SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11200, 24 August 1898, Page 1

SHIPPING.

PORT CHALMEES. A blue flag will be hoisted at the mast-heac Fort Chalmers signal station, on the forenoo of the day when the time signal is to be given. Phases op the Moon (Calculated for New Zealand mean time). Augctst. Full Moon .. . .. 2nd 3.59 p.n Last Quarter 9th 5.45 p.rt New Moon .. .. 17th 10.5 p.ir First Quarter .. 25th 8.2 a.n Perigee, Ist, 9.37 a.m. Apogee, 13th, 3.37 p.n] Perigee, 29th, 12.37 p.m. j Sun rises to-day at 6.57 a.m.; sets 5.24 p.m. THE WEATHER. August £3. —S a.m. : Wind N.E.; weather fine .Noon: Wind N.E. ; weather fine. 5 p.m.: Win< N.E. ; weather line. S a in. Noon. 5 p.m Barometer. . , . 3072 30-80 2078 Thermometer ... 400 520 6'i'O FORECAST.—The weather will continue fro for the next 24 hours ; afterwards S.E. and N.E winds. HIGH WATER. a m. p.m /"At the Heads ... 6.35 H. 57 August 24 <At Port Chalmers 7.15 , 7.37 (.AtDunedin . 8.0 5.22 ARRIVAL. Jasper, barquentine, 252 tons, Burton, fron Lady Elliott's Island. ' DEPARTURES. John o' Gaunt, barque, 1228 tons, Thomas for' Auckland. New. Zealand Shipping Com pany, agents. Taieri, s.s., 1572 tons, Shepherd, for Sydney J. 'Mills, agent. . Mararoa, 5.5.,1381 tons, Phillips, for Sydney via East Coast ports. J. Mills, agent. Passen gers. Misses Delay, J. Burns, Foote, Dunn M'Laif, M. Pryor, Ivy Brown, Hoby, Gillotly Drinkwater (2), Williams, Mesdames Delay, S Sw'anson, M'Phail, E. Martin, R. Hunter (auc 2 children), Drinkwater, W. Stubbs, Harris Pilling, F. O'Leary (and 3 children), Williams Messrs W. Stubbs, Harris, R. Shanks, J Arthur, Piper, F. W Cliffs, J Foote, J. Scott J. A. Falconer, Pilling, F. O'Leary, F. W Fairthome, Delay, H. E. Williams, ID. Stewart; and 25 in the steerage. . EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From London.—Turakina, ship, Fox (Ma; 6), put in at Port Elizabeth for repairs. Plei one, ship (June 17); due about September 15 ■ Waitangi, ship (July. 30); due October 31. From Glasgow.—Soukar, ship (June 30); dm September 30. From Liverpool. — Lake Ontario, barque Pundt (April 28); due about August 12. Akaroa, barque, Murray (June 21); clue about. Oc tobar 20. Oamaru, ship (July 30); due Octe'oe: 31.' . • From Hamburg.— Liv, barque, Larsen femnf 21); due about October 27. From New York.—Norwood, ship, £?uuglai (June 15), due about October 7 Sayoia barque (July 20), due about October 18. v From Calcutta.—Onda,' s.s. (August 1), dw abbut September 4. . . .■ - From Lady Elliott's Island.—Severn, bar quentine (loading). Mary Moore, barque (load ing). Cuthona,: barquentine, from Maiden Is land From Surprise'lsland.—Ganymede, barque (loading); Alex, barque.(to load). From Sydney. — Waikare, August 24 Talune, August 31. Elingamite, August 28. From Auckland.—Gratitude, ketch, now due From We3tport.—Corirma, August 25. From Invercargill.—lnvercargill, Septembe: PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Melbourne.—Talune, September 1. Tara wera, September 12. For Sydney.—Waihora, via Auckland, Sep tcmber 6. Elingamite, August 30. Waikare Scipternbef 1 Wakatipu, September 12 Mararoa, September 20. For Greymouth.—Herald, August 24. For Westport.—Corinna, August 26. Taupo, September 2.^ For Owaka.—Napier, August 29. For Preservation Inlet. —Invercargill, August 80. For Wellington.—Herald, August 24. "TIOMEWABD BOUND. ■ Margaret Galhtaith ■~(S.;S.,.ana* A...C0), Wellington, April '271;: due'LoridorfJuly"3l. Timaiu (S.S. and A. Co.), Wellington, March 24: MOVEMENTS OF DIRECT STEAMERS. "TO AKBIVM.' . ■'-. At Wellington.-^-Hawke's Bay (Tyser), sailed June 27. Maori (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed Julj 9. Duke of Devonshire (N.Z.S. Co.), sailec 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, Banffshire (Shire), from London, via Brisbane; due about August 30. At Lyttelton.—Maori (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed! from London June 9. TO BEPA3T. From Port Chalmers.—Banffshire (Shire) about August 31. Duke of Devonshire (N.Z.S Co.), September 29. From Bluff—Rakaia (N.Z;S. Co.), in Sep tember. ■ ■' ."■.;■ ' From Lyttelton.—Pakeha (S.S. and A. Co.) August 20. Rimutaka (N.Z.S. Co.), Septembe; 1. ' HOMEWAED BOUND. Star of New Zealand, Bluff, July 3. Dukf of Portland (N.Z.S. Co.), Port Chalmers, Julj 19. Aotea (S.S and A. Co.), Lyttelton, Jul3 29. Star of Victoria, Wellington, July 30 Ruahine (N.Z.S. Co.), Wellington, August 4 lonic (S.S. and A. Co.), Lyttelton, August 18 Otararaa (N.Z.S. Co.), Biuff, August 19.

