SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11199, 23 August 1898, Page 1

SHIPPING.

POST CHALMEKS. Time Ball at Port Chalmers. New Zealand mean lime at noon, calculated for the meridian of longitude, in time 11 houi f 30-minutes east of Greenwich, will be signalled once a week by a time ball dropping at the instant ot nisan noon. A blue flag will be hoisted* at the mast-head, Port Chalmers signal station, on the forenoon of the day when the time signal is to be given. Phases of the Moon (Calculated for New Zealand mean time). August. Full Moon 2nd 3.59 p.m. Last Quarter 9th 5.45 p.m. New Moon 17th 10.5 p.m. First Quarter 25th 8.2 a.m. Perigee, Ist, 9.37 a.m. Apogee, 13th, 3.37 p.m. Perigee, 29th, 12.37 p.m. Sun rises to-day at 6.59 a.m.; sets 5.23 p.m. THE WEATHER. August 22.—S a.m. : Wind N.E.; weather overcast. Noon: "Wind N.E. : weather dull. spm.: Wind S.E. ; weather rainy. Sam. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer... 3028 30-32 .10-50 Thermometer 400 52"0 ' 4'VO FORECAST.—Mr Paulin sent us the following at 9 o'clock last night :—" S. W. to S.E. winds, changing to N.E., and fine after 12 hours." HIGH WATER. a m. p.m. ( At the Heads 5.57 (5.15 August 23 <At Port Chalmers fi.37 f1.55 lAtDunedin ... 7.22 7.44 ' ARRIVALS. Herald, s.s., 35G tons, Coulson, from the West Coast. J. Mills, agent. Doris, barque, 1295 tons, Robertson, from New York (May 17). Neill and Co. (Limited), agents. AT THE HEADS. Jasper, barquentine, from Lady Elliott Island, via Nelson. DEPARTURES. Wakatipu, s.s., 1158 tons, Newton, tot Melbourne, via Bluff and Hobart. Passengers: Misses Bennett, Mesdames Frobarth, Williams, Messrs Craig, T. Collins, Nicholl, Holland, Clayton, Wheelband, Holland, Henderson, West, Dank, Studholme, Hodge, W. H. Bourne, Falrthorne, Meyer; and 17 steerage. Tarawera, s.s., 1269 ton 3, Gibb, for Sydney, via Lyttelton and Wellington. Passengers. Misses Herbert, Stephenson, Munro (2), Nelson (2), Speight, Drumm, Halcrow, Wilson, Brown, ftiiderson, Hulswick, Mesdames Munro, King, J. [ Stephenson, Nelson, Holmes (and child), Brittain, Stewart, M'Fie (and child), Messrs " J., Stephenson, Sutherland, Corrigan, H. Wise, J. Colvin, W. Boonie, T. Williden, Robertson, Herbert, Currie, F. Rattray; -27. steerage. Wanaka, s.s., 1572 tons, Fleming, for Sydney, via the Bluff. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London.—Turakina, ship, Fox (May 6), put in at Port Elizabeth for repairs. Pleione, ship (June 17); due about September 15. Waitangi, ship (July 30); due October 31. From Glasgow.—Soukar, ship (June 30); due September 30. From Liverpool. — Lake Ontario, barque, Pundt (April 28); due about August 12. Akaroa, barque, Murray (June 21); clue about Octob.er 20. Oamaru, ship (July 30); due October 31..' From Hamburg.— Liv, barque, Larsen (June 21); due about October 27. From New York. —Norwood, ship, Douglas (June 15); due about October 7. Savoia, barque (July 20); due about October 18. From Calcutta.—Onda, s.s. (August 1); due about September 4. . From Lady Elliott's Island.—Severn, barquentine (loading). Mary Moore, barque (loading). Cuthona, barquentine, from Maiden Island From Surprise Island.—Ganymede, barque, (loading; Ales, barque (to load); Onyx, barque (loading). From Sydney.—Talune, August 31. Elingamite, August 28. From Auckland. —Gratitude, ketch, now due. From' Westport.—Corinna, August 25. From Invercargill.—lnvercargill, September 2.■■• ■ . ' ■ ... PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For, Melbourne.—Taluns, -SeEtembpr 1. Tara-weia.-.September 12.-■■■•.:ij:-;-..i : - ■. ' ; V> : . ... For Sydney.—Wainots^" via: Auckland, '.September '6. Mararoa, August- 23. Elingamite, August 30. Waikare, August 31. Wakatipu, September 12. For Greymouth.—Herald, August 24. For Westport.—Corinna, August 26. Taupo, September. 2. - For Owaka.—Napier, August 29. For Invercargill.—lnvercargill, August 23. For Preservation Inlet.—lnvercargill, August 30; For Wellington.