SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10901, 7 September 1897, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMERS. Time Ball at Port Chalmshs. ■■■ j New Zealand mean time at noon, calculated for < the meridian of longitude, in time 11. hours dU minutes east of Greenvrich, will be. signalled ones a week by a time ball dropping at ,the instant of mean noon. '■ -.-i .'.'-,' A blue flag will be hoisted at the mast r hesa. Port Chalmers signal station, on the forenoon of the day when the time signal is to be Riven. . ■ .'. Phases of the Moo.n'. - : (Calculated for New Zenlnud mean time). SEPTEMBER.' " -. d. ■■" n. m. •. Fir3t Quarter ... .■-'«.' ;,-, * 10 .43 a.m. Full Moon .;. , ... 11 . 1 42..p.m. Last Quarter . i ...19 ?21 p.m. New Moon .; ... 27- J™ 16 am Perigee, 2nd. 9.10 a.m. Apogee, 17tb, 4.30 p.m. Perigee, 29tU; 11.30 p.m; ; THE WEATHER. September 6.-S a.m.: Wind N.E.; weather fair. Noon: "Wind N.S.; weather 4hue. 5 p.m.: "Wind N.E.;' weather fine. , ' ■:,. OQ . QS , Baramotet ... . =?29'BS 300;. ; 29 9S Thermometer- ... j' 44 . s*'- . v° HIGHAVATJfIK. - ■ '. a.m..-. . /"At Ihe Heads I ...H-18 0.1. Sept. 7 iAt Port. Chalmers 11.58 0.41 UtßunWin ~.'; 0.43: l-2° '■ IiEPAPvTUES. , ..' . -Napier, 5.5.,4S tons, Mathiesdn, for. Owaka.- K. Bamsay, agent. , ' " '■■'... •" EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ■- . ' £rom Loflixm.—Agnes Lilian,, ship, 1134 tons. Walter, fJGVN (July 21): Silverstream, barque, 1160 tons,^. Bagwell /vi"a..Al S oa Bay). Nelson shiD, 1247 tonE; Perriam, NKRC. Westland. »hip, 118 tons, X- Kell^WPC. Laira. barque, 492 toss.- ' '•'• .: -■..' .^_-. r' . ■ F&oit Gi.ASdow.—Ben Nevis,.-ship, 1081 tons, Simsi-JCVM (March 31); in Port Philip for repairs. TarLaki, -ship,''loß9, tow, -Evans, QfifWP (June 30). Canterbury, ship, 3245 tons, Oulbert, MWBD. Ihvercargill,, ship, 1246 tons, Bpwling^NCfi P. -?■■:■• ' ' _.„, ' 'Fjiom New *ORk.^C6rnuy)a, barque, 78b tons, Baker "WQHP (May 15).: Gio Battista Beverino, barque,'"-115ZtcS, Serra.'P.MßD' (May 4), via Lyttelton. ;PallaV'barque,: 601. tons; Staube, HSWP. -Talismai, baraue.' HSS. tons, Toss (Juno'l^Worna, barque,-: 1050 tons,. Locheaq, KIPB (July 14). -L> Querida, barque, 679 tons, Williams:*./- .Vv >':\ :V; V.. ;. -'■'■_•■ -.-'. ■;FBOM-I<iVEß'po6L.-iWellingion,Bhip, 1247 tons, IfloniaVNMCK:(Jun6.2B). > ? '■ ,;. ■ ■ 1 jpitdirGALCUTTA-.^Pnaa, s.b., 5247' tons (July 30). '' Xf.ffii-'D-z.ijSjbi. BaV.t-Aiides, barque, 831 tons, Serbst, >;WiljDK.''-..<v, t 'X .; . . -\ , • • ■ • EiioM MkwvX- IstAND.-^Auriga, -barque, siq. toilVfiutchinsbn.-'BLJiC.' \\- , .., "■>■. • Faoar; SuRPKi)3EiISLAK^:'-7.Woosung,-barque, MStons.Rubarth, EFRM.-. : . _' •■ " 'B'Kesi iiAPY-ELLibflrr'slsLANDi- Jasper; barquentine, 252 .toas, BurtpnyWYPL. \ ~',' ' SHIPPING/TELEGRAMS. Auckland, September 6.—Arrived: "Westralia, from Sydney: :' Passengers: -Miss-Neville. Ittrs Hill, Mes*rs" Hill;• Olliyer, Chapman (2). — - Arrived: Empreza, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed: Fiona, for, Sydney; Brunner, for the south;: Gairlbcb, for..^ew' Plymouth.—-Sailed: Takapuna, for southern -ports. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Paterson,- Mesdames Buller, Jone3, Misses Binney, Larkins, Florence, "WiUsn, White, Bsker, Rev..T: W. Greenwood, Captain Hutton, Mes«rs Cameron,: Bdmis'tbh, Pisher, Duke, Cuff, Buchanan, Larkiris, W£tt; Roulston, J. Ross,^ Sleator, Eraser, Wiseman, Newman,: C. Buckland, B. Kent, Gills, Heron, Walker, Gtice.Aked, Burke; 1;*:1 . -,■ _ I Kaipara Heads,-September 6.—Arrived : Ara-' tapu (brigantine) and Clansman (schooner), from Wellington ;.Handa Isle, barquentine, from Newcastle; Linda Weber, from Eastern Pacific. September 6.—Arrived: IndraKhiri, from Auckland and Napier; Pareora,-from Timaru; Hesketh, from Greymouth; Mararoa, from the south. Sailed: Pareora; for Greymouth'; Mawhera, for Pictari, Nelson, and West Coast. Sailed: Mararoa, forthe south. Passengers: Misses Lindsay, Greenwood, Boyle, Peters, Macpherson, Haslam, Mesdames Tennent, Rose (and child), HDonald(and infant). Rev. Blackburn, Hon. Mr Parker, Messrs Stewart, Gillespie, Coombs (2), Eerous, Mackay. " . . •- ~-.'. Lyttelton, September s..—Arrived: Aotea, from Port Chalmers. '-■- Mklbouene, September 6.—Sailed:. Wakatipu, forthe Bluff. .. \ . • ."^ Albany, 'September 6.— Arrived: Ballaar-at, from London. •' Passenger* for; New Zealand:' Bliss Hay, Is£ Denny.' • .

