SHIPPING NEWS

Otago Witness, Issue 2298, 17 March 1898, Page 38

SHIPPING NEWS

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN. Arrivals. March 8. — Herald 352fc, from Greymouth. — Invercargill, 13*5t, from Paterson's Inlet. March 9. — Tarawera, 1269t, from Melbourne, via Hobart and Bluft Harbour.— Oprinna, 836t, from Westport, via Oamaiu and intermediate port?. March.lo.— Perthshire, 5550t, from the Bluff.— Manapouri, 1020b, from Auckland, via East Coast. March 12. —Napier, 4St\ from Riveiton — Wailtare, IPOlt, > from Sydney, via Cook Strait. — Ovalau, 12296, from Auckland. Ma'ch V.I. — Elingacnite, !675t, from Sydney, via the EasT Coast. March 14. — Invercargill, 136t, from the south, j DEPARTURES. j March f\— Mararoa, 13Slt, for Sydney, via the i East Coast poits. March 9 — Tokomaru, 6235t, for T.yttelton. - j InvercaTgill, ]36t. for Preservation Inlet, via In- ] vercargill.— Herald, 136t, for the West Coasrt, via I ■ Oaniaru. March 10.— Tarawera, 1269t, for Sydoey via Cook Strait. Maich 12.— Napier, 48b, for Fortros". March 11.— Covinnaj S'2ot, foy the West Coast, via Tiniaru.— Manapouri, 102flt, for Auckland, via I the TSast Coast. i March 14.— Jfinre, French corvette, ]650t, for Noumea —Fides, Danish barque, 450t, for Wellington.— Waikaie, 19011, for Melbourne, via the Bluff aud Hob^rt. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Tongariro arrived at Monte Video on the 6th inst. Wellington, March 10.— The Aotea, which leaves for London on Saturday, has on board between 60,000 and 70,030 carcwes, 2500 bales ■wool, and dairy produce. She ta^kes in he;e 8000 ! osreases, 1700 cases cheese, 2COD bales wool, and 700U packages butter. About a dozen passtngers have bo ked by her. London, March 9. — Arrived: Waikato, from Oainaru. BLurF, March 9. — Sailed : Indraghiri. steamer, for London, with a carsro consisting of (5!) ca*k<? tallow, 1261 bales woo), lfj,l(i> carcases lamb aud inuttoQ, SBO crates rabbit°, and £20 cases meats. A new depaiture has been nude on The Union Steam Ship Company's large steamers. The men are now turned to by the assembly call from a bugle, the same sounds being given as in .her Majesty's war vesaels. Some people think this is an improvement on the old calls, piped from the boats main's whistle. I The bales of flax which were damaged by fire at'd water on the ship Canterbury last week were offered for &ale on Tuesday by Messrs Wright, Scepheusou, and Co. Fifty-nine bales tlightly damaged by fire were bought by Mr John Mill at £3 6s a lon, and 4S balfg, fresh water damaged, ■were secured by the same purchaser at £5 10s a ton. j The snip Canterbury has taken in fresh ballast, i Slie has taken in a quantity of tellow and wool, and will have quick despatch with the rest of her _ cargo. ■ "Wool is coming rapidly to hand for the barque Laiva at the Victoria wharf. J Tbe U.S.S. Company s sievruship Tara-nera, " Captain C Fleming, from Melbourne, via Hobavb and the Bluff, an-ived at Ihe torigue whaif at V.30 a.m. yes erday. She left- Melbourne at 5 p.m. of the 2nd in3t. The s.s. Tarawera, Captain C. Fleming, left the • tocgue wharf on Thursday for Syduej', via I Ook Strait. , "! During her stny in the lower harbour the . JTrench corvette of war Eure has been visited by a dumber of people, who have received a cordial ■welcome fiom M. Le Cuve, the c*ptain, and his ] officers. The Eoyal Arthur, the present flag ship on the ' Australian station, was named by her Majesty ! the Quetn in honour of the Duke of Connaught en February 21, 1891, and is oue of our very sue- . cessful tirst-rlass cruisers laid down under the Naval Deftnce Act of 1889. A London cable of the 10th says that legal formalities in connection- with the Canadian-Aus-tralian Company are now completed, and the ! appointment of Mr Cowan as liquidator is conifhrned. The regular service will now be efficiently Maintained. The Aorangi, which arrived at Vancouver en the sth, averaged nearly 14 knot?. The U.S.S. Company's splendid steamer Waikare, Captain H. J. Birhardson, reached headquarters at 7.30 a.m. of the 12t,h inst.' This fine vessel left the U.S.S. Company's wharf at Sydney on the sth inst. at 1 p.m. The s.f! Jilingamite, from f-'ydnev and the East Coast ports, arrived