SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11044, 23 February 1898, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORK CHALMERS,

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/« , , f "ASKS OF THE MOON . - (Calcnlated for N aw Z ea i and ,_ _ v FEBRUARY. /ullMoon ... . "• "• Last Quarter ... ■•_ ,g 5* a- mNew Moon ... " ' hi'H .? P-m-VirstQuarter . . |i ,i }\ am Apogee, 1 3 t,.8.30 a.m. Perigee, 17th, 6.351.^' THE WEATHER. February 22.-8 a.m.: Wind S W • weather ST. 3W *°S W Wind S.W*; weaTher finf *B P.m.: Wind S.W.; weather overcast. ; HIGH WATJfiK. Feb. 23 -{At Port Chalmers 4.56 5.14 lAt Dunedin ... 5.41 5.59

• ARRIVALS. Fakeha, s.s., 4331 tons, Prosser, from Oamaru. Uiaw, Savill, and Albion Company, agents s.s., 856 tons, X G. Smith, from ■Sydney, via Wellington and Lyfctelton. J. Mills, agent. Passengers: Mi»ses Cameron, Drummond Munroe, Mesdames Kershaw, Allen (nurse and infant). Stokes, Fox, Soutter, Messrs Chamcis bidey, Alien, Kershaw, Brie'n, How, Hay, Woodbury, Dr Coughtrey, Rev. Tinsley; 22 steerage.

DEPAPvTURES. Invercargill, s.s., 13§ tons, Marks, for Preservation Inlet, via Invercargill.' K. Ramsay, agent Waihora, s.s., 1269 tons, Neville, .for Sydney via the Eaat Coast. J; Mills, agent. Passengers : Misses Louden, Campbell, Thomas, Gibbons (2), Dickie, Paterson, Scoft, Newell, Murdoch (2) Morgan, Wright, Walker, Mesdames Henry Izard (and infant), Walker, Smiddy, J. Bishop, Upton, Paterson, Young, Orkney, Saodgrass, Perm (and child); George Scott, Messrs Tilghman C. W.-vßattray; W. White, Upton. Field, Gibbons,' Campbell, A. Barnett, Ritchie, G. W. Burnett, W. Milne, W. Paterson, Scott, Murdoch Henry, F. B. Gibbons, M'Namara, O'Connor, h. Knotinann, A. King, Harris, Hetten; 19 steerage. Janet Nicoll s.s., 462 tons, Sutherland, for Westport. J. Mills, agent.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From LbNnoN.—Tokomaru, s.s., 6238 tonß. Maxwell (January 11). Kiwi, s.s., 702 tons. Tekoa, 8.5.,. 4050 tons.

From Liverpool. — Silverhow, barque, 1176 tons, Marehall. QLTK (December 2). Kinfauns, barque, 9SL tons, Piggot, KJCN. • * lefff 311 W YeRK.-Charles Racine, barque, 1524 tous, Waage. WBLH (December 4). Golden Gate, barque, 932 tons, Bray, JGSL. Mary A Law, barque, 981 tons. • Fr«m Glasgow.-Euterpe, ship, 1197 tons, I.angmuir, VPJiC (November 29). . Fiith of Clyde barque. 1181 tons, Jones, WKRM. _Erom Hamburg.—Fides, Norwegian baraue 450 tans, Serenssn, NFPR (November 20). From Algqa Bay.—Gladys, barque, 1345 tons,

; ' SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, .February 22. — Sailed: Tamar, bai-ciue, for Newcastle. Wellington, February 22.—Arrived : Rbtorua SQm Ljttelton; Takapuna, from Onehunga and •New Plymouth: Alcestis, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed: Takapuaa, for Lyttelton. Passengers t MissesKeal,Thomas.Connor.Mesdames JJoncastmy Bailey, Mahoney, Mortimer, Collins Captain. Rose, Dr Campbell, Revs. Dawsnn Thomas, Prior, Messrs Kirkcaldie, Mahonev" Jlanninfr, Hickson, Beggs, Mortimer, Frank! KobinsoD, Hodson, Dawson, Liatott,, Laws. Blufp, February 22.—Sailed (6.30 p.m.): Tarawera, for Melbourne. MELBouaNE, February 23.—Arrived (last night): Talune, trom the Bluff. ' .NEwcASTLE l Febru&ry22.-SaUed:Hawkelsßay, for Auckland. . ■ -■