—Herald, August 24. HOMEWARD BOUND. Margaret Galbraith (S.S. and A. Co), Wellington, April 27; due London July 31. Timcrii (S.S. and A. Co.), Wellington, March 24. MOVEMENTS OF DIRECT STEAMERS. TO ARRIVE. At Wellington—Hawke's Bay (Tyser), sailed June 27. Maori (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed July 9. Duke of Devonshire (N.Z.S. Co.), sailed July 23, due September 11. Gothic (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed August 2, due September 19. At Port Chalmers. — Rangatira (S. S. and A. Co.), sailed July 12; due September 5. Banff shire (Shire), from London, via Brisbane; due about August 30. At Lyttelton.—Maori (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed from London June 9. ; TO DEPART. ; From Port Chalmers.—Banffshire (Shire), about August 31. Duke of Devonshire (N.Z.S. CoJ, September 29. From Bluff.—Rakaia' (N.Z.S. Co.), in September. From Lyttelton.—Pakeha (S.S. and A. Co.), August 20. Rimutaka (N.Z.S. Co.), September 1. ; HOMEWARD BOUND. Ster of New Zealand, Bluff, July 8. Duke of ■ Portland (N.Z.S. Co.), Port Chalmers, July 19.' Aotea (S.S. and A. Co.), Lyttelton, July 29." Star of Victoria, Wellington, July 30. Riiahine (N.Z.S. Co.), Wellington, August 4. lonic (S.S. and A. Co.), Lyttelton, August 18. Otarama (N.Z.S. Co.), Bluff, August 19. , «*.-'. - IMPORTS. Special Notice. —Consignees desirous of having their names appear in this part of our columns, together with their consignments, may have the same inserted on payment of a small charge. Per barque Dori3, from New Zork: 947 pkgs merchandise, 10 sewing machines, 3K) pkgs lubricating oil, 7250 cs kerosene, 52 tons pig iron, 160 cs paraffin, 100 cs benzine, 235 cs turpentine, 15 pkgs hardware, 1222 pkgs agricultural machinery, 550 cs barb-wire, 15 pkgs agricultural implements, 202 pkgs printing paper, 21 cs vaseline, 10 cs paraffin wad, 95 cs seeds, 26 cs soap and perfumery, 20 bdls galv wire, 65 cs school slates, 46 wringers, 36 pkgs glassware, 18 bdls'tubs, 814 bdls hickory rim strips, 24 ash do, 97 bis paper bags, 542 pcs shelving, 14 pkga glucose, 150 pkgs resin, 500 bxs maizena, 763 rails, 234 b^is splice bars, 23 pkgs bolts, 100 kgs nails, 37 rls duck, 81 pkgs druggists' sundries, 400 pkgs sundries. Per Firth of Forth, from Glasgow: 825 rg 132 qrs 118 oct whisky, 7690 brs iron, 191 bdls sheet iron, 464 cs cornflour, 709 bdls tubes, 250 plates, 111 angles steel, 136 tons pig iron, 1310 pkgs paint, 124 drums oil, 13 pkgs earthenware 25.pkgs castings, 50 cs beer, 480 r w pipes, 19 stoves, 24 camp-ovens, 2990 sash-weights, 58 iawboxes, 188 r w connections, 51 bxs glass, &0 bgs logwood, 5 frnis felt, 20 bdls oakum, 15 pkgs i^aper, 211 bxs coffee essence, 8 ca fireirons, 5 frms felt, 4000 bricks, 36 bxs frying-pans, 25 csks olive oil, 80 bgs logwood, 40 kgs rivets, 14 drrns caustic soda, 3 tnks seed, 1 box, 2 crts bottled whisky, 160 pkgs sundries. Per Herald, from Greymouth: 8166 ft timber, 501. tons coal, 169 sleepers, 1 cs organs, 5 cs ■whitebait, 698 bgs coke, and quantity snndries. o SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, August 22.—Arrived: 7 a.m., Elingamite, from Sydney. Passenger: Mr' Cray/ford. Ovalau, from Fiji. Owing to aieasies being x^revalent at Fiji, she was not allowed to land or ship cargo at the Tongaa Group. Captain Crawahaw, of the Ovalau, haj great difficulty in inducing the authorities to send off the mails for New Zealand, but ultimately the postal authorities consented to communicate with the steamer and place the mails oir board. A case of measles broke out on board the Ovalau on the passage from Sydney, but only of a mild type. Sailed: Westralia, for Sydney. WELLINGTON, A-a2i;st 22.—Arrived: Pareora, from Wostport. 2 a.m., Waikare, from Sydney. Passengers for Dunedin: Mrs Sturnck (and 3 children), V" rielmoie. Sailed: ftfawhera, for Picton, .v--.ison, and West Coast. Sailed: Waikaro, ior Lyttelton and jDuti-.-rlin. Passengers: Mi'-'-es Smith, Stevenson. M'Lennan, Glendining (2), Boyd, Mesdames .'fodfrey, Cederman, Sharp, Robertson, M'Len:ipJi, Meiklejohn (and 2 sons), Glendinins, Messrs Fairbanks, Gnc'rlard, Smith, Harner', Craddock, Gilstrotn, G'H, Glendining, Bingi;am, Moorhouse, Keakos: and 19 steerage.—— ,'jaiied: Rotomahana, lor Lyttelton. Passengers: Misses Julius (2i Mesdames Patterson, >lorrison, Captain Patterson, Messrs Morrison, Verschoyle, Fraser (2i. Pollock, M'Lennan M'Cormack, Barns, Go™, W. Hall, Howden, Ta'bart; and 21 steerage. Rakaia, for Lyttelton. The Warrimoo resumes her voyage tc Sydney at midnight. The steamer Cornwall, bound to Sjdney, from London, put in here toniKht for coaL

