SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10360, 15 May 1895, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. ~, r, Z m Baix at Port Chalmers. A blue flag wUI be hoisted at the mast-head, Port Chalmers Bignal station, on the forenoon of the day when the time signal is to be given. Phases ov the Moon. (Calculated for New Zealand mean time). may. First Quarter 2 3 15 p.m. FuLMoon 9 n 3d a .m. Last Quarter 17 5 15 a.m. New Moon 05 0 17 a.m. First Quarter 31 s2O p.m. Periged, 4th, 9 p.m.,; Apogee, 17th, 7 a.m. .- Perigee, 29th, 9 p.m. THE WEATHER. MayJ.l—Wind'N.E. Weather dulL * -■ S a.m, Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer ... 3028 30 2S 3022 Thermometer ... 40 : .54 GO HIGH WATER. f a.m. p.m. tit™ is JAt the Heads ... 6.31 6.5S * ttl-*ylo lAt Port Chalmera 7.14 7.3S V.At Dunedin .„ 7.59 5.33 ARRIVAL. Invercargill, 5.5., /i'3o "tons, Sundstrom. from Preservation Inlet;' via Timaru. K. Ramsay, agent. ' ' DEPARTURE. Invercargill, s.s. 138' tona, Sundstrom, for InvercargiU. K. Ramsay, agent. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London. —Rangatira, s.s.,' 4054 tons, Burton. R.N.R., AprU 14. Waimate, ship, 1156 tons. Worster, NMFS. From Liverpool.—Earhock, barque, 1198 tons, Yates, QNLT. Euterpe, ship, 1197 tons, VPJK. From Glasgow.—Firth of Dornoch, barque, 880 tons, Nicol, SWPC. Akaroa, barque, 1298 tons. ~ Murray, WFXH. From New Yorjk.—"B. Webster, barque, 555 tons, Guicpe, JLWP, Clan M'Leod, barque, -4(5 tons, Whitney, MRVJ. Adelaide, barque. Calphumia, barque. , 0 SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. *: Auckland, May 14.—Sailed: U.M.S. Lizard, forFiju Wellington, May 14. — Arrived: Karoock, ship, from Liverpool (January 23); Takapuna, from Onehunga and New Plymouth, with Lady Glasgow and family. The Talune, from Sydney, passed Farewell Spit at 120 this afternoon, and will reach here about 11 to-night. Sailed : Swift, ketch, for Kaipara; Omapere and Mawhera, for Greymouth; Takapuna, for Lyttelton. Passengers : Miss Rutherford, MesdamKS Alexander, Perrian, Jones, Borgeson, Pos-lothwaite, Messrs Marks, Borgeson, Perrljn, Postlethwaite, Lonsdale, Alexander, Turner; and 6 steerage. Lyttelton, May 14. -- Arrived: Himalaya, . barque. Sailed: Hauroto, for Duuediu ; Wakatu, Penguin, and Flora, for Wellington. Bluff, J May 14.—Arrived (7.30 a-jra.): ManaSouri, from Melbourno, via Hobart. - Passengers: lesdames Young (and child), Hill, Cunningham (and 3 children). Jago, Misses Harte, Cooke, Tennyson, Malvino, Dunlop, M'Glashan. Payne, Hall, Fogarty, Hill i 2), Rauclane, Key. J. Griffiths, Messrs Collins, Brnwn, Hamilton, Lambert, Miller, Stapleton, Beaumont, Lascelles, Marcus, Fischer, Gourley, Duncan, Moore, Patey, Lilley, Berry. Sailed: Aotea, s.s., for Lyttelton. o , AMONG ICEBERGS. Wellington, May W.—The ship Earnock, from. Liverpool, had. an exciting time among, the ice. For six days from April 11. she was almost entirely surrounded by icebergs, and at one stage Captain Yates had to steer due north for 12 hours in order to obtain a clear passage. ; It is estimated , that the vessel passed betweeu 800 and 900 bergs, some between two and three miles long and tiOOft high. She escaJped without injury. ' - » . MOVEMENTS OF. UNION S.S. COMPANY'S FLEET. Tuesday, May 14. Bluff—Manapouri arrived 7 a.m. from Hobart. sailed 4 p.m. for Dunediu. " Lyttelton—Hauroto arrived 7 a.m. from Wellington; sailed 2 p.m. for Dunedin. Penguin arrived S aJm. from Wellington; returns 5 p.m. Flora arrived 9 aJm. from Dunedin ; sails 10 p.m. for Wellington.. Wellington—Omapere arrived ? a.m. from Lyttelton. , ,~ ■ — Nelson—Wainni.s'afled.lLSO a.