SHIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 38

SHIPPING NEWS.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN. Arrivals. August 4.-Inverear K ill, s.s, .136 tons, Marks, r 7ug T u«T-Teko a;'Ba ;'8 ../ 4050 tone. Canese, for London, via Lyttelton. Invetcargill, s.i., 136 tone, '-Mark*, for Inyercargill. r-rA»*lia»,r -rA»*lia», s.s., J354 tons, Bed, tor Sydney". «• 4 «» **!* Coast Aueu&t &-Te Anau, s,s., 1028 tons, Gibb,.frorn AuckLud> via the East Coast. Wakatipu. s.s., . 1258' t<to«, Spinks, from -Melbourne, via Hobarfc (L-Omapere, 's.s., '352 ton?, Fleming, from the West Coast. ; . '■ August B.'— Flora, s.s., 833 lons, Bernecb, from the north. Hauroto, as., 1276 ton*, Anderson, " from 'Sydney, via Wellington, Lyttdton, and " August 9.-Tarawera, s.s., 1269 tons. Sinclair, from Sydney, via Kast Coast ports. Tokomaru 1.5., 3917 tonr, Maxwell, from Lyttelton. ; Departures. ! August s.— Taupo, s.s., 462 ton?, Macbeth, for Wellington, via Oamarn and Tiraaru. August 6.— Wakatipu, «.b., 1258 tons, Sptnka, for Sydney, via Cook Strait Rak*noa, s.s., 2246 tons Richardson, for Auckland, via Oamaru and iritermeediate ports. Kenyon, barque, 1245 tons, Le Priecfeautf, for Vancouver Maud. August 7.-Omapere, s.s., 352 tons, Fleming, for the West Coast, via Thuaru. Marmion, schooner, 92 tons, Wood, for Napier. Te Anau, s.s., 1028 tons, Gibb, for Auckland, via the JSast Coast. August B.— Napier, s.e., 48 tons, Mathieson, for Owaka. Augunt 9.— Hauroto, s.s., 1278 tons, Anderson, for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobait. August 10.— Flo'a, *.s., 838 tons, Bernech, for jLyttelton' and. Wellington. / ; -THE DIRECT STEAMERS. Mqntk V.dho, August 3.— The Tongarirq left iiere yesterday for London with her meat in good condition. Passengers all well. The Maori, from Londou, via the Cape and Hobart, arrived at Wellington at 10 o'clock last night. , . - i . ! The .'Maori,, from London, via the Cape ana; Hobart, arrived at Wellington at 10 p.m.. on j .the 4th; I The Gothic, from Lyttelton (June 27), arrived at ' Plymouth on the mat. with her cargo of .meat i .in eood order. ' ' . ■ " ' ' The lonic left Capetown on the 3rd inst. for CijiusTcnußCH, August 7.— Sailed (from Lyttelton):. Rimutaka,-for, London, via Monte Video. IHETOKOMAOIU. The Shaw. Savill, and Albion Company's iteamer Tokomaru, • from Lyttelton, arrived off the heads at G .a.m. on Sunday, and anchored until the afternoon, when ehe steamed into, port undeu. the .charge of Pilot Thomson, being , berthed alongside the George .street pier • in. "readiness. ,to , take on board bales wooli caskß pelta, frozen Mutton, and .other . cargo, and. sails 'again far London, via Lyttelton, , on Thursday.^. Tha Tokomaru is still ,under the command of Captain J, Maxwell. Curing the week ending August 9 the following vessels have been at the Dunedin wharves:— Arrivals : Anglian, s.f., 1354 tons ; Grace Deering, barque, 697 tons ; Invercargill, s.s., 136 tons ' (twice) ; Te Anaii, s.s., 1028 tons ; Wakatipu, s.s., 1258 tons ; Omapere, *.s., 352 tons ; Napier, i *.r., 48 tons; Flora, s.s., 833 tons; Hauroto, s.s , 127(5 tons ; TarawcTa, h.s., 1269 tons ;— total, 8392 tons. Departure^: Keryon, barque, 1176 tons; Floro, s,f., 838 toim; Anglian, s.s., 1354 ton?; laveicargill, ss , 136 tons : Waka'ipu, s.s., 1253 tons : Marmion, schooneT, 92 tons ; Te Anau, s.s., 1028 tons ' r Omapere, ss., 352. t0n5; Napier, v s., 48 tons ; Hauroto, s.s , 1276 tons ;-total, 755S tons. The- New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tekoa left the George street pier on the 3rd Inst. for London, via Lyttelton, with 439 bales rabbitakins and 2 bales hair. She alto took for transhipment to tho Rimutaka at Lyttelton 417 bales wool, 2 bales sheepskins, 8 bales rabbitskins, 11 bales basils, 3 bales hair, 24 casks pelts, 4601 caicaseß frozen muttou, 1944 cases rabbits, 144 casts bares, and 10 packagrs sundries. ' During the ■period commencing January 1 and ending May 15^1896, 72 British steamers, with » total' of 96,5-4. tone, and 60 sailing vessels, with ■ 25,432 tous register, h*ve been transferred to foreign ffcgs by, sale. • The s.a. Tokomaru commenced on Monday mornIng to take on board bales wool, casks pelts,