: LYTTELTON, August 22.—Sailed: Corinna, for southern ports; H.M.S. Tauranga, for Wellington and Auckland. She -will take the British Resident to Rarotonga. THE SUPPOSED "WRECK. "WELLINGTON, August 22.—The only vessal to which any calamity such as that suggested by the wreckage reported to have been washed ashore on the East Coast is likely to have happened is the Italian barque Prospero Padre, 131 days from New York, but even this is mere conjecture. A constable despatched to make further investigations returned from the search, and reports that he could find no wreckage. All he found were a few apples and oranges on th 3 beach. . THE VANCOUVER SERVICE. "WELLINGTON, August 22—The Warrimoo, from Vancouver, via Honolulu and Suva, arrived late this afternoon. She brings 13 patsengers for New Zealand and 35 for Australian1 ports. Among through passengers, is the Bishop of Goulburn. Passengers for New Zealand: Miss-"Watson, Mesdames "Wilson, "Wat' son, Dr "Wilson, Messrs Elliott (2), Lake, Howard, Stevenson, Wilberforce, Bell, Staples, and Rudd. Cargo for Lyttelton: 3 bis dom cotton, 2 cs boots and shoes, 118 rs newspaper, 2 do belt buckles. For Dunedin: 13 bis paper, 7 bis dom cotton, 3 cs sign, 1 cs shoes. o THE DIRECT STEAMERS. '.The Kaikoura sailed from Plymouth on Saturday with 16 first class, 43 second class, and SO steerage passengers. The Ruapehu was loading at London and was to sail on September 17 for "Wellington and Lyttelton. The barque Doris was towed up to Dunedin ■by the tugs Koputai and Plucky yesterday evenThe* barque Ebba is now clear of her Dunedin cargo, and ready to sail the first favourable . opportunity. The barque Firth of Forth commenced discharging cargo yesterday afternoon. The Invercargill sails for Invercargill to-day. From there she proceeds to Colac to load timber for Dunedin. ■ The brigantine Enterprise arrived at Kaipara, via Timaru and "Wanganui, on Sunday. ' .The.Sir Henry leaver Kaipara this week with | a cargo of timber for Dunedin.. Her return j load will be a cargo of grain for northern ports. | The Tui and Isabella Anderson may oe expected any day now from Kaipara with timber. ~.-■■ ' ' ■ i The s.s. Waikare on her arrival on the 24th inst. will go into dock for a week. The s.s. Monowai, which is expected to arrive on the 30th inst., will be docked for the customary overhaul, and the s.s. Waikare will take 1 up her running. I The s.s. Wanaka's next trip will be to Cal-. j cutta with, a load of horßes, leaving here ;» ; September 30. It was reported on Saturday that a steamer, supposed to bo the Union Steam Ship Co.'s new steamer Mapourika, was seen passing Hobart that morning. . , That the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have faith in the future development ot trade with New Zealand is demonstrated by the fact . that a contract has been let'for another powerful steamer, to be built on similar lines to the Waiwera, which is now being constructed to the order of the company by the Messrs Dennv, of Dumbarton. The contractors for the new steamer are Messrs Swan and Hunter, of Wallsend, who wero the builders of the Maori, the Aotea, and the Tokomaru. The dimensions of the newly-ordered steamer will be:—Length, 425 ft; beam, 52ft; and depth, 32ft; but that, of course, will not represent her draught. She will ,be fitted with Haslam' s refrigerating machi-. nery, and have capacity for storing 92,000 carcases of mutton, in addition to carrying a large general cargo. Her rate of speed will be about 12 knots, and she will be fitted with very powerful engines. The contract time for her completion expires in June, 1899. Messrs Denny ex- j pect to complete the Waiwera by the end of the present year. The s.s. Taieri was floated out of the graving dock yesterday morning, and her place taken up by the s.s. Pukaki, which is to be cleaned ■■ and re-painted. : The s.s. Herald arrived at the George street pier at 7.30 a.m. yesterday, and after diseharg- • ing a quantity of timber and coal, steamed