SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11047, 26 February 1898, Page 1

SHIPPING.

. P©R'J? CHALMERS. •' ~ Timk Ball at Port Chalmers. A blue flag will be hoisted at the mast-head Port Chalmers signal station, <m the forenoon of the day when the time signal is?o be given. Phases of the Moon (Calculated lor Now Zealand mean time ) FEBRUARY. FullMeoa ... 2' w-„ Last garter' Z,Z ~ 12 6 5 p.m. New Mean oi » -iV „ „ Ifirat Quarter ... ." -." |s -10 43 *'£ Apogee. Ist, 5.30 a.m. Perigee, 17th, f.35 p.m. ' THffi WEATHER. February 25.-8 a.m.: Wind N.E.; weather fine.- Noon: Wind ■ 5.. W.; weather fine. 5 p.m.: Wind if.W.; weather tine. *»'"'-. ' ' '* a.m. Noon. 5 D.m. B»remeter 2972 2972 2974 - Thermometer ... sti. 6S 70 HIGH WATJfiK. a.m.. p.m. fAt the Heads ... 5,57 6.12 Feb. 26 -{At Port Chalmers 6.37 6.52 lAtDunedin ... 7.22 7.H7 j (At the Heads ... 6.29 6.4S Seb. 27 {-At Port Chalmers 7.9 7.2S ; . •\A.t'Bunedin ..; 7.54 '8.13 ". APvRIVALS. ";■•■;■ ' ! Tutanekai, C.6.5., 412 tons, Fairehild, from'the ' West' Coast. ' ■'-■• '.' /■ i Jfinterprise, brigantine,-84 tens, Connor, from j Saipara. K. Ramsay, agent. ■..-.-. / ' 1 ••■-/■■ DEPARTURES. ■ , | Corinna, s.s'., 820 tons,'Spencei'for the West I Cftast, yia Timaru. J. Mills, a,gent. • ■ ; ' Rakaia, s.s., 6656 tons, Sutcliffe, for London. ; N.'Z.S. Company, agents. ....... j EXPECTED ARRIVALS. , | Froti LondbN:—Tokomaru, s.s., 6238 tons. Max- ! well (January 11). Kiwi, s.s., 702 tons. Tefco-» ! 5.5.,-405 a tons. . . ■~.■'-.. ■ ' j ■From •: Liverpool. — Silverhqw, barque, 1176 j tons, QL'l'K (December-. 2). Kin- i fauns, barque, 9SI tons, Piggot, KJCN. John I O'Gaunt, ship, 1228 tons. Da-vies, JKSW. I From.New York.—Golden Gata, barque. 933 i tons, Bray. OGSU Mary A. Law, barque, SBl tons. ! •Fitesi Glasgow.—Euterpe, ship, 1197 tous Langmuir, VPJK (November 29). ,-Firth of Clyde barque. 1181 tons, Jones, WKRM. . JFR6.M Hamburg.— Fides, Norwegian barque 459 Una, Sorenson, NFPB (November 20). Srom Algsa Bay.—Gladys, barque, 1345 ton 3, Booraian. . :"V HtppilTS.. (.Special Notice.—Consignees desirous of have inj their names appear in this part of our columns, together with their consignments, may have the same inserted en payment of a small charge.! Per Enterprise, from Kaipara : 70,00l)ft timber.