frozen mutton, and other cargo. 1 A novel steamer (if a vessel propelled without the aid of bteam can be called a steamer) is being, constructed for Mr Kennedy Evan*, for tha lightering trade at Gisborne, The boat, which will have a carrying capacity of 100 tons, will be. driven by a gasoline double-cylinder marine sngine, giving a ppeed of nine knots. The engine will be exactly similar to those employed in ths yacht of Mr C. L. Fair, the American millionaire, and the advantages over an ordinary steam i engine are lightness, cheapness, and economy of ! working. Either kerosene or gasoline can be used. The vessel is being built and engined in Auckland. The deplorable accident which has happened to the steamsoip Drummond Castle is a painful reminder (says the " Shipping Gazette ") that our great mail steamship lines possess no immunity from the ordinary ritks of navigation,' despite the fact, that nowadays their services are usually performed with something like time-table regularity. In the present instance the catastrophe is rendered the more regrettable because it has occurred to a line which in the past has been singularly free from disaster. The Castle boats, according to Sir Donald Ourrie, have been sailing to the Cape of Good Hope foi: 21 years, and during that long period they have not until the present moment lost a single life. This is some- " thing to be proud of. Perhaps it was not to be expected that this exemption, from accident could continue for all time, but, nevertheless, the Castle Mill Packets Company in general, and Sir Donald Currie in particular, are sure to be the recipients of much public sympathy. Another new steamer for the Peninsular and . Oriental SVaro Navigation Company, was . launched, st Belfast on June 13 by Messrs Har- . fond and W.ioif. ' The new boat is called the Dhina,,and is SUOft in. length hj> 54ft in beam, and "will be schooner rigged. Her gross tonnage is ' iborjfc 8550, and the will; be propelled by a single let of triple expansion engines of 7500 indicated dorse-power. The captain and officers 1 cabins, the ;hart lpoins, aud wheel house are on the bridge ieck, and, the accommodation for first and secondslaw passengers (of which she will carry a large number) are on the hurricane, roar, poop, main, md lower decks. The ship will be fitted a« a first-class mail and passenger steamer, and will kave a full installation of the electric light i also

refrigerating chambers for cargo and stores, hydraulic deck machinery, &c. Four new liners for the North German Lloyd's Company are in course of construction for the Australian trade. The dimensions of each of theae vessels aro stated to bo : Length, 625 f t; '" beam,: e,QI t. Fore and aft of the engine and boiler space the vessels are divided into four watertight compartments, so that each steamer has eight hatchways capable of being woiked simultaneously, and thus securingth'e most rapid facilities for loadinu and discharging. They are built in readiness for fitting with refrigerating machinery if required. Accommodation in upper deck cabins is provided for 250.- first and second-class passengers, aud in every put they have the electric 'light. Thoy are being built in Germany, and the buiWers and designers appoar confident that they will fully rival the two great Cunarders- Lucania ■and Campania. The fire which occurred at Messrs Harland and Woolf's shipbuilding yards at Belfast on July 27 will be severely felt by the employees of that company. The works are amongst th« largest in the world. Amongst shipbuilders also their ships are iv the front rank wtth anything afloat. The P. and O. Compmy's steamships Oceana and Arcadia were built by them. All the steamships of the laaaii line' wer> from these yards— the Britannic^Doric. Gaelic, Germanic, Coptic, Teutonic, and JMTajestjc " Lloyd's Register of Shipping " gives the namesof 140 large Bteamers and sailing ahips constructed by this firm before it became a limited liability company and ,74 since. Some of their htfamships are of the very finest specimens of the ship-building art. The Lord line has a few, notably the Lord Temple-, more of 2947 tons register, the California of 2291 tons, the- Strathdon of 2038 ton?, the Lord Ternpleton of 2048 tons. The British Hne of sailing ships are from their yards, and the Stirs— the ! Star of Bengal, of France, Germany, Italy, and j Ruß6ia— are amung&t the grandest sailing vtS3els ! afloat. Thecompauy's special line has always been 1 high-class seel und iron ships and steamships of the highest tonnage. Of waf vessels- the Hecla, I a screw special torpotlo vessel, of the fin»t-clas!«, I 6400 ton", is, perhaps, their grentejt achievement fof the Admiralty. Tho Algerine, a twin-screw sloop of six guns; the Bramble, k screw gunboat ■of six guns ; and'tlii Lizard,- the screw gunboat so well known on this station, were built by Mewrs Harland and Woolf.