, M'Gowan, Day,' Andrews, Ho_king, Chivy, Buckland,■ Turner'; and II steerage. Sydney, May, 13.—Arrived: Tarawera, from Auckland. ! , MOVEMENTS OF UNION S.S. COMPANY'S -FLEET. Monday, May 13. Lyttelton—Omapere sailed 1 p.m. for Welling- ■ ton. Corinna sails 9 p.m.- for Timaru.' Wellington—Hauroto arrived 2 p.m. yesterday , from Napier. Penguin arrived2p.m. yesterday from Lyttelton. Wainui arrived S p.m. yesterday frbm Nelsoa^jL&upo srrived'midnight yesterday irom Auckland." ■■ '"-' ."." "i."* ."***'* . ■ .Nelson—Mahipapua sails 8 p.m. for New Ply--Jnouth. ..',*' ' .'*.',■ • Dm ing the week ending May 12, 10 vessels, - with, a total of -679S tons, arrived at the Dunediu wharves, and ' 9 vessels, registering; 5786 tons, loft them. The b.'b. Napier left Dunedin yesterday afternoon for ( *Waikawa.* * The s.s. llora, with passengers and cargo, for ' ' Lyttelton and Wellington, left the Rattray street wharf yesterday afternoon. -The s.s. Invercargill, from Preservation Inlet, ' via Timaru, is expected to reach Dunedin wharf this forenoon. The barque Kate F. Troop is landing her cargo in excellent order at tbe cross wharf and meeting ; with good _ despatch. Including her tranship'"meets to tiie bdrquentine Ocean Ranger, she has put out 11,000 cases of keiosene and 250 tons of general cargo. Tlie s.s. Herald left Greymouth on the night of May;.lo for this port, aud is expected to reach Du'ntjdin to-night or Wednesday morning. : The. s.s. Hauroto left Wellington yesterday for ..Lyttelton, and should arrive at Dunedin wharf to-morrow morning.

Among the expected arrivals from overseas are the barque B. Wubser, from New York, now 89 days out'; the barque Earnock, from Liverpool, via Wellington. 103 days out; and the barque Firth of Dornoch, from Glasgow, 83 days out. The s.s. Invercargill experienced a short spall of j extremely rough weather on her trip from Preservationlnlet on Friday. When just off Puysegur i Point a heavy sea, following closely after au other _ which she had: negotiated in gallant style, broke on board, damaged the bulwarks, stove iii the front of the saloon, and flooded the cabins. For a time there was consternation among the passen- \ gers, but when the steamer g:ot out of the rip all went well and the Bluff was reached about mid- ■ night.—Southland Timea. An extraordinarily large cargo is that of the Hawaiian barque John Eno, now oh her .way from Port Gamble to Sydney. She has no less than 2,608,063 ft of rou'-h timber on board. Mr William Walker, first officer of the s.s. Upolu, ; and for several years previously chief officer of the s.s. Botorua; who has been studying at the Trinity Houee Navigation and Steam Schools, Wellington, onThursday last pif sed his . examination for -a certificate of competency as master ordinary in the mercantile marine. The examination was conducted by Captain Allmari (the principal examiner of masters and mates for the colony) and Cotn'mander Edwin, R.N. — o ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. The Marine Record in speaking of the American; lake steamer North-west and her electrical "equipment, says :—"There are some very interesting matters in connection witb the new steel steamer North-west of the Northern line, especially, in her use of electricity, that have not been published. Iv preface it may be Eaid tbat on no vessel in existence is there suehgeneral'use of the electric fluid as on this greyhound of the lakes. When it is considered the wonderful strides in the employment of electricity ou modern ships bf war and the Atlantic liners, this statement may seem almost apiece of-insular pride and prejudice, but it is made on authority that cannot be charged with such prejudice. The vessel is lighted by 1800 incandescent globes, every one of which is hidden behind ground glass. This number, it is claimed, is 300 more than is in use on any of the Atlantic liners, even though the largest of them: are 200 ft longer than the North-west. The Campania and Lucania. of the Cunard fleet, embodying the very latest in marine development, have about 1500 lights each.' Tbe North-west's lighting equipment is driven by three direct coupled engines, each • dynamo having 600 light capacity. The vessel has • electric elevators between the freezing rooms in the forehold and the kitchens and cafe. She has . electric signals everywhere. When the look-out, pacing the fore deck, sights a ship or wants to call the attention of the-wheelhouse to any matter he does not call out, but steps, to the rail and touches a button; immediately an answering ring assures him that his Eignal has been heard and heeded. As.the vessel approaches her dock there is a .noticeable absence of the usual shouted orders - from deck and bridge. It is all done by the electric bell, which was never known to swear, or to be tempted to use language that would not be permissible in' a parlour—something the man in . charge of. the deck has the credit of doing occasionally. WKen the captain on the bridge wants to give an order to the wheelhouse, or the engine room, or the stokehole, or anywhere else, he merely turns to the second officer beside him, give 3 the order, and the latter presses a button. .There are no less than six methods of signalling from the bridge to the different parts of the ship, and of these all but one are electric. Tbe vessel's red and green side lights, than which nothing on the entire ship is more important, are not the universal oil lamps, but are high power incandescent globes, and with them is a little instrument that audibly records in the wheelhouse any , accident that befalls the lights. When the ship's big whistle is to be blown, instead of tugging at a whistle cord, the officer simply touches a button; but if it is desired tbat the whistle blow consecutive blasts at intervals for any desired length of time a switch is turned. Not only 13 the whistle sounded, but on a continuous strip of paper i 3 printed the time ' and duration of every blast—a record almost invaluable in cases of collisions in fogs, when

conflict of evidence as to the proper signal is almost sure to arise. There are electrically- , driven fans in various parts of the ship—closets, kitchens,: and inner passages ' everywhere,—but these are particularly noticeable in and about the fire rooms. Everyone knows what an inferno the ordinary stokehole of a large steamship is from ' the descriptions that have often been given. In this part of the North-west it is so cool that, with tha fan apertures half closed, it is actually un- ■ comfortable to stand near the bunkers. So far from being naked demons in a little hell, the firemen actually woar clothes. This is an innovation that oeeao shipbuilders could acceptably ftj_Uw, Tha ship carries a searchlight that will sic"-*, ay * pilot boat latter 12,000 ft distant. j__ae, ar* w.iay other novel features in tbe as#3__*_: imsbitfibi&na of tb's inc'st modern of all pa»«K?<ttsai y«»a!«a»-. but thoso indicated are the »,wJ' raw."