SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10618, 13 March 1896, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS.

Time Ball at Port Chalmers. New Zealand mean time at noon, calculated for the meridian of longitude, iv time 11 hours 30 minutes east of Greenwich, will be signalled once a week by a time ball dropping at the instant of mean noon. - Phases of the Moon. ' (Calculated for New Zealand mean time). . MARCH. J). H. K. Last Quarter ... .:. ... 6 10 59 p.m. New Moon 14 10 IS a.m. First Quarter 22 11 27 a.m. Full Moon .. . ~, 29 4 52 a.m. Perigee,lst, 11 p.m. Apogee, 15th,lpm. - Perigee, 29th, noon. THE WEATHKK. s . March 12.-8 a.m.: Wind S.W.; weather dull. Noon: Wind S.W.; weather, rain squalls. "•• 5 p.m.: Wind S.W.; weather variable. tio.in. Noon. 5 n.m. Barometer ... 30-08 3018 3020 Thermometer ... 46 54 58 HIGH WATER. ( a.m. p.m. ier-.«ii ,0) At the Heads ... 2.30 2.47 March 13-! At Fort chaimei, 3.10 3.27 \.At Dunedin ... 3.55 4.12 ARRIVALS. • Rotomahana, s.s., 865 tons, Bentley, from Melbourne, via Hobart and the Bluff. J. Mills, agent Pas»engers: Mesdames H. James, Bullied, Brown. Marriott, Pell (and child), Gourlay, Crabb (and 2 children), Davis, Daucker, Grant (and son), Misses Bullied (2), Henderson. M'Kay. Warburton, Thomson, Peake, Black, Messrs J. Falconer, Browhead, Docker, J. Brown. Hallenstein, RirumingtoD, Marriott, J. C. M'George, Brien, U. E. How, J. Little, Davi»f2), Biggs. Gourlay, Daucker, Grant, Master Bullied. ■ Rimutaka, R.M.S., 4515 tons, Greenstreet, from London (January 9), via Santa Cruz, Capetown, Hobart, Wellington, and Lyttelton. New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. R A C Smith, barquentine, 628 tons, Hooper, from New York (December 6). Neill and Co. (Limited), agents. Passengers: Mrs Hooper (and family. 4), jDa , ECTKD ak , RIVA Is.

FrfoM LONDON.-Opawa, ship, 1076 tons, Martin, QKPJ. Otarama, s.s.. 3SOB tons. MUlward, From Manchester.—Timaru, ship, 1306 tons, Renaut, WTBS. From Glasgow.—Titania, barque, 1050 tons, Frew, NGHL Himalaya, barque, 100S tons. Hill, VTKM (January 25). t . • From Liverpool.—Lina, barque, 1199 tons, Kayser, NGLD. Kenyon, barque, 1170 tons, Shenis,VDHT. From New York.—Les Adelphes, French barque, 1320 tons, Audre, JWKQ. From Clarence River.—M. A. Doran, brigantine, 317 tons, Lloyd. Wjenona, barque, 511 tons, M'Kenzie. ' n From Newcastle.—Alexa, barque, 420 tons, M'Gregor, R,SBW . o<VTi From Brisbane.—Peri, barque, 897 tons, Evans, HNGC

