SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10418, 22 July 1895, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. : Time Bali at Port Chalmers. New Zealand mean time at noon, calculated for the meridian of longitude, in time 11 hours 30 minutes east of Greeuwioh, will be signalled once a week by a time ball dropping at the instant of mean noon. A blue flag will lie hoisted at the mast-head, Port Chalmers signal station, on the forenoon of he day when tho time signal is to be given. Piiisiis ok the Moon. (Calculated for New Zealand mean time), JULTJ. D. H. JH. Full Moon 1 11 0 a.m. LaatQuarter ... .... ... 15 3 2 p.m. •New Moon-v.. ... ... ■". ... 22 5 3 pJrn. First Quarter 29 8 7 a.m. Apogee, 11th, 6 p.m. Perigee, 24th, .0 a.m. THE WBATHH-li. July 20.—Wind S.E. Weather tina. S a.mJ Noou. 5 »."■. Barometer" ... 3042 ~" 3044 3052 Thermometer ... 32 42 4tj . July 21.—Wind N.E. Weather fine. Baromotar ... :_0"40 30'3b" 3031 Thermometer ... 34 42 44 HIGH, WATER. ■ f a.m P-m T „, v p, JAt the Heads ...' 2.19 -2 45 July 22 < At p ort C :.almers 2.59 3-25 * lAt Dunedin 3.41 4.10 ARPvIVALS; July 21. - Delmira, barquentine, 3J38 tons, Mahon, from Malden.lsland (May J5). N.Z.L. and M.A. Company, agents. __.„ Corinna, s.s., Bernech, from the north. J. Mills, agent. Passengers : Misses Macdonald, Glasgow, Hislop, Mesdames' Lobb (and child), M'Kinlay (and child), Beaumont, Messrs Cormack, Hutton, Hug_,.ins, Nerli, Shiels, M'Ewan, JH'Coruiick, Ivory, Corufoot, B\llantyne," Rev. Archdeacon Beaumont, Rev. Mr Lowu, Hon. AY. D. Stewart, Masters Brebner (2); and 10 in the steerage.' - EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Froji London.—AVaimate, ship, 1121 tons, Worster, NMFS, April 10. Canterbury, ship. 245 tons, Culbert, MWDB. Auckland; ship. 1245 tons, James, NGP.T(to sail about June 10). Waimea,'barque. 8)8 tons, Reston, QNRD. AVaikato, s.s., 4767 tons, Banks, July,l6. From Liverpool.—Euterpe, ship, 1197 tons, Banks, VPJK, April 8. Westland. ship, 111. tons, R. KeUy, AVVPC, June 5. From Gi_a>gow.—Akaroa, barque, 129S tons, Murray, WFKJH. Firth of Lorn, barque, 877 tons, Olsen, RHB'L(sailed April 27). : Crusader, ship.'.lOCS tons,' Burton, rtCLB. Fjiom Njkw York.'—B. AVebster. .barqus, 555 tons, Guiepe, JLAVP, February 14 Clan Jl'Leod, barque, 645 tous, Whitney, MRVJ, May 6. Calburgia, barque, 13J.0 tons, Douglas (via Adelaide) April 3.' From Malden Islands.—Delmira, barquentine, J.JIS tons, Mann. FrO-I.,Ai.goa Bat.— Invercargill, ship, 124fi tons, Bowling, NCMP. Nelson, ship, 1217 tons, Perriam, NKRC. ... . » ■?. '. IMPORTS. [Special Notice.—Consignees desirous of having their names appear in this part of our columns, together with their consignments, may have the same inserted on nayment of a small charge.3 t Per Delmira, from Maiden Mand: 460 tons guano.' o SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. , AVelunpton, July 20.—Arrived: John Bell, * schooner, from ICaiapoi. Sailed: Omapere, for the south Passengers: Miss Browning, Mesdames, Balfour and Fowkes, Messrs Balfour, Cerchi, Scott, AVheeler, Banks, Fowkes, Ingles, Crawford, Jack, Dendy, 'Kusteven '; and 7 steerage. July 21.—Arrived : Penguin, from Lyttelton. Subnet; July 20.t-Arrived : Defiance nnd Pendle Hill, ftom Kaipara. Sailed : Vision, for Kaipara. Newcastle, July 20. — Arrived: City of Adelaide, from Lyttelton. Adelaide:, July 20.—Sailed: Carl Burgher, for # .New Zealand. - , Town_vii,le, July 20.—Sailed:,Buteshire, for New Zealand. » '- " THE DIRECT STEAMERS. ~ Auckland, July 21.—The Shaw,- Savill, and AlbionCompans's Mamari. arriyed. from London - v ta.-ii__;*.J-i3-__ys out;-She a__ol-_r«d-clown tK_ harl>QUr off the-powder ground/ She has a"l»rge ' quantity of merchandise for Auckland and Wellington. ' ' , •> The s.s, Corinna, with ths inward San Francisco mails, readied Dunedin before 8 o'clock last evening.' ' The collector of customs at New Plymouth has reported to the Marine department that some 20 days ago a ship's boom was found on the beach in the Rahotu district. It was of yellow pine, about 35ft long and a foot in diameter. The letter V was'marked near the butt, and- the spar was painted white from about h'ft from the butt; The s.s. Maori bas put out .over 500 tons cargo into the railway trucks at the George street pier. The dredge Timarn will be floated out of the graving'dock this forenoon. A steamer passed tbo.heads bound south at 10.30 p.m. on Friday. Tbe ,R M.S. Tainui left Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the sth inst. for Wellington, via Hobart. » - ARRIVAL OF THE DELMIRA A yessel standing in from the northward was reported from the signal station, at Otago Heads j at 8 a.m. yesterday, and the s.s. Plucky was Eromptly sent away to tender her. She proved to c the well-known barquentine Delmira, Captain Mahon, with guano from Maiden Island, and was boarded by Pilot Milne, who brought her up to Port Chalmers at 1 p.m. She was met in the lower harbour by the health and customs officers, and all being_ well, sho was admitted to pratique and towed "direct to Dunedin, making fast to the • Jetty street wharf at. 2.25 p.m. It is now some . years since; the Delmira (once a constant trader here from the Maiden Islands) paid us a visit, and she ccmes into port in very neat order, notwithstanding that she has met with exceptionally bad weather during her somewhat lengthy passage of C 7 days. She brings 460 tons of guano, which she will discbarge here, and then returns to Maiden Island.