SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10622, 14 October 1896, Page 1

SHIPPING.

FORI CHALMEKS. Time Ball, at Port Chalmers. -New Zealand mean time at'noon, calculated for the meridian of longitude, in time 11 hours 30 nisutes east of Greenwich, will *be signalled once ■ week by a time ball dropping at the instant of mean noon. A klue flag will be hoisted at the mast-head, Port Chalmers signal station, on the forenoon of tho day when the time signal is to be given. ' Phases ok" the Moon. 1 (Calculated for New Zealand mean time). , ,' OCTOBER. D H M --. ■ Hew Moon.. ''...' 7 -»'«».« a yirst Quarter .... U 2 17 a.m. yull Meon ... —22 347 a.m. lost Quarter ■ ... 30 251 a.m. Perigee, 7th, 5 p.m. . Apogee, 21st, bp.m. THE WEATHER. October 13.-S a.m.: Wind N.E.; weather fine. Noon: Wind N.E.; weather fine. 5 p.m. .* Wind N.E.; weather fine . ..- . \ n k.ra. Noon. 5 pm. Baro'jaeter ... 30*28 30*22 30*14 Ihermoßietor ... 5t -76 74 ' * , ':': ..7.'. HIGH WATER. ■ (.- a.m. p.m. n* i, JAt the Heads ... 7.4S 8.26 Oct. 14 1 At p er( . Chalmers 8.28 9.6 ..... Ut Dunedin ... 9.13 9-51 ARRIVAL. . Invercargill, s.s., 136 tons, Sundstrom, from fimaru. _L. Kamsay, agent. DKFAKTURES. rasmmia, s.s., 1265 tons. M'Gee for Sydney, via the East Coast ports. Neill and Co.. agents. Passengers: Misses King, Lynch, Bard, Mesnames Lascelles, Mayer, Clappertoa, Gruar (and family). Grimblet, Kawson, Cooper (and child), Powell, Messrs Gruar, Porter, Cunningham, Orpwood, Clapperton, Scott, Pritchard. Rawson; * Ma"arrs.* er2349tons, Levack, for Wellington. N.M. md -A. Company, agents. - Passengers: Messrs Hawkes, Macauley, P. Hume. . JCXPECI'ItD AKK.IVAUS. Prom London.—Rua ne, s.s., 6127 tons. Bone, RN.R.,' MKWT. Rangitiki. ship, 1188 tons, PettinsW-VKNP (August W). Matatua, s.s., 3322 toas, M'Dougall. -■■-~. Fbsm' Glasobw.'—Blenheim, ship, 1077 tons, Colville; QLSP. -' ,-. ~;-. __ • From Liverpool.-Zuleika, ship, IH)2 tons, •habßers. "WTLM (June 4). Westland, ship, 111b t.ns,K. kelly. WVPC(June 15). Soukar, ship, 13*4 tons, Carden, WRFH. Kirkdale, barque, 760 tons.-Jones,' QVLM. „ Fkom New York.—Phyllis, barque, 932 tons, Pedersen. WBU f. .■ ■ ■ ' T From Newcastle.—Laira, barque, 492 tons, J. "Piteison-. KLHD. . „„ Prom Lauv Elliott's Island.—George S. Perkins, harque. 340 tons, Naas, J^RG. From Fanning Islahd. — Sofie, Norwegian barque, 324 tons. ■'.--. ~ From Clarence River.—Onyx, barque, 4Hi tons, Woeb'Jing. : * '-..■"'."■' SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, October 13.-Sailed: Waihora, for the south. * Passengers- Misses Coyle, Holland, Rose, Master Dick,, Mesdames Allen, Dick, Young, Hummell, Lelievre, Messrs Smith (2), HummeU," Lelievre, Gribble, Adams, Service, Steele, Mitchell, Master Netherclift.——Sailed: ■Waitangi, barque, for Wellington.. . ■ Wellington, October 13.—Arrived : Brunner, ) from the south ;' Takapuna, from Ohehunga and Taranaki ——Sailed: Mawhera; for Picton, Nelson, and the West Coast; Brunner, for Nelson and Westport.——Captain Mack (late of the Union Company's Ohau) and Mr W. M'Keegan (late engineer of the Huia) have purchased the Government steamer Terriniora, and will run her in'the coastal trade. „ LVrrELTON. October 13.-Sailed : Te Anau, for Dunedin. Passengers: Misseß Home, Buhm, Sharp, Mesdames Paver, Kemp, Afuir (and child), Messrs Muir, Cooper, Crawfora, Sohnl^te, King. ' THE DIRECT STEAMERS. CAPETOWN, October 12— Sailed (yesterday): Tongariro, for Ney^ Zealand, via Hobart. KeYEMENTS OF THE UNION STEAM SHIP , - COMPANY'S FLEET. ;.". -Tuesday, October'l3.

