SHIPPIN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10621, 13 October 1896, Page 1

SHIPPIN.

FORT CHALMERS. Tun: Ball at Port Chalmers. A blue flag wiU be hoisted at the mast-head, Fart Chalmers signal station, on the forenson of . tha day when the time signal is to be given. THE WEATHER. October 12.—8 a.m.: Wind N.E.;' weather cloudy. Noon: Wind N.E.; weather cloudy. 5 p.m.: Wind N.E.; weather cloudy. Sn.m. -i oon. 5 pm. Barometer ... 30 28 30.2 3036 Ther mometsr ... 50 61 62 HIGH WATER. ' ' r a.m p.m. ~. „J At the Heads ... 6.47 7.16 Oct 13-j At p or fc Chalmers . 7.27 „ . 7.56 Ut Dunedin , ... 8.12 B.U DEPARTURE. Flora, s.s.-, 838 tons, Bernech, for Lyttelton and Wellington. J. Mills, -gent. Passengers : Misses L. Morkane, Dempster, A. Norman, Fenwick, Mesdames Fenwick, Williamson, Rolls. Kenny, Morris (and child), Loasby (and family), Messrs G. Fenwick, Loasby (2), D. Halley, Poole, W. Dickson, G. P. Morris; 11 steerage. ■~'■'■' ___a_C--D ARRIVALS. , From London.—Rna ne, s.s., 6127 tons. Bone, R.N.R., MKWT. Rangitiki, ship, 1188 tons, -•ttinser, VKNP (August 27). Matatua, s.s„ S322tous, M'Dougall. ,-_ . Frgm Slasgow.—Blenheim, ship, 10(7 tons, Colville.QLSP. ~ •__ . i From Liverpool.—Zuleika, ship, 1C92 tons Chalmers, WTLM (Jane 4). Westland, Bhip, lllfc tens, It-. Kelly, WVPC (June 15). Soukar, ship, 1384 teas, Carden, WRFH. • Kirkdale, barque, 7W3 tons, Jones, QVLM. , From New York.—Phyllis, barque, 932 tons, Pcdersen, WBGT. . From Newcastle.—Laira, barque, -92 tons, J. Paterson, KLHD. From Lady Elliot-s Island.— George S. Perkins, barque, 340 tons. Naas, Ji_RG. From Fanning Island. — Sofie, Norwegian barqus, 324 tons. „ From Clarence River.—Onyx, barque, 40----tons, Woebling. a i— . SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. .AUCKLAND, October 12.—Arrived : Waihora, from Sydney. Passengers: Miss Wilson, Mr X urne , r . Sailed: Takapuna, for the south. Passengers: Misses Walter, Wood, Mesdames Younr Akers, Messrs Scott, Young, Watkinß, Iferwson. Middows, Lang, Stott, W. T. Barker, j Licher, Diion, Luckie, Page, Price. Stanbprn, J. S. Brigham, Sievwright, G. Akers, Weir, irleming, Deornell; 6steerage. .._____• __ Wellington, October 12.—Arrived (this afternoon) : Weatherafield, barque, which left London on 17th June for Sydney, but was ordered on to Wellington frem Kiama on the Ist October. Her ' cargo consists of 701)0 casks cement. The j Weath-sfwld will be the first wool ship I sent from Wellington this season by the New Zealand Shipping Company. Arrived : Oamaru, ship, from Dunedin. Sailed: Penguin, for Picton and Nelson; H.M.S, Lizard,: warship, for Nelson; Poherua, for Gisborne and Auckland; Herald, for Greymouth. Sailed :._e Anau, for the south. Passengers: Misses Cooper, Brat-field, Mummery, Dimant, Bishop, Gilmer, Mesdames Rhodes, Kontski, Shrimski, Morrison, Maher, Bramfield, Miller, Sir Dillon Hell, Hon. S. Shrimski, Rev. Mr Leal, Messrs Lnwrence, Richardson, Lee Smith, Hardy, Maher, Xontski, March, Mackenzie (and son), Gibson, Livingston, Neil, Crawley (2), Smallbone, Hayward, Thomson, Beveaux.Brown, Hanby. H.M.S. Lizard nailed at noon for Nelson, where she will remain three days. She then goes to Picton, and afterwards to j Wellington, where she will await the arrival of a | new ship's boat from Sydney to replace the one washed overboard on her recent trip from Australia.. From Wellington she goes to Timaru and Oaniari-. .'- ''„..',_. _ Lvttelton, October 12.—Sailed: Omapere, for southern ports. ..,_„„ . . Timaru, October .12.—Sailed (7.30 p.m.): Invercargill, for Dunedin. ■p, , THE GROUNDING OF THE KAIKOURA. '.'.- (Per United Press association. Invercargill, October 12. i At a meeting of the Harbour Board to-day, correspondence re the grounding.of s.s. Kaikoura on a sandy knoll when leavingßluff Harbour last month showed that the ship's deviation from the channel-was due to a temporary, derangement of the steering-gear which was unlcnown to the '-' captain, who told .the :pilot, before starting, that everything was right. The1 erratic course; of the .vessel "was noticed by people ashore a3 she went down the c__ne3,:and. Assistants—-—urmaster; Love..,.who.was in the tag,".'noticed ,the defect in the, steering gear and hailed- the steamer. The captain of the Kaikoura. imputed no blame to -ha■•.pilot- nor the port for grounding. It was dead low water, and in half, an hour, when the tide made, the steamer came off uninjured. The board discussed the question of prohibiting large steamers leaving at low water, but' decided to leave the matter to the discretion of the officials, Mr Dunlop, a member of the board and agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company, pointing out that it was really fortunate that the Kaikoura took the ground at low wat. r, as on a falling tide she might.have strained seriously. ,

