SKIPPING NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 38

SKIPPING NEWS.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN. Arrivals. Vessel Tonnage From July Invercargill, 8.8. 123 Timam 26 DiugaOee, b.s. 393 Bluff 27 Otarama, s.s. 3SOB London 27 Coiiuna, s.s. 820 West Coast 28 Jchno'Gauat 1258 Liverpool 29 Wakatipu 1158 Melbourne ffl Invercargill 123 Invercargill 31 Taiawera ]269 fiyduey 31 Eliiigamite 1(525 Sydney .51 Dkpautures. Vessel Tonnage For July Mararon, as. 1338 Syduey 26 InveicargiU, ss. 13(5 Invercargill 27 Herald, s.s. 35« Ureyroouth 27 Dineadee, s.s. 393 Ureymonth 27 C'oriuna 820 Westpcrt 29 August Tarawera, 3.8. 22G0 MelbouiUß 2 Wakatipu 1158 Syduey 2 EXPECTED ARRIVALS. "From London.— Turakina, ship, Pox (May. (i) ; put in at Port Elizabeth for repairs. Zealandia, ship, Balo (June 23); due about October 10. Pleione, ship (June 15) ; due about September 15. Freeman, barque (July 10) ; duo October 15. Alice, barque (July 2); duo October 7. From Giascow.— Firth of Forth, barque, Thorn (May 13) ; due about August 21. Soukar, ship (June 30); duo September 30. From Liverpool.— Lake Ontario, barque, Pundt (April 28) ; due about August 12. Akaro,i, barque, Murray (June 21); due about Oetobc: 20. Fjiom Hamburg.— Ebba, barque, Kaas (April 10); due about August IG. Liv, barque, Larscn (June 21) ; due about October 27. From New York. — Doris, barque, Huntar (Hay 15); due about September (5. Noiwood, ship, Douglas (June 15); diic about October 7. From Melbourne. — Talune, August 8. From Westpdrt. — Taupo, August 3. From La.dy Elliott's Island.— Severn, barquentine (loading). Mary Moore, barque ing)From Surprise Island.— Ganymede, barque, (loading) ; Alexa, barque (to load). From Sydnev.— Monowai, August 10; Waibora, August 7. From Greymotjtd.— Herald, August 9. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Melbourne. — Monowai, August 11. iWakatipu, August 22. For Sydney. — Srlingamite, August 2. Waibora, via Aucland, August 9. Talune, via Wellington, August 10. Tarawera, August 22. For Greymouth.— Herald, via way ports, August 10. I For Westport.— Taupo, August 4 Cor- | inna, August 12. • !

HOMEWARD BOUND.

Canterbury (S.S. and A. Co.), Dunedin, April 1G; due London July 30. Margaret Galbraith (S.S. and A. Co.), Wellington, April 27; due London July 31. Timaru (S.S. and A. Co.), Wellington, March 24.

MOVEMENTS OP DIRECT STEAMERS. *T0 ARRIVE.

At Wellington.— Rakaia (N.Z.S. Co.), .ue August 39. Hawke'a Bay (Tyser), sailed June 27. Maori (S.S. and A. C), sailed July 9. Duke of Devonshire (N.Z.S. Co.), sailed July 23, due September 11. At Port Chalmers.— Rangatira (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed July 12; due September 5. Banffshire (Shire), from London; put into Keppel Bay for repairs. At Auckland.— Rimutaka (N.Z.S. Co.), due August 12.

At Lyttelton.-- Maori (S.S. and A. Co.), sailed from London June 9.

TO DEPART.

Prom Port Chalmers.— Otarama, (N.Z.S. Co.), for London, about August 5. Banffshire (Shne), about August 16.

HOMEWAED BOUND.

Delphic (S.S. and A. Co.), Lyttelton, .une 25; cine London, August 12. Matatua (S.S. and A. Co.), Lyttelton, Juna 11; Monte Video, July 7; due London, August 7. Vailcato (N.Z.S. Co.), Tort Chalmers, June 26; dueLoi- ] don, August 15. Star of New Zealand, Bluff, July 3. Duke o£ Portland (N.Z.S. Co.), July 19. Aotea (S.S. and A. Co.), Lyttelton, July 29 ; Star ol Victoria, Wellington, July 30.

THE DIRECT STEAMERS,

The Kaikoura arrived at Plymouth on the 24th ulfe.

The lonic arrived at Wellington at 8 a.m. pn the 27th. She brings 55 passengers. The Diike of Devonshire has sailed from London for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, July 29.— Sailed: A.olea, for London.

Tho U.S.S. Company's steamship Mararoa ■went down from the upper harbour on the 26th ult., and after embarking mails and passengers left in the afternoon for the East. Coast ports and Sydney.

It is reported (says the Post) that several additions are being made to the White Star Lino steamers for the purpose of establishing a cargo service bewceu London, Australia, and New Zealand on the same lines as that of the Tyscr Company.