up to Dunedin. • She left the'wharf at Greymbuiii a.t.JD>ii.M.';oriiiLugusii:9,".oxperieriped fine weatEec~thTOughbut'",ihe passage, and arrived -as above. . ' ■•. ■ ■ " ■' ■?,: The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's ship Westland is to load at Liverpool for this j port, via-Wellington. '■■• j The German barque Lilla is ontHe loading | berth at London for Dunedin. ~ . - j ' The Norwegian barque Severn arrived at J Suva on July 20 vfith a cargo of coal from NeW- ■ castle. After . discharging it she was to pro- 1 ceed.to Lady Elliott's Island and take in a cargo of guano for Dunediu. The .British-India Company's s.s. Onda left Calcutta on August 1 for New Zealand ports. The ship Wellington is to load at Liverpool for Dunedin, via Wellington. "' .'-The barquentine Jasper, from Lady Elliott Island, via Nelson, arrived off the heads yesterday forenoon. '• ARRIVAL OF THE DORIS. The barque DorAj from New York, arrived off Otago Heads-yesterday forenoon, and was boarded by Pilot M'Doriald, and tendered by the s.s. Plucky, which brought her up to an anchorage in Deborah Bay at 1 p.m., her draught of water being 19ft 6in aft, and-18ft 6in forward. She was met in the lower har- '< Dour by' the health and customs authorities, i and all being well was admitted to pratique and promptly cleared in. The Doris is a hand- , some-looking barque of 1295 tons net,- and is j composite built, having iron frames with steel j plates. She is one of the largest sailing vessels that has anchored in Deborah Bay for some years, being 248 ft 6in long, 35ft 3in beam, and 21ft 6in, : deep: She was built' at Dundee in 1887 by Messrs A. Stephens and Sons, and j is owned by Captain Newton. "Her class at ■ Lloyd's.is 100 Al. Ths'Doris brings about ' 2400 tons of general cargo, half of which is for .- Dunedin,. and the remainder for Lyttelton. Her agents in this city are Messrs Neill and Co (Limited). She comes into port in superb order, and reflects great credit on Captain Robertson, whose first visit to Otago in command it is, although ho was here some 22 years since as third officer of the barque City of Lucknow. Her passage from port to port 3i?.s occupied 97 days, and has been marked by light winds at the outset, poor trades, pnd very ; heavy weather while crossing the Southern j Ocean. Captain Robertson, reports leaving \ New ifork on May 17 rlt'n. light, westerly winds, : which carried her to lat. 27 N. on: June 1. i Thence she had variable winds and ran into the N.E. trades in lat. \JG N., long. 31 W. 'The trades were light, and continued down to lat. 10 N., when she had a strong southerly gale, which lasted 21 hours, and thence she picked up the trades again, '.''iiey gave out in lat. 6 N., long. 27 W., on J«iie 17, and were succeeded by light doldrum weather until she reached )at. 2 N., when the S.EJ. trades were : taken. She crossed the equator on June 20 in long. 29 W. Had moderate to baffling trades, - and was compelled to r;:ake a tack in order to clear the Brazilian eoarf; she lost the trades in lat. 22 S. on June 25. and for the nnxt four days had very light winds, which were followed by fresh to moderate variable winds down to lat. 20 S., when strong passage winds from north to south n?i in, taking her across the meridian of Greeirwh on July 13 in lat. 40 S. The Cape of OwA Hope was rounded on July 17 in lat. 42 S.'. and thence she had strong winds from "VV'jST.W. to W.S.W.- all across the Southern Ocean-, attended' by constant sales and heavy so*s. The meridian of Capo Leuwin was crossed on August 7 in lat. : 45 S., and still encountering strong southerly gales she passed.the. island of Tasmania on August 15 in lat. 48.4. S. She' sighted the Snares at noon of August 20, and came up the coast with fine weather. No ice or wreckage wa.3 seen in the Southern Ocean, and the easting v.as made on the parallel of 47 S. . Captain Robertson reports that on August 16 at 4 p-in. Mr Henry Cotter, the second mate, whose watch on deck it was, fell in a dead faint' on the fore braces. He was immediately picked up and attended to, but died four hours later from apoplexy. Tho body waa buried at sea on August 17 in'lat. 47.42 S., and long. 157 E. __.