* JieVEIC-NTS OF THE UNION STEAM SHIP - . , COMPANY'S FLEET. Monday, October 12. ' , • Lyttelton—Brunner sailed 1 p.m. for. Wellington. Om_i.ere_ai„d 3 p.m. for Timaru. Nelson—Mahinapua sailed noon for New PlyBlOU—l. Auckland—Waihora arrived 5 a.m. for Sydney. Tarawera arrived 10 a.m. from Gisborne. '.-'. —*— ——-" 'The s.s. Flora left the Rattray street wharf yesterday afternoon for Lyttelton and Wellington. ' i The ss. Tasmania discharged cargo at the cross trharf yesterday, and will leave this afternoon for Sydney, via the East Cta.-ports. _,-.„.- . The barque Dunnerd'j— has put out 1.4 D tons 01 measurement cargo at the cross wharf. { The barque Spartan put out the last of her Dunedin cargo at the RuHray street wharf yester- ; Tha ship Taranaki is expected to sail for Napier on Thursday. ~,_,„ " The ship Forteriot, which arrived at Melbourne oil September 29, from' New York, had onboard the largest-cargo of general merchandise that ever left the United States for Australia. It consisted of 42,600 cases of kerosene, 175,290 ft of timber, 1090 pkgs oil, 2750, cases turpentine, 470 barrels re_in, 583 do plaster, 400 reels wire, 1154 rolls paper, 5750pkgs London 0re,5340 dogroceries, etc.— approximately 6500 fons. The Forteriot is a large four-masted steel barque of 3145 tons register under the command of Captain Jackson. The barque Estrella is getting on well with the discharge of her guano at the Jetty street wharf. ' The s.s. Invercargill will arrive at Dunedin this morning from the north. She runs an excursion down the harbour to-morrow. The French barque Lea Adelpbes, Captain Le Breton, left Newcastle on September 28 for San Francisco. - The s.s. Mararoa was floated into the graving dock yesterday morning for cleaning and 'painting. The ship Euterpe is expected to be sufficiently lightened to tow to Dunedin on to-morrow or Thursday morning's tide. , The five battleships of the new programme (says the Shipping World) will receive names that should make glad the hearts of those who objected to the Fannies and other pretty feminine appellations which many of our warships carry. . The now Bhios have names associated with the naval history of the nation. .They- are to be entitled • respectively the Oanopus, Goliath, Ocean, Glory, and Albion. . In thus selec.ir.g names for the new vessels which commemorate notable achievement, of'the fijhting wooden walls that gained for us our prestige on the seas a course is taken that will pl.ase the-seamen who serve in them,, and will satisfy the sticklers who raised an outcry' in the press a few months ago.

WRECK OF THE GAINSBOROUGH; lhe barque Gainsborough, with cargo from Westport for ban -.Francisco, went ashore off Diamond Head. O— ill, on August 29, ana became j a total wreck. There was no insurance on the hull, and her spars and rigging were removed and the Wreck sold for 18_5_ol. Captaiu M'Phail, with j his wife and four children, arrived at Honolulu on September 9, and gave the following,-report of the .disaster:—" We lelt Westport :on June 23 'with" 1315 tons of Coal,-for, San Francisco, and met"with good weather mostof the way. Upon approaching the Hawaiian Islands we were short of water, sol determined to put in for tbe necessary article. On the afternoon of August 28 we were off the Island of M-Jokai, and at I a.m. next day sighted ,o__u. Our course was shaped about four and »-hal£ miles off shore, and as we approached the place vr here the Gainsborough struck the course Was changed to about one mile and a-half off ■I—ire. I felt the ship strike about 5.30 a.m., and knew we had gone ashore. I am owner of 45. _ths of the ship, anrt as there was not a cent, of insurance on her I shall be tbe heaviest loser. The Gainsborough has been mo.tly a troop and coolie ship. For the last 12 years she has confined her , energies to the wool trade in Australia, and during her career this is the first accident she has met. When the' vessel first took the ground she lay on an even keel on what appeared to be alevel bed of sand and coral, and was drawing 18ft 7ia of water. Mr Holt, tho second officer, was in char«e of the deck wh _:i the wreck occurred, Mr H. Platts. the chief officer, having his watch below." It is expected the cargo will he saved, and an effort will be made to pull the hull into deep water.