SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11452, 17 June 1899, Page 4

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

"WELLINGTON, June 16.—Arrived: Waik&re," from Sydney, with 60 passengers. For Dunediht Miss Cannon, Mrs Hughes, Messrs M'Farlane, Taylor, M'Queen; and 10 in the steerage. Arrived: Westralia, from Sydney, - via Auckland and East' Coast ports; - i Rotomahana, from ■ Lyttelton; Clyde, .r schooner, from Lyttelton. r Sailed: Rotomahana, for Lyttelton. . Passengers: Misses Overlon (2), Asmiss, Harlan'd, Mesdames Brariting, Bellhouse, Mason, Hedges, Sneddon, Messrs Bates, Sykes, Wales, Mason. Hedges. Sailed : Waikare, for Mel> bourne, via the south and Hobart. Passengers: Misses Cotter and child, Hill, Wilson, Tulloch, Moir, Thomas, Mesdameß M'Kenzie, Thomas,. Gray,,Nickle, Brill, Cameron, Keom, 1 Garland; Messrs Gray, Nickle, Brill, Owen, Barclay;:M'Carthy, Sharpies, Seeley and son, Howison, Quaine, Kinoig, Moore, Graham,1 k Aitken, . Laidlaw, Malet, Hill,' - Couper, otronaoh. Sailed: Westralia, for, Lyttel-. ton and Dunedin: Passengers: Misses M'Nee '- Crossley, Weir, Allen, Gudgeon, "Smith, Barker, Moore, Wilson, M'Leod, Mesdames Jones, Gilmour, Dear, Wallace, Cosgrave Blessr3 Blunck, Dodds and son, King, Morris, Larson, Harman, Simpson, Pitcaithley, Jones Dear. LYTTELTON, June 16.-Sailed: Mokoia, for Wellington. ■ ' BLUFF, • June 15.—Arrived: Na'irnshire, 8.5., from London, via Australian ports. Sailed : Monowai, for Melbourne. .' ALBANY, June 16.—Arrived: Oruba, from London, • Passenger for New Zealand: Mr Clutteroij: • i ■Mr Henry; Guthrie received a telegram last evening jntimahng that the Sarah and Alary was to leave Kaipara last, night with a carjro of timber for Dunedin. '. J - . The1 8.8, Flora sailed for Auckland, via way ports, at 3.15 yesterday afternoon. "n on s' s' Corinna mailed for Westport at 4.20 p.m. yesterday. , The barque Silverhow had about 120 tons pt cargc out last night, and so far her cargo is coming.up m excellent condition. ■ . The 6.8. Rimu loads timber for Timaruat Stewart Island, and returns here, on Tuesday - me s.s. Hauroto, from Newcastle,, via nor-' them ports, arrived at the Rattray street wharf at 9.30 a.m. yesterday. Slie left Newcastle^, 2 a.m.. on .the 3rd inst., and experienced fresh N. and N.E. to E. winds with dirty Weather and rain squalls for the most part to 'Wellington, at which port she arrived at 6 a.m. on the 10th. Tho weather was so thick that no observations could be made fcr three days before making the New Zealand coast,-her officers having tc depend upon dead reckoning for -their position. She left Wellington again on the loth, calling at Lyttelton arid. Uimaru,,and arriving as above. She saijs for Sydney, via the Bluff,. to-morrow morning, Messrs Rattray and Son have been advised that the barcnie Grace Peering, well-known in this port, sailed from-New York for DunediD on= May 5. 5 The S.W. breeze that sprang up yesterday morning enabled the schooner LilyUo fret aws.y. She sailed at 7 a.m. for Wanganui. The, s.s. Waikare is due to-morrow, from fcydney,-, but will not come up to Dunedin, on iccount-6f the tide being unsuitable. The work of coaling H.M.S. Mildura was commenced yesterday morning. v ' Every, possible despatch i- being made by -Messrs Morgan and Cable with the renovation Jf;the j.3. Mapourika in the Port Chalmers graving dock. Their artisans are workine at' her day. and night. ' It is stated that an English syndicate is to establish a steel shipbuilding plant at Haliinn'nmTf °tia>" having bou&hi a sift for IUUjOOOdoI According. to German papers, Messrs Roy aqd Lebrelon, of Eouen, have contracted with the Neptune Shipbuilding Company, Rostock, for the construction of a large cargo steamer. This is slated to be the first steamer ever built m Germany to the order of French owners-." • The American shipbuilding yards are so full of orders at the present time that the American line, which intended building two steamers in England and two in the United states, .will now be compelled to have the four vessels constructed in England. Al a meeting of the Liverpool Underwriters Association, held on April 27, Captain . Owen Lewis, master of the four-masted barque Liverpool, was presented with 100 guineas by the underwriters in recognition and appreciation of the seamanlike qualities shown by him in bringing his vessel into port from'near the: Cape to Calcutta, aftet having lost all his nautical instruments, charts, etc., through a cyclone-' on July 5, 1898. If appeared that on July 5 last, during a terrific cyclone in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, a wave broke over the ship and carried away tho wh'eelhouse, skylights, life buoys, ventv- • latjors, etc., washing out all stores and gear, .jgether with the nautical instruments, books, charts, ; etc. : Captain Lewis then made his way to False Point, on the^Coast of Hindostan, taking no assistance, and calling at no , place until his arrival. In making the pre- '■ seritatiori, Mr J. S. 'Allen (deputy-chairman of; the association), said that he had, rarely heard of a case which was more deserving, of: their" special notice than the one before them. - -' . '■}'< The question of lascar accommodation, remarks an exchange, looks as though it were uoming tc a head, for Mr Ritchie has declared that several consultations on the matter' have been held between the law officers of u he Crown and the Board of Trade. Whai-'S ?er the result may be, the P. and O. Coin-' Qsny holds the trump card, for they have

