SHIPPING NEWS

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 46

SHIPPING NEWS

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN. Arrivals.

March 15 — Hinemoa, 156t, from the Bluff.— Napier, 48t, from the south. March 16.— WsJtaiipu, 125 St, from Melbourne, via Hobart and the Bluff. Mai eh 17.— T0 Anau, ' 1028r, from Auckland, via tbe Ea«.t Coast.— Ohau, 408t, from Westport. — Taup". 408t, from the West Coast. March IS. — Napier, 4St, from Waikawa.— H.M.*. Tauranga, 2575t, from. Lyttelton. March 19. — Talune, 1303t, from Sydney, via Cook Strait. ' March 20 — Waihora, l£69t,f rom Sydney, via East Coast. DEPARTURES. March 15.— Eling-imite, 1657t, for Sydney, via ■ East Coast povts. March 16.— Invercargill, 136t, for Invercargill.— Charles P^a cine, 1524 1, for Lyttelton.— Napier, 48t, for Waikawa.— Hir>emoa, 156t, for the north. March 17.— Wakatipu, 1258t, for Sydney, via Cook Strait.— Perthshire, 5530j. for London March 18.— Te Anau, 1020t, for Auckliiud. via the East Coast.—Ohau, 411t, for iNapiei-, via Bluff. March 19.— Napier, 43t, fos Catlins River. , March 20.— Taupo, 40St, for the West Coast. i March 21.— Talune, 1303t, for Melbourne, via the ■Bluff and Hobart. THE DIRECT STEAMERS. The Raugatira left Capetown for Wellington ■\n the evening of tbe 15th inst. THE VANCOUVER SERVICE. The Aorangi left Vancouver on isatuiday, two | Wellington, March 19.— The Ruahine sailed sail-d To-day for London. Hobar'j, March 21.— TheRimutaka arrived late on Saturday, at.d resumed her voyage to New ; Zealand yesterday morning. j Adelaide, March 20.— Arrived: Nairnshire, from London. . London, March 18 —Arrived : Star of Victoria, from New Zealand. Sailed: Gothic, for New Zealand. A BAKQUENTINE ASHORE. WangaNUJ, Maich )5. — The baiquentine St. Kilda, from the West Co»»t of the South Island, with a cargo of roals, went ashore outside the heads late this afternoon. She was nearing the entrance, when the wind suddenly dropped and the vessel failed to answer to her helm. A portion of the cargo is being jettisoned, and it ia hoped the vessel will be got off in the morning. , Wakganui, March 16.— The barquentine St. Kilda, which got stranded when coming into port j with a cargo of coal, was last night blown up on i the beach by a gale, and is in a dangei ous position { should bad weather continue. She is valued at ■ j£lsoo. 'Che iusurances are : £500 on the vessel and £300 on the cargo in the New Zaaland office. , Mr Bendall, the underwriters' surveyor, has been ? wired to to come to render assistance. — ! The s.s. Wakatipu sVeamed down the harbour at 11 a.m. on Thursday, and left Port Chalmers in tbe afternoon for Sydney, via Cook Strait. The Shire line steamer Perthshire left the George street pier at 9 a.m. on Thursday for < London, via the Bluff. Her cargo from this port \ consisted of 1098 bales wool, 1 do wool samples, 5 ! do basils, 12 casks pelts, 8 do tallow, 1513 ! crates rabbits, 2572 ca^es cheese, 599 cases meats, 1 plrg sundries, and 15.445 carcases muttOD. The e.s- Wakatipu, Captain J. Gibb, from. Melbourne, via Hobart and the Bluff, arrived at the tongue wharf at 7 a ni. on the 16th The s s. Perthshire took oa boa-d at Port Chal- ' iners, in addition to a quality of baks wool atid [ other cargo, 15,446 carcases frozen mutton. 1509 «rates rabbits, 2000 cases cheese. She sailed oa : Thursday for London, via Wellington and the j Bluff. | The sum paid by the Union Company in ! London for the cargo steamer Ella (since renamed ' the Karua) was about £12,500. The s.s Taupo was floated out of the Port ChalBiers graving dock on Saturday morning and steamed up to Dunadin. She left again on Sunday aftp.rnooc for the West Coast, via Fimarn. The TJ.S S. Company's Rteimship Talune, Captain Spinks, from Sydney, via Cook Strait, arrived at the tongue wharf, Dunedin, at 2.30 p.m. of the 19th mst. She left Sydney at 1.30 p m. of the 12fch ins f . I The s.s. Waihora, from Sydney, via East Coast ! ports, -arrived on Sunday. She left Sydney on ' the 9th March. - The repairs to the ship Canterbury have been .' completed in a satisfactory manner. She has i taken in 3500 bales of wool and 60 casks of j tallow. ] During the week ending March 20 the following vessels haw been at the Dunedin wharves: — Arrivals : Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons (twice) ; Wakatipu, s_ s., 1258 tons ; Napier, s.s., 43 tons (twice) ; Waikare, s.s., 1931 tons ; Elingamite, s.s., } 1675 t0n5; Wakatipu, s.s.. 125S tons; Ohau, s.s., 411 tons ; Te Anau, s.s., 1028 tods; Talune, s.s., 1303 . tons; Taupo, s.''., 408 tons,; Waihoiu, s s., 1269 > tons;— total, 10,853 tons. Departures: Waikare, 8.5., 1901 tons ; Fides, barque, 450 tons ; Elingamite, s.s., 1675 tons ; Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons ; Charles Racine, barque, 1524 tons ; Napier, s.s., 4S tons ; Wakatipu, e.s., 1258 tons ; Te Anau, s.s., , 102S tons ; Taupo, s s., 408 tons ;— total, 6740 tons. The s.s. Talune left th.B tongue wharf on Monday afternoon for Melbourne, via the Bluff and , Hobart. ] A gieat deal of ice has been seen lately in the i Southern Ocean. 1 The barque Laira. has taken in some COO bales of j wool at the Victoria wharf. She goes north in a few days to complete her cargo for the United Kingdom. A new plan ia said to be drawn up for carrying ', out, the long-intended project of a canal between [ Antwerp 'and the Rhine, by which Antwerp j Harbour would be connected with the Lcwsr Khine near Moe:dyk on the Dutch intnp. The raising of the sunken steamer Kottingham from the bed of the Tyne is another score for Mr IT. N. Armit. The wooden superstructure, which ! was attached to the upper works of the steamer ! by nine diveTs, was 2iOft long by 32ft broad, and j 25ft above the submerged deck. Eicht steam pumps made the wreck b--gin to rise in 45 minutes. ; The vessel was towed to J*rro\Y Slake with only : poop and forecast'e awash. The Kottingbam was a eerious obstruction to navigation. The Madras Mail has the following interesting , paragraph regarding the arrest of the Btitish steamer" Baluchistan by H.M S. Lapwing for attempting to laud arms and ammunition in the Persian Gulf :—": — " It will be remembered that this was tho same vessel in connection with which , jKeuter telegraphed at the end of November laat that the customs authorities had detained eight barges of powder which'had been shipped from a Russian nort, and were destined for the Persian j Gulf under a false entry as a. f-hipment of rifles i and cartridges. A second telegram correcting ! this stated that the coesignraent contained arms , and ammunition, and was intended for Djibouti on the east coast of Africa, and not for the Persian Gulf The cargo was, therefore, allowed to be shipped, and the Baluchistan to go on her way. It appears., however, that the auxhoritied were not to be hoodwinked so easily. The Baluchistan's ariival at the Pei&ian Gulf had probably been anticipated, and her movements watched, with the result mentioned above." Hamburg steam trade, so far as Hamburgowned shipping is concerned, is represented in Australian ports chiefly by the German-Austra-lian line. The vessels under construction for Hamburg owners on New Year's Day comprised the steamei-3 Belgia and Brasilia, each of 9600 tons register, building in Great Britain, the Pretoria, of 12,Si'O tons K'osa, in a Hamburg yard ; the Bulgaria, of 9600 tons gross, also in Hamburg ; and the Assyria at Geedtemunde, of 6200 tons gross. All these are for the Hamburg-American line, and they make up a total of 51. 90' i tons register on the stocks for that company. For the Hamburg-South American S.N. Company there are also building at Ham iouig the steamships Antonina, Bahis, and Pelo•tap, each of 4SOO tons gross, and another boat of 520') tons gross. For the Hamburg- Pacific line ths steamer Luoiana, of 4800 tons gross, is nearing completion in a British yard. Iv all at present there are building for Harnb- t account 15 ' ?m e SJ2 ers witb - a measurement ox uo less than i 69,580 tons gross register.