■ . SHXPPING TELEGRAMS. | _ VVellington, February 25.—Arrived: Westra- j lia, from Auckland^ via the East Coast; Penguin, i frbm Lytteltori. ■ Arrived : Rotokino, from Syd- J hey. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Messrs Hudson, Phillips, P: Cavill, S. Cavill. Lane, Oliffe, AUcock. Madden, Coates, Wilkiu, Swinbourne. For Dunetiin—Mr W. Aniierson. Sailed : Moel Tcyvan, barque, Jones, for London. Sailed ; W^estralia, for Lyttelton.and Dunedin. Passengers : Misses Howarth, Metherson, Paaßmore, Tiylor, Fitzgerald, Campbell, Russell, Carr. KemiDgton, Adcock, Casey, Osmond, Clayton, West, Edwards, Moleneaux, Hay, Culpen, Merritt, Jacobsen, Mills, Pitcaithley,' Kelly, Cowper, Gswing, ■ Mitchel!, MacDougall, Mesdames Wright, ' Trounce, Zohrab, Adams, Campbell, M'Pherson, Mitchell, Taylor. Hill, MacLeod, Tourettes, Roberts (and 2 children), Brandon, Diamond, Tait. Maddox. Fish, Adcock, Inglis, M~Keitch(and child), Osmond, Murrell, Martin, Lyon, Burne, Robberds, Cocks, Anderson, Brown, Jeffs, Jt'dwards, Revs. Goutenoir, Beck, Uomerie, Inglis, Rhodes> Das, Pennefather, Messrs Tait, Forrest, Moir,, Rattray, Murrell, Shields, Jack, Passmore, Smith, Beere, Turner, Morrison, M'Leod, Cowper (2), Eskdale, Payne. Parkhurst, Casey, Tankard, Mitchell, Tourettes, Gavin, Allen, Scott, King, Hill, Mayer, Roberts, Ballard, Dimond(2), Kussell. Maddox, Bell, Janson, Parsons, Brown, Anderson, Jeffs (2), Edward, Capper, iDglis. Sailed : Penguin, for Lyttelton. Passeniors ; Misses Coverdale, O'Reilly (2), Gowing, M ; esdaines Daignan, Gore, Messrs Trice, Raphael, Parrett, Gore Timaru, February 25.—Arrived : Severn, from: Newcartle. Two woolahips Craignair (with'; 3026 bales) and Earl Derby: (\vith 4299 .b#}es-andi ,'2oi ea-skstjllovv) are ready to,saU.'"r V| ' ,' ; ;.'■'■- SrpHkr- February 25.—Arrived : Elißgamito, from Aucklaud. ' . > '. ' Newcastle, February 25-—Sailed : Rakanoa, '.> for Wellington. ' -• ■■-■'..■^ • -■■.:• p. r:- r y, •TELEGRAPH KOTICS BOARD. Depaktures.—Aotea, at 5 pirn., from Lyktel-' ton, for Timaru; Waikare. at 6.35 p.m., from Lyttelton, for Wellington. MOVEMENTS OF UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY'S FLEET. i Friday, February. 25. j Lyttelton—Waikare arrived 7 a.m. from Port i Chalmers ; sails 7 p.m. for Wellington. Manapouri arrived 7 a.m. from Wellington. j m Nelson—Takapuna sailed noon far Wellington, j Mawhera sailed noon for Wellington. I Napier—Waihora sails S p.m. for Gisborne. i , For Week Endins March 5. Monday—Rotokino arrives from. Sydney, via Cook Mtrait. Wakatipu arrives from Sydney via Cook Strait, and sails for Melbourne via Bluff and Hobart. Tuesday—Pukaki arrives from Westport, via Bluff. Takapuna arrives from Nelson, Wellington, and Lyttelton. Rotokino sails for Sydney, Pia Oamaru and Timaru. Wednesday—Talune arrives from Melbourne, via Hobart and Bluff. Taupo arrives from Grejmauth, via Coast. , Thursday—Te Anau arrives from Auckland and East Coast. Taupo sails for Greymouth, via Timaru. Hauroto sails for Samoa, via Aucklaud. Talune sails for Sydney, via Cook Strait Friday—Te Anau sails for Auckland, via East Coast. Saturday—Monowai arrives from Sydney, via Cook Strait.