__j. for-Picton.- ■ The s.s. Invercargill. .from the south and Timaru, arrived at the Rattray street wharf at: 5.30. a.m.. .yesterday.-- She left Preservation Inlet at 3 p.m. of the 10th, and; • met heavy seas while crossing the bar, one of which broke on board aud filled the decks; thence she had moderate winds, and arrived atthe Blulf at midnight. She left again at' 4a. m. of the 11th inst., and reached Colac, Bay at 10.J10 a.m.; left again for the north . 9.15 p.m., had moderate N.W. winds along the coast, passed Otago Heads at. noon of tho 12th inst., and reached Timaru at 11 ; p.m.; left! again at 6 p.m. of Monday, had light variable winds along the coast, and arrived at the wharf as above. She left again yesterday afternoon for Invercargill. The Shaw, Savill, mid Albion Company's barque Hudson is expected to leave Lyttelton next Saturday for London. She appears to have • met with ij'iiiik despatch at the northern'port^as. up to tin* I- ii inst. she had taken in about 1200 hales of w. ...1,700 casks of tallow, and over 1000 bags of si-in,, so that by all appearances, she should b' r,.iidy for sea on her advertised date! The .Union Steam Ship Company's sttamer3 Manapouri, Hauroto, aud Herald, are all due at Dunediu' this morning. The barque Raugitiki was towed over the Greymouth bar on the 7th inst. with something over 3.0,000 ft of timber, drawing 16Jft of water. There'was about 20't on tho bar. Tha Waikawa correspondent of the Southland Times reports that a large atoamer was observed close in shore during a dense fog last Thursday night; so close that,the voices of those ou deck could be plainly heard, as if in eager conversation, and the electric lights showed plainly from her ■ portholes. Had she touched the Moki reef another Wairarapa catastrophe would have occurred, as the breakers would have crushed any boat that night. Experiments are being made in Germany with a newly-invented upparatus for raising and casting overboard the ashes from steamers' furuaces. It is called a "hydro-pneumatic ash ejector." The ashes and slack are shovelled into a large funnel in the stoke hold, -whence they are carried away by water and air under heavy pressure, and shot through a tunneldnto the sea. A very interesting -xperiment has lately been made by Captain Diackmann, of the Herman ship Margarethe. He painted half the ahip with composition, to the other half he applied zinc and tallow. Captain Dieckmann writes that " after a voyage from Cardiff to Santos, thence to Taital and back to Cardiif, I found/when dry docking at the latter port, that while the zinc and tallow were thickly covered with shells, the patent composition was entirely free from the same, showing only here and there some little patches of grass. After the hull had been scraped no zinc and tallow whatever remained, while the patent composition was not* washtd away at all. Captain Knudsen, of the Norwegian barque Sydney, which has arrived at Java, reports that on January 17, in lat. 41 S., long. 1.20 E., he passed the derelict barque Dumbartonshire, of Glasgow. She was still intact with mizzenmast standing, and a most serious obstruction to navigation, being just in the track of vessels . hound out. The Dumbartonshire was abandoned on July 17,1894, in lat. 29.39 S., and long, 39.30 W.