On the 4th ult. at 11 a.m. a junk towed by a steam launch from Canton for Chat-Hum was robbed when the voyage was half completed. The usual plan of robbing junks was used. Some robbsa'a boarded the junk as passenger's. When she was midway between Canton and Chat-Hum a longboat containing about 300 robbers came up to her, and the robbers vi the junk then drew out their revolvers and jurcptd over to the st?am launch, and forced the coxswain to stop the engines, which the coxswain dai-ed not infuse to do. The robbers coining from the longboat all boarded the juuk and began their plundering operations. They then carried all the valuables from the junk to the launch, and having cut the tow ropa forced the coxswain to steam to a shallow place, where the launch was bearhed They all then landed with their spoils. Auother junk of the same line was robbed in the same way a month ago. An Eastern exchange reports the launch, from the Yokoska shipbuilding yard, of the »teel twinscrew cruiser Akashi for the Imperial J<<p%nese navy. This, the latest production of the Yokoska | yard, vyhich is situated a few miles below Yoko- \ hama, is a vessel of 295 ft long, 41ft 7in beam, with a displacement of 2800 tons on 15ft, Bin mean draught, and, with engines of 8000 indicated hor»o power, is expected t > attain a speed of 19 J knots. The buukers will have a capacity for 600 tons of coal, 'i'he a- mameat will consist of two 15 cm. quick-firers, mounted behind shields fore and aft, and six 12 cm. quick-firers iv sponsons, three on either side, with the addition of four machine guns and two torpedo tubes. A some- ' what similar ship, the Suma, was launched from the same yard threo years ago. The machinery for the Aksshi is being constructed in England. •