Xyttelton-rOhau sailed 5 a.m. fo,r Westport. • JeAnau arrived'B'a.m. frc» Wellington; sailed--3 p.m. for Dunedin. .FlßraarriveiT* a.m. from Dunedin; sails 10 p.m. for Wellington.. .Janet Nicolf sailed sp.m. lor Westport. -''. ", ' Wellington—Brunner arrived 8 a.m. from Lyttelton. ~t-i,. . - Nelson—Penguin sailed 1 p.m. for Wellington. Gisborne—Dingadee sailed 11 a.m. for Auck. Auckland—Tarawera sailed 5 p.m. for Sydney. Hobart—Talune sailed 4 p.m. yesterday for Bluff.

The «.s. Invercargill, from Invercargill, via Timaru,- arrived -at the Rattray street wharf yesterday morning. She is to make an excursion trip down the harbour to-day*. The s.s. Tasmania stepjned down to Port Chalmers yeaterday, morning, and left in the ' afternoon for Sydney, via the East Coast ports. The Shaw, • Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Mamari left the George ttreet pier at 6 p.m. yesterday, for Wellington, with cargo for tranship'pi-elit to the company's steamer Aotea. The' barque Spartan is all clear of her Dunedin' cargo, and is expected to sail'for Auckland at the end of the .week. . , The Union Steam Ship Company's chartered «steamer -Fultala, from Lyttelton, en route to the East,, called at Newcastle, New Mouth Wales, on September 28, and embarked 500 horses for ' India.'-',- *'■*' The Norwegian barque Jabez, from Sydney for Rotterdam, put into Tahiti dismasted and leaky on September 2. .She.bad met very severe weather and had a narrow escape, the pumps having to be kept going day and night to keep her afloat. She was blown from lat. 50 d. to lat. 17 S.; and- had great difficulty in reaching Tahiti. As*she could not be repaired at Tahiti it was expected she would be sent back to Auckland. The long comparative tests of oil and coal in marine boiler furnaces have at length been completed by Mr Melville, the' engineer-in-chief of the United States navy, and the result is adverse te the use of oil, at least in warships, reports the "Mechanical World." It is stated that the experiments showed that petroleum does not give as good' results per square foot of grate area as good coal, and therefore oil fuel is not to be adopted in naval ships, except it be fortorp'edo boats and destroyers. Mr Melville teems to doubt the wisdom of the decision of the British Admiralty to fit the new cruiser Gladiator with .engines of 9600 i.p.h.' for the use of oil fuel on the. top of a'coke grate, so that coal may be easily reverted to. With' the great advantage v/hich it offers in reducing the weight, there is no SoubtAmerican engineers woiild have much preferred this fuel, other things being equal The last word on the use of oil fuel on ship board has, however, by no means beeu said, and the experiments now being tried with one of the Fairfield torpedo boat destroyers, us well as those in the Russian and Italian naviea, i show that the question ia far from being HntJly.disposed of.