IMPORTS. ISpeciai. Notice.—Consignees desirous of havingtheir names appear in this part of eurcolumns, together with their consignments, May have the same inserted on payment of a small charge.! Per-Rotomahana, from Melbourne, via Hobart :-727 sacks bark. 25 sacks sumach, 17 cases tobacco, 10 boxes soap, 25 pkgs sheep dip, 45 bags tapioca, 7 bags coffee. 8 bags ginger. 150 drums oil 652 pkgs tea, 99 cases fruit, 40 cases wax, 10 sacks seed, 831 pieces timber, 8 sacks oysters, besides sundries and transhipments ex Rome and P°e c r PR."A C. Smith, from New York :-5500 cases kerosene, 400 reels barb wire, 170 cases turpentine, 50 do oysters SO. bdls resin, UK) bdls staves, 250 cases clothes' pins, 17,000 slates, 15. pieces printing paper, 2..kegsi ink, 500 cases materia, 2 do advertisingmatter, ffidocartw-re, 912 do merchandise, 9 do leather,4l9 do sgricultural implements, 55 do hempware, 5 pkgs davy goods, 258 do hardware, U do oatmeal, 1 do printed matter, 29 do drugs, 20 do casings, 2 esses firearms, 42 rolls duck,' 15 pkgs stationery,,3 do pianos, 48 do organs, 92 do sundries, 55 do chairs -, Per Brunner; from the West Coast :-2227 sacks wheat 124 do seed, 200 do flour, 20 bales wool, 17 sacks malt, 29 cheese, 28 bars iron. 13 cases t-,a; for the ship Pleione, 123 baits wool: for Melbourne! 518. sacks wheat. '*_.'.■'."

v-^vir.'^.amppiN'G >Ti_i_iEG-ftAi-:si7''''-'''':' ,v.: ''^wmu'^Heads; March - 10.-Arrived:, ElSa; Firth,.schobn.r, from Lyttelton.--Marchl2.-Arrived: Pendle Hill, barqueutine, from rimatn. Auckland, -March 12.-The warships Orlando, Ringarooma, Katoomba, and WaUaroo arrived at IL3O from Nafcier, after a pleasant passage. Ihey leave for Sydney on the lSth.—Sa.led: Flora, for southern ports. Passengers: Mesdames Newman, Evans. Kndean, and Beaumont. Misses Price, , Johnston, Endean, Walker, M Connell, Murray, Vaullier, Brown, and Wright, Hon. J. Darroll Messrs Byers, Stephens, Morrison, Brown Duncan,.Morgan, Walker, Wardrop, Newman, Bromley. Scott, Duke, Kingsford, Evans Home, Bpinks, Dean, Kennedy, Endean, Findley, Chatteris, M'Bride, Captain Beaumont; 12 in the »teerage." Sailed : Mahinapua, for the south. Passengers: Misses Hond, Johnstone, Mesdames Huntr Ward, Vile, O'Rorke, looks, (and child),' Fallow, Drs Craig and „Fooks, Messrs J. Bishop, C. H. Boston, Vile, I. Renshaw, Ward, R. Burns, Hunt, Buckleton, Kirk, C. V. Houghton, D. J. J. Barclay, Brown, Dingle, Newman, Renshaw. Gocdaon, Percy, Smith, Buckleton, Fallow (2), Hodgson; and 8 in the steerage. Sailed: Ovalau, for Tonga; Dingadee, for the South. Regarding the reports which have been current that the steamer Rakaia could not be taken into the Calliope Dock, it may be stated that the Harbour Board authorities here looked into the matter, and find that by raising the blocks on the floor of the dock another foot there will be plenty of room for the steamer. The Rakaia left for Wellington, but returns next week, when she will be docked. The Marramarra, a wooden steamer of 45 tons register, recently bought in Sydney by a New Plymouth gentleman, arrived in Mannkau after a passage of seven days. Wellington, March 12.—Arrived: Grafton, from the West Coast and Nelson. SaUed : Hauroto, for Melbourne, via the smith and Hobart. Passengers : Misses M'Millan, Bowker, Coull, Lindsay, Simmonds, Meredith Murrison, Way, Beithfield, Lorimer, Stewart, Mv cheli (2), Tiller, Sloan, Wright, Mesdames Rose, Norris, Castle, Meredith, Mitchell. Anderson, Hons. A. J. Cadman and J. G. Ward, Dr Shand, Messrs Pike, Travels, Neale, Morrison, Frostick, Schloss, Whittall, Hume, Wilson, Ronayne.Norris, Quain, Rhodes, Levin, Meredith, Armstrong, Mitchell, Postgate, Reid, Gilligan, Wright (2), Hyde; and Lyttelton, March 12.-Sailed: Takapuna, for northern ports; Jinet Nicoll, for Wellington and Auckland ; Waihora, for Sydney, .via northern ports. Sailed : Corinna, for Dunedin. Passengers : Misses Miles, M'Kellar, Mesdames Metham, Dalgieish, Macfarlane, Messrs Newman, Roberts, Rogers, Metham, Atkinson, Master Dalgieish.