meroly to reduce the total number of hands now carried in order to come within any possible definition as to space. Tho poor Indian coolie will be the only sufferer, even if tho law be decided against, tho p an d O Advices from Boston, U.S.A., state that an ofhcial trial test has just been made on tho tug Daniel S. Lamonl, of the eophone, an instrument designed to prevent collisions at sea. The eophone was some time back adopted by tho United States Government for the revenue cutter service,-and is about to be generally introduced. The instrument 'consists of a vane, shaped like a block of steel rail, on> the pilothouse of vessels, which is connected with a dial wheel in the cabin by a brass rod. The operator places receivers, no) unlike those used on a telephone to the enrs. • When, during a fo X) a ship whistle isheard, or a reef whistle, the vane catches the sound on the' side on which it occurs and -transmits it through the.'funnels, to., the receivers and operators. By turning the dial \intil the maximum sound is reached, one can determine to a point, or fraction of a point, whero the vessel is. A whistle can be heard many miles away. The instrument never fails in accuracy. During the tests tho exhaust of a tug in"Boston harbour was located, when the boat was but a dot on the horizon.

The steam collier Werfa, chartered by the1 Company for three months with the option of renewal for an additional like term, is now in New Zealand waters. She is a fine stamp of collier, and can carry 1100 tone on a draught of 15ft 6in. Four gangs can be worked at the after hatch, three at the main, and two at tho for'ard iiatoh. The vessel is practically self-trimming- in the matter of coal cargo. She is capable^ of steaming between seven and eight knots. Captain Sproules* formerly connected with the Grafton, when that vessel belonged to the Black Diamond line, is in charge, and Air Gillies, formerly, of the Union Company's service, is chief officer The wreckage brought to Wellington from Gape Turnagain by the steamer Fanny was deposited in A shed on the Queen's wharf, where it attracted a good deal of interest. - A strange thinir about the wreckage is that all the hatches (three in number) are off the port side, and, though in'the water such a short time, aro dotted all over .with small barnacles. The jetsam includes the leg of a settee, portions "of the cabin door, part of the stern thwart of one of the boats, part of the top of a largo table, a. lifebelt, and somo miecellane-. ous pieces of broken timber, the whole of which nave been recognised as having come from the jll-fated steamer Ohau.