The brigantine Enterprise,' timber-laden from Kaipara, arrived at Tort Chalmers yesterday morning and anchored in Mansford Bay. She left Kaipara on the 16th mat., had light southerly winds to Cape Egmont, which she passed ou tie 16th inst., and thence light N.W. winds with fine weather; cleared Cook iitrait on the 19th inst., and thence had a continuance of baffling winds to arrival. The s.s. Corinna left the Kattray street wharf yesterday afternoon for the West Coast, via Tiniaru. The C.G.S. Tutanekai, from the West Coast, arrived at Bunedin, yesterday morning, aud landed a number of sleepers at the Jetty street wharf. ;■ 'fhe barque Laira comraenced taking in wool at Messrs Stanley and Co.'s shed at the Victoria wh»rf yesterday forenoon. The New Zealand Sisippins Company's fine steamship Kakaia, which ieft fort Chalmers yesterday evening for London, took the. following cargo from this port :—Dll bales woo), 10 do rabtutskins, 120 cases meats, 3775 do cheese, 865 boxes butter, 4655 carcases mutton, 5 pkgs sun* ones, and the racehorse Uniform, which has been purchased, we understand, by Mis Langtry. Ihe Mesaageries Maritimes Company (of which Messrs Neill and Co., Limited, of this city are agents) have added another Dupleix to their fleet. J.ne old steamer of that name was often here under the altered title of the Jubilee. The new Dupleix is said to be a fine vessel, admiraMy adapted to the tropical passenger traffic, for which she has been absolutely built. She will replace the worn-out Jfiridon oa the Colombo-Calcutta run, and will be a decided acquisition in those waters. She is said to be an exceptionally fast boat and will be run as strictly to time as possible It was recently reported that the warship fi -i''leur had been commissioned for China. She is a 10,50a-tou armoured ship, built four years ago at a cost of £599.000. Her speed is IS knots and her armament four 20-ton guns and 10 47in quicknriug guns. Of the warships now in the Bast an exchange *ajs:—"The French armoured cruiatr Jeanne d'Aic, despatched to the Far Bast. is a splendid'new vessel of 11,270 tons and 23 knots spaed, and has just been completed for sea. iiis Jrascul is a secoud-class cruiser of 4000 tons, aiso ne?/, and France has two other modern secomi-i/b.ss cruisers on the station. Our own squadron in the China seas includes the battleship Centurion, the belted cruisers Narcissus, lMiHortahte, and Undaunted, the first-class protected cruisers Powerful and Grafton, and a number of second-class cruisers, gunboats, and destroyers, which make 3 it, next after the ;J.ai>anese, ths strongest fleet in those waters. luc KuEsiaiig some time ago reduced their squadron, but it is still formidable, and will be ! reinforced, no doubt, without delay. It is curious that tue three monster cruisers Powerful, Jeanne a Arc, and Kossia, and the two finest battleships afloat—the Japanese Fuji and Yashima—are now in the uorth-eastern Pacific." : American underwriters have so promptly taken oo the value of steam as a means of extinquithing lire that they have already placed two steamers witn steam injectors (one at Charleston and the otaer at Galveston) adapted for this service at the call of all vessels loading cotton .at those ports. am illustration of the value of these vessels has recently been shown at Galveston, when the cotton-laden steameis llaratime and Ribston were both on fire under similar circumstances at that port. The captain of the Maratime flooded the hold, and the loss amounted to £7000, whilst the captain of the Ribston battened down his hatches and injected steam, whicb, whilst equally fhective in putting out the fire, injured the cotton only to a trifling extent. I The Baslam Freezing Company have issued a ! circular concurnins the vessels fitted with their ! apparatus. They have fitted up the steamer ! iJelphic, owned by the Shaw, Savin, and Albion '• Company (Limited), and trading to New Zealand > for carrying upwards of 100.000 carcases of mutton, ! two steamers for the P. and O. Company, and five | for the Allen lino, ,tc. Tfiey hive also supplied I refrigerating machine-; «o B.JT '-. i'owtirfnl, IV,-. i rible. and Ulideni, ami ':»\ts in h;uid nmebice-s ■ for. the Argonaut, flini.iJyer, Albion, Sparliiie. f Amphitrite. Goliath, o-cd a r>"uiber of other v/ar- »

i ships and gunboats, making 28 refrigerating ; : machines in all on the compressed-air system : for H.M. service. The company, have also in hand two special refrigerating machines ,on the com- ; pressed-wr system for H.M! newyacht; which is : now being built at Pembroke. Kefrigeratots ; have also been supplied by .the Haslam Cmipany to the Austrian and Japanese for their warships, j. Large cold stores have also been erected ia Hartle- '• V™k? a contract is in hand for a store to hold I 4000.tons of meat in Manchester. Several con-i tracts nave just been concluded for fitting up i larga steamers to carry from 2UOO to 3000 tons of !

A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE. 1

The steamer Tyrian, of Howard Smith and bons line, encountered the full force of the recent fierce storni on the coast of New South Wales, while she was on her way from-Melbourne to bydney, where she arrived nearly two days behind time. Ihe steamer had a large number of passer,gmior bydney and othar ports, and the effects of the try ins ordeal passed through by them were plainly visible as each: graphically related the story of the voyage. "It couldn't have been worse, said one. -'We thought we were badly visited when, a faw hours out from Port Phillip Jieads, the wind being strong and V heavy head sea before us; but after we rounded Wilson's ■Fromontory the elements began to work them- ! selves into a fury. It was possible to hang on to ! sheltered portions of the deck on Saturday afternoon and watch the towsring seas, but -Saturday night saw most of us down below .trying to snatch sleep and oblivion from what was going ou outside. .Even then our slumbers were disturbed I by,tne swish, of water in the adjoining saloons, I ana- gallons came -pouring in through every [ possible crevice. There seemed to be no i n°l"v , t"e- weather abating, and the awful plunging motion of the vessel created consternation amongst men, women, and children. Sunday broke, and with, it a spell in the I weatner. bunday afternoon was a repetition of j the previous day, and the full force of the tearing i south-east gale seemed to be upon us. Sleep was j impossible. Occasionally the vessel would bed over to an angle that would be almost impossible I I?- Xne. a? n!!?\ Ladies and children screamed when they felt this sinking sensation ; but the sudden, wild shivering of the vessel as she recovered her level always brought a!l to their senses. Un- j douotedly the storm was at its worst between | midnight na Sucday and 4 o'clock yesterday ; morning. It was during that time that one could hear the craving v/avr.s pounding on the deck overhead, and smashing anything that was loose or, exposed. A fine lot of sheep, including I sonic prize specimens, tliat were, quartered forward, on the port side, suffered almost total extinction during those early hours. ' It certainly could not have been worse. Intercolonial voyai gers ot long standing.atate that the experience ! had never been equalled, and in view of this | testimony we are only too glad to be able to step I ashore safely, even after a delay of so many I hours."