MOVEMENTS OF THE UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY'S FLEET. Thursday, March 12. Lyttelton—Waihora arrived 7 a.m. from Dnnedin ; sails 8 p.m. for Wellington. Takapuna arrived 8 a.m. from Wellington; returns 6 p.m. Corinna arrived 10.50 a.m. from Wellington; sailed 4 p.m. for Dunedin. : • Wellington — Grafton arrived 5 a.m. from Nelson — Wainui sailed 7.30 a.m. for Greymouth. Penguin sails 7 p.m. for Picton. Greymouth-Herald sailed 8 a.m. for Dunedin. • - ' ' The s.s. Rotomahana, from Melbourne, via Hobart and the Bluff, arrived alongside the Bowen pier early yesterday mornrng. She left Melbourne wharf at 3.50 p.m. on the sth inst., passed Williamstown at.s pm., and cleared Port Phillip Heads at 7.35 p.m. ; passed Swan Island at 2.5 pjn. on the 6tb; had light northerly winds and smooth sea to arrival at Hobart at 6.45 a m. on the 7th. and left again at 2.30 p.m. same day; experienced light to fresh westerly winds with fine weather, and breasted Puysegur Point at 5.15 p.m. on the 10th, reaching the Bluff at 6 a.m on the llth; left again at 3 p.m. same day, had westerly breeze along the coast, and arrived as ahOve. : . .tt ± The s.s Brunner, which arrived at the tongue wharf at 7.30 p.m. of Wednesday, brought the following passengers:—Misses Bo^e, Philp, Smith, Poison, Burns, Atkinson (2), Mesdames Newton and Earl, Messrs Brown, Sutherland. Earl, the Rev. A. Cameron, and 16' steerage. She left Westport at 1 a.m. of the 6th inst., and after calling at way ports reached Dunedin aa above. The barque Lutterworth was towed down to Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon and berthed at the export pier The aged people maintained at the Benevolent Institution had their usual outing yesterday in the Union Steam .Ship Company's steamer Brunner, kindly lent by the company for the occasion. The proceedings were enlivened by the band of the Industrial School playing some very excellent selections While one of the Harbour Board cranes, worked , by D. Campbell, was being shifted from the cross to the Rattray street wharf yesterday the engine broke down »nd a p'ank or two of tbe wharf was carried away. After some time the crane was released from its dangerous position and shifted to the upper portion of the Rattray street wharf, where it now ii ready for work. Captain W. Thomson, Lloyd's surveyor for this port, supplies information showing the shipbuilding returns for the quarter ending 31st December JS9S. by wbioh it appears that 377 vessels of 711,562 ions uross were under construction in the Unii-d Kingdom at the close of the quarter ending leotuiber 31, 1895. The particulars of the vetsels in question are as follows :— Steamers—3l7 vessels, with a total of 678,318 toDs register: sailing ships, 377. witb a total of 711,562 tons. .. „„ During 1895. exclusive of warships, 579 vessels of 950,967 tons grops- viz., 526 steamers of 904,991 tons and 53 sniling vessels of 45,976 tons—have been launched in the United Kingdom. The warships launched at both Government and private yards amount to 59 of 148,111 tons displacement. The total output of the United Kingdom for tbe year has, therefore, been 638 vessels of 1,099,078 tons. These totals are analysed in the tables, Hit tb» following notes will ,«hw ba of

interest. In, these notes, warßhips are excluded from consideration except where they are specially mentioned. The output of the year in the United Kingdom is less than that of 1894 by over 95,000 tons, but the proportion of steam tonnage to the total tonnage launched has been much higher. In 1892, sailing tonnage formed no less than 24 per cent, of the output; in 1593, 14 per cent. ; 1894, 8 per cent.; and in 1895 it has formed less.than 5 per cent. The warship tonnage launched in 1895 has, however, ex ceded that launched iv 189* by upwards of 115,000 tons displacement. If these figures be included in the comparison, the output of 1893 has exceeded that of 1894 by 20,000 tons.

