SHIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2287, 30 December 1897, Page 38

SHIPPING NEWS.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN. A KRIVALS.

December 21.— Nelson, 12i7t, from Liverpool (August 23), via Wellington (Dec-mber 18).— Talune, 1301t, from Mt-lbourne, via Hobatt and the Bluff. December 22. — Brunner, 332t, from West Coast, via Oamaru. Decen.ber C 3 — Te Anau, 1028t, from Auckund, via the Kabt Coast. . December 24. —Napier, 48fc, from Fortrose.— Taicii, 1071t, from Lyttelton.— Oio\vaiti,2SS. L , from Lyttetton. December 25.— Monowai, 2131t, from &j'dney, via Wellington and Lyttaton.-Gothic, X.M.S., 7730t, from Lyttelton.— Herald, 352t, fre in Greymonth.—Waihora, 1276S from Sydney, via the JSast Coast.

DEPARTURES

December 21.— Invercargill, 136t, for Invercargill. December 22.— Talune, VSOit, for Sydney, via Cook Strait. December 23— Brunner, 332t, for the West Coast, via Timaru — Te Anau, 1028t, for Auckland, via the East Coaat.,— Invercargill, 1247r, for Lytteltou. December 24.- Napier, 48t, for Fortiose. December 2(s.— Entciprse, S4t, for Wanganui, via Timaru. December 27.— Waihoiv, 1"276t, for Oamaru, with excursionists.— Monowai, 13541-, for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Ilobait.

SEE DIRECT STEAMERS.

•Jhe s.s. Mataura sailed from Wellington at 4.30 ©.m. on the 21st for London, via Monte Video. Welling on, December 23. —Sailed : Kaikoura, ■Captain Fo hes; for \ ondon, via Monta Video, Teneriffe, and (iieymouth, with a fu)l cargo of wool, meat, dairy produce, <fci". Her cargo includes 17.00J carcases meat and 4UOO bales wool.

THE SHIRE LINE.

The s.s. Nairnshire (Port Chalmers, November 3) arrived at Las Pal mas on the 15th inst , all well.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

London, December 25 —Arrived : Nairnsbire, s s., from Port Chalmers Sailed : Hawke's Bay, s.s., for New Zealand ports; Aotea, for Lyttelton.

The TT.S.S. Company's steamship Talnnp, Captain C Ppinks, fnni Melbourne, via -Hobart and Bluff Harbour, arrived at Tort Chalmers at 6 a.m. on the 21st, and steinied up to Dunedin at high water. She left the Queen's whaif, Melbourne, at 9 p.m. of the 14th inst. The two propellers of the latest Atlantic greyhound — the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse— perhaps convey a better idea of the immensity of which they form comparatively a minute part than does a picture of the ship herself. When i evolving at 77 revolutions a minute, these two propellers were responsible for the disposal of no le«s thin 28,430 indicated horse-power, involving a consumption of 500 tons of coal per clay, and imparting to the ship an average speed of 2139 knots an hour for the voyage. Each propeller is 22ft 35in in diameter, and represents 20 tons of bronze (finished weight), acd together they, or rather the machinery driving them, give employment to 90 siokers, 75 coal trimmer?, 18 gieasers. and 17 engineerd. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's ship Nelson, from Liverpool, via Wellington, anived onthe2lst, and was towed direct to_ Dunedin to discharge the portion of cjtro for thia port. The •Kelson left Liverpool on Auarust 2-3. A new s-teamship, designed to burn liquid fuel, •vras succescfully launched from the shipbuilding ■works of Sir James Lain?, at Surderland, on ' October 27. The vessel wa? built to the order of the Dutch Petroleum Company, and was -chiislened Sultan van Lah'kat by the Countess •de Lessens. IThc dimensions of the ves-.el are :—: — 285 ft long, 39ft 6in beam, and "23ft 7in moulded .Tde'pth, with engines having cylinders of 24, 40, and 61 inches by 42-inch stroke, supplied .with steam by: two large- ein»le-ended boilers. The Union S.S. Company's steamship Talune left the foDguc wharf on the 22nd inst. for Sydney, via Cook Strait. Recent advices froni San Francisco state that the whaling Heet has be>n blocked in by ice in the Arctic Ocean. Great apprehensions are entertained for the safety of their crews. The United States Government had pent their steamer Bear •with provisions, <fee, to endeavour to succour the crews of the whalers. Thes.s. Mouowai left the tongue wharf on Monday afternoon for Melbourne, via thcßluft'and Ho>iait.

A late cablegram states that the Admiralty Court iiave awarded Me-srs Turner, Brightman, and Co., of London, the sum of £5250 as salvage in connec'ion with the towing of tbe.s.s. Rangatira into Teneriffe by their steam c' Zylpha, when the former vessel was in a disabled condition.

