SHIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2010, 1 September 1892, Page 35

SHIPPING NEWS.

COLONIAL.

ARRIVALS,

August 24.— Waihora, s.s., 1269 tons, Anderson, from Sydney, via Auckland and East Coast. Passengers : Misses Humphrey, Winstanley, Cooper, M'Kenzie, Mesdames Winstanley, Milnes, Messrs B. R. Stock, Gill, Abraham, Lloyd, G. D. Bett, R. A. Carr, J. H. Every, J. P. Bannerman, Aitcheson.-H. P. Haycock, J. O. Kettle, Capt. Cameron ; and 15 steerage. August 24.— Brunner, s.s., 332 tons, Waller, from the West Coast. Passengers : Misses Penmau, Sams, Green, Wood ; and one steerage. August 27.— Rotorua, s.s., 576 tons, Manning, from northern ports. Passengers : Misses Barlow, Duncan, Clark, WatsoD, Jenkins, Little, Campbell, Mesdames Shennan, Watson, Midlane (and family), Bridgtnan (and family and nurse), Messrs Shennan, M'Groarty, Hunter, Hedderwick, Croker, Marks ; 11 steerage. August 28.— Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, from the West Coast. August 28.— Hauroto, s.s., 1276 tons, Neville, from Sydney, via Cook Strait and Oamaru. Passengers : Messrs M'Kellar and Jamison. August 28.— Brunner, s.s., 332 tons, Waller, from West Coast ports, via Timaru. August 29.— Pukaki, s.s., 856 tons, Ewan, from Wellington. . August 3o.— Tarawera, s.s., 1262 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via Hobart and the Bluff. Passengers : Mrs Braithwaite, Misses Cooper, Braithwaite, Messrs Hudson, Wilson, Buller, Newing, Dampier Dramatic Company (18) ; and 30 steerage. DEPARTURES. August 2-I.— Ohau, s.s., 408 tons, M'Donald, for Westporfc. „, , „ „ August 24.— Talune, s.s., 1283 tons. Chatfield, for Sydney, via the East Coast. Passengers: Mesdames Dawson. Norman, Watson, Misses M'Leau, Smith, Linton, M'Diarmid, Hewson, Scoular, Milne, Messrs Dawson, Highman, Mouat, Ledingham, Linton ; and 45 steerage. August 24.— Waihora, s.s., J265 tons, Anderson, for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobart. Passengers : Mrs Cox (and child), Misses Street, Fagan, Messrs Griffiths, M'Laren, E. Cyfer, Toshach, Pime ; and 11 steerage. August 29.— Rotorua, s.s., 569 tons, Manning, for northern ports. Passengers : Misses Martin, Field, Newman, Lynn, Captain Boyd, Messrs Salvini, Austin, Hall, and 9 steerage. August 30.— Pukaki, s.s., 856 tons, Ewan, for Auckland, via Oamaru and the East Coast. August 30.— Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, for Greyniouth, via northern ports.

FOREIGN. ARRIVALS.

Wellington, August 25. — Arrived : Arawa, from London, via way ports, at 10 o'clock this morning. Her dates are :— Plymouth, July 9 ; Teneriffe, July 14 ; Cape, July 30 ; Hobart, August 20. She had fine weather and a good passage. She has 2300 tons of cargo and 100 passengers for New Zealand. Passengers for Port Chalmers : Saloon— Misses E. Barlow, W. Duncan, and J. B. Shennan, Mr and Mrs Watson Shennan (and maid) Master Shennan. Second saloon— Mr M'Groarty. Steerage— Misses M. A. Clarke and A. Coleman, Messrs James Akerigg.H. J. Farmer, W. E. Gwillim.

During the week ending August 28, 10 vessels, with a total of 6721 tons register, arrived at the Dunedin wharves ; and nine vessels, representing 4855 tons, left them. The Shire Line steamer Morayshire and Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's Matatua are both to load frozen meat at Rocknamptonfor London. A British ship captain says that "whales are increasing in number so fast that accidents to ships running into them will soon be of frequent occurrence. A sailing ship under a five-knot breeze might as well strike a tree as an old bull whale." The steamship Genkia Maru, -which, recently foundered in a typhoon off the Japanese coast, was nearly a new vessel. She was built of mild steel in 1891 by Napier, Shanks, and Bell, : at Glasgow, and formed one of the powerful fleet of steamers under the flag of the Nippon Yushen Kaisha, which has its headquarters at Tokio; this company owns one of the finest fleets of steamers in the Eastern hemisphere. A company is being formed in England and Belgium to build large whaleback steamers for the ocean trade. The vessels are to be built by a new process, and the rivetting is to be done by hydraulic machinery. The Shire Line steamer Morayshire is to take in a large quantity of frozen meat at Rockhampton before coming on to New Zealand to complete loading for London. Her final port is to be Wei lington. The new dry dock at Glasgow, now under construction, will be 960 ft long, 80ft wide, and with 26ft on the sill.

At Paisley, on June 27, what is said to be the most powerful dredger afloat in respect of dredging capacity was launched by Messrs Fleming and Ferguson. The dredger is built for the Clyde Trustees, to be used on the Clyde. It will dredge 200 tons solid dredgings per hour. The dredger is 600 ft long, by 37ft broad, and 12ft deep. The number and tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of June 1892, and the number of lives lost, are as follow :— No. Tonnage. Lives LostSailing ... 37 10,490 91 Steam ... 9 7,653 J. Total 46 18,143 95 - The above table is a record of " reports rerceived in the month, and not of wrecks which occurred during the month. Many of the reports received in June relate to casualties which occurred in previous months. Casualties not resulted in total loss of vessels, and the lives loss by such casualties, are not included.

Last week 4871 tons of coal were exported from Greymouth.

Mr John Robinson, a blind man who is attached to the staff of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland, is on a tour of the colony collecting subscriptions for the institute and teaching the blind.