SHIPPING.

Otago Witness, Issue 1639, 21 April 1883, Page 14

SHIPPING.

Thursday. Arrival : Maori, from Oamaru. Departures : Natal Queen, for Hohart ; Waitaki, for Timaru ; Mahinapua, for the West Coast. Friday. Arrivals : Penguin, from the North ; Shag, from Shag Point. Departures : Wairarapa, for Melbourne ; Maori and Pelican, for Oamaru ; Huon B« le, for Invercargill ; Janet Kamsay, for Cvhn'B Kiver; Spoodwell, for Kai. ara ; Camilla, for Hobart. Pai-sengers : Per Wairarapa, for Mi lbourne — Misses Warden, Mitcholl, Goodheirn, Mrs Snider, Mr and Mrs Hammond and 2 children, Mr and Mrs Moore, native ayah, Messrs Br<>ombail, Thorley, Newman, Slesinger, cuiss, Johnstono. J Giaham, Martin, Watts, C molly, Mackay.-Holworthy, Watson. —Per Penguin, from the North— Mesdamo4 Wwhart, Naylor and child, Misses Arnold, Pearce, Messrs Simpson. Keid, Pearce, Dornwell, Edgar, Burns, Evered, Rowbottom, Malcolm, aud 2 steerage. Saturday. Arrivals : Wakatipu, f<om Sydney; Waitaki, from Timuru; Maori, from O&marj; Alpha, from South. On Sunday —Star of ihe South, from Ureymouth ; Maid of Oiago, from Kiverton. Departure : Anthons, for Greymouth. Passeugeis: Per Waitaki, fiom Tiwaru-Mesdames Sturuo, Hart, Clark, Col. in*, Aliaa fitemuer, Messrs Joues, Perkins, and 2 steerage. Monday. Departures : Invercargill and Koputai, for the Bluff ; Penguin, for the North ; Wa.ii.aki, for Timaru. Pasaengors: Per fonguin, for Wellington — Mr Fraser. For Picton— Mr M'Mellish. ITor NelsonMr M'lntosh. For Taranaki— Mr MTickera. For Manukau— Messrs Hastie, Jacobs. Tuesday. Arrival : Te Anau, from Melbourne. Departures : Shag, for Shag Point ; Maori, for Oatnatu. Passenirers ; Per Te Anau, from Melbourne - Hissoj Flack, Burns, King, Messrs R Talbos, 8 Dudgshun, ti Waldeck, J Harkuess, Edmiuton, S Mathews, Julian Thomas, H fastings, F Jackman, T 3 ith, and 22 steerage. The thip Invercargill left Port Chalmers yesterday morning for the Bluff, the p.s. Koputai towing her rcund to that port, where she will completu her loading for a Home port. The 88. Waitaki was floated out of the Graving Dock yesterday morning. She sailed in the evening for timaru Tho rhip Waitangi has only about 50 tons of dead weight left on beard, and has taken in a portion cf her stiffening ballast. Sho is in splendid order, and reflects great credit on her indefatigable chief officer, Mr Bo gard. The s.s. Waihora was taken into the Graving Dock yesterday for scraping and painting. The ship Rossdhu has put out over 600 tons of her cargo, which is in splendid order. She is under orders for Hortlan i, Oregon. The ship Wellington has still about 150 tons of dead- a eight cargo left on board The ship Oamaru is rapidly filling up. She has already taken In 1518 balcß wool, 28 bales Hheepskins, 28 bates rabbitskins, 13 bales basils, 6Q casks tallow, 8 casks pelts, 1:50 sacks wheat, 420 sacks oats; ' Wednesday. Arrivals : Arawata, f > om the North ; Waitaki, from Timaru ; Koputai, from the Bluff ; Shag, from Shag Point ; Seagull, from Kaipara ; Owake Belle, from Riverton. Departures : Te Anau, for the North ; Tauranga, for Suva; Star of tha South, for Greymouth ; Kakanui, for Invercarfrill. Passbngers : Per To Anau, for Lyfctelton- Mr Moore. For Wellington— Mi-w Pollock, Mr Bain. For N ap i er _Mr Lanceston. For Gisborne— Mlsh Stephenson. For Auckland-Messrs littler, Waugh, Campbell. — Per Arawata, from the North - Mesdauies Qarnier, Sime, Dr Coward, Messrs Cook, Birch Simo, Houghton, L'lxton (2), Hanna, Wight.— Per rtaitaM, from Tiooaiu — Mosdames Jackson and cnild, Towsey, Sutherland, Peterson, Wilson, Wood., Misses Maloney, BruS Ciillng, Messrs Goodall, Freeman (2), Mitcholl, Homersham (2), Blackwood, and 3 steerage. __________ ' The barque Splendid has been heard of from the Chatham Islands, with 25 tuns of sperm oil. Capta>n Eane succeeded in taking a ton-tun fish off Moeraki a day or two after 6he left Duneoin. We understand that the barque Othello has also boon purchased for the whaling trade. Tho Sorata, on her last trip Home, made the quickest passage from Adelaide to Suez on rocord, it having been done in 24 day=, including two da* c' < stoppage at Diego Uaroia; tho average Bpeed throughout was 13.2 knots por hour, and the smallest day's work 314 knots, while tho greatest run amounted, to 857 knots.

Captain Orknoy, who brought out the Waihora from Glasgow, was the recipient on Thursday evening of a {fid albert chain and locket bea< ing a suitable inscription, which had been purchased by the officers and engineers of the boat, as a token of the esteem in which he was held by them. The presentation took place at the Provincial Hotel, and Captain Orkney's health was drank in bumpers of chatnpagnu He nride an appropriate repl , thanking the donor* ior their handsome present, and wUhing them every success.

The Hornby Castle, which arrived at Molbourno from Liverpool recently, hail a curious experience when easttnree-quartcM north, 105 mile^ distant from fit. Paul's Kocks, or in 1.33 north and 37.40 west,' she wuu BUbjeclcd to two violent shocks and afterwards a

tremulous motion, at though travelling through a bed of Bhingle, and la-ting for over a minu'e, thereby ro all o-i board fi.-r the moment the idea that the ship hai struck on a ro 'k and was working on to a reef. The • hip was at ones hove-to and soundings taken, but no bottom could be go 6at 05 fathoms, ao it became evident that iho shock was caused by a sabmarine volcanic eruption. It may twre bo mentioned that the Muling directions for those latitudes stato that two men-of-war and a merchantman -ome years ugo bad experienced a t-imilar occurrence, and that the latter di.i actually strike something is borne out, as she afterwards put into Rio and found that her forefoot hid been broken and shattered. As in many cages whero serious alarms occur there is frequently a ludicrous side, so in the above.' everal of the paseonjrors, who imagined that the vessel must go down, rushed below to obtain possession of their money and valuables.

A CURIOUS CALCULATION.

Tho Engineer, in an article on the new Ouion liner Oregon, a uteamHhip of 13,000 indicated horse power, uives the following curious figure? :—": — " The Oregon has 12 large b lilo.s, ea h having six fu-naees. Her daily consumption of coal is estimated to bo about 300 tons, and, calculating each ton of c al to evaporate nine tons of water, the dally evaporation will be 2700 tons ; in other words, H7OO tons of atea-u will pass through her engines in 24 houra. The quantity of water this represents would be sufficient to give 25 gallons per head to the population of a town of over 24,000 inhabitants. To effect tho combustion of 300 tons of c >al, at loa^t 6000 tons of air are required, and this quantity fl iwing in a day through a passage lift square in section would gtve a breeze <t about 14 miles per hour— a stiff breeze to walk against."