The barque Stalker, from the Baltic, with timber, arrived at Lorenzo Marques on November 13 without captain or paper 3. The mate repoited that tbe captain fell overboard while catching a sea bird, and possibly had the ship's papers in his pocket at the same time. The s.s. Monowii, from Sydney, via Wellington and Lyttelton, arrive! alongside the Bowen pier at 10 30 a.m. on Saturday. She left Sydney at 0.15 a.m. on the 19th inst.

The n s Waihor*, from Sydney, via the north, reached Dunedin at '5 3 a.m. on Christmas Day. She left Sydney on theHth iiist.

During tbe week ending December 2G, tbe following vessels have been at tbe Dunedin wharves : Arrivals: Talune, s.s., 1303 tons; Nelfson, ship, 1247 tons ; Brunner, s.s., 332 tons ;Tc Anau, s.s , 1028 tons'; Taierf, s.e., 1071 tons.; Inv«-Tcargill, s.s., ]23 tons; Rotorua, p.s., 570 tons; Waihora, . 8.c., 1269 tons; Monowai, s.s, 2137 tons; Herald, 8.r., M 56 tons ; — total, "9442 ton«. Departures : Nafoier, a.s:, 4S tons"t Wakatipu, s?., 1258 tonp ; Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons; Te Anau, e.s,, 10-28 , /tons;. Brunner, s.s., 332 tons; Taieri, s.s., 1071 ■tons ; Enterprise, brigantine, S4 tons ; — total, 3944 tons.

The latest addition to the magnificent fleet of the V. aud O. Company is the steamship Arabia,

which was launched at Greenock on November 10. The Arabia is a sister ship to the Kgypt, launched in May last. Her dimensions are : Length 500 ft, breadth 54fr, depth of hold 37ft 6inV She is 8000 tons register, and willjhave triple exp'ns>ion engines of 11,000 horse-power, having four cylinders and four cr-»nks. She is to carry 50t) saloon passengers. The salooos are most luxuriously upholstered, and the state looms are fitted with tvery comfort, and with all the elegancies for which the company"s boats are noted. There, are a large number of baths — plunge, douche, spray, «6c. The cargo geariDg is all hydraulic, and almost noiseless. The Arabia is the forty-ninth steamer built by Messrs Caird and Co. for the P. and O. Company, and they are still engaged, on two others. When completed they 'will represent a total tonnage of 234,000. The steamer Triton, from Havana to Bahia. strtick a rock on October IG. Her cargo shifted and she sank in 15 minutes. Forty-two were rescued and over 100 were lost. A f cene of terrible confusion and panic ensued. As soon as the passengers realised the meaning of the cra?h. in a wild struggle they rushed for the boats. The fit st boat that was lowered capsized immediately, and all tbe occupants were drowned. The next was struck by an enormous wave and turned over, drowning 20 persons, but the frail craft righted again, and eight regained it. Some good swimmers kept afloit for hours ; others floated for 24 hours on planks. An army captain, with his wife and daughter, •went down together locked in a last embrace. A mother with 'twins, 35 montli3 old, drifted helplessly away on. the crest of a great wave. All the other ladie3 and children were lost. As the Triton was sinking Captain Ricardo, the master, committed suicide by shooting himself. Lady Ernestine Brudenell-Bruce ha<? published the correspondence she has had with the Board of Trade. She had asked to be examined for a yacht master's certificate, which she intended to use in connection with her own yacht. The assistant secretary of the board replied that "the admission of ladies to examination for certificate

of competency is not contemplated by the regula-

tionp, and that the board cannot permit a * lady to be examined for yacht master's certificate." Lady Ernestine ur-ed that what she

sought was a special permission to command her own property; and tbat it was not as if she sought a certificate of competency to enable her to serve in any ship. The coriespondence closes with a. communication fioiu Mr Ingram B Walk<?r, who writes: — "I am directed by the Board of Trade to -state that they have ahv.ys considered and held that a ' master's certificate' cleaily implies that it is confined to men." It has been declared, and by aFienchmanloo — a ship owner,— that the enoimous cost of building a ship in France will soon put a stop to tbat industry, and the work go to England. In reply to this, a director of the Chantiers de la Loire Company refuted this statement, and said that his company had just received an order to build two cargo boat?, to be deliveied in 14 and 16 months respectively, the prices not 'exceeding English prices by more th-in 20 per cent. His company, he added, were Policiting orders, so that if more ships were not built in France the fault was not with the builders. In reply to this Mesers Borde3 aud Son wrots that dm ing the past four years they had built 11 vessels of 33,000 tons, in France, five of them with the Cl'antiers de la Loire Company. British buildeis asked 6?0,000fr each to construct the vessels, while Messrs Borde-s were only able to get them built in France for 550,000f r, ,i difference of 35 per cent. Last year they otfeierl the "Chant ieiv* de Ia Lrire Company au order for two more &hip>, but they then wanted l,150,0l)0fr, or 82 ]'cr cent above the English pi ice, S3 that they had to purchase the ships in England.