•ARRIVAL OF THE RIMUTAKA*.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Rimutaka, from London, via Santa Cruz, Capetown, Hobart, \Vellington, and Lyttelton arrived ■ off the beads yesterday forenoon, and as soon as the tide was favourable she steamed into port and was berthed at the George street pier, where she at once commenced to take on board a number of cases of cbeeEe and frozen mutton. She left London on January 9 and procscded to Plymouth, and left again ,at 1.30 p.m. on January 11 with mails, 112 pai-sengers, and a full general cargo. Had moderate to fresh N.E. winds and fine weather and arrived at Santa Cruz at 5 a.m. on January 16; landed mails and passengers, and after coaling left again at 1•p m. same day. Experienced light variable winds to lat. 3 S. when she met the S.E. trades, which were light, with exceptionally fine weather to arrival at Capetown at 3 a.m. on February 1; landed pa»Bengers, embarked mails and passengers, and left again at 5 p.m. same day. Met strong to moderate easterly winds to long 60 E, when westerly winds set in to arrival at Hobart at 10.30 a.m. on February 20; landed 22 passengers and 300 tons of cargo, and left again early on the morning of the 21st, reached Wellington on the morning of the 25th, after discharging cargo at that port she proceeded,to Lyttelton, leaving again at 4.20 p.m. on the llth inst., and arrived as above.

ARRIVAL OF THE R. A. C. SMITH. Rather unexpected may be said of the barquentine R. A. I J. Smith, from New York, which reached the heads yesterday forenoon, and was tendered by the tug Plucky/which brought her into port under the charge of Pilot Milne, and coming up the harbour she was met by the j customs boat, .and after the crew had been mußtered and inspected by the health officers she ] was-admitted to pratique and cleared in by the customs surveyor, continuing her course as far as Carey Bay, where she anchored in readiness for towing to Dunedin. The R. A. C. Smith is a very pretty looking vessel, of 628 tons register, and was built at Bflfaat, State of Maine, in ISB9, by Messrs G. A. Gilchrist and Co., and owned by Captain Hooper and others, and is on her first visit to tho colonies, and has made a fine passage of 95 flays from port to port, proving herself no mean sailer, having averaged during the last 15 days of her passage 220 miles per day. She brings some 1200 tons of cargo, about two-thirds of which is for Dunedin and the balance for Auckland. We are indebted to Captain Hooper for the following report of, her passage :—Left New York on December 6 with a N.W. wind, which held for five days and was succeeded by moderate variable winds until she took the N.E. trades in lat. 25 N„ long. 44.30 W. The trades were only moderate, and gave out on January 3 in lat. 7 N., long. 27.54 W., and were followed by doldrmn weather until the 7th, when she met the S.E trades in lat. 2.28 N., long. .26.20 W., crossing the equator on the 9th in long. 26.44 W. The S.E. trades proved moderate, and finally gave out on January 18 in lat. 20 S., long. 29 W. Then she had strong N.N.E: winds with fair weather and crossed the meridian of Greenwich on January 29 iv lat. 38.28 S. .N.N.'E.. winds held for two days, when she took the first of the westerlies, and rounded the Cape of Good Hope on Februaiy 4in lat. 41 S. ; then she had strong winds from N.W. to VV. oy S.W. with a moderate sea, and on the 25th the wind freshened, and for the next 15 days she averaged £20 miles per day ; passed the meridian of Cape Leuwin on March 1 in lat. 47.40 S., and the island of Tasmania on the 7th in lat. 47.56 S., making her first landfall, the Snares on'the evening of the 9th;-carried strong winds along the coast, and was off Cape Saunders at 9 a.m. yesterday, and towed into port as above. Neither ice nor wreckage was seen.