THE DIRECT STBAJIERS. . The g.s. Mamari left Capetown for New Zealand on the evening of the 2nd inst. MOVEMENTS @F THE TTNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY'S FLEET. Monday, September 6, 1897. J Bluff —Honowai arrived 7 a.m. from Port Chalmers ; sails 6 p.m. for Hobart. Tiniaru—Omapere sails 6 p.m. for Lyttelton. i Lyttelton—Talune sailed 5 p.m. for Wellington ; Corinna sails 7 p.m. forTimaru. • Nelson—"Wainni sailed 3 p.m. for Wellington ; ilshinapua sailed 4.30 p.m. for New Plymouth. ■'■■_ ) <*• ' During the week ending September 5,16 vessels, With a total of 11,593 tons, arrived at the Dunedin Wharves, and 12 vessels, registering 10,54b tons, left them. . , The barque Grasmere is discharging cargo at the Eattray street wharf. The s.s. Napier left the Rattray street wharf j yesterday afternoon for Owaka. ■ j The s.s. Waihora landed cargo at the cross Vharf yesterday. She leaves Port Chalmers this j afternoon for Sydney, via the East Coast ports. ' I The.schooner Isabella Anderson is discharging j cargo at the Rattray street wharf. The schooner Ma'rmion is getting on well with the discharge of hsr cargo at the Rattray street wharf. ■ ' ! The brigantine Ocean Rover was towed up from the quarantine ground and berthed at the George gtreet pier yesterday afternoon to discharge her cargo of scrap iron. On July 14 Messrs Laird Bros., of Birkenhead, made a highly successful trial of H.M.S. Panther on the measured mile at Skelmorlie. The vessel attained the highest speed yet recorded for the mean of six runs on the mile—namely, 3082 knots, and for three hours' continuous steaming maintained 3016 knots. After the speed trials the steering, anchor, stopping, and starting trials were completed without a hitch of any kind. A master who enjoys the unique distinction of rising to the command of the vessel on which he first shipped as a seaman, never having served on board any other vessel, is Captain J. Cumming3, of the British barque County of Caithness, now ■s., inadiny-ra'Bß oil at Philadelphia for Calcutta. He Easbeen on her for 15 years. The combustibles brought by the ship Oamaru and brigantine Ocean Rover -were transhipped yesterday into the pov/der cutter. A vessel well known here, the four-masted barque Benares, now on her-way to Sydney from New York, left Table Bay on April 21, and arrived at New York on June 1, having made the passage in the unprecedented time of 40 days. The Benares is an iron vessel, built at Port Glasgow in 1877, and is owned by \Vat3on Bros. This passage of the Benares is in striking contrast to the run of the barque Nordby, which left New York on January 13, and arrived at Port Natal, South Africa, on May 30—a passage of 136 days,—during which' she had spars and rigging. seriously damaged, and lost two of her crew overboard. No sooner 13 a 10,000-toa steamer finished than the keel of one larger is laid down, and recently an account was received of the biggeßt vessel now afloat. It is the Pennsylvania, of 33,500 tons register, with a length of 585 ft, width 62ft, and depth 41ft—the largest freight carrier in the world,—which on her first trip from New York transported 19,500 tons of measurement cargo besides bunkers. A sister ship (the Pretoria) is now building, while five other and somewhat smaller vessels are on the stock.' The company (Hamburg-American) at present owns a fleet of &i ocean steamers, 51 river steamers, &c, representing 304,005 tons—a larger tonnage than is controlled by any other line. The capital of the company is now about U.000.000d01, and it has a reserve of 1,600,000d01, a large insurance fund, and about 2.001),OOOdol in cash and saleable inrsst'ments,' including extensive shops and bjiild- ' ings on both, continents and the wharf property in Hoboken. The company prides itself on never having received one cent of subsidy from any State or Government. "It has," Mr Boas said, "made ita way unaided but also unhampered, fostered by nothing but the demands of trade and traffic, guided with a firm hand, and safely weathering all Btorms."