- .Captain Mahon assures us that in the whole course of his experience he has never encountered such weather' as,he has during his recent passage. After clearing the tropics unsettled weather set in, attended '■' by; low barometrical indications and strong ■ electrical* disturbances, followed by hard gales, high seas, andhoayy squalls of sleet, hail, and rain ; while since Juue 24 she has only' hid .17 hours of northerly, winds. She left Bluff Harbour on March £0, and experiencing moderate winds and fairly line weather, arrived at Maiden Island on April 29; 40 days from wharf to anchorage. Took in cargo.Jand left the island for Dunedin on May 15; had strong'trade winds and fair weather down to the Kermadec group, the largest of which—Sunday Island—she passed on June 4; thence Bhe met unsettled weather, accompanied by moderate gales, down to the East Cape of New Zealand, whicli she sighted on June 14, andthen encountered the first of a succession of hard gales from west, to south-west, attended by high seas and strong squalls of sleet, hail, and snow. Portland Island was sighted on June 23, when a strong breeze sprung up from the northward arid carried the ship down to' Castle Point on the evening of the same day. Northerly winds continued until June 2(i. on the evening of which day she met a gale of exceptional severity, commencing at S.S.W., accompanied by fearful squalls of hail and Bleet,; with very high seas. The gale gradually increased and blew with hurricane force, while the sea was terrific, necesitating the use of oil bags, which were employed with good effect, and the vessel was wore round. The gale continued with unabated violence all next day, accompanied with squalls of hurricane force and mountainous seas—the vessel behavine splendidly throughout the gale. At midnight of June 2-3 the weather moderated slightly, the sea going down iSJIr -P^n'-l-t, and the barometer indicating •■~j' ,Tnence shß had strong S.W. to W.S.W. winds down the coast, and passed the TCaikouras °"rt. ".V , 8 ■ had moderate and unsettled weather with light airs and calms during the rest of the voyage, passed Oamaru on the evening of the 19th inst., and arrived as above. Amongst her crew sue brmgs the son of one of the principal chiefs of Nome—a stalwart-looking fellow of 21/ years, named Oogo. '

MELANCHOLY EVENT AT SEA. Q-^tJ^! ?¥ c? Ip -*y?UB' whlch arrived at Sydney on July 1, from Glasgow, reports. the following casualty :-" The Argus was running down the easting on her way to Sydney from Glasgow one of the most courageous yet saddest events rert" c t-fe T happened. After rounding the Cape of Good Hope ii, the expectation of I grand run to the eastward in 41 and 42 south latitude, some enormous iccberga were sighted, and tbe ship to clear them went 300 miles out of her course Hardly had these ■ obstructions been cleared wheD the ship found herself in a gale from the h.EL; barometer, am' U was dxfring thfs storm that a sea swept her decks, and in its course aft washed over the third mate The can tain says that every man aboard was ready to man a boat, and that between the cry.'Man overboard ' and tbe manning of the boat was exactly 12 minutes. 'It was the most frightful thing ever happeued to me, said Captain Laird, 'and I have spent my life since a boy iv sailing ships. I*- felt as though I would lather have spent a week bad as the weather was, cruising about the'spot were those boys were lo3t than have left themj You know she was rolling rails under decks full, ship under reefed fore and main topsails, so you can imagine what it was' On Monday, the 27th May, at 2.30 p.m., blowing hard and a heavy sea running, said one of the crew, the third mate aud the port watch were on the forecastle head putting the pin in the clamp of the whisker boom; white doing so she dipped and put her head under. AVhen the water cleared away we found that the third mate was missing Immediately the cry was raised, ' A man overl board.' The watch ran aft, throwing lines as they went. As he passed the stern two lifebuys and a mark were thrown to him. and the captaiu ordered two hands aloft to watch the mark. Immediately the accident happened the captain called all hands on deck to c.ear away the port lifeboat, aud called for volunteers to man her, which was responded to by the mate and five men. Mr Kelly was chief officer, Mr P. Findley steward, Fill-am Sharp A.8., Duncan M'Lean A.8., John

Iw ™? A/S $******■■ M'Donald »A.B. The . .. boat vvas^snccessfully lowered from the ship under ; 1 gi-eat.difh=ulties, and passed'clear of the ship > I without any ( accident occurring. The boat was J behaving well-in the water while proceeding to . his rescue, rhe captain gave them a reasonable . time to reach the mau, then veered ship There was a -man aloft all the time watching the boat while going round on the otber tack Ine boat was last seen on the starboard quarter, ayd then suddenly disappeared. It wa*. getting dark- then, and there was a hand up each mast out could not see anything of the boat. When it {■ot dark wchoisfed a bright light at the mizzen 1 cro=strees. The captain ordered bluelights and • roskets at intervals, and a flare-up every half hour, but nothing more was seen of the men "