The B.s. Pakeha, from Oamaru, arrived early yesterday morning and was berthed at the George street pier* where sHe at bace commenced to take cargo for London. < The s.s. Rotoniahana, from Sydney, via Wellington "and Lytteltqn, arrived alongside-the *°?Sn pIM at 9 \ m- yesterday.rday. She left Sydiieyat 2.30 p.m. oa the 12th inst. with a fresh breeze from the N.E., which gradually increased to a Btrong gale, with thick, dirty weather and hiah »ea.. On the night of the 13th the sea had increased to such au extent that it was found neeeseary to slow down the engines. The gale continued during the whole of the 14th, during which the-vessel at times shipped heavy seas. On the morning of the 15th the wind and sea somewhat abated, and at 7.3o_the engines were put full speed. ihe. weather being still thick and it being utterly impossible to get any observation, at 8 p.m on the 17th the engines were again put dead 81oy# owing to the heavy fog. On entering Cook btrait the weather cleared, and Stephens Island wag;passed at 6 p.m. »n the 18th; arrived at Wellinaton at 1.15 a.m. on the 19fch ; left again at ♦i?"™",! 31116/*^ reachin S Lyttelton at 9 a.m. on the:2oth, and sailed again at 4.20 p.m. on the 21st arriving as above, having met moderate winds and fine weather down the coast. The s.s. Rakaia took oa board a quantity'of cheese and other cargo for London at the Georee Street pier yesterday. The s.s. Janet Nieoll, having discharged her cargo of coal, sailed yesterday afternoon for westport.

A" barquentine passed the heads yesterday morning bound north. «=»«*#

The dredge No. 222 steamed up from the lower toarbpur yesterday morning, and commenced working off the Victoria wharf. JThe s.s. Invercargill left 'the Rattray street wharf yesterday afternoon with cargo for Preservation Inlet, via Invercargill. The s.s. Waihora left the tongue wharf yesterday afternoon with passengers tand cargo for Sydney, via the East Coast ports. 6 The last run home from New Tork to Southampton made in December by the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross*• was finished during a heavy gale. The net time of the passage from bandy Hook to the Needles was 5d 17hr Bmm the distance travelled was 3065 sea miles, and the average speed throughout the whole voyage 2£35 knots, or about 28 .statute 5? r ihi° Uri Ahe- best «t»«*WW hitherto hu been 22 01 knots during a trip by the Lucania ilessrs Armstrong, Wliitwbrth, and Co. have contracted for the construction of another icebreaker for Russia on the plan proposed by Admiral llakaroff for keeping open the Gulf of J) inland at Gronstadt, and the sea route to the river mouths of Northern Siberia. The Queen, the third steam lifeboat recently acquired by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has been assigned to New Brighton, an important station on the Mersey. Being fitted on the turbine principle of hydraulic propulsion, it will carry no external apparatus of screw or ?h, ;a f i thl!, S obviating as far as possible the risk of disablement by fouling wreckage. Ihe new boat uses both coil and oil fuel, 8401b of which were consumed for a speed of nearly nine n?u s W,_ tstnal run of two hoursKMhr } c &tar liner Britannic completed her ?T Knn?u nd voyage t0 aDd from New York, and arriv^n?^33^ aCrOB- s the Atlantic, where she lIT V he, Me"ey in last, after a thfffrtnf hnly>feV-en dsy3 6ight hours despite n?J ti f heC havlQ 2 Bsat very heavy weather. ot^St i^ffi9 Vnn yasel?hB. has Ravelled a distance hours and 106,800 hours under way She has Ihe barque Ganymede was towed down from bSarCr yeVeniaS anCh°red in the

The barque Mary A. Law is loading at New York for imnedin and Lyitelton. ihe New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Op»wa was loa<iing at Newcastle, New South nsotV A °f!U nat- with' tinned and frozen The Italian barque Agostino Rombo, that left h f for j M teltou on t!l? lst illst- has been chartered to load coal at Newcastle for Panama Wn 2 ? °i ke S "Peri«r. vow at Adelaide, has S? t nf O CrLond c odn. tO W°ol at * NeW ******