A new line oi cattle steaincr is being formed to trade between British ports and the Argentine Republic. There will be 20 steamers, of a tonnage, of about 0000 each. The Manchester City, which was launched from the shipbuilding yard of Sir R. Dixon and Co., Middlesbrough, is the largest steamer yet built on the Tees, carrying a deadweight cargo of BGOO tons, and with a total measurement capacity of 14,500 tons.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's cargo ste<imer Otarama, from London, via, Hobart, arrived off Otago Heads at 6 a.m. on the 27th, and was boarded by Pilot Thomson, who brought her up to Port Chalmers, anchoring h3r off Mansford Bay, where she transhipped the combustible portion of her cargo, some 537 packages of explosives (which were stowed m a prcperly-constructed magazine) to the powder lighter, and was then brought alongside tho ocean steamers' pier at George street to discharge the bulk of her cargo. She brings 3931 tons of general and deadweight cargo, mads up as follows • —For Dunedin 2968 tons, for Lyttelton 728 tons, and for transhipment to other porfcd 235 tons. Her passage, marked principally by light winds and fine weather, has occupied 59 days, and this would have been very materially lessened but for an accident to her machinery while ciossmg the Indian Ocean, v. inc'i hart the effect of materially impeding her spepi'.

The directors of the P. and O. Co. have contracted with Messrs Caird for the construction of two new steamers of 7500 tons (twin screws), which are intended more particularly for the Calcutta line. They appear in the list as the "Assaye" and "Sobraon." While the American barque Kate F. Troop, which arrived at Adelaide on the loth mst. from jNfew York, was passing Kangaroo Island, Erne'it Murch, a seaman, foil from the upper topsailyard. He struck tho rigging several times before reaching the water, which was coloured ■with blood the moment he touched it. Lifebuoys were thrown out, and the vessel was xounded to, but nothing. was seen of the body. The Hauroto was at Tahiti when the Wa.i-kai-2, with the excursionists, arrived, and up to that stage the excursion had proved a great success. The iron barque John o' Gaunt, from LiverDool, via Wellington, arrived on Friday. She is a fine- looking iron barque of 1238 tons register,

built at Birkenhend in 1869 by G. R. Cleveland, and is owned by Messrs Edgar and Co , of Liverpool, lier dimensions aie. Length, 219 ft oiu ; bieadtli of beam, 37ft 2m; and depth of hold, 22ft Bm. Her poop deck is 54ft long, and topgallant forecastle 2-Sft. She brings about 1000 tons of mixed cargo, and is consigned to Messrs NoiU and Co., (Limited) of this city. She left Liverpool on March 9. Tho s.s. Elingamite, from Sydney, via NorIhcrn ports reached Dunedin on Sunday afternoon. Sho left Sydney at 5.20 p.m. on the 20th ult., and Auckland on the 26th. The s.s. Tarawera arrived from Sydney at 2 p.m. on Sunday. She left Sydney on 2 p. in on tho 23rd iilfc.

The U.S.S. Co.'s steamship Wakatipu, Captain Fleming, with passengers and caigo from Melbourne, via ilobart and Bluff, arrived alongside the Bowcn pier, Port Chalmers, at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Sho left the wharf at Melbourne at 6 p.m. of tho 23rd ulfc.

The barquo John o' Gaunt was towed up to Dunedin on Satin clay forenoon and berthed at tho Rattray street wharf. Her draught of water was 16ft.

During the week ending July 31 tho following vessels have been at the Dunedin wharves: — Arrivals. Invercargill, s.s, 123 tons (twice); Herald, s s., 35G tons; Dmgadee, s.s., 393 tons; CorJnna, s.s., 820 tons; Wakatipu, s.s., 1258 tons; John o' Gaunt, bqe., 1288 tons; Tarawera, s.s., 1269 tons; Eliugamite, s.s., 1265 tons — total, 6'J95 tons. Departures: Maraioa, s.s., 1383 tons; Invercargill, s.s., 123 tons, Herald, s.a , 356 tons ; Comma, s.s., 820 tons — total, 2682 tons.

The Waikare, with tho South Sea Island excursionists, is expected to arrive at Auckland on Friday next.

The Buchanan-Gordon diving dress, a Melbourne invention, which is designed to meet the requirements of all occupations of deep-sea diving, has been successfully tested at Loch Long, Scotland, where the diver equipped with the dress descended to a depth of 32 fathoms.

The London Daily Telegraph announces another startling application ot modern science to mercantile pursuits. It states — "A public exhibition has been made of the London Grain Elevaloi Company's new vessel Chicago, fitted with the pneumatic machinery invented by Mi F. E. Duckham, ot Millwall. It was placed alongside tho Atlantic Transport Company's Minuewaska in tho Royal Albert Dock, and transfcired bulk wheat from this steamer's lower hold into barges at the rate of 135 tons per hour. The transmission was effected by a current of air, set up by partially exhausting a cylindrical tank having flexible suctions, like the limbs of an enormous octopus, which were led into various places m the importing &hip. The gram automatically discharged itself from the tank, thiough self-acting weighing machines, into the consignees' barges. The Chicago is the second machine of this kind built for the London Elevp.toi Company, and is sister to the second Mark lane lately supplied to the Millwall Dock Company."