SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11329, 24 January 1899, Page 1

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, January 23.—Arrived: Wesiraha, from Sydney. Passengers: For Auckland—7s saloon and 30 steerage. For Dunedin —Mrs M'lnch, Mr and Mrs Williams, Mrs Phipps (and son), Messrs Huddart, Bulwer, Nicol, Warr, and Vince; 2 steerage. Sailed: Elingamite, for Sydney • WELLINGTON, January 23—Tho ship Blenheim,, which was blown away from the heads a fortnight ago, got in at last about midnight, 122 days out from Liverpool. It was not till yesterday afternoon that the wind changed to the south, and gave her a chance. She lost two or thres sails m the gale. Sailed Queen Louise, for Wanganui; Te Anau, for the north, Rotoraahana, for Lyttelton. Passengers. Misses Ca-ssellis Rochester, Carlton Pearce, Plantan (2), Hillas, White, Caldwell, Lezardj-Power, Koran, Newman, Vivian, Matthews, Gleeson, Hill, Clayton, Griffiths, Brailsford, Mesdames Mainey (and child), Bnce, O'Meara, Hon. G. M'Lean, Rev. Fay, Messrs Brice, Holmes, Fenton, Wanklyn, Piper, Delamain, Jallan, ' Wetworfh, M'Kenzie, Power, Hill, Middleton, Holland, Rosevear, Bunkman, Frisco, Watson, Randerson, Evans, Carlton, ford, Fordham, Fox, Barends, Brown, Fairway, Fish, O'Meara; 14 steerage. BLUFF, January 23.—Arrived: Rotokino, from Oamaru; TutaneVai, from Greymouth.— Sailed Rotokino, for Sydney. MELBOURNE, January 23.—Arrived: Wakatipu, from the Bluff.

The ship "Auckland--was towed up from Port Chalmers yesterday, and berthed at the cross wharf at 2p.m. Immediately: on the arrival of the Auckland, the s.s. Monowai left the tongue wharf-for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobart. The.s.si, Rakanoa left for the north yesterday afternoon. shortly after the departure of the Monowai. From Auckland she proceeds to The s.s. Mokoia sail? for Sydney, via Auckland, to-day, leaving the tongue wharf at 2 The next boat for Sydney is the s.s. Tarawa on Thursday. She is due here from. Melbourne to-morrow. . j The barquentine Jerfalcon comes out ol i dock, to-day, and will leave for Maiden Island | to-morrow. „ , _.' The s.s. Rangatira left Plymouth for Dunedin on January 6. i The s.s. Tolosa, due here from New York on February 8, will leave again on February 11 for New York direct, being the first of the new line to do so. ■The s.s. Eibston left New York on December 31 for Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. She also belongs to the American- j Australian line. The s.s. Clitus, British-Indian line, was to ■■ leave Calcutta this month for New Zealand, being the third steamer of that line to do so, the other'two being the Wanaka and the RakaThe s.s. Napier is expected to return from the south this morning, and is to sail in the afternoon for Fortrose and Waikawa. The s.s. Invercargill sails for Invercargill and Preservation Inlet this afternoon. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Wakanui has been classed 100 Al at Xiloyd's, and is said to be one of the nnest vessels ever turned out by Messrs Hawthorne, Leslie and Co., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is I 2 oft long, 64ft broad, and 27ft depth of hold. Her port of registry is Plymouth She is engined by her builders on the triple expansion principle, the diameter of the cylinders being, respectively, 30in, 48m, and 78m, with a length of stroke of 54m. . The Bluff Harbour tug Awarua is expected to be floated out of the Port Chalmers graving the arrival of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamship Otarama, from London; about Thursday. ■ Some 2600 cases of butter were sent from the Port Chalmers freezius works to Oamaru yesterday for shipment by the s.s. Waikato. The new Tysei line steamer Tomoana, of 7750 tons, will load ?.< New York m time for departure in March j- Australia and New Zealand. Captain 1 ..-ate, late of the s.s. Hawke's Bay, will command the Tomoana. The American ship V. H. Starbuck, bound from Port Blakely lo South Africa with 1 000,000 ft of lumber, w« burned to the water s edge on Novembei 5 h. lat. 13.10 N., long. 131 W Captain M'DonaW's boat, with his wife, the first mate, and nine of the crew, and three children, landed at Hookena on November 20 Tlie second mate's boat was not seen aiter tne fourth day out. The first mate's boat capsized 12 days out. The cook was lost, and the rest were taken into the captain's boat. A Glasgow firm is credited with having made £10 000 on the sale of a- new 6800-ton boat now building on the Clyde, and also with having, placed a replica order with another firm ol Clyde builders at £7000 less than was given for the -original steamer, which seems uncommonly good business.

Messrs Stables, Straker, and Co., in tlieu monthly circular, dated London, December 7, state that the total declared value of shipments from the United Kingdom to the colonies for the four weeks ended November 17 was £1,512,000, against £1,716,000 for the previous four weeks, and £1,725.000 for the corresponding period last year. The totals to each colony are as follow:—Victoria, £336,000, against £385,000 for the corresponding perioa ■:•" -ear, or a decrease of £49,000; New South Wales, £425,000, against £511,000, or a decrease of £86,000; Queensland, £ISB,OOO, against £161,000, or an increase of. £27,000; South Australia. £110,000, against £148,000, or a decrease of £38,000; Western Australia, £130,000, against £239,000, or a decrease of £109,000; Tasmania, £IS,OOO, against £29,000, or a decrease of £11,000; New Zealand, £305,000, against £252,000, or an increase of £53,000. . In the P. and O. Company's report to hand by the English mail details are given of the salving of the steamer China. For many weeks after this disaster took place the weather, says the report, was so unfavourable that salvage operations were either suspended,or rendered ineffective, and the ship heaved on to the rocks so violently at times as to threaten her destruction. Nevertheless, her hull above the water-line remained perfectly sound, testifying to its" admirable construction, notwithstanding that the forebody of the ship was full of water. As soon; therefore, as the weather became more favourable, the salvage operations were recommenced with energy, and at length terminated in the successful refloating of the ship. The stranding took place on the 24th March, and the ship was refloated on the 16th September, so that she had been on the reef altogether five months a:nd 24 days. The temporary repairs which are necessary to enable her. to, be taken home are extensive, and as they, have to be carried out to a large extent by divers, they have necessarily occupied a great deal of time. As soon as she arrives Home she will be placed in the hands of her builders, Messrs Harland and. Wolff, of Belfast, in the confident belief that she will be restored, in every, way, to the state and efficiency of a new vessel. The directors have debited the year's working account with a sum of £75,000. . towards the cost of refloating and repairing the China.