SHIPPING- TELEGKAMS. AUCKLAND, August 23.—Arrived: Hauroto, from the Islands.——Sailed: Asterior, for London. Sailed- Elingainite, for the soi>th. Passengers Miase3 Maskel, Teasclale, and Buck, Mesdames Palmer, Herd, Ronnie. Donald, Currie, Wilson, Messrs Brown, Luke, Herd, Wilson, and Austin. WELLINGTON, August 23.— Arrived: Prospero Padre, barque, from- New York;. 132 days ;out.—^Arrived. Wainui, from Nelson and Picton; H.M.S. Tanrauga,jrom Lyttelton, Taupo and Penguin, from the-south;- Sarah and Mary, brigautine, from the Bluff; Eivei Hunter, "barquentine, bound from Newcastle to Gisborne, put in through stress1 of weather. Sailed: Penguin, for Picton and Nelson; Ohau, for Westport. The steamer Cornwall resumed her voyage to London to-day. LYX'i'ELTON, August 23.—Sailed (6.20 p.m.) Tarawera, for Wellington. BLUFF, August 23.—Sailed: Wakatipu, 5.3., for Melbourne. SYDNEY, August 23.—Sailed: Talune, for Wellington. MELBOURNE, August 23.—Sailed: Monowai, for the Bluff.

The s.s. Invercargill left yesterday afternoon for Invercargill. The s.s. Taieri left Port Chalmers on Monday evening for Sydney. The s.s. Pukaki 13 undergoing her periodical overhaul and inspection of machinery in the graving dock. The alterations to ihe, s.s. Manapouri are ueing vigorously carried out at the Union Company's ship yards, Port Chalmers. The barque John o' Gaunt was towed down the harbour yesterday forenoon, and sailed for Auckland, vat which port she loads for London, under the auspices of the New Zealand Shipping Company. We have received the annual review of shipping and commerce for the year ended June 30, 1898, and issued as a supplement to that excellent shipping paper the Daily Commercial News and Shipping List, published at Sydney. Ihe work is well and profusely illustrated, and the letterpress most excellent. Its contents are most valuable to merchants and others connected with the shipping interests. Full lists of imports and exports are given, and the trade of the year is reviewed. A list of marine casualties is shown, and the whole work is full of most interesting matter. On July 5 H.M. battleship Ocean was launched "at Devonport by Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lome) in the presence of enormous crowds of spectators. Designed, like the rest of her clasa, by Sir W. H. White, X.C.8., Director of Naval Construction, the Ocean is built throughout entirely of steel. Her length betw-cn perpendiculars is 390 ft, breadth (extreme) 74ft, load draiight of water (forward) 26/t, aft 2Gft. Her load displacement will be 13,000 tons, and when ready for sea she will be a flagship, carrying an admiral and 751 officers and men. She is in a much more advanced stage than is usual for ships at the time of launching. About 7100 tons of material have been worked into the. construction of the ship. The Ocean will be fitted with 20 boilers, all of the Belleville type, estimated to produce on the trials at natural draught 13,500 h.p. The vessel's full speed at full power will be 15.25 knots per hour. The main propelling machinery consists of two complete sets of vertical triple-expansion engines, having cylinders of 30in, 49in, and 80in diameter, and stroke of 4ft 3in, in separate engine rooms, each set capable of developing 6725 h.p. with 180 revolutions. Probably there is no nautical term more frequently used than the word "knot." The word is synonymous with the nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet, while, as everybody knows, or should know, the geographical mile is 5280 ft. This would make the knot equal to 1.15 geographical miles, and, therefore, in order to compare the speed of a vessel expressed in knots with a railway train it is necessary to multiply the speed in knots by 1.15.100. Another point to remember is that speed means a distance travelled in unit time.', bo ibat when one Bbeaks of

a boat having a speed of twenty knots it is nol necessary or proper to add per hour, as th< word itself, when employed as a unit of speed, signifies nautical miles per hour. A cruisei that makes twenty-one knots travels 24.15 geographical miles per hour. • ' " '. ARRIVAL OF THE JASPER. ' A STORMY VOYAGE. The barqifentine Jasper, with a cargo of 42( tons of guano from Lady Elliott's Island, con signed to Messrs Wright, Stepheiison, and Co. arrived yesterday afternoon, after a protractec and-stormy voyage of 46 days. She lelt th( island on July 5, and had .fine weather till tL( 9th, when she met in with squally weather iron the E.S.E.j veering rotind.to.S. On. July I' she fell in with a gale from the S.E. by E., with heavy seas, the deck beiug constantly flooded. After that, almost to arrival, her decks .were nearly always under water. On July 18 the gals, was at its height, and the vessel had to oe hove-to, labouring heavily with her decks full, Again on July 38 she encountered a heavy southerly gale, which increased on the 29th, the vessel being hovc-to, head-reaching unaor lowei sails. A very high sea.was runn'.ng and breaking aboard at times, so that oil bags had to be used. On July 30 the gale continued with a very heavy sea, the only sails set being doublereefed spanker and foot of mainsail, oil-ba^s being constantly in use. The gale moderated next day, but rose again on august 1, by which time the Jasper was in lat. 45.28 ;S., ana snort of provisions. She had therefore to shape her course for Cook Strait. On August 2 a.southerly gale sprang up, but as the crew, were short oi provisions, she could not heave-to, and had to run before it under lower-topsails ana foresail, labouring heavily all the time. The gale lasted tilJ August 4, when light winds were met with. On August 8 sho spoke the Pareora olf Farewell Spit, and got some provisions. Falling in with a strong S.E. wind oh August 11, she squared away for Nelson, and laid in-a stock of provisions. She left again .on August 12, but had to hang out a S.E. gale for three days under the lea of D'Urville Island. After ihat she, had moderate weather, to arrival. She reached the Heads at noon yesterday, and was towed up by the Plucky in the alternoon.

OVERLAND PASSENGERS. ,

■ ' : ■ ~~* :— —r- ' ■ Yesterday's Through THAitrs. From Dunedin for the North.—For Christchuich: Mr John'Ross, Mr L.D. Nathan, Hon. J. MacG-regor. • > For Dunedin from the South.—Mr and Mrs Thomson, Miss Dellow, Mrs Bawson (and child), Mr W Lewis, Mrs King, Mr Dolamore, Mrs Palmer, Mrs M'Millan: From Dunedin for the South.—Mr J. Maddern, Mrs J. Macdonald (and child), Miss Ju. M'Neill, Miss Ireland, Mr A. Stewart, Miss Mason, Miss Shanks, Mr J. Allison, Mr J. Much, Mrs Clark, Miss Trotterj Mrs Officer Eev. Mr and Mrs Begg, Mr and Mrs M'llraith. ■ From the North for Dunedfh.—Mr Percy Helmore, Mr James Macalister, Mr T. A. Fruser, Mr C. R. Howdon, Mr and Mrs Awdry, (and family), Mr C. Fraser, Mr J. F. M. Fraser, Miss F. M. Morrison, Miss Bdyd, Miss Ferguson. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■•-■■.■