at Dunedia at 6.45 a.m. on Sunday. She left Sydney on the 2nd inst. and arrived at Auckland on the 7th in/>t. The New Zealand Shipping Company has given an order for another large steam vessel on the : Clyde: I According to 1 loyd's TCegister Supplement cf January 13, the Norddeutscher-Lloyd steamer Raiser Friediich, the l,.tost addition to their fleet, is a twin-screw steel steamer of oSOfb long, €4ft breadth of beam, and 41ft depth of hold. She is fitted with quadruple-expansion engines, two of which ere of 43iia, two of b^in, and four of 93iin in diameter. Her engines aie of 2852 horse power ! torninal Laird Bros., of Liverpool, have launched for the Imperial Government, from their well-known works at Eirkenhead, the largest aud fastest toipedo boat afloat. The new vessel is called the Express, and is 235 ft long, while her speed is said to he 33 knots, equal to 3S miles, an hour. Ths s.s. Waiksie steamed down the hatbour on Monday morning, and left Port Chalmers in tbe afternoon for Melbourne, vr-i the Bluff and Hnbart. Over ]3 million tons ef cpal and coke were shipped from the Tyne during last year. The Tj ne ports are only beaten by Cardiff, including 1 ISany, which has sent away over 16 million tins. The Shire line steamer Perthshire has taken on hoard a quantity of wool and carcases of frczen mutton, with other cargo. The largest graving dock in existence is the new one at Glasgow. The body of it isSSOftlonc:, 115 ft •wide at top and Slit Siu at bottom. Glasgow, however, is not to be peunitted to hold the distinction of havirjg the largest graving dock I long, for the projected dock improvement scheme at Liverpool provides for agi living dock 900 ft in lenctb, or SOffc longer than that at Glasgow. II. M S. Panther, one of the newett torpeJo destroyers, recently unce: went a series of trials on the Clyde, when in six runs over the measured mile at Greenock she attained a t-p3ed of 3') 5 knots an hour with an indirated high pressure of 6000 hoise-power. In the subsequent three ho-iib' full-speed trial— eompuliory before being appioved for her Majesty's seivice— the average speed worked out at 3014. DuriDg the week ending March 13 the following vessels have been nt the Dunedin wharves :—: — Arrivals : Herald, s.s., 350" tons ; Inveicargil], s.s., 123 tons (twice); Tarawera, s.s., 1269 toLs; Corinna, s.s., 820 tons; Manarjouii, s.s, 1020 tons; Waikare, s.s., 1901 tons; Napier, s.s., 43 ! tons; Elingamite, s.f., 1075 tons; — total, 7335 tons Departures . Llonowai, s.s., 2137 tons ; I Napier, s.s., 48 toES (twice); Mararoa, s s., 1381 , tons ; Invercargill, s.s., 12} tons ; Herald, s s , 35J tons ; Tarawera, s.s.< 1269 tons ; Manapouri, 5.«., 1020 tons ; Corinna, f.s., 820 tons ;— total, 7202 tons. The White Star liner Britannic completed her 25'Jth round voyage to and from New York, and her 500 th passage across the Atlantic, where she j arrived in the Mersey in December last, after a passage of only seven days eight hours, despite the fact of her having met very heavy weather. ( During these voyages aha has travelled a distance

of 250 times 6200 nautical mile's, or more than 1-J million statute miles without renewal of engines or boilers, a peifoimance •p-obably without parallel in the history of steam nav ; gation. She has carried 57,400 saloon passengers, and 135,500 steerage. She has been under steam 114,000 hours, and 106,800 hours under way. She has used 513,000 tons of coal, and her enginea have made 35't,000,C00 revolutions. The United Ntates Navy department has received information to the effect that Russia is about to become possessed of three new torpedo boats that will easily be the fastest war ciatt in. the world, being capable of the enormous speed of 38 knots per hour, with every probability of making 40 knots when pressed. This great speed demands greater power than is supplied by otdinary engines, &o that the boats will be driven by steam tin-bines, having four separate shafts, with three screw propellers on each shaft. The contracts for the the three boats have already been placed with an lfinglish firm, 'ihe high speed requirement is based upon the wonderful peifoimance of the little Turbina, which has run at the rate